>>MadFox February 2011 Meeting
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>>Where: Computer Connections of Wisconsin, Reedsburg
>>When: 5:30p-8p, February 15th, 2011
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>>Everyone Welcome!
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>>This month Cliff Fisher will talk about how he uses virtual machines in his development. He'll discuss which he uses, how he chose that, and why he uses them instead of developing on his main machine.
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>>We'll then look at Microsoft Azure, what it is and how FoxPro developers might be able to use it.
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>>Then we'll go out for beers and burgers. Nomnomnom.
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>The biggest drawback for me in using vm for development is the limitation on activex controls... try using VFP help sometime and clicking on the "+" sign to expand any item. Is there anyway to change that? If he covers it in the talk, please post here! Thanks! :o)

I frequently use VM under W7 and all sorts of ActiveX controls for encryption, FTP, SFTP, etc. with no problems so far. I don't do any actual programming under VM but rather use it for setting up different versions of Windows and various execution environments where I have to install VPN clients and other stuff I don't want cluttering up my development environment. Maybe that's why I haven't had any difficulties to speak of, other than occasionally having to delete a VM because some software I didn't want in my development environment (because I thought it was problematic) caused a serious problem. The improvements of VM under W7 are a good reason to move to W7 if you haven't done so already.