Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"How'd they do that? Inside F1 Technologies Visual FoxExpress"
By Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday March 16, 2006
- "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?"
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.
Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - Food and FoxPro discussion
Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
April 13, 2006 - Cathy Pountney will be rehearsing her "Best Practices for Project Management" session.
May 18, 2006 - Craig Boyd will be presenting "VFP World Domination"
August 10, 2006 - Cathy Pountney will rehearse her DevCon session titled "Quality Assurance – Testing Your Application"
DAFUG meets on the third Thursday of the month (except for July). Free parking is available in the hotel parking lot.
Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership.
Rick Schummer, Secretary for DAFUG
