.NET Extender and .Net Compiler for Visual FoxPro.
The main news for the VFP community since the last UTMag issue was that the company called Etechnologia came forward with the .NET Extender and .NET Compiler products, that seem to be able to reach the full VFP compatibility with .Net, without losing any of VFP capabilities. And this is something that Microsoft said is impossible. In addition, the VFP table 64-bit extensions should allow to break 2 GB per table limit. NET Extender is a DLL and additional tools which let you use any .NET Class from VFP and without requring ActiveX or COM registration. The .NET Compiler (now in Alpha stage) is supposed to achieve the full compatibility with VFP, using all the power of the .NET Framework. So far, the VFP community members test results of these products appear to be positive.
http://www.etecnologia.net
UT Personalities of the year 2006 announced.
The Universal Thread personalities of the year for 2006 have been announced. Once again, our congratulations to Bonnie Berent, Kevin Goff, Cetin Basoz, Sergey Berezniker, Borislav Borissov and Fabio Lunardon.
http://www.universalthread.com/Personality.asp
Southwest Fox 2007 announced
Southwest Fox 2007 2007 is announced for October 18-21 at Arizona Golf Resort and Conference Center in Mesa, Arizona. This year it will be under new management. After three very successful years under Bob Kocher's management, Southwest Fox is now being organized by Visual FoxPro MVPs Rick Schummer, Doug Hennig and Tamar E. Granor.
http://www.swfox.net
DevTeach / SQLTeach conference schedule is announced.
119 sessions will be presented in 7 rooms from May 15th to May 17th, 2007. Three Pre-Conference and two Post-Conference sessions. Overall more then 175 hours of training will be delivered in 5 days.
http://www.devteach.com
Microsoft Visual FoxPro "Sedna" - February 2007 Community Technology Preview.
As in previous releases CTP contains two downloads. Included are Sedna CTP download with five components: VistaDialogs4COM, Upsizing Wizard, Data Explorer, NET4COM and MY library for VFP. The VFP 9.0 SP2 CTP download contains a patch that can be applied to VFP 9.0 or VFP 9.0 SP1. In addition to fixes to the core product, this patch contains significant enhancements to the Reporting features.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cc84f749-a153-4929-8277-deb9a2f8b0a5&displaylang=en
Redmond Magazine: Microsoft Ships February CTP of 'Sedna'.
Redmond Magazine posted a news item about February CTP of 'Sedna' release.
http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=8268
VFP videos on YouTube
A number of VFP promotional video made by VFP community members can be found on YouTube. For example this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0idSuF0Wegc&mode=related&search=
Web Connection 5.20 released.
There are the major updates to West Wind Web Connection in version 5.20. This version adds a number of new AJAX controls and a a powerful client framework. There are also many core framework enhancements.
http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection
