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Bill Anderson
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Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
GeneXus New Release! Mobile Application Development - Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 at 22h30
Roy Hart will do a remote live demo of the new GeneXus. GeneXus is an IDE for .Net, Java, Ruby, VFP, etc. & with the New Release now supports mobile development for iOS (iPhone / iPad), Android & Blackberry devices! There are over 70,000 licenses world-wide. 100% of the application (programs & data) can be created using the GeneXus open IDE. GeneXus supports JAVA, AJAX, .NET (C# and .NET Mobile), Objective C for iOS, Java for Android & Blackberry, HTML 5, CSS3, COBOL, RPG, Visual Fox Pro, Ruby, etc. and the most popular DBMS including DBF, IBM DB2, Informix, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. No runtime costs!
General information
Web site:http://www.lafox.org
Location:LA Fox:

* Third Wednesday of each month
* Westchester Municipal Building Community Room, 7166 W. Manchester Ave., Westchester, CA
* Meeting time is 7:30 PM.
Address:7166 W. Manchester Ave.
City:Los Angeles, California
Country:United States
User group history/membership rate/objectives
The Los Angeles Visual FoxPro User Group has been the meeting place for learning everything FoxPro! We've been in existence since 1990. Great value and great fun, too! We meet on the third Wednesday of the month in Westchester (starting in 2013).

Many of the speakers say that LA Fox is their favorite place to speak. Everyone has a good time.

I personally welcome you to come to our user group and see what you're missing!!

You can contact Bill Anderson at billand@andersonfiles.com for more information. The meetings are held in Los Angeles. You can reach us at (323) 896-8441.

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Bill Anderson, The Anderson Files, Llc
I've been involved with the IT industry for the past 27 years. Clients include Rockwell International, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, KPMG, Stanford University, Avery/Dennison, Warner Brothers, Warner Records, Brookfield Communications, US Bankruptcy Court, Bank of America, Thermo Fisher and many others. Bill's use of frameworks have assisted in shepherding large development projects through to completion on time and within budget. Visual Foxpro is usually one of the development tools in that proces...
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Bill Anderson, The Anderson Files, Llc
I've been involved with the IT industry for the past 27 years. Clients include Rockwell International, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, KPMG, Stanford University, Avery/Dennison, Warner Brothers, Warner Records, Brookfield Communications, US Bankruptcy Court, Bank of America, Thermo Fisher and many others. Bill's use of frameworks have assisted in shepherding large development projects through to completion on time and within budget. Visual Foxpro is usually one of the development tools in that proces...
Archive of meetings
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Refactoring VFP Code: If it Ain't Broke, Fix it - Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 at 22h30
Do your applications suffer from Stale Software Syndrome? When you crack open a section of existing code for some simple maintenance work, are you reminded that you've frequently said "I really need to clean this up some day"? Does a simple enhancement request end up taking hours instead of minutes because you never did clean up that section of code? I'd wager these are common occurrences for most developers, and the longer these situations linger the worse they can get. In this session we'll ex...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
The Latest Techniques in Deploying VFP Applications - Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 at 22h30
Deployment of your application is easily as important as the rest of the development cycle since it's the first encounter your users have with the application. This session looks at some new ideas for application deployment, including creating a workstation-only installer, installing your application on a server without requiring a workstation installation (zero footprint deployment), and how to update your applications over the Internet. You will learn: Where the VFP runtime files should ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
I Need a REST! - Wednesday, October 15th, 2014 at 22h30
Web APIs are one way to enable distributed systems to interact with each other over HTTP. In the past, SOAP-based Web Services were the Web API of choice. Today developers prefer to use RESTful Web APIs to enable system to communicate. Our Visual FoxPro applications are just one of the types of systems that may need to communicate with others over the web. It is very possible, and pretty easy, to do so using RESTful APIs. In order to take advantage of all that is available using the web you must...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Techniques for Using Web Based Data with VFP - Wednesday, July 16th, 2014 at 22h30
Ken Levy will present remote via Skype various techniques and scenario of using web based data within VFP, including loading and parsing HTML based webpages and XML documents. Also included will be techniques for rendering HTML within VFP including and uses for manipulating DHTML, controlling link navigation to run VFP code, and JavaScript within VFP. Some of these scenarios might be useful for general use for a developer, not only for being embedded within VFP applications.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Cloud Now Initiative - Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 at 22h30
Businesses are beginning to realize the advantages of running their operations from the internet with web enabled software. There’s a paradigm shift moving from on premise local networks towards Cloud Computing. For years the focus had been developing a traditional client-server application. Today, the Cloud has been gaining traction as a result of advancements in technology and a reduction in cost. Applications written in Visual FoxPro are currently running web-enabled in the VOS platform. Th...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Don't Be a Target! - Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at 22h30
For the last few months we've watched with fascination the developing story of the data breach at Target, Neiman Marcus, Michael's and others. In this session we'll take a look at how the thieves accomplished this feat including what they do with their takings, how it might have been prevented, and why the bank may not care all that much. Along the way you'll learn ways to secure your own information so your business doesn't become the next Target.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
It's so, uh, "gray", Tips & Tricks to Improve Your App's User Interface - Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 at 22h30
Ever have a developer ask you to look at the "coolest app ever written," only to discover the UI is an incomprehensible mess? You know the apps: garish background colors; a mish-mash of fonts, colors and sizes; a steady stream of run-of-the-mill windows with the default 'gray' background; alignment issues; tab order that hasn't been properly set; buttons with wildly different sizes; the list goes on (I've written my share of these apps myself). In this session, we'll take an ugly ("writte...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Cloud Now Initiative - Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 at 22h30
Businesses are beginning to realize the advantages of running their operations from the internet with web enabled software. There’s a paradigm shift moving from on premise local networks towards Cloud Computing. For years the focus had been developing a traditional client-server application. Today, the Cloud has been gaining traction as a result of advancements in technology and a reduction in cost. Applications written in Visual FoxPro are currently running web-enabled in the VOS platform. The ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Business Intelligence tool built using VFP - Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 at 22h30
The Segment Analyzer is a business intelligence tool created for the Motorcycle Industry using data from the Motorcycle Industry council. The program generates sales and market share data aligned with the clients' sales geography. The presentation will provide a brief overview of the concept and a demo of the actual product. This presentation will show a sample of a Visual Foxpro based product that has been used by a corporate client. Speaker: Martin Acompora
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP Integration with Mobile Apps - Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 at 22h30
Create mobile apps that integrate with FoxPro using Appery.io with very little programming. My own application is less than 50 lines of Javascript. You can do full blown apps with zero Javascript. There are two pieces to this puzzle 1. Restapi written by psgsdk Docs and information is at http://restapi.psgsdk.com/documents.htm 2. Appery.io Platform I won't have time to go over all the details in this quite doc, your welcome to get ahold of me for questions not answered in this...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Multithreading with Visual FoxPro - Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 at 22h30
I’ll be presenting “Multithreading with Visual FoxPro”, a condensed (and updated) version of my session from Southwest Fox 2011. Even though it’s an online meeting, make sure you wear shoes – because the demos will blow your socks off.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Software Campfire Stories - Thursday, October 10th, 2013 at 22h30
We'll be sharing our software tales of woe and adventure this Thursday evening. We look forward for all to share their adventures! We will not be meeting on the third Wednesday this month due to the conflict with the Southwest Fox conference. ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFPX Goodies - Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 at 22h30
We'll go over Thor from the CodePlex site for VFP (VFPx CodePlex site) and the new Finder tool. As time permits we will review other third party tools as well.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Cross-Browser Multi-Device Cloud Hosted App Demo - Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 at 22h30
Ken Levy will present a triangular diplomacy demo-centric trilogy trifecta that includes creating and deploying Servoy based web apps, FileMaker Go apps for iPad, and deploying what is created live on a Amazon EC2 cloud hosting service. Ken will demonstrate how easy it is to deploy, update, and manage a newly created application hosted on a cloud based virtual machine Windows Server 2008, and will allow user group attendees to access and change the live application data real-time. The theme of K...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Unit Testing Databases - Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 22h30
How can you be certain the "little change" you're about to make to that stored procedure isn't going to take down your whole company? Real developers use a technique called "Unit Testing" to minimize that risk, a concept that's also available to you. With unit testing you can quick ascertain whether the the changes to functions, stored procedures, and even other objects in your database had a negative unforeseen impact. In this session we'll walk through the basics of what unit testing is, h...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Raspberry Pi:Opening and Setting up a mini Linux dev Environment - Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 at 22h30
From buying, getting accessories, setting up, and downloading the necessary patches and software to get you ready to go. Perhaps we’ll even have time to run some demos based on node.js.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Node.js - Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 at 22h30
Node is a lot more than just another language. Node lets you write real-time web applications. Node is fast, scalable, and lets you write apps that Rock! Javascript? On the server? YES! Javascript? As a High-Performance Language? YES! From Nodejs.org: Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-inten...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Web-Based Authentication to VFP Apps - Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 at 22h30
If your legacy VFP app has its own username and password table, you'll want to use that even with your fancy new web UI. But don't recreate the wheel be developing your own login/rights system! ASP.Net comes with a robust framework for authenticating your users and a dead-simple way of controlling what they can and cannot get into. We'll look at how to take advantage of that system while continuing to use our VFP (or MySql, or Access, or SQL Server, or whatever)-based username/password table.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Southwest Fox 2012 Review - Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 at 22h30
Bill Anderson will review the Southwest Fox conference in Gilbert, Arizona in October 2012. We'll talk about what was learned and run a few of the demos. Some of the topics include VFP, HTML5, SQL Server, Ruby on Rails and more! See you there!
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
A Look at our Latest POS System and an Inside Look at My Custom Data Objects - Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 at 22h30
These objects take care of all the data access needs cleanly and efficiently making data updates now field by field instead record by record. They also allow you to build on them to handle more complex data relationships. Come to LA Fox this Wednesday for an informative and entertaining evening.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Dynamic Forms in VFP - Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 at 22h30
I will present a walkthrough of using my new Dynamic Forms project from VFPx, showing how you can use a "markup syntax" similar to HTML to dynamically create view/edit forms at run time. I will explain: The various data sources that the form can be bound to. Explain the "markup syntax". Customizing the Header and Footer areas of the form. Saving / Cancelling user changes to the bound data.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Unit Tests with FoxMock - Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at 22h30
The idea behind unit tests is to test units as small as possible at the earliest time. With small sample classes, this works beautifully. When applying unit tests to a real project, especially existing ones, we quickly discover how many complex interdependencies there are in our code. Most VFP applications use global application objects, and most objects rely on others to perform their duty. FoxMock is a mockup framework mainly for unit tests. With FoxMock you can dynamically create objects ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Dynamic Forms In VFP - Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 at 22h30
I will present a walkthrough of using my new Dynamic Forms project from VFPx, showing how you can use a "markup syntax" similar to HTML to dynamically create view/edit forms at run time. I will explain: The various data sources that the form can be bound to. Explain the "markup syntax". Customizing the Header and Footer areas of the form. Saving / Cancelling user changes to the bound data.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Lianja From A Programmer's Perspective - Wednesday, August 22th, 2012 at 22h30
Utilize your existing Visual FoxPro skills to create and deploy desktop, web and mobile applications. Lianja App Builder is a flexible cross-platform development tool that supports Windows, OS X and Linux. Developers can use their existing programming language expertise in Visual FoxPro, JavaScript, PHP and Python to develop, publish and share applications with end-users. These applications can be deployed as local desktop applications across a LAN or published in the Lianja cloud and shared g...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
GeneXus New Release! Mobile Application Development - Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 at 22h30
Roy Hart will do a remote live demo of the new GeneXus. GeneXus is an IDE for .Net, Java, Ruby, VFP, etc. & with the New Release now supports mobile development for iOS (iPhone / iPad), Android & Blackberry devices! There are over 70,000 licenses world-wide. 100% of the application (programs & data) can be created using the GeneXus open IDE. GeneXus supports JAVA, AJAX, .NET (C# and .NET Mobile), Objective C for iOS, Java for Android & Blackberry, HTML 5, CSS3, COBOL, RPG, Visual Fox Pro, Ru...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Introduction to Lianja - Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at 22h30
Lianja™ is a cloud database Apps platform that lets developers focus on developing and deploying Desktop, Cloud and Mobile Apps without the need to invest in lengthy App development times and infrastructure. Next month (July) will include the version 1.0 product releases of Lianja App Builder, Lianja SQL Server and Lianja Cloud Server for Windows, Linux and Mac desktops. Learn more about the architecture and features of Lianja applications, and the wide range of components you can combine...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
GoFish Demonstration - Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 at 22h30
In this demo I will show an overview of using GoFish 4 to perform search and replace operations on FoxPro code bases. Topics will basically include: GoFish Options/Preferences (Options form) Search Options (Advanced form) Search Scopes (Projects vs. Folders) Post-Search Filtering Review of Replace Modes: 1. Replace Text 2. Edit Line 3. Advanced Replace (UDF) Many other spontaneous ramblings that will help you learn a lot about GoFish.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP to WPF Screen Converter - Wednesday, February 22th, 2012 at 22h30
Les Pinter will present examples of WPF with MVVM using the IdeaBlade ORM tool. MVVM permits separation of the user interface from the implementation, so that unit testing is possible without launching application screens. With MVVM, there is little or no "code-behind". the data store and command and method repository for each form. WPF forms are cosmetically far superior to those built using the WinForms designer, and set the standard for the "look and feel" that web users have come t...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Cloud Hosted Servoy App with Existing DBF Data/FoxFire! Reporting - Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 22h30
Ken Levy will be back as a presenter at the LA Servoy/Fox meeting scheduled for Wed January 25th at 7:30pm. Ken will be presenting remote, for the first time, with Skype video webcam and screen sharing. Our goal is to have this meeting as interactive and informative as a normal in-person presenter meeting. Ken will be doing cool demos from the recent Servoy webinars below. Cloud Hosted Servoy App with Existing DBF Data Description: Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
LiveCode Demonstration - Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 22h30
"LiveCode", a simple, object oriented, fast, multi platform development system. Write one source, then compile for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, with no changes, ( except those that are platform specific). I will show how to write a simple application on a macBook, and run it as part of the development system, (for debugging), run it as a standalone app, save one of the compiled files to a thumb drive and offer it for someone to run, and deploy it to an iPad or iPhone, (or both).
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Multithreaded VFP - Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 22h30
Bill Anderson will show two techniques for using multi-threaded VFP sessions in your applications. One solution will be through DMult.DLL, created by Christof Wollenhaupt. The second solution involves using ParallelFox on the VFP Codeplex site. Both of these ideas were presented at the 2011 Southwest Fox conference. Splitting multiple processes across multiple threads can dramatically increase the performance of your VFP applications. This is really cool! Also, we'll be reviewing the rece...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Thor and PEME - Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 at 22h30
There are a number of valuable tools that are available in other development environments, but are sadly lacking in FoxPro's own IDE. For some time, there has been a considerable effort afoot to expand the list of IDE tools by reproducing (where possible) the tools from other IDEs (such as Visual Studio), by building on and enhancing existing tools, and by creating brand new tools appropriate to FoxPro. The most visible of these new tools is named Thor. Thor is a tool for managing add-on to...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Using Servoy As An Application - Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 22h30
Special guest speaker Jeff Spalla of ReelData will present and overview with demos on how they use Servoy as an application for assisting in editing the production of TV shows in Hollywood. This meeting will be fun and interactive for anyone in the L.A. area interested in or currently using Servoy -- either as a new development platform, or as a great additional tool and skill set to compliment Visual FoxPro or other development tools. Also to be discussed is plans for upcoming L.A. Servoy user ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Setting up and Optimizing a SQL Server Development Environment - Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 at 22h30
I will demo the basics of setting up a SQL development environment and how to optimize the local performance. I will highlight the potential traps and pitfalls. Most of the guidelines will apply to production environments as well.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Kick Start using Servoy 6 - Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 22h30
Launch meeting of the first official L.A. Servoy user group, hosted at the same location as the monthly LAFox.org user group meetings near LAX. This meeting will include free pizza and sodas. Special guest speaker Ken Levy (president of MashupX, LLC) will do demos on getting started with the new Servoy 6 with cool Servoy demos and no slides. This includes installing Servoy on Mac or Windows, touring around the installation directories and IDE in Eclipse, getting started tips and demos, codi...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Fox History: The Early Years - Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 at 22h30
Tom Rettig gave Richard Grossman his first big break in the xBase world, PC Week (later eWeek) later quoted Richard on the front page saying dBase was dead, David Fulton spent an entire day showing him FoxPro 1 - the first person outside the company to see it. Grossman wrote the Pro-Demo sample app that shipped on disk with FoxPro 1, and worked for Ashton-Tate, Fox Software, Borland, and Microsoft on their xBase products back in the day. That’s all public info - but did you know that Roger Cli...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Servoy Version 6 - Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 at 22h30
LAFox.org will host a special meeting on April 19th, a kick-off meeting for a new L.A. Servoy user group. This meeting will be sponsored by Servoy and will include free pizza, drinks, and more. This meeting will include special guest Ken Levy (president of MashupX, LLC) to discuss the latest news around Servoy, new cool Servoy demos, and to help moderate co-presenting with many other special guests. Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy, and several others from Servoy will attend and participate. J...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Go-Global Demonstration - Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 22h30
A demonstration on how to web enable any 32bit (and with Go-Global v4 64 bit) Windows application.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Undocumented Fox - Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 at 22h30
You think you know everything about the Fox? I don't think you do! Come to this month's session on Undocumented Fox. You'll learn about some of the nether regions of FoxPro and Visual Foxpro. These include undocumented commands and functions for dBaseIV compatibility, dBase III+ LAN Pack compatibility, FoxPro Mac compatibility, shortened command names and more! There's a sea of undocumented features with the SYS functions. There are some very useful undocumented commands (for instance, S...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
PEM Editor: An Absolute MUST HAVE in Your Development Toolkit - Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at 22h30
Bill Anderson will be presenting Cathy Pountney's PEM Editor session at Southwest Fox 2010, plus some additional PEM Editor features which came out after the conference. The PEM Editor, available for free on VFPX, is a utility created by the collaborative efforts of several VFP Community members. Its early roots were started by Doug Hennig and Marcia Akins as a replacement for a few VFP dialogs. Jim Nelson, along with help from Doug Hennig, Matt Slay, Rick Schummer, and many others, has sin...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
SQL Server Tools, Strategies, and Dirty Tricks - Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 at 22h30
Ricardo will describe basic strategies and tools that have enabled him to teach MS SQL 2008 how to drink data from a fire hose. He will touch on query optimization, tricks for optimizing performance, basic rules of thumb, tools that have proven to be essential on a large data dataset environment, and some of his experiences on supporting a team of developers with varied experience with SQL server.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Servoy for Visual FoxPro Developers - Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 22h30
Many Visual FoxPro developers have learned to develop with Servoy and have found it easy, powerful, beneficial, and appreciate Servoy's dynamic programming features and rich data model functionality. This demo-centric session focuses on how features common to Visual FoxPro applications are developed in Servoy, cool Servoy features not supported in Visual FoxPro, how Servoy works with DBF tables in existing FoxPro applications, and the benefits to FoxPro developers in adding Servoy expertise to...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
So You Think You Want To Write A Scheduler? - Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 22h30
Bill Anderson is the main developer for the commercial software Logos Ministry Scheduler (http://www.logoscatholic.com/layout7.cfm?ID=265). Come to the meeting to learn about how I originally developed the scheduling process and the changes made along the way to accommodate new and updated requirements.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Interacting with Internet Explorer - Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at 22h30
In this session we will learn about how to Control Internet Explorer and manipulate web pages using COM.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
LA Fox 20th Anniversary Celebration! - Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 22h30
Come on by to celebrate our 20 years of existence! We'll have food, fun, and good times as we recap a rich history of our user group. Add your memories or simply help us celebrate -- we look forward to your participation!
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Enhancements to VFP 9 SQL - Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 10h30
In tonight's session we'll review the enhancements to the VFP 9 SQL Language. The Select - SQL command (and other SQL commands) have been substatially enhanced in Visual FoxPro 9.0. I've worked with the VFP9 SQL Select for over five years. We'll go over the changes that I've found useful and productive in my work. Bonus Session: Servoy and Sybase Advantage for VFP Developers - Ken Levy In a special bonus session, Ken Levy will discuss and demo using both Servoy development tools...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
SQL Server Presentation - Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 22h30
Learn how I have implemented various FoxPro applications using SQL Server. Topics covered will include: 1. Various connection methods and security 2. Data types and different versions of SQL Server and the correct syntax. 3. UI Tools 4. Indexes, primary keys, and relationships. 5. Us of nulls and defaults - what to and avoid. 6. Updating table structures on the fly. 7. Touch on stored procedures and triggers. 8....
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
PEM Editor 5.10 -- Beyond the pretty face - Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 22h30
PEM Editor is a full replacement for the Property Window, "New Property," "New Method," its ancestor "Edit Property / Method," and "Document View." (for SCXs and VCXs). It has greatly expanded scope and features -- sorting, filtering, custom coloring, and full support for property editors with additional built-in editors. It uses a consistent user interface, with numerous context menus as appropriate, and comes with a complete CHM help file. A convenient re-packaging of existing tools is not...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates - Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 22h30
Making the most of Visual FoxPro SP2 Reports and we will touch on HTML Reports and Drill Down Reports if there is enough time. The content will be taken from Cathy Pountney and Mike Feltman's sessions from SW Fox 2009.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP Report Writer SP2 Updates Demonstration - Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 19h30
Making the most of Visual FoxPro SP2 Reports and we will touch on HTML Reports and Drill Down Reports if there is enough time. The content will be taken from Cathy Pountney and Mike Feltman's sessions from SW Fox 2009.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Introduction To Drupal - Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 19h30
Looking for a better way to manage your web site content? Drupal is an open source content management system framework that allows you to develop and deploy everything from simple blogs to complex Corporate Web sites... rapidly. This introductory session begins by showing you what is required to run Drupal, how to install and configure Drupal (6.x) and some of the modules and themes you will need. Then we will start and build a new web site project. Also, we will have our annual Christmas par...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Crew Chief Pro Demonstration - Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 19h30
For 20 years I have designed software used to statistically analyze and predict the behavior of very powerful engines based on weather patterns, and track conditions. I sell very complex weather equipment that interface with my VFP application to constantly monitor every aspect of weather readings. The weather station includes a transmitter which I send out information to a Pager or Cell Phone that the driver or Crew Chief of the car would carry with them. I perform thousands of calculations eve...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Servoy 5.0 Demonstration - Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 19h30
"Question: How long would it take to build and deploy a cross-platform, client/server application AND a fully Ajax-driven web application from a single code base? Answer: 30 Seconds! See a live demonstration! Are you considering migrating your application to a modern platform? What would a modernized version of your application look like? Will it be browser-based or client-server? Will it deploy as a SaaS/Multi-Tenant product or On-Premise? Will you have to sacrifice the productivity and reli...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Exploring eTechnologia’s .NET compiler for VFP - Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 19h30
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Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
An Introduction to the Drupal CMS - Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 19h30
Drupal is a widely used web content management system written in PHP. It is fundamentally a CMS software framework whose main purpose is to make building and managing a content rich website accessible to the masses. There are many other systems out there that acheive this purpose, and gracefully. So why would we want to use drupal? Find out the answer to these questions and more, August 18th at 7pm. We'll discuss the big picture overview of just what drupal is and why it's good for making and...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
FoxCharts - Great Looking, Modern Charts in Pure VFP Code - Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 19h30
FoxCharts creates good looking and modern charts in pure VFP, using NO ActiveX components. It provides for the creation of a number of horizontal and vertical charts as well as pie and donut charts. It takes full advantage of colors, using solid, gradient and hatch brushes, transparencies, 3D effects, and animations. There are customizable tool tips and full mouse behavior customization. It is easy to set up and easy to customize. The code is Open Source, benefiting from all the GdiPlusX draw...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Maintaining Code That's Old Enough To Vote - Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 19h30
One of the good features of FoxPro is continuing support for legacy systems. Robin will speak from his experience in maintaining and even enhancing systems written in FoxPro.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Swiss Army Knife for the Forms Designer -- the What and How - Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 19h30
PEM Editor is a complete tool, in adjunct with the Form and Class Designers, for adding, deleting, and renaming properties and methods, and setting or modifying their values or method code, Access and Assign methods, favorites, and visibility, and exploring parent code and object parentage. It is a full replacement for the Property Window, a full replacement for "New Property" and "New Method, a full replacement for its ancestor "Edit Property / Method", has its own "Method View" (much like "...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Real World Advantage DB - Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 19h30
Converting an existing VFP program to run using the Advantage Database.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Cool VFP Tools - Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 19h30
Tonight's presentation will be an overview of cool VFP tools: eView and ViewEditor, third party tools to manage your views (I use both tools, come to the group and see why). We'll also explore HackCX, a tool to hack your VCX files (invaluable, IMO) and xCase, a data design tool for VFP and many other databases.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Advantage Database Server - Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 19h30
You already know that Visual FoxPro is one of the best tools available for application development, but did you know that Advantage Database Server has better support for Visual FoxPro than any other database engine? Join us Tuesday, February 17th as we take you on a tour through the product. We'll introduce you to Sybase and how Advantage fits into the big picture there. Then, we'll move on to the technical aspect of the server and why it's different than any other database engine. You'll see...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
AJAX - Multi-Window Apps in the Browser - Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 19h30
Browser based applications need not be lame. Michael will show how to build Multi-Window browser applications with full key-by-key searching and other goodies. You can create fully functional multi-window applications that exist in one web page. The application he will show uses .NET, C#, MySQL, Gaia, and Michael's own framework.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Automating Word and Excel - Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 19h30
Jay Hudson will deomonstrate automating Word and Excel.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Servoy 4.0 Demonstration. - Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 22h30
Many ISVs (independent software vendors) as well as professional software developers consider using .NET for a business application sometime. At Servoy, we kept hearing from our prospects and customers that they tried .NET - and often got stuck about 70 to 75% of the way through the project. They couldn't finish it, nor deploy. We also hear a lot of developers and business people tell us that when they do use Servoy (and have experience with .NET) that Servoy is 5x to 10x faster. So we se...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Review of Southwest Fox 2008 - Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 19h30
Steve Hanlan and I will cover the highlights of the Southwest Fox 2008 conference.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Overview of WMI - Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 22h30
Have you ever had the need to retrieve serial numbers of various components on a computer? How about just trying to figure out what kinds of hardware or software are installed? WMI can help you with these problems and a lot more! This session will give an overview of WMI, including samples of the kinds of information it can provide and how to use it. A VFP wrapper to make WMI calls easier is provided with this session.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Understanding Scope - Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 22h30
Do you know the difference between global, private and local variables? What about PCOUNT() versus PARAMETERS() or PARAMETERS versus LPARAMETERS? Why should you declare variables and arrays? And what is a form property anyway, and why would you want to use one? What happens if you have a RETURN statement in the middle of a WITH…ENDWITH section? This session will answer all these questions and more. Included are real world examples to help solidify these concepts in your mind.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Dabo! - Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 22h30
Paul will show an in-production application I've written for my client using Dabo. Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. Paul willtalk about the methods used to develop, test, and deploy it, highlight some points in the code that show some of the real strengths of Dabo and Python, and then also hopefully have time to show some of the in-development RAD tools such as the class designer.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Can You Top This? - Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 22h30
We'll be sharing tips, tricks, bloopers and code reviews at this meeting. Please share your ideas, both good and bad! Do you have tips to share? Some bad code you had (or have) to work on? Bring it on! Let's see if you can top what's shown. See you there!
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
PHP Basics part 2 - Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 at 22h30
PHP Basics, part 2 PHP is THE most common web programming language. It runs well on both Linux and Windows. PHP is offered by the vast majority of web host companies, and you can find PHP hosting in all price ranges starting under $5.00 per month. PHP is an object oriented loosely typed language that has many features attractive to VFP developers. Jim Hunter will be presenting an introduction to PHP. It will be spread over two or more sessions and will include: Installation on a local PC ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Why PHP? How PHP? - Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 22h30
PHP is THE most common web programming language. It runs well on both Linux and Windows. PHP is offered by the vast majority of web host companies, and you can find PHP hosting in all price ranges starting under $5.00 per month. PHP is an object oriented loosely typed language that has many features attractive to VFP developers. Jim Hunter will be presenting an introduction to PHP. It will be spread over two or more sessions and will include: Installation on a local PC Editors (e...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Web Designer Eye for the Programmer Guy - Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at 22h30
Web design tips for programmers. Britt Ehringer will save us from the typical ugly web pages that us programmers create. Jump StartAutomatic Application Updating & Install, Michael Cummings Inno Setup easily handles Internet installs. The one catch is that if you add new files, you need to make a new setup exe. Michael will show how to create an installer/updater that will automatically notify users of new or changed files, and then only download the new or changed files.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Crystal Reports and VFP - Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 22h30
VFP is a monster for data manipulation. Crystal Reports is a monster for paper reports, PDF, Excel, and many other outputs. Burt will show how easy it is to use the Crystal Reports royalty free runtime from VFP.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
A VFP9 Overview of Anchoring and Resizing - Tuesday, January 22th, 2008 at 22h30
One day I had a thought -- provide users with the option of proportional form resizing (as provided by the Visual Fox Express framework) or by using VFP 9 anchor properties. To a degree, I wished I'd left it at that -- as a thought. It isn't for the faint of heart. I did implement such a design, configurable for each form! More importantly, here's some of the things I learned along this path: 1) Anchoring issues in my head (things I thought were VFP bugs, weren't) 2) Anchoring issues in ...
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SouthWest Fox 2007 demonstrations - Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 19h30
The December presentation will have a variety of abbreviated demos from the long list of sessions from SouthWest Fox 2007. These will include: More than 254 fields in a VFP table. Regular Expression Evaluation (Text Search on Steroids) Outfox the VFP Report Writer (Cathy Pountney's fully extends the Printer Dialog etc.) QuickBooks Automation And time providing we can touch on "No Boundaries Visual FoxPro Web Applications - A recent Google search found over 850,000 web pa...
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Frank Marafino -- Southwest Fox 2007 - Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 19h30
Frank Marafino will talk about the exciting details at the Southwest Fox 2007 conference last month and other exciting items: 1. Recap of the 2007 Southwest Fox Conference. 2. An overview of one or more sessions from 2007 Southwest Fox including what is new in the VFPX Project. 3. Main event – Demo and instructional how to on Rick Strahl’s new Web Connect 5.3 development tools. Do you want to build and deploy VFP apps to any web browser? If so this lecture will get you star...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Life in a Post Web 2.0 World - Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 19h30
What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, including a Web Service named Mechanical Turk that allows computers to make requests of people, an online storage service, a Virtual Server service, and more. But mostly this will be an opportunity to have a discussion about innovation and e...
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DBF File Repair - Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 19h30
Jay knows from DBFs. He will explain the difference between big endian and little endian. He knows where the bits are buried and what they mean. He will share some classes he has used for DBF repair and how to use them. If you have ever seen "Not a database file" then you will need to attend this session. Jump Start: Michael Cummings -- Romania Several people have asked why my company has opened a software develoment office in Romania. I will also have a few pictures from a recen...
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Firebird Database Server - Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at 19h30
Firebird Database Server is FREE and in many situations a better technical choice than SQL Server or even MySQL. Firebird does NOT lock records, instead using a multi-versioning process. For application development, this is often superior to the lock based concurrency control that SQL Server uses, because you will not need to use dirty reads as you must in a multi-user SQL Server application. Firebird 2.0 has added support for large databases, expression indexes (yipee!) and supports ...
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Servoy -- A FoxPro Replacement - Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 19h30
Servoy is a Java-based development environment entirely focused on maximizing your productivity. Basically you do not have to code in Java (unless you want to) nor SQL (unless you want to). You can develop your applications 5-10 times faster than coding in plain Java and .NET. Our development environment is drag-and-drop based, we do all the "hard" SQL work (including data-binding), we have built-in data-broadcasting, a zero deployment client, a HTTP- based server interface and much more. In add...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Art Berquist -- The 27 (or so) Habits of Highly Effective VFP Developers - Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 at 19h30
All sorts of tips and tricks I've gleaned over the years to simplify and generally facilitate VFP development. Art Bergquist is a Microsoft Certified Professional and works at Visionpace with Visual MaxFrame Professional (VMP). He has authored articles and tips in FoxTalk and FoxPro Advisor (and has also tech-edited articles for FoxPro Advisor) and has been a presenter at the FoxPro Developers Network Of San Diego (where he serves on the board as Vice-President), the Orange County (CA) F...
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Genexus Presentation - Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 19h30
GeneXus since 1988 is the most successful and sophisticated application generator, multi language / multi environment tool in the market today with over 5,500 customers, over 55,000 licenses in over 30 countries and as an estimate GeneXus has over 5 Million users of GeneXus applications. We also have complimentary BI tools, great portal technology (GXportal) and our Technology has as its foundation the SOA (Web Services) technology components. We have lots of references for you to contact to ...
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Frank Marafino -- Stonefield Query demonstration - Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 19h30
The demo will cover: 1. End User ease of use and functionality 2. User Security model within the end-user tool. 3. Setup for developers so that end-users don't need to know how to join tables and write SQL. 4. New functionality for drill-down reports. 5. And more bells and whistles. Jump Start: GoGlobal to Run Your App over the Internet -- Jay Hudson Similar to Citrix/Terminal Services, GoGlobal will run your application on a remote application server. Jay likes it better than...
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CursorAdapters - Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 at 19h30
Michael will show creating and using CursorAdapters both with the CursorAdapter Builder and in Code. He will show how CursorAdapters are objects and can reference properties and code from your form. Jump Start: Obfuscator Make your code hard to read On Purpose! "Obfuscator is designed to protect applications created in VFP6-9 environment against reverse engineering. This is achieved by changing the names of variables, properties, procedures, functions, methods and objects. As a ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Integrating FoxFire into your applications - Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 at 19h30
Burt will show how to use FoxFire as your reporting engine in your application. He will show code detailing how to hook FoxFire into a Visual MaxFrame application, and discuss how the integration can be done from any Visual FoxPro application. Jump Start: Cool Developer Tool - Molebox Molebox is an application packager/compressor. It reduces 6mb exe files to 1.7mb in my testing. You can include the VFP runtimes and your application in one exe, and you can even include exernal files l...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Security in VFP Apps - A Real World Example - Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 19h30
An over view of Jay Hudson's Point of Sale program, followed by an in depth look at the security portion of his personal framework that the Point of Sale is written on. Jump Start: Michael will show how to automatically update your application over the internet. This version is 100% VFP and updates your exe and any other files your application needs such as FRX report files.
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Open House Discussion - Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at 19h30
Tonight, we're having an open forum! Come enjoy Food, good times, a Christmas celebration, and our White Elephant Gift Exchange. See you there! Jump Start: Robin will show Advanced Data Munging Techniques from a real life project.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
FoxForward and Southwest Fox Wrap-Up - Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 19h30
Plenty of new and exciting things were demonstrated at the FoxForward and Southwest Fox conferences. Come join us for a thorough wrap-up of these two exciting conferences!
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Foxfire! 8.0 Presentation - Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 19h30
Foxfire! 8+ has a little known but very interesting new feature - it has a sister product that runs on the web. In this presentation, Burt will present the Foxfire Web Report Writer and demonstrate it's inter-operability with Foxfire! for Windows. Burt will also conduct a short Foxfire! workshop and answer any questions attendees may have. Come see the latest that is happening with Foxfire! 8+. It has been years in the making but it is about to become real!
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Visual FoxPro Plays Nice with Integrated Components - Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 19h30
1. See Visual FoxPro running multiple modal-less report previews using XFRX. Includes toggling between report preview and report selection criteria (similar to what you have in QuickBooks). 2. See Scanning solutions that include PDF previewing in a VFP screen and imbedded barcodes in scanned documents for quick cataloging of documents. 3. See e-mail automation using Eudora - easy to use, inexpensive license fee and without the security nuisances of Outlook.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Using Software Design Patterns - Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 19h30
All well structured object oriented architectures are full of patterns. Focusing on these common patterns (Design Patterns) during a system's development can yield an architecture that is smaller, simpler, and far more understandable than if these patterns are ignored. Using these Design Patterns in your development can provide a significant maintenance advantage during an application's lifespan.Like a Japanese haiku (a three line poem consisting of exactly 17 syllables), Design Patterns have ...
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Buffering and Transactions in Visual FoxPro - Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 19h30
In this session Andy explains how Visual Foxpro implements data buffering and transactions and clarifies the confusion that surrounds this whole topic. Crucial to this subject is the way in which visua foxpro defines, and recognizes update conflicts and as part of this session Andy explains the design and implementation of a class that intercepts and resolve the majority of update conflicts without interruption to the application. Jump Start: Automation with VFP Visual FoxPro is a...
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Docking in VFP - Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 at 19h30
Dockable forms and toolbars are becoming the norm in modern Windows desktop applications. VFP has supported dockable toolbars since VFP 3.0 and has long supported dockable forms as part of its IDE. VFP 9.0 now allows developers to create dockable forms in addition to toolbars. End-users and developers can take advantage of dockable forms and toolbars to easily customize an applications interface to suit their individual preferences. This session will look at dockable forms and toolbars from two ...
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Business Class Based Two-tier Application Development using VFP9 and SQL Server - Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 at 19h30
This talk is an update on construction of complex data systems using business objects to drive the UI and the back-end SQLServer database. The system presented in a very preliminary form last year will be demonstrated in nearly complete form. It includes automatic rendering and resizing of user interface objects based on business object properties, validation of data entry based on business object methods, and classes for creation of keys, single and multiple field foreign key relationships...
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Best Practices for Reporting - Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 at 19h30
Reporting is arguably the most important aspect of most business applications. Companies tend not to put data into systems unless they want it back out. Thus, without output, most systems are worthless. Use of a class for handling reports and output is the best way to create a flexible application that's designed for long-term maintainability. This class centralizes and encapsulates output. In this session, you'll learn how to design, build and error-check such a class, while building...
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Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL - Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 at 19h30
Office Automation -- Beyond the Basics Getting started automating Office isn't that hard. Doing the simple tasks with each of the servers is well-documented. But what comes next? This session looks at some more complex Automation tasks, including responding to Office events, shutting down abandoned servers, using Office's spelling checker, and more. Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL VFP's SQL language offers solutions to a variety of problems faced in many applications. In th...
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VSS/VFP IDE Integration and What's New in Visual SourceSafe 2005 for the VFP Developer - Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 at 19h30
Visual SourceSafe (VSS) has always been a good source code control option for VFP developers, but many have found it's IDE integration to be problematic, while others have just given up attempting to use this powerful feature. This session will show how to successfully use VSS's IDE integration in VFP as well as describe what VSS 2005 has in store for us. Bill has been using VSS for over 8 years and will be demonstrating many tips he's picked up along the way that make source code control inte...
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Web Connection 5.0 demo - Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 at 19h30
Web Connection 5.0 introduces a new programming model that uses a control based metaphor that is closer to a desktop development model. The model is similar to and compatible with ASP.NET syntax, but uses pure FoxPro code for your user code and the framework that implements it. With the new version you can use Visual Studio .NET or the free Visual Web Developer designers to visually lay out your pages and assign properties using the VS.NET property sheets. But all logic and code hooked up use pu...
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Confessions of a Retired Program Manager - Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 19h30
Join Randy Brown for a fun retrospect of his life during the past 10 years as a Program Manager on the Visual FoxPro team. He'll take a peak behind the scenes of producing a world class product. And he'll give you his insight on some stuff he think we did right and some things that could have gone a little better. Of course, it wouldn't be a true user group gathering without cool Visual FoxPro demos. Lately, he's been playing around with code currently slated for the Sedna release. He'll walk th...
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Using VFE 2005 - Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 at 19h30
F1 Technologies has recently released a major upgrade to Visual Fox Express. Visual FoxExpress is a true n-tier framework, built to be n-tier from the ground up, not retrofitted to be n-tier when it became fashionable. VFE is still the only Visual FoxPro framework to completely represent data, including tables, views, fields and view parameters in objects. In this session we will go over how to build an application in VFE 2005. We will cover how to use the Application manager, wizards, and ...
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xFrx and fun with Printer Dialogs - Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 at 19h30
PRINTING FROM THE XFRX PREVIEW CONTAINER The XFRX preview container has a lot of advantages over the native VFP preview screen. XFRX gives you the ability to chain multiple reports together, and these will appear as a single report in the previewer with continuous page numbering across the reports (if you want). The previewer also offers a search feature that the native VFP viewer doesn't have. However, printing from this previewer has its quirks. We'll cover the considerations for diffe...
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Get More Productive with Visual FoxPro - Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 at 19h30
Rapid Application Development is a leftover buzzword from the 90’s. Are you as productive with VFP as you can be, or wish to be? How do other developers use the world’s best database application development tool to bring applications to market quicker? Are there tips I can learn to save me 10 minutes a day or an hour a week? This session will demonstrate as many tips and productivity ideas that can be crammed into the session. As the old saying goes, there are always three ways to accomplish som...
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Integrating Internet Electronic Payment Processing into Web Applications - Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 at 19h30
This session will guide you through the maze of choices for collecting payments from your customers online. We'll start by discussing the business end and understanding of how gateway services, merchant providers interact and how you can get your payments processed over the Internet. You'll see the architecture and different approaches from several common providers including Authorize.NET, Verisign PayFlow, LinkPoint and AccessPoint as well as Paypal. Then we'll demonstrate and differentiate the...
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VFP and User Interface design - Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 at 19h30
Business layer and user interface architecture for multi-level applications 1. Creation of a VFP object model for a database; division of an application into UI, business rules, intermediate data store, and back-end database layers 2. Data driven VFP UI for use with such layered application Examples including: a. A system for laying out forms at run time with HTML like controls (begin table, add grid/label/combobox/..., next row, ..., end table) b. Connecting events to controls at r...
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Refactoring your VFP code - Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 at 19h30
Refactoring is the perfect companion for Test Driven Development. One way to write excellent computer software is to subject your code to a formal process of refinement. For instance, if the same piece of code appears in two different places, it should be moved into a separate function, and called from each original location. By doing this, you can keep your code clean, concise and efficient both from a machine and a programmer point of view. In this session, Burt will introduce you to the ba...
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Mine for Code in XSource - Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 at 19h30
Visual FoxPro comes with source code for most of the "Xbase" tools that ship with the product, including the Class Browser, Code References, Toolbox, and Task Pane. Looking at source code written by top VFP gurus often gives insight into new, powerful coding techniques. This session looks at various files in XSource to show you cool ideas you can incorporate and even better, code you can directly use in your applications today. The Jump Start speaker will be Michael Cummings. The topic is...
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Using Active FoxPro Pages with Visual FoxExpress - Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 at 17h30
Using Active FoxPro Pages with Visual FoxExpress Visual FoxExpress is an n-tier framework for Visual FoxPro with a very rich object model and powerful data dictionary. In this session Mike will demonstrate classes he's created to make use of the Visual FoxExpress object model for web site development. Although the session will focus on AFP, the techniques covered here will also apply to using VFE with Web Connection, (Class) Active Server Pages and ASP.NET. The jump start will be done by M...
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Demonstration of FoxFire 8.0 - Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 at 19h30
After almost 13 years in distribution, Foxfire! could just be FoxPro’s longest-running, most-widely distributed add-on. How and why did this happen?? First, consider its business-critical mission: be the world’s easiest tool for getting information out of a database. Foxfire! embodies tens of thousands of man (and woman) hours dedicated to becoming just that. It makes data mining so simple that users don’t even need a user guide. Then, examine its surprisingly open architecture, w...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Using Software Design Patterns - Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 at 19h30
All well structured object oriented architectures are full of patterns. Focusing on these common patterns (Design Patterns) during a system's development can yield an architecture that is smaller, simpler, and far more understandable than if these patterns are ignored. Using these Design Patterns in your development can provide a significant maintenance advantage during an application's lifespan. Like a Japanese haiku (a three line poem consisting of exactly 17 syllables), Design Patterns hav...
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Marcia Akins and Andy Kramek speak! - Tuesday, January 11th, 2005 at 17h30
Marcia Akins and Andy Kramek will be speaking at LA Fox. Here's their topics for this evening: Effective Techniques for Using a Combo in a Grid (Marcia) This session covers all aspects of using combo boxes inside grids. The combo box is a very useful control when you need to limit the options that a user may select from, but it is not easy to use well in any situation, and inside a grid it sometimes seems to acquire a life of its own. I will show you how to add combo boxes to your grids an...
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Jeff Pace at LA Fox, White Elephant Gift Exchange - Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 at 19h30
Jeff Pace will be giving a first look at FxFrame - an exciting innovative VFP Framework. Concentration will be place on the FxFrame Application Server which manages multiple FxFrame applications locally, or remote via COM+ or Web services: - Presentation Object Management - Business Object Management - Business Rules Management - Field Object Management - Field and Record Validation Management - Dynamic Class Library Management - Help Content Management - Security Management - Docu...
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Introduction to Python and Dabo For Visual FoxPro Developers - Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 at 19h30
Visual FoxPro's integrated development environment, complete with interactive command window, powerful debugger, project manager, native cursor engine, report designer, visual class designer, OOP and procedural flexibility, dynamic typing, source code readability, and a strong set of third-party libraries and frameworks make it the best choice for building top-notch data-aware desktop and web-enabled business applications. But it only runs on Windows. This is becoming more and more of a probl...
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Visual FoxPro 9.0 Report Writer - Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 at 19h30
Report System Design-time Extensibility: I will cover the vast array of new features that make the VFP report design experience more productive. I will demonstrate the new Report Designer event hooks, and how the shipping Report Builder replaces the native dialog and extends the native functionality of the Report Designer. I will show how Protection can be assigned to elements of the report layout to make CREATE/MODIFY REPORT safe - and comfortable - for users of distributed applications. R...
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Client Relationships 101 - Tuesday, September 14th, 2004 at 19h30
Regardless of how much programming experience you have, going independent is a whole new world. The first step is creating a standard contract (usually called a "Consulting Agreement") that's fair to both you and your future clients. This session will cover essential elements of a good contract, plus some negotiation strategies. We'll also cover the pros and cons of charging by time and materials versus fixed price, as well as what makes a good design specification. Finally, we'll get into h...
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VFP9 Enhancements! - Tuesday, August 10th, 2004 at 19h30
Property Window Enhancements - VFP 9.0 includes many enhancements to the VFP IDE Property Window. One these enhancements is the ability to customize properties. Customize the case of property names, default values, and even run custom scripts when the property is modified. Customize properties and have the customization propogate through an entire class library through inheritance. Mike will demonstrate how to customize properties through XML, and how to use the new Member Data Editor to custo...
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DBC, Data Validation and SQL - Selects - Tuesday, July 13th, 2004 at 19h30
For the first half of the presentation Bill Anderson will go over the basics of data validation in the DBC. We'll cover field rules, table rules, triggers, stored procedures, defaults and other items. You name it, we'll cover how to do it and why you would use it. For the second half, we'll cover some tips and tricks for coding SQL Select statements. We look forward to your participation!
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Software Project Survival Guide - Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 at 17h30
Every software project is risky to project sponsors and developers alike. Every software project wants to go sideways. Be part of this interactive discussion that addresses early warning signs of trouble & what to do about them. Michael Cummings of Brick Software leads a panel of VFP professionals (corporate project manager/developers Mark Harpenau of MGM and Bill Hartgrove of Protocol Marketing Group and external developer/consultants Bill Anderson of The Anderson Files and Robin Connelly of Do...
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What Your Mother Never Told You About Instantiating/Destroying Forms - Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 at 19h30
Instantiating and destroying forms seems like a straightforward process -- the Init event method instantiates the form, and the Destroy event method closes/destroys the form. However, there's a lot more to it than that. It's unfortunately very easy to disrupt the normal sequence of instantiation events, with results that are hard to debug. Similarly, the way VFP handles the destruction of a form has serious implications for handling object reference cleanup (to prevent "dangling object refer...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Source Safe, Source Offsite, and Automation - Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 at 19h30
VFP and Visual SourceSafe have been working in an integrated fashion for years. But do you know how to take best advantage of that integration? Kristyne will show you ways you haven't yet seen to improve the way you're working with VSS, from scripting the initial check-in of all your projects no matter where they're lurking, to getting useful statistics from your current projects, to incorporating the use of SourceOffSite for remote users. If you're not using SourceSafe for your VFP pro...
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Server security and Hackers - Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 at 19h30
Darrell Gardner to speak at the 4 Southern California Fox User Groups regarding Server security and Hackers.
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Marcia Akins/Andy Kramek - Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 at 19h30
Marcia Akins -- Using ActiveX Controls in VFP ActiveX controls have been around for quite a while now, and are quite widely used by developers working in other languages. However, they have never been really popular among FoxPro developers. This is a shame because there are some very good ActiveX controls available, completely free, that provide useful functionality with little or no effort. In this session, Marcia shows you how you can leverage some of these standard controls to extend you...
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VFP Report Writer training - Saturday, January 24th, 2004 at 09h00
The Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group proudly presents a new Boot Camp! “Pushing the VFP Report Writer to the Limit” Presented by Cathy Pountney Author of The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond This all-day class is geared toward working programmers and will help you unleash the power of the Visual FoxPro Report Writer. It starts with the basics and covers the Report Wizard, data sources, the Report Designer, and the various report objects. Next, the...
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Europa (VFP9) - Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 at 18h00
The Visual FoxPro team is proud to present several evenings in Southern California of exciting new features in our upcoming Visual FoxPro Europa release. Lead Program Manager Randy Brown will preview the upcoming product version. You can expect plenty of focus on new Reporting features, which include enhancements to both design-time and runtime such as multiple detail bands. We will also cover cool new rich client features such as dockable forms, rotated labels and polygons. Europa also contains...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Application Showcase - Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 at 18h00
See other people's real life applications. Guaranteed to be educational, or the cost of your refreshments will be cheerfuly refunded!
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Mind's Eye Report Engine - Tuesday, November 11th, 2003 at 18h00
Rich Simpson will be demonstrating and discussing the features and functionality of the Mind's Eye Report Engine which he has developed over the last couple of years. Rich will also be open to discuss any questions and topics on software development using VFP and Delphi and why he uses them over other languages. The Mind's Eye Report Engine control along with its VFP Class Library has been designed to overcome many of the limitations of the current VFP Report Writer as well as add many new ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP and Web Services - Tuesday, October 14th, 2003 at 17h30
Visual FoxPro is one of the best tools for creating rich clients and with this version's XML features, Visual FoxPro 8 clients can easily be created for distributed systems. In this session you will learn how to call web services from your programs and explore new Web Service tools and builders in Visual FoxPro 8. You will learn how to consume middle-tier ADO.NET datasets from VFP8 using the XMLAdapter and CursorAdapter classes by walking through a web service sample provided with Visual FoxPro ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Mike Feltman -- SQL Server Data Access Techniques with VFP8 - Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 at 17h30
Visual FoxPro offers numerous means of accessing remote data. These include Remote Views, Dynamic SQL Pass Through, SQL Pass Through calling Stored Procedures. Visual FoxPro 8.0 provides yet another means of accessing remote data with the Cursor Adapter class, which actually can wrap the other techniques. In this session we'll look at the pros and cons of each technique and discuss when each of these techniques are the most appropriate for a given situation. The discussion will focus on Ease of ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Barbara Peisch -- An Internet State of Mind - Show Me the Code - Tuesday, August 12th, 2003 at 17h30
You need to move a VFP app to the web. You know in theory what you're supposed to do, but you've never done this before. What are the problems you're likely to run into? How do you debug them? What security issues are you likely to face? How will you host this app? This session will address all these issues and more.Attendees will learn1. How to write code to do basic functions: Add, Delete, Search and Edit2. How do deal with errors in a web environment3. Some basic debugging techniques4. How to...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Building Windows Applications: .NET or Visual FoxPro? - Tuesday, July 8th, 2003 at 17h30
Learn the inner workings of creating Windows applications with .NET. In this session you'll look at how creating Visual FoxPro Windows applications compares with creating them in .NET. You'll see how in some ways Visual FoxPro has a better approach, and in other respects .NET is better. You'll explore more complex issues such as implementing business objects, data access, data binding, creating custom controls, formatting input fields, and working with data grids.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Mike Stewart - Security - Tuesday, June 10th, 2003 at 17h30
Though not all specific to Visual FoxPro, this session will delve into common security problems, attacks, and mistakes developers and network administrators may not be aware of. If you create web applications or thick client applications, this presentation show you what to avoid.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Whil Hentzen -- Topic to be Determined - Tuesday, May 13th, 2003 at 17h30
Topic to be determined.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Drew Speedie -- Practical uses for BindEvent() - Tuesday, April 8th, 2003 at 17h30
VFP 8.0 adds a new BINDEVENT() function that allows binding any VFP object to a custom "event handler". BINDEVENT() is a powerful feature that has many uses in a VFP application, including the ability to bind to VFP's _Screen methods and properties. BINDEVENT() can also be used to implement what amounts to "subclassing at runtime", eliminating the need for many subclasses, especially "leaf" member objects. This session consists of a brief explanation of BINDEVENT() and related functions, but is ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Los Angeles County Foxpro Boot Camp - Saturday, March 22th, 2003 at 08h00
VFP basics like you have never seen before!An all day Saturday Boot CampNCR building -- 100 N. Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo, CATwo Tracks:Visual FoxPro Basics for WindowsData! Data! Data! - Data Conversions, SQL Select tricks and much more.http://www.lafox.org/Bootcamp.page.fox
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Techniques to speed up a VFP Program - Tuesday, March 11th, 2003 at 17h30
Anthony will speak on when, why and how to optimize VFP applications. He will cover the Coverage/Profiler and the Markus Egger Profiler utility. We will see a number of code speeding techniques such as the do not run the code technique, Caching, Actual vs perceived, replacing DO WHILEs with FORs etc. The benefits of a test harness will also be presented.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Using graphics within VFP applications - Tuesday, February 11th, 2003 at 19h30
L. A. Fox member David Greene's presentation will include a number of things, including an intro into PaintShop Pro, a graphics program that runs $100.00 (old versions were free on the internet last I knew - used to be shareware) and is 90% of Photoshop without the $700.00 cost. The "cool" forms, with or without porthole, may be the biggest surprise. It took some work to figure out how to do it - there's nothing in Technet or MSDN that addresses the Windows API in the way I wanted to use it, b...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Intro to Linux & Open Source software for Foxpro developers - Tuesday, January 14th, 2003 at 19h30
The three topics I will cover are:SAMBA: server software which provides file and print services to Windows usersPostgreSQL: an advanced open source database with ODBC connectivityHarbour Project: an open source Xbase compiler.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP and .NET working together - Tuesday, December 10th, 2002 at 19h30
Visual FoxPro 8.0 includes many new features supporting improved integration and interoperability with Visual Studio .NET technologies. This session will discuss and demonstrate these new features in VFP 8.0 and how they can be used to create applications that can take advantage of ASP.NET WebForms, mobile devices, and .NET WinForms. Included will be examples of the new VFP 8.0 XMLAdapter class and XML Web services to show how XML can be used to pass information back and forth between VFP and .N...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Error messages / Putting data on the map - Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 19h30
Barbara Peisch will speak about error messages -- Ever get error messages like "Cannot access the selected table", "Feature not available" or "'field' phrase is not found"? How about those pesky "C0000005" errors? Do these errors leave you wondering what the problem really is? This presentation will cover these and many other common error messages. You'll learn what these errors really mean, and how to solve the problem. Andrew Coates will discuss one of his GLGDW topics: Putting your data on th...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Ken Levy TBA - Tuesday, October 8th, 2002 at 19h30
To be announced...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Rick Strahl is in the house!!! - Tuesday, September 10th, 2002 at 19h30
Find out how you can access Visual FoxPro data and logic in .NET. Demonstrates data access with OleDb, using COM objects from .NET, accessing .NET objects from Visual FoxPro and how to share data over Web Services. This session is fairly lengthy (2+ hours)
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Demo of Visual Fox Express 7.1 - Tuesday, August 13th, 2002 at 19h30
On August 13 Mike and Toni Feltman will demostrate that latest version of the Visual FoxExpress framework to the Los Angeles Visual FoxPro User Group. Visual FoxExpress 7.1 is a framework and Rapid Application Development tool for Visual FoxPro 7.0 made by F1 Technologies. Mike and Toni will create a Visual FoxPro application with a SQL-Server back end and also discuss the architecture of the Visual FoxExpress framework. Mike, Toni and company are currently working on a new release of Visual Fox...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Integrating with QuickBooks Proprietary Database / xCase - Tuesday, July 9th, 2002 at 19h30
This presentation will consist of a brief discussion of the old way of sending data to QuickBooks via the IIF format. Then a demonstration of interfacing directly with QuickBooks via their SDK and database object module. This will include code samples for sending and receiving customers, vendors and invoice transactions. Also, we will take a brief look at the comprehensive documentation that accompanies the QuickBooks SDK.If there is time remaining, Bill Anderson will show an overview of xCase. ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Testing Computer Software - Tuesday, June 11th, 2002 at 19h30
Testing complex software systems is a difficult task to master. How do you know you've tested the right things? How do you know when to stop testing? In this session, you will be introduced to the core concepts of professional software testing. From test plan creation to test case creation to releasing the product, you will step through each process of the software testing cycle. You will learn methodologies and techniques used by today's software testing professionals, and how you can apply it ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
VFP Tips and Tricks - Tuesday, May 14th, 2002 at 19h30
development tips and tricks as can fit into the allotted time. Many of the items presented apply to all versions of Visual FoxPro; others are new to Visual FoxPro 7.0, but not necessarily widely known because they are not major new features. The items cover a broad spectrum of Visual FoxPro development, from improving productivity to managing classes to working around Visual FoxPro limitations and anomalies. You should be able to put the majority of these techniques to work right away, since the...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Using VFP to create CHM files from Word Documents - Tuesday, April 9th, 2002 at 19h30
Tools like the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop or West Wind HTML Help Builder can make short work of generating an HTML Help (CHM) file. However, what if you're not starting from scratch but from a set of existing Word documents?This session discusses the basics of generating CHM files, covers the tasks necessary to create CHM files from Word documents, and presents a set of tools that automates the process.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Polling for Environmental Data with a FoxPro based System - Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 19h30
A VFP-based polling system for interrogating environmental monitoring equipment at gas stations, parsing the resulting data, and uploading the results into a web data system, will be described. The system includes various complex algorithms:1. Table driven inquiry of remote microprocessor-based data collectors.2. Parsing of the responses from the data collectors according to algorithms described by a custom-created parsing language.3. Fault-tolerant modem and telnet communication with retries, v...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
.NET for Visual FoxPro Developers - Tuesday, February 12th, 2002 at 19h30
Visual FoxPro is one of the best Microsoft tools for creating desktop, client-server and Web applications. However, although you can "do it all" with VFP, it would be a mistake to ignore .NET. Microsoft has put a lot of resources into making .NET a revolutionary platform for creating software. This session helps explain .NET through the eyes of Visual FoxPro. It also presents information on using .NET technologies from your VFP applications as well as creating software using a .NET language such...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Business Objects - Tuesday, January 8th, 2002 at 19h30
Victor Campos, President of Options Software Consulting (OSC) located in El Monte, CA. OSC assist companies find real world business solutions with the use of Software Business Objects. In January he'll be discusing the importance of implementing Business Objects. Topics that will be covered include:* What is a Business Object?* Business Object's Conceptual Meta-Model* Building an effective Business Object in Visual FoxPro* Benefits of using Business ObjectsProvided with this presentation will b...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Visual FoxPro 7.0 and the VFP Community - Tuesday, December 11th, 2001 at 19h30
Visual FoxPro 7.0 and the FoxPro Community - Ken LevyKen Levy is the Visual FoxPro Product Manager at Microsoft. Ken will discuss the latest news from Microsoft on Visual FoxPro marketing, new Visual FoxPro product news, along with information about the FoxPro community. Ken will also be showing new and exciting demonstrations of various FoxPro community web sites that are driven by VFP 7.0 and exposing data as .NET compatible XML Web services. A new utility called FoxCentralX by Ken will be ...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Tom Dill, Automated Printer Setup - Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 19h00
Tom Dill, Automated Printer Setup
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
LA Fox meeting 10/9 -- Eric Lendvai, EL Software, Inc. - Tuesday, October 9th, 2001 at 19h30
Come and learn about DotFox, EL Software's latest product.Paid members of LA County FoxPro Developers Group will receive a free site license of DotFox, a $400.00 value.Since 1993, EL SoftWare, Inc. was a third party product vendor servicing the FoxPro community internationally. Today, EL SoftWare, Inc. brings web application solutions for Visual FoxPro programmers. The new revolutionary web framework, DotFox, will allow programmers to create active web sites using only VFP. For more informatio...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Microsoft Visual FoxPro Product Manager to speak at LA Fox - Tuesday, September 18th, 2001 at 19h30
The new product manager for Visual Foxpro, Ken Levy, will fly down to LosAngeles to speak on the future of Visual FoxPro. The event will be held onSeptember 18, 7:30 PM at the NCR building in El Segundo.Come and see why Visual FoxPro is a great solution for today's applications!With its local cursor engine, tight coupling between language and data, andpowerful features such as object-oriented programming, Microsoft VisualFoxPro 7.0 is a great tool for building database solutions of all sizes,fro...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
An overview of building Web Applications with Web Connection - Tuesday, August 14th, 2001 at 19h30
This is more or less a dog and pony show with an intro that demonstrates how to get started and start building data driven Web requests. For those that have been to my workshops this would be the hands-on intro section of it with a little more focus on features rather than over-explaining the detailed workings.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Introduction to VFP and OOP - Tuesday, July 10th, 2001 at 19h30
Introduction to VFP and OOP (first half of the evening)· OOP Concepts – General Terms and Concepts· OOP Concepts - Properties, Events & Methods (PEMs)· OOP Syntax· Visual FoxPro Base Classes (brief overview)VFP 7.0 New Features (second half of the evening)· Text Handling Improvements· Text Merge Improvements· Data-related Changes· Resource Management· Measuring Screen Area· Array Handling· User Interface Improvements· Changes to the OOP Language
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
QuoteDesk demonstration, part 2 with Robin Connelly - Tuesday, June 12th, 2001 at 19h30
Frank Marafino will give us a report on the recent DevCon in Orlando; I'm sure we will hear about some interesting new features in VFP 7.0! Robin Connelly will be the main speaker, demonstrating more of Quote Desk 32 -- which was an independently developed and marketed VAR / Reseller / Contractor business management program -- bought by CNet Networks in November, 2000. Robin will give some of the history, and demonstrate the key features. Feel free to ask questions.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
QuoteDesk demonstration, part 1 with Robin Connelly - Tuesday, May 8th, 2001 at 19h30
Robin will also be the main speaker, demonstrating Quote Desk 32 -- which was an independently developed and marketed VAR / Reseller / Contractor business management program -- bought by CNet Networks in November, 2000.Robin will give some of the history, and demonstrate the key features -- including Internet access w/o a browser ( providing he can attach at the NCR building ). Again, feel free to ask questions.
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
Analysis Patterns for Contact Management - Tuesday, April 10th, 2001 at 19h30
Analysis Patterns for Contact ManagementPresented by David TanseyDirector of Consulting – F1 TechnologiesVirtually every custom business application requires some form of contact management features. Current technical literature on the subject suggests that there are powerful patterns in this area. These patterns can be used to create a dynamic business model that is much more flexible and resilient to change than more-common approaches are.In this talk we will examine a series of powerful Ana...
Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group
RAD Software Framework - Tuesday, March 13th, 2001 at 19h30
Jonathan Melvin, from Vision Implementers, Inc., will speak about a software framework that allows very rapid application development. The framework executes from a compact script which specifies data structures, views, and work flow. The framework allows the script to execute the final application, without requiring any screens or reports to be programmed. An example is the LA Fox on-line survey, which took one hour to create (see https://www.VisionImplementers.com/app/survey.asp .) The fra...
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Mike Feltman shows docking in VFP
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Barbara Peisch demoes Best Practices for Reporting
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Barbara Peisch demoes Best Practices for Reporting
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LA Fox Speaker Tamar Granor
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LA Fox Speaker Tamar Granor
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Bill Fields explains VSS integration with VFP
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Bill Fields explains VSS integration with VFP
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Rick Strahl demos Web Connection 5.0
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Rick Strahl demos Web Connection 5.0
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Rick Strahl demos Web Connection 5.0
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Rick Strahl demos Web Connection 5.0
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Rick Strahl demos Web Connection 5.0
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Rick Strahl demos Web Connection 5.0
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Richard Dolen displays winnings
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Art Villa examines his winnings...
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Another LA Fox winner...
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President Michael Cummings opens gift
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Manuals!
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Art Villa displays Goldmine 4.0!
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Marv and LA Fox treasurer Steve Hanlan
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John Porter wins a QuickBasic for DOS manual!
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Ken Levy crashes the LA Fox UG
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Rick Schummer, LA Fox Speaker
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Rick Schummer, LA Fox Speaker
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Rick Strahl demonstrates credit card processing
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Rick Strahl demonstrates credit card processing
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Twila Miller presents July Jump Start
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Robin Connelly presents June Jump Start
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Bill Anderson speaks about Design Patterns
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Ric Unruh displays another gift
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Robin Connelly is an artist!
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Richard Stanton of MSFT shows the VFP 9 Report Writer
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Richard Stanton of MSFT shows the VFP 9 Report Writer
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Richard Stanton of MSFT shows the VFP 9 Report Writer
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Richard Stanton of MSFT shows the VFP 9 Report Writer
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Mike Stewart demoes VFP 9
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UG Raffle -- Who won?
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Rico Salas and Bill Anderson share a laugh
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Mike Cummings, Bill Anderson, Robin Connelly and Mark Harpeneau discuss Software Project Management
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Drew Speedie speaks at LA Fox
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Drew Speedie speaks at LA Fox
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Kristyne McDaniel demos VFP integration with VSS
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Marcia Akins presents "Using ActiveX controls in VFP"
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Andy Kramek presents "Designing a Database"
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Jay Hudson demos WinBatch
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Jay Hudson demos WinBatch
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Randy Brown talks about Europa
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Randy Brown talks about Europa
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Randy shows off Fox Software banner
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Randy Brown talks about Europa
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Brian Rochatka discusses the Win32 API Mutex
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Brian Rochatka discusses the Win32 API Mutex
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Jim Murez shows a VFP application during the "Show Your App!" demo
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Jack Jackson shows a VFP application during the "Show Your App!" demo
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Robin Connelly shows a handy VFP utility
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Bill Anderson gets into the Christmas spirit
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Bill Anderson gives the opening keynote
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Mike Cummings and Robin Connelly ham it up...
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Larry Stratton displays his "winnings"
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John Porter presents his present
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Robin Connelly is a winner!!
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Brian Rochatka and his prize
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Robin Connelly may have had one too many...
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Jim Murez demos Web Connect enhancements
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Jim Murez demos Web Connect enhancements
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Beth Massi explains VFP and Web Services
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Beth Massi explains VFP and Web Services
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Beth Massi explains VFP and Web Services
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Beth Massi explains VFP and Web Services
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Beth Massi explains VFP and Web Services
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Mike Feltman presents at LA Fox
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Mike Feltman presents at LA Fox
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Mike Feltman presents at LA Fox
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Mike Feltman presents at LA Fox
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Mike Feltman presents at LA Fox
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Mike Feltman presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Barbara Peisch presents at LA Fox
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Twila Miller and Kevin McNeish relax at LA Fox
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Mike Stewart demoing the Tablet PC
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Tablet PC demo
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Tablet PC demo
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Mike Stewart talking about security
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Mike Stewart talking about security
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Mike Stewart talking about security
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Treasurer Twila Miller displays raffle winnings
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Speaker Whil Hentzen presents VFP/Linux discussion
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Jumpstart Presenter – Larry Lichtmann and Art Villa
April 2003
Bill Anderson, Art Villa, and Jumpstart Presenter - Larry Lichtmann
April 2003
Ric Unruh, Main Presenter – Drew Speedie, and Mark London
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Bob Risinger and Steve White
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Presenter – Drew Speedie, Patrick O’Hara, and Kenn Leland
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Bill Anderson
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Twila Miller and Alex Kris
April 2003
LA Fox members enjoy the pizza dinner
February 2003
LA Fox members enjoy the pizza dinner
February 2003
 
February speaker David Greene talks about using graphics within VFP
February 2003
February speaker David Greene talks about using graphics within VFP
February 2003
February speaker David Greene talks about using graphics within VFP
February 2003
 
Speaker Matt Johnson talks about Linux
January 2003
Speaker Matt Johnson talks about Linux
January 2003
Speaker Matt Johnson talks about Linux
January 2003
 
Secretary Art Villa and Treasurer Twila Miller
December 2002
LA Fox attendees waiting for their ticket to be drawn in the White Elephant Gift Exchange
December 2002
LA Fox member Ken Leland and OC Fox president Mike Vincent
December 2002
 
LA Fox board members Rico Salas and Jon Melvin
December 2002
Again, attendees waiting for their ticket to be drawn in the gift exchange
December 2002
Bill Anderson asking someone to display their "gift" during the White Elephant Gift Exchange
December 2002
 
Speaker Ken Levy, Jeb Long and David Salson
December 2002
Wayne Stahnke and Bill Anderson enjoy the catered dinner
December 2002
Kris Dahlin and Jim Murez show off their gifts
December 2002
 
Kris Dahlin shows off his white elephant gift
December 2002
Attendee with the "gift" of the FoxPro 2.5 Library Construction Kit
December 2002
Attendee with "gift" of FoxPro 2.0 training manual
December 2002
 
Attendees display their white elephant gifts
December 2002
Arline Connelly, Peter Harrison and Mike Vincent enjoy the catered dinner
December 2002
Arline Connelly with gift of CDs
December 2002
 
Alex Kris displays gift. Jeff Pace, Jeb Long and Cathi Gero in background.
December 2002
LA Fox Secretary Art Villa
December 2002
LA Fox President Bill Anderson gives thumbs up to the Christmas party
December 2002
 
Speaker Cathi Gero receives the gift of VS.NET free 60 day trial!
December 2002
Second buffet line for the catered Christmas dinner
December 2002
First buffet line for the catered Christmas dinner
December 2002
 
Speaker Cathi Gero
December 2002
LA Fox Board Member David Salson enjoys the Christmas dinner
December 2002
David Salson must be going to Disneyland -- he has mouse ears!
December 2002
 
Jump Start speaker Michael Meer
December 2002
Jeb Long, Vice President Michael Cummings and Treasurer Twila Miller
December 2002
Attendees enjoy the Christmas dinner
December 2002
 
Tom Rombouts with his Christmas gift -- a UPS!
December 2002
Dinnertime at LA Fox!
December 2002
David Foderick with Ric Unruh in background
December 2002
 
LA Fox Treasurer Twila Miller with Christmas gift
December 2002
Attendees working while at LA Fox
December 2002
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
 
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
 
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
Ken Levy doing a presentation
October 2002
 
Board Members Art Villa, Secretary and Robin Connelly
March 2002
LA Fox member Matt Johnson
March 2002
LA Fox members Lauren Simon, Tom Rombouts and Matt Johnson. Tom Rombouts worked for Tom Rettig for many years.
March 2002
 
LA Fox members Kenn Leland, Jim McKinnis and Jim Kearns
March 2002
Bill Anderson, President, Twila Miller, Treasurer and Mike Cummings, Vice President
March 2002
LA Fox member Peter Harrison, Jump Start Speaker David Greene and Main Speaker and LA Fox Board Member Jon Melvin
March 2002
 
From left to right, President Bill Anderson, John Porter and Richard Dolen
March 2002
Jeb Long talks about the history of xBase
December 2001
Ken Levy presents
December 2001
 
Ken Levy and Cathi Gero
December 2001
LA Fox attendees
December 2001
VFP Product Manager and LA Fox Speaker Ken Levy with attendees
December 2001
 
LA Fox Treasurer Twila Miller with OCFox President Mike Vincent
December 2001
LA Fox Treasurer Twila Miller, LA Fox President Bill Anderson and former VWdBUG president Larry Moore
December 2001
Ken Levy and Bill Anderson meet at camp David in L.A., both agree to unite and begin the process of Visual FoxPro world domination
September 2001
 
Rick Strahl and Bill Anderson
August 2001

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