If you can get to Chicago on March 14, you should -- this will be a Very interesting meeting. Craig Boyd has been a leading force in espousing the continuing viability of Visual Fox Pro. To that end he has released a dizzying array of libraries and utilities designed to keep Fox more than competitive with anything out there. We asked Craig to present a smorgasbord of his offerings. Here is his response:

"I can certainly put on a Visual FoxPro extravaganza presentation. Serve up VFP dish after dish - custom controls, APIs, GDI+, Cryptography, FLLs, .NET controls, RSS, Interface Design, Skinning.... (two hours and 200 examples later) ...VFP on Windows Vista. If done right, attendees are left breathless, energy is high, and everyone is sure that we will yet take over the world. Then I could launch into VFP's future, SednaX, and generally how to contribute and make a difference. Lastly I'll lay out my best arguments for starting with Chicago in our bid for world domination. LOL.

Seriously, it's a good idea and certainly a session that would be fun and useful for all involved."

Craig is under contract with Microsoft to produce a Vista toolkit for VFP. It will allow Foxpro to take advantage of many of the coming enhancements in Microsoft systems. Check out his blog: http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog

March 14, 2006 at 5:30 pm in Chicago (53 W. Jackson, Room 826).
Visit our website: http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com for directions.

Next month (April 11) Rick Borup will speak.