Chicago FUDG 14 Oct 08 - Christof Wollenhaupt

Our special guest for our October 14 meeting will be Christof Wollenhaupt. He'll be here all the way from Germany en route to the SouthWest Fox conference. This is one meeting you don't want to miss!!

The first topic, "Mobile Development with Guineu and VFP", will be introduced with Christof's take on the future of Visual Foxpro.

Mobile devices are a natural extension for many Visual FoxPro applications. They allow you to collect and retrieve information whenever and whereever needed. This session is an introduction for developers that haven't yet developed for mobile devices. We cover the basics of Windows Mobile, limitations of mobile devices, differences to desktop systems, creation and installation of FoxPro applications on mobile devices using Guineu, setting up an development environment, and transfering files between mobile devices and desktop PC.

Then he'll expound "On the Dark Side of Visual Foxpro" until the coffee can no longer overcome the jet lag, or we succumb to information overload....

Visual FoxPro is a lot: it's fast, productive, stable, amazing, surprising... but it certainly isn't logical and consistent. Developed over more than two decades with three fundamentally different programming concepts, four operating systems and two compilers have left their traces in the product. 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.

Tuesday October 14, 2008 at 5:30 pm. Monodnock Bldg., Suite 826, at 53 W. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago's Loop.

Visitors always welcome. More info at http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com