>At the Frankfurt Devcon last week, Rainer Becker was awarded the VFP Lifetime Achievement award.
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>Rainer has devoted much effort to promoting VFP including:
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>Leading German FoxPro user group since 1993
>Publishing Foxx Professional Magazine
>Editing FoxTalk ( Dec 2005 – March 2006 )
>Running interactive VFP Forum ( forum.dfpug.de )
>Running VFP document portal ( portal.dfpug.de )
>Organizing Devcon Germany since 1994
>Being a Microsoft MVP since 1997
>Being a Visual FoxPro reseller
>Deveoping the Visual Extend VFP Framework
>Being a Subcontractor for Microsoft Resource Localization Toolkit
>Supplying Free localized user interface for VFP8 and VFP9
>Selling of Visual FoxPro books in German
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>Congratulations Rainer!
Allow me to clarify that Visual Extend was developed in Switzerland by Devigus Engineering. I understand it was later bought up by the German VFP User Group, and that they continued developing it. (Devigus Engineering, in the meantime, continued developing a similar product for .NET.)
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