Mike Feltman - Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 at 19h00
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Topic: How’d they do that? Inside F1 Technologies Visual FoxExpress
F1 Technologies has been actively developing Visual FoxExpress since Visual FoxPro 3.0 first went into Alpha testing. In that timeframe, F1 Technologies has pioneered many techniques that are now commonplace to Visual FoxPro development in general and others that were “leveraged” into Visual FoxPro itself. Developing and maintaining a framework for as long as F1 has can often be extremely challenging. There are always tradeoffs to consider in terms of new features verses backward compatibility. In this session, Mike will reveal the code and the analysis behind various features of Visual FoxExpress. Among the highlights of these topics will be mixing and matching dynamically generated SQL with Visual FoxPro views, using BindEvents to invisibly insert objects into complex runtime hierarchies, implementing data driven object factories and other topics. For non-Visual FoxExpress developers, this session will provide you with insight on how to implement features such as these into your own applications. For Visual FoxExpress developers, this session will help answer the nagging questions of “why did they do it that way?” and “how do I use this?”
Plus: Introducing F1 Technologies Visual FoxExpress
F1 Technologies continues to develop, support and promote its award winning Visual FoxExpress framework. In this session, using the latest and the greatest version of VFE, Mike will demonstrate building an enormously powerful and highly maintainable application in a ridiculously short amount of time. The latest incarnation of VFE features support for many new VFP 9 features, new team development features and even more support for SQL Server.
Whether or not you're interested in acquiring a new Visual FoxPro framework, this session will give you insight into how applications are crafted with what many consider to be the best of breed in Visual FoxPro frameworks and ideas that those not using Visual FoxExpress can apply to their own applications.