This event is completely FREE to anyone that wants to attend.

>does it cost anything to attend this?
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>>Rick Schummer will be in Kansas City all day, on Thursday, May 12th at the Univeristy of Kansas Edwards campus in Overland Park, KS http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/1_AboutKUEC/Map_and_Directions.htm
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>>Starting at 9:00 AM in Regnier Hall 155
>>Topic: Builders Made Easy
>>Break
>>Topic: Using and Extending the VFP Data Explorer
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>>Break for Lunch (Lunch is NOT provided)
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>>Starting about 1:30 PM in Regnier Hall 155
>>Topic: Deployment in the Real World
>>Break
>>Topic: Developer Tools: Build, Grab or Buy
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>>Break for Dinner (Dinner is NOT provided)
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>>Starting about 7:00 PM in Regnier Hall 151, Note Change of Room #
>>Topic: Get More Productive with VFP
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>>Topic Descriptions:
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>>Topic: BuildersMade Easy: Builder technology has been around since Visual FoxPro 3.0, yet to this day when the topic of builders comes up in conversation amongst developers, it is usually met with blank stares. This session will demonstrate builder technology inside of Visual FoxPro, how to leverage the existing builders (especially the cool ones included in VFP 8/9), and create and register your own builders (traditional and non-traditional ones). We will walk through several builders examples, using the “old-fashion” builder techniques, and using BuilderB techniques. Visual FoxPro 9 adds a new technology called Property Editors that work a lot like builders, but instead of the entire object, Property Editors focus on setting one property.
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>>Topic: Using and Extending the VFP Data Explorer: The Data Explorer lets you examine data and components in Visual FoxPro databases, SQL Server databases, VFP free tables, or any other ODBC or OLE DB compliant database via an ADO connection. It can run as a task pane or as a standalone tool. Those familiar with SQL Server’s Enterprise Manager will see many similarities, but this tool works with all kinds of data, is completely integrated in the Visual FoxPro IDE, and is extensible in true VFP tradition. This session will explore the features of the Data Explorer, but more importantly show how you can alter and extend the behavior of the Data Explorer.
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>>Topic: Deployment in the Real World: Do you regularly lose sleep the night before the big release? Have you struggled with the new InstallShield Express – Visual FoxPro Limited Edition deployment package? Have you wrestled with the older VFP Setup Wizard which left you begging for a DOS batch file and the XCOPY command? This session will discuss many deployment issues including preparing the customer, preparing the development staff, items to consider when preparing a release, check lists, mechanisms to deploy your custom applications, building the setup files, some tips with the VFP deployment tools, a quick demonstration of one or two other commercial tools for deploying your applications, and things to consider once a release is shipped and successfully deployed.
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>>Topic: Developer Tools: Build, Grab or Buy: Are you in the market to increase your productivity in the minute-to-minute working with Visual FoxPro? Are your clients demanding shorter deadlines and expressing the need to get their projects to market faster and faster? Are you finding certain tasks in the VFP IDE to be tedious, repetitive, or just plain old mundane and wish there was a better way? This session will cover ways of eliminating some of those tedious, repetitive tasks. This session will discuss some of the reasons to write your own tools, and then demonstrate various techniques to generate home grown developer tools. Next, this session will show some of the nicer freebies available publicly and finally discuss what third-party tools you might want to purchase to advance developer productivity.
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>>Topic: Get More Productive with VFP Rapid Application Development is a leftover buzzword from the 90’s. Are you as productive with VFP as you can be, or wish to be? How do other developers use the world’s best database application development tool to bring applications to market quicker? Are there tips I can learn to save me 10 minutes a day or an hour a week? This session will demonstrate as many tips and productivity ideas that can be crammed into the session. As the old saying goes, there are always three ways to accomplish something in VFP. Sometimes we only know one way and there are two other ways that are faster or better. VFP 9, while focused on features that effect the end user’s experience, has a number of excellent productivity enhancements. The session will have productivity tips for developers working with all versions of VFP.
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>>About Rick
>>Rick is the president and lead geek at White Light Computing, Inc., which is headquartered in southeast Michigan, USA. He prides himself in guiding his customers' Information Technology investment toward success. He enjoys working with top-notch developers; has a passion for developing software using best practices, and for surpassing customer expectations, not just meeting them. After hours he writes developer tools that improve productivity and occasionally pens articles for FoxTalk, FoxPro Advisor, and several user group newsletters. Rick is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (VFP), and a Microsoft Certified Professional by passing both the VFP Desktop and Distributed exams. Rick is co-author of What’s New In Nine: Visual FoxPro’s Latest Hits, Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions, MegaFox: 1002 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Extending Visual FoxPro and the award winning 1001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro (KiloFox) from Hentzenwerke. He is founding
>>member and Secretary of the Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) and is a regular presenter for this organization, other user groups, and at GLGDW 2000-2003, EssentialFox 2002-2004, Southwest Fox 2004-2005, and VFE DevCon 2K2 conferences. Check out White Light Computing