Nick Neklioudov Demo's Visual Foxpro 8 - Tuesday, November 5th, 2002 at 17h15
What an opportunity! Nick Neklioudov of the Universal Thread, Microsoft MVP, will be in town for our November meeting.
He was the UT on-the-spot correspondent at the recently concluded Ft. Lauderdale Devcon where VFP 8.0 was unveiled. Nick will give a "First Look" presentation which is being prepared by Ken Levy, Microsoft 's product manager for VFP. Described as the most stable and feature-full release yet, VFP 8 includes an impressive array of improvements, many of which had been on developer wish lists for years.
Also there are hugely significant new classes -- most notably the Cursor Adaptor class which greatly simplifies connection to a whole range of data back ends.
Mr. Neklioudov, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is an author of developer tools -- like the grid highlighter class and is a constant source of help to those of us who rely on the UT for clues and inspiration.
www.universalthread.com/Magazine/October2002/Page42.asp.
Door prize will be a 1 year's Premier membership on the Universal Thread.
November 5th. 5:15 pm at 2 N. LaSalle St. Suite 500
New Business: Plan a Chicago Fudg dinner for the upcoming Great Lakes Great Database Workshop to take place in mid November in Milwaukee.
Minutes:
Nick Neklioudov hit most of the many high points of the new Foxpro version, which is making its way to a computer near you. VFP8, which is in a public beta stage and will be released for sale early next year, has a long list of enhancements -- too numerous even for NN's diligent delivery.
On the one hand Microsoft, will ship a whole passel of smaller wish list items that had been languishing for years. Nick's first example was a problem for which he himself has devised a shareware workaround: grid highlighting. Yea!
On the other hand, the Mighty Mic devised some major improvements. The four that Nick emphasized were: a TRY -- CATCH -- FINALLY error handling paradigm, the Cursor Adaptor Class, ability to scatter field values additively to a business object, and event binding. He showed examples of custom object functionality being called by mere data assignments to other properties, or calls to other objects' events.
To read the best digest of both interface improvements and data conection features, go to
www.universalthread.com/Magazine/October2002/Page42.asp.
And check out Nick's report from Devcon.
www.universalthread.com/conferences/DevCon/2002/Other Fudg Business. Treasury is in good shape, Plans for a dinner for Illinois Foxers and friends at the Milwaukee GLGDW on Nov 16, December speakers to be announced -- possibly David Dee on Objectory, his application framework, and/or Curt Handley on legal issues.
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