Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro"
By Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert
Thursday, February 21, 2008

- "On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" by Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert

Visual FoxPro is a lot: it's fast, productive, stable, amazing, surprising... but it certainly isn't logical and consistent. Over more than two decades with three fundamentally different programming concepts, four operating systems and two compilers left their traces in the product we love. FoxPro as a high-level development tool doesn't require knowledge of the internals; much less than .NET. But should you encounter problems it's helpful to know a bit about what's going on behind the scenes. This session covers the internal management of variables, memory management, the handling of classes, objects and containers (and why those are the same, yet completely different), the system datasession, the impact of cache, buffers and transactions, table access, Rushmore optimization, and so on.

In this session, you will learn:
* How variables are managed
* How memory and buffers are managed
* How VFP deals with objects
* How to avoid problems with a buffer
* What to consider with Rushmore

- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.

*** NEW MEETING LOCATION ***
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Northwestern HWY
Southfield, MI 48075

Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org

Agenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - Food and FoxPro discussion

Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
February 21, 2008 - "The Darkside of Visual FoxPro" - Christof Wollenhaupt
March 13, 2008 - Stonefield Query SDK - Frank Perez
April 10, 2008 - TBD
May 15, 2008 - TBD
June 12, 2008 - TBD
July 2008 - No Meeting
August 14, 2008 - TBD
September 11, 2008 - TBD
October 9, 2008 - TBD
November 20, 2008 - TBD
December 11, 2008 - TBD

DAFUG meets on the second or third Thursday of the month (except for July). Free parking is available near the farmers market.

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