Thursday, November 19, 2009
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a SWFox post-hersal:
"Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools" by Rick Schummer
1) Nominations and ELECTIONS:
All four positions are available: President (currently Zimmer), VP (open), Secretary and Treasurer (currently Schummer is both)
Nominate any member for any position. Catch is, the person has to accept. If you cannot attend and want to be nominated please nominate yourself in advance. Vote takes place after nominations are closed. Majority wins.
2) "Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools" - Rick Schummer
VFPX, the open source project hosted on CodePlex, has some terrific tools to enhance the Visual FoxPro Interactive Development Environment (IDE). Visual FoxPro has a deep tradition of extensibility thanks to Microsoft's commitment to an open design. This is evident by the many tools to enhance the development environment so it is easier to create applications. All of the "Xbase" tools written by Microsoft are created using native Visual FoxPro code. Visual FoxPro 9 has been referred to as the version that really blew the doors off for extensibility. Given this new level of extensibility it is only natural the activity on VFPX by the volunteer staff has produced some really nice tools to enhance your productivity and make it easier to create solutions for your customer.
This session demonstrates how you can increase your productivity in Visual FoxPro as well as increase the reliability of the applications you are developing by implementing one or more of the tools available from VFPX. The session is filled with tool demonstrations to help you refactor your code, enforce development standards, use builders to simplify working with classes and forms, and replace native Visual FoxPro dialogs with ones that are more flexible and more powerful. Other tools demonstrate more reliable source code interaction with different source code repositories, project manager enhancements, and maybe even a replacement for the project manager. Since projects are always changing on VFPX and new ones come along on a regular basis, this session may even include things that were unknown when this description was written.
You will learn:
* What tools are available on VFPX, where to get them, and who is involved in the development
* How to use Code Analyst to sniff out the bad smells in your code
* What the PEM Editor can do and how it can be configured to work the way you prefer
* How the Alternate SCCText progam is better than the one that comes with Visual FoxPro
* Why FoxTabs might be of some use to you
* Builders you might find helpful working with classes and forms
* How SubFox simplifies your life working with Subversion
* Why ProjectHookX is something want to look at to extend the Project Manager
* ...and who knows what is added to VFPX before the meeting
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Northwestern HWY
Southfield, MI 48075
Small Meeting Room on 1st Floor
Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - ? Food
Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
November 19, 2009 - "Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools" - Rick Schummer December 10, 2009 - "Tool Time" by many members
January 2010 - TBD
February 2010 - TBD
March 2010 - TBD
April 2010 - TBD
May 2010 - TBD
June 2010 - TBD
July 2010 - No Meeting (maybe a baseball game??)
August 2010 - TBD
September 2010 - TBD
October 2010 - TBD
DAFUG meets on the second or third Thursday of the month (except for July).
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
