Thursday, January 20, 2011
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"How Craig Boyd Makes Me a Hero!", by Rick Schummer

1) Planning topics for 2011 and beyond

Bring ideas on topics you are interested in hearing about, and those you might be interested in presenting.

2) "How Craig Boyd Makes Me a Hero!", by Rick Schummer

Craig Boyd is one of the most generous developers in the Fox Community. Over the years his blog has been the source of many posts where he flat out delivers some cool FLL file that extends the functionality of a VFP application, or straight VFP code with numerous benefits, and in turn makes me look like a hero to my customers.

Ever have a customer ask you to provide a feature where compressing a file is best handled with the ZIP format? Do you have users who want automated email and you are tired of battling Outlook security, but MAPI is the easiest way to get email through their email system? How about encrypting information in a table, or encrypting an entire file in your secure customer applications? Need to use FTP, SFTP, or other Web interactions to satisfy even the finickiest customer situations? Run up against the not-so-new Excel 2007 XLSX format and find it breaks your modules where previous versions of Excel worked fine? Ever wished for a smart grid that made it easier to develop data entry grids and made it so it is less painful to implement?

Yeah, me too.

This session is going to go through the best of the best of Craig's FLLs and other tools, show you how what they do, and how simple it is to look like a hero too.

- How VFPCompression.FLL will make zipping files a snap
- How email with attachments is simple thanks to VFPMapiEx.FLL
- Why security of the data is trivial with the VFPEncryption.FLL
- VFPConnection makes working with the Web as easy as cutting butter with a warm knife
- How the grid can easily be extended without writing a ton of code thanks to GridExtras
- How Excel 2007 introduced the XLSX file format and the Fox Team did not respond, but fortunately Craig did

Meeting Place:
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.org

Agenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - ? Food
Meetings are typically followed by food, FoxPro, and developer discussion at a local restaurant.

Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
February 10, 2011 - TBD
March 10, 2011 - TBD
April 14, 2011 - TBD
May 12, 2011 - TBD
June 9, 2011 - TBD
July 2011 - No Meeting

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.

Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG