A stumbling & disjointed review of CodeMash - Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "A stumbling & disjointed review of CodeMash" - by Paul Mrozowski
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in presenting to DAFUG? Show off something cool in software development you believe your peers might be interested in hearing about? We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG
General information
| Web site: | http://www.dafug.org |
| Location: | Meetings are held at Holiday Inn Express - Southfield |
| Address: | 25100 Northwestern HWY |
| City: | Detroit, Michigan |
| Code postal/Zip code: | 48075 |
| Pays: | United States |
User group history/membership rate/objectives
All meetings start at 6:00 and finish approximately 8:00pm
Meetings are typically followed by food, Visual FoxPro, and developer discussion at a local restaurant.
Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks are welcome at all meetings.
Agenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - ?? Food and FoxPro discussion
DAFUG usually meets on the third Thursday of the month (except for July). Free parking is available in the hotel parking lot.
Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership.
Speaker
Paul Mrozowski, Rcs Solutions, Inc.
Paul Mrozowski is currently a developer for White Light Computing. He's been focusing on web-based applications in C#/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server and desktop applications in VFP. Additionally he's built a number of .NET/Compact Framework applications. He has been a VFP developer for more than 14 years and C#/.NET developer for more than 10.
Directions
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Rick Schummer, White Light Computing, Inc
Rick is the president of White Light Computing, Inc. Rick is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (VFP) and a Microsoft Certified Professional. Rick is co-author of Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the Next Ten Years, What's New In Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits, Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions, MegaFox: 1002 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Extending Visual FoxPro and the award winning 1001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro (KiloFox...
Archive of meetings
Open Mic Night - Thursday, December 11th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) Open Mic Night!
Bring your computer and show your fellow user group friends something interesting or cool. It might be something you are learning at work or at play, a new tool you came across or developed, or something you developed to help yourself or your customers.
2) Along with anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in presenting to DAFUG? Show off something cool in software develo...
VFPX.Edition("2014")” by Rick Schummer - Thursday, November 20th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) “VFPX.Edition("2014")” by Rick Schummer of White Light Computing, Inc.
VFPX, one of many active open source projects hosted on CodePlex, has some terrific tools to enhance the Visual FoxPro Interactive Development Environment (IDE) and components to impress your customers in the applications you write for them. This session covers some of the recent updates and additions to VFPX in 2014.
We are going to cover ...
PostgreSQL vs Microsoft SQL Server by Frank Perez - Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Southwest Fox Rehearsal
1) "PostgreSQL vs Microsoft SQL Server" by Frank Perez
Microsoft SQL Server is probably the most common Relational DBMS for Visual FoxPro developers that need a back-end database server, with MySQL being the second. But there is a third option that you should consider: PostgreSQL. In this session I will discuss some of the pros and cons of Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostgreSQL. I will show you h...
Entrepreneur's Toolkit: Useful Tools and Techniques for a Software Business by Phil Sherwood - Thursday, September 11th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) “Entrepreneur's Toolkit: Useful Tools and Techniques for a Software Business” by Phil Sherwood of Sherware, Inc.
Have you ever thought about owning and running your own software business? This session will cover the tools and techniques I've used in running a vertical market software company for the last 20 years.
We'll discuss topics such as:
-Software development (Source control, Teams, Tools)
-Marketin...
Windows PowerShell: Batch Files on Steroids by Doug Hennig - Thursday, August 14th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Windows PowerShell: Batch Files on Steroids" by Doug Hennig of Stonefield Software (Southwest Fox Rehearsal)
Windows PowerShell has been included with the operating system since Windows 7 and is available for download for Windows XP and Vista. What is PowerShell? It's Microsoft's task automation scripting framework. PowerShell isn't just a replacement for batch files; it can do a lot more than batch files ever cou...
Why Thor? by Jim Nelson - Thursday, April 10th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Why Thor?" by Jim Nelson
Because:
-the IDE has been stagnant since version 9 was released about a decade ago, when its features were already lagging behind what was available in other environments; the IDE has the feel from a time long ago.
-the intricacies of SCXs and VCXs and the inheritance model make for a complex environment in which we have become accustomed to making do with the tools provided, as if th...
Open Mic Night - Thursday, March 13th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) Thursday night is open-mic night at DAFUG. Bring something to show. Frank Perez will be showing the inner workings of one of the tools he has built – VFP2Text, DASP, or Website monitor. Paul Mrozowski will be showing the basics of Selenium, a web testing tool. Bring something to talk about as short as 5 minutes or as long as 30 minutes.
2) We also will be discussing future meetings and talking about speakers we woul...
Things I learned at CodeMash - Thursday, January 16th, 2014 at 18h00
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Things I learned at CodeMash", by Frank Perez and Paul Mrozowski
Frank & Paul will be doing a review of Codemash - which sessions they attended, what new things they learned, and overall thoughts about the conference.
2) We also will be discussing future meetings and talking about speakers we would like to bring to DAFUG in 2014.
Along with anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in p...
Winging it with an Error Server and Mercurial - Thursday, December 12th, 2013 at 18h00
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Winging it with an Error Server and Mercurial", by Dale Zimmer
A server that maintains errors for tracking purposes. Also going to show SubFox on steroids (written in Python). Will be showing how it integrates into Mercurial for source code tracking. I don't know if I will have anytime to polish anything up so it might just be show things as I go. Who knows what else you might see during the presentation.
2) ...
Build Scripts, Code Signing along with open discussion of What I learned at SWFox - Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 at 18h00
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Build Scripts" by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing
Building your application is as easy as clicking build, right? What else is there? We’ll look at what other types of things you might want to do besides just creating an EXE through build scripts.
2) "Code Signing" by Frank Perez of White Light Computing
Code Signing your EXE and DLL files is something that only the big companies do, right? We’ll t...
The Open Source World of Visual FoxPro by Frank Perez - Thursday, October 10th, 2013 at 18h00
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "The Open Source World of Visual FoxPro" by Frank Perez of White Light Computing (Southwest Fox rehearsal)
VFPX is considered the open source project in the Fox Community. Did you know there are other open source projects being developed outside of VFPX? Yes there are several. Microsoft CodePlex (the home of VFPX) hosts over 20,000 projects. Not all of these are for Visual FoxPro though. The other VFP projects are...
VFPX.Edition.2013() by Rick Schummer - Thursday, September 12th, 2013 at 18h00
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "VFPX.Edition.2013()" by Rick Schummer of White Light Computing (Southwest Fox rehearsal)
VFPX, one of the active open source projects hosted on CodePlex, has some terrific tools to enhance the Visual FoxPro Interactive Development Environment (IDE) and components to impress your customers in the applications you write for them. This session covers some of the recent updates and additions to VFPX in 2013.
We ...
How to setup and implement Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and more - Thursday, August 15th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Bo Durban of Moxie Data, Inc. will be sharing his experiences with:
1) "How to setup and implement Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012"
Microsoft has made their Hyper-V core available for FREE as a stand-alone server. This makes a great platform for managing virtualized servers AND workstations from a scalable, fast, low cost infrastructure. It is ideal for creating virtual test environments for software developers without having to manage a lot of ...
Screen-scraping Websites: Techniques for automating and extracting information from the web - Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Screen-scraping Websites: Techniques for automating and extracting information from the web" by Paul Mrozowski
Paul will demo a few of the techniques he uses for figuring out how to automate and extract information from websites and why you might want to do something like that.
2) "Dynamic Forms from VFPX" by Rick Schummer
How many times in your career have you created a form as a one-time display of some details, collect some criteri...
Barcoding from VFP - Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Barcoding from VFP" by Rick Schummer of White Light Computing
Rick Schummer is going to demonstrate FoxBarcode and FoxBarcodeQR from VFPX.
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in presenting to DAFUG? Show off something cool in software development you believe your peers might be interested in hearing about? We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
-June ...
Texting Made Easy - Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Texting Made Easy" by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing
Need to send or receive text messages from your application? It turns out it’s pretty easy if you use a third party tools. In this session Paul will walk through the process of creating an application that can receive and reply to text messages. We’ll also talk about some of the other capabilities of the API.
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested i...
Database Unit Testing Fundamentals - Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Database Unit Testing Fundamentals" by Eric Selje
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 ...
Anatomy of an FLL - Thursday, February 21st, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Anatomy of an FLL" - by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing, Inc.
Creating an FLL for VFP sounds complicated, but what’s really involved? In this session we’ll walk through the anatomy of building an FLL. We’ll also talk about when you might want to create one and some of the issues you may run into.
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in presenting to DAFUG? Show off something cool in software developme...
A stumbling & disjointed review of CodeMash - Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "A stumbling & disjointed review of CodeMash" - by Paul Mrozowski
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in presenting to DAFUG? Show off something cool in software development you believe your peers might be interested in hearing about? We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG
December Meeting Cancelled - Thursday, December 13th, 2012 at 18h00
The DAFUG meeting for December 13th has been cancelled.
Currently it looks like the next meeting will be January 17, 2013. Just waiting for confirmation from Comfort Suites.
We have a lot of open meetings to fill!!
Please suggest topic you are interested in, or let us know if you are interested in presenting something. Send email to: raschummer@whitelightcomputing.com
Mary Pilon
Secretary for DAFUG
Open Mike Night - Thursday, November 15th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Open Mike Night" - by anyone and everyone
Do you have something interesting you want to share with others at the meeting? Do you have a short demo of something you recently learned? How about a technical problem you would like to brainstorm on with others?
Dale Zimmer is going to bring one of his "special" demos down to the meeting to start things off. Paul Mrozowski posted on Twitter that he is planning on bringing his new Macbook Pro ...
Cathy Knight: OutFox the VFP Report Writer, Rick Schummer: How Craig Boyd Continues Making Me a Hero - Thursday, October 11th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) Double Header:
1) "OutFox the VFP Report Writer - Printing on My Terms" by Cathy Knight of Memorial Business Systems (Southwest Fox rehearsal)
The Visual FoxPro Report Writer has great power, but sometimes you need to print reports slightly different than the native behavior. In this session I'll show you how to use the VFP ReportListener object, combined with API calls, to extend the way you print reports. You'll learn how to print from the previewer WI...
VFP: Ideal for Tools by Tamar E. Granor and Thor's IntellisenseX by Jim Nelson - Thursday, September 13th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "VFP: Ideal for Tools" - by Tamar E. Granor of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC (Southwest Fox rehearsal)
We've had developer tools written in the FoxPro language since the days of FoxPro 2.0. Quite a few come with VFP, and the community has built lots more. In this session, we'll explore the Visual FoxPro language features that make building developer tools possible. We'll look at how the VFP language allows you to dig into projects, classes, data...
Windows 8 - by Jennifer Marsman of Microsoft - Thursday, August 9th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Windows 8" - by Jennifer Marsman of Microsoft
Windows 8 is a game-changer. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Metro-style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language choices, and the integration points with the operating system and across Metro style apps. We will dive into code, showing the new features that you will need to learn, like snapping, contracts and char...
Open Mike Night - Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Open Mike Night" - by Several Members
1) New Meeting Location
Comfort Suites
24977 Northwestern Highway (or NW Hwy. for short)
Southfield, MI 48076
2) "Open Mike Night" - by Several Members
A potporri of topics from members. Bring a laptop and share a topic in a short 10-20 minutes.
Jody Meyer: SQL Server standards discussion.
Frank Perez: SAMM (System Administrator Mail Monitor).
Mike Collins : RCS Calendar modifications for dra...
Easy Multi-Threading with Visual FoxPro - Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Easy Multi-Threading with Visual FoxPro" - by Kevin Ragsdale
** April Meeting Location **
Comfort Suites
24977 Northwestern Highway (or NW Hwy. for short)
Southfield, MI 48076
1) "Easy Multi-Threading with Visual FoxPro" - by Kevin Ragsdale
Encore Southwest Fox presentation live from Southwest Tennessee...
For years, FoxPro developers have longed for multi-threading capabilities. Thankfully, several developers have found ways to pr...
But it looks Old! - Thursday, March 8th, 2012 at 18h00
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "But it looks Old! " - by Rick Bean
Some things to add to your VFP (9.0 SP2) application to make your Salesmen and Customers think you've written a whole new application!
Or how to use GDI+, VFPx and other 3rd party add-ons (mostly free) to give your application new life, and a few problems you may run into.
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Meeti...
My favorite SQL Server tools - Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 18h00
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "My favorite SQL Server tools" - by Rick Schummer of White Light Computing
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a core component for developers to use to manage SQL Server databases and the tasks you work with daily. This session is going to focus on the different tools Rick uses outside of SSMS and one that he uses to enhance the query side of SSMS to improve productivity and simplify the deployment of changes ...
Multi-threading - Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 18h00
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Multi-threading" - by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing
Paul and a group of other geeks at Southwest Fox were inspired by Kevin Ragsdale's and Jody Meyer's sessions on multi-threading. Paul is going to share some of the results of this inspiration.
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Meeting Place
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Nort...
"Unit Testing" and "Developer Tools" - Thursday, December 15th, 2011 at 18h00
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Unit Testing in Visual FoxPro" - by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing
Paul will be talking about his experiences with unit testing in VFP and will show some code that can automatically generate stub code for unit tests.
2) "Developer Tools" - by Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems
Dale has a couple of cool tools he wants to share with the DAFUG group to help do a better job of serving your ...
Effective Data Visualization: The Ideas Of Edward Tufte - Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 18h00
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
1) "Effective Data Visualization: The Ideas Of Edward Tufte", by David Giard.
We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way. Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user.
In this session, David will explain some of Tufte’s most important guidelines about ...
Want: More Processing Speed! - Southwest Fox Rehearsal - Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 18h00
Thursday, October 13 , 2011
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a Southwest Fox Rehearsal:
1) "Want: More Processing Speed!" by Jody Meyer
ParallelFox is the brain-child of Joel Leach. Joel has made parallel processing easier and more approachable for all VFP developers by developing this powerful tool. Jody will walk you through the main components of ParallelFox and demonstrate the basics. She will then show you how you might be able to apply ParallelFox to real-world proces...
Conference Rehearsal Double Header - Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) Double Header:
1) "Data Explorer changes in the works" - German DevCon Rehearsal by Rick Schummer
Rick has been working on some changes for the Data Explorer and has some new extensions he will demonstrate in preparation for his session to be delivered in Germany this November. Rick is also planning a new Data Explorer release around the time of the conference.
2) "VFP Version Control with Mercurial" - Southwest Fox Rehearsal by Rick Borup
Mercuria...
To Boldly go Where no VFP'er Has Gone Before—the Tools of Thor - Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a Southwest Fox Rehearsal:
1) "To Boldly go Where no VFP'er Has Gone Before—the Tools of Thor (Session I and 2)", by Jim Nelson.
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 o...
Open Mike Night - Thursday, June 9th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Open Mike Night", by several presenters
1) The Open Mike night allows anyone to crack open their laptop and show something they are working on. For sure Rick Schummer is going to present an add-on he has created for Thor, Frank Perez is going to show off his latest incarnation of VFP2Text for Beyond Compare, Paul Mrozowski is going to give us some insight behind his 6502 Emulator written in .NET/WPF, and Jody Meyer has some SQL Server informat...
REAL Studio for VFP Developers - Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"REAL Studio for VFP Developers", by Kevin Cully and "Thor", by Jim Nelson
1) "REAL Studio for VFP Developers", by Kevin Cully of Cully Technologies
REAL Studio is a cross-platform RAD tool that Fox developers can take to easily. In this session we are going to take an honest look at REAL Studio and see how it compares to Visual FoxPro. This session will take a long look at this tool, it's strengths and it's weaknesses. During this session y...
Accessing VFP data from .NET - Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Accessing VFP data from .NET", by Paul Mrozowski
1) Accessing VFP data from .NET is always a bit of a hassle. We'll take a look at the LINQ to VFP project from Codeplex to query VFP data from a .NET application via LINQ to see if it makes life any easier or not.
2) Jody Meyer is also going to share some of her favorite SQL Server resources.
We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Northw...
A Quick Intro to LINQ for VFP Developers - Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 18h00
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"A Quick Intro to LINQ for VFP Developers", by Paul Mrozowski
Paul will be doing a quick tour of the IDE in Visual Studio, talk briefly about some of the tools available that make life in .NET nicer, then build a simple project. We’ll look at LINQ, lambdas and query expression syntax, how it’s used, and why you should care.
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Northwestern HWY
Southfield, MI 48075
Small M...
How Craig Boyd Makes Me a Hero! - Thursday, January 20th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"How Craig Boyd Makes Me a Hero!", by Rick Schummer
1) Planning topics for 2011 and beyond
Bring ideas on topics you are interested in hearing about, and those you might be interested in presenting.
2) "How Craig Boyd Makes Me a Hero!", by Rick Schummer
Craig Boyd is one of the most generous developers in the Fox Community. Over the years his blog has been the source of many posts where he flat out delivers some cool FLL file that ext...
Tour of Visual Studio 2010 - Thursday, December 9th, 2010 at 18h00
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Tour of Visual Studio 2010", by Jennifer Marsman of Microsoft
Ho ho ho! Here’s an early holiday gift: a fabulous tour of Visual Studio 2010. In this session, we will take a whirlwind look at some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010, including the new editor features, parallel computing functionality, features for architects, and changes in .NET 4.0. There will be plenty of demos.
Bio:
Jennifer Marsman ...
PEM Editor -- To Infinity and Beyond! - Thursday, November 18th, 2010 at 18h00
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"PEM Editor -- To Infinity and Beyond!", by Jim Nelson
The tools in PEM Editor that you didn't know about that will make you even more productive:
- DOPEs
- Event Handlers
- Builders
- Copy / Paste / Compare properties/methods between objects
- Compare with Parent Class
- Change Parent Class
- Re-factoring tools
- IDE enhancements:
-- Extract to Method
-- Go To Definition
-- Prev / Next Method window
...
TLAs put into Practice: Object Oriented Principles in VFP - Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: SWFox rehearsal
"TLAs put into Practice: Object Oriented Principles in VFP", by Christof Wollenhaupt
TDD, OCP, LSP, ISP, DIP, DRY, IoC, LOC, SRP, DbC, CDD, DDD: Our world is filled with three letter acronyms that are meant to make our lives easier, if only we could remember what each of them means.
In this session we will extend a real-world application with some new features. "Real world" here means a typical, really messy, historically grown...
Sept Meeting - Southwest Fox Rehearsal Doubleheader - Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 at 20h00
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Southwest Fox Rehearsal Doubleheader
1) "Agile and Lean Development Applied to Visual FoxPro" by Toni Feltman
Toni is going to present a shortened version of her Agile and Lean pre-conference session.
Agile and Lean Development practices are gaining a lot of traction in the development world at large, but are largely misunderstood and frowned upon by VFP developers. Dismissing these practices is a huge mistak...
Introduction to Regular Expressions - Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 18h00
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Introduction to Regular Expressions, by Dave Hanna
This presentation provides an introduction to a powerful tool called "regular expressions". Regular expressions are available in many types of applications (e.g., editors, word processors and system tools), but their power is most fully exposed when used via a programming language.
In this session Dave will:
- Introduce the concept of regular expressions.
- Exp...
Creating Gadgets in Windows Vista & Windows 7 - Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 18h00
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Creating Gadgets in Windows Vista & Windows 7, by Paul Mrozowski of White Light Computing
Desktop Gadgets, such as clocks and weather controls, are those cool little mini-apps you can add to your Windows desktop. Ever want to create your own but figured they were probably too complicated? We’ll take a quick tour of what is involved in creating and deploying our own custom gadgets – you’ll be surprised by how easy it is t...
Dropping ACID (or the NoSQL movement and introduction to MongoDB) - Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 18h00
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Dropping ACID (or the NoSQL movement and introduction to MongoDB), by Mike Feltman
At the heart of traditional RDBMS systems lies a concept abbreviated as
ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability. ACID is paramount in many business applications, but ACID has its costs. Each of these areas create hurdles that many applications really do not have a business reason to have to leap them. There's a growing m...
Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies - Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies, by Rick Borup.
Rick Borup is going to give us the "director's cut" of his "Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies" session filled with tons of tricks and traps with Visual FoxPro. Things don't always work quite the way we expect them to. The quirky behavior of a function or control can be a common cause of those "What the Heck??" moments we all encounter from time to time. We may be tempted to quibble with VFP's behavior ...
VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data - Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data"
1) "VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data", by Rick Schummer
For many years Visual FoxPro developers have found backend databases to be a compelling alternative to the DBF data store. There are many good reasons to move to a backend database. The business model of distributed locations and facilities is not uncommon. Because of the way Visual FoxPro caches tables and indexes, DBF data does not s...
Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2 - Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - 2"
1) "Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks", by Dale Zimmer
Dale is going to showing how he uses RSync in his development, and some other tools he wants to share.
2) CodeMash Recap
Several people from DAFUG attended the recent CodeMash 2010 conference in Sandusky. Come listen to their experiences at the conference, what topics they found interesting, and how they benefited from the conference.
3) Planning, by al...
Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks - Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 18h00
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks"
1) "Cool Tools, Tips and Tricks", by any and all members in attendance
Found a particular tool (Visual FoxPro or not) that makes you life easier to do development or be more productive in your job? Take 5 to 15 minutes to plug your laptop into the projector and show it off and why you like it. A small sample of what you might see:
* Frank Perez is going to show ClipMate
* Andrew Ma...
Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools - Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 18h00
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a SWFox post-hersal:
"Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools" by Rick Schummer
1) Nominations and ELECTIONS:
All four positions are available: President (currently Zimmer), VP (open), Secretary and Treasurer (currently Schummer is both)
Nominate any member for any position. Catch is, the person has to accept. If you cannot attend and want to be nominated please nominate yourself in advance. Vote takes p...
HTML and Lucene - Southwest Fox Doubleheader - Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 18h00
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a SWFox Doubleheader:
"HTML for the Desktop" by Mike Feltman
AND
"Full Text Search using Lucene.NET" by Paul Mrozowski
1) "HTML for the Desktop" - Mike Feltman
VFP is so powerful as a front-end development tool that it's extremely rare to find user interface items that VFP can't handle. Tools such as FoxCharts and the themed controls on VFPx are just a few of many testaments to VFP developers ability to creat...
BullZip with VFP - Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"BullZip PDF driver with VFP Apps"
By Jody Meyer of MAGI
Thursday, May 14, 2009
- "BullZip PDF driver with VFP Apps" - Jody Meyer
BullZip.com is a free ActiveX control PDF print driver on steroids. Like any ActiveX control, the VFP developer can control it's behavior simply by setting the control's properties. With BullZip, the developer can control a large number of things:
* Where the PDF file is saved
* Whether or not to ask for a...
Project Explorer - Source Code Included - Thursday, April 9th, 2009 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Project Explorer - Source Code Included"
By Dave Holder of Holden Data Systems
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tomorrow!!!! Sorry for the late notice.
- "Project Explorer - Source Code Included" - Dave Holden
Project Explorer is a soon-to-be public domain or VFPX replacement for VFP's native Project Manager. Since PX is designed to be extensible, we will cover both internal and external code samples. Focus is on exposing the design archit...
Data Driven Software Architecture - Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 17h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Data Driven Software Architecture"
By Jody Meyer of Manufacturing Action Group, Inc
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tomorrow!!!! Sorry for the late notice, last minute change in the planned topic.
- "Data Driven Software Architecture" - Jody Meyer
Jody is going to show you a little on how the WinMAGI system was put together. This application allows their customers to modify their own data dictionary, grid views, change process output, etc...
Extending the Sedna Data Explorer - Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Extending the Sedna Data Explorer"
By Rick Schummer of White Light Computing, Inc.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
- "Extending the Sedna Data Explorer" - Rick Schummer
The enhanced Data Explorer shipped with Sedna has improvements to help VFP developers be more productive with data of all types (VFP or backend SQL). This session will show you numerous ideas to extend this powerful tool and inspire add-ons you can share with the Fox Community....
VFP Calendar Controls Enhanced - Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP Calendar Controls Enhanced"
By Paul Mrozowski of Wireless Toyz
Thursday, January 15, 2009
(LATE NOTICE!!!!)
- "VFP Calendar Controls Enhanced" by Paul Mrozowski
This month's meeting Paul will be demonstrating a set of date/time calendar controls written in VFP (with no ActiveX controls required). One of these controls - a resizable calendar - can have tasks/events displayed for each day (similar to Outlook).
- Open discussion and...
Getting Started with SVN/Tortoise - Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Getting Started with SVN/Tortoise"
By Toni Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday, December 11, 2008
- " Getting Started with SVN/Tortoise " by Toni Feltman
This month's meeting is going to be a fast paced, action packed look at using Subversion and Tortoise as the version control repository for FoxPro applications. We all know that FoxPro developers are cheap and how much cheaper can you get than FREE! Subversion and Tortiose are both free t...
Customizing Vertical Market Apps - Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Customizing Vertical Market Apps"
By Cathy Pountney of Memorial Business Systems
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Southwest Fox 2008 Rehearsal
- "Customizing Vertical Market Apps" by Cathy Pountney
Writing a vertical market application can be very rewarding. You write one application, sell it numerous times, and sit back while the money rolls in. Well, that's the theory anyway. The reality is that often times, new clients want to buy your ...
Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications - Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications"
By Toni Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Southwest Fox 2008 Rehearsal
- "Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications" - Toni Feltman
With the increasing size of tables and changing application requirements, many seasoned FoxPro developers are being forced to move their ...
June 2008 - Using VFPX in Live Applications - Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Using VFPX in Live Applications"
By Rick Schummer of White Light Computing Thursday, June 12, 2008
- "Using Communication Tools for User Groups" by ALL
There are a number of tools to communicate information to user group members like blogs and list servers. Rick wants to discuss what members would like to do to help foster communication in the group, or if it is even necessary. For instance, we can set up a blog and have meeting posts post...
May 2008 - FoxTrails Revisited - Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"FoxTrails Revisited"
By Brian Marquis
Thursday, February 21, 2008
- "FoxTrails Revisited" by Brian Marquis
Join us for an in depth look at the Fox Trails framework. Go beyond a basic understanding of Fox Trails while we build an eCommerce application together. Bring your laptop for this hands-on course. Brian will provide a brief overview of Fox Trails for those who may be unfamiliar with it. Following the overview, those with a function...
April 2008 - "Collections" by Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies - Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Collections"
By Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday, April 10, 2008
- "Collections" by Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies
Visual FoxPro has great support for collections. Virtually all of the objects that can contain other objects have a native objects collection that can easily be traversed to access their members. Object collections provide a great access point for performing the same or similar actions on groups of objects. They also...
"The Stonefield Query SDK" by Frank Perez - Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"The Stonefield Query SDK"
By Frank Perez of Complete Computer Solutions
Thursday, March 13, 2008
- "The Stonefield Query SDK" by Frank Perez of Complete Computer Solutions
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.
*** NEW MEETING LOCATION ***
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Northwestern HWY
Southfield, MI 48075
Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG detai...
"On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" - Christof Wollenhaupt - Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro"
By Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert
Thursday, February 21, 2008
- "On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" by Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert
Visual FoxPro is a lot: it's fast, productive, stable, amazing, surprising... but it certainly isn't logical and consistent. Over more than two decades with three fundamentally different programming concepts, four operating systems and two compilers left their traces in th...
Web 2.0 Technology Lessons - Thursday, January 10th, 2008 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Web 2.0 Technology Lessons"
By David Holden of Holden Data Systems
Thursday, January 10, 2008
- "Web 2.0 Technology Lessons" - David Holden
Dave will be sharing some of the surprising lessons learned over the last several months doing web development using so-called "Web 2.0" development tools. The discussion will center around JavaScript, the browser DOM and third party libraries.
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tip...
Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine - Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine"
By Paul Mrozowski from Wireless Toyz
Thursday, December 13, 2007
- "Lucene.NET as a Document Search Engine" - Paul Mrozowski
Paul will show how to use Lucene.NET, an open source and free document indexing engine, from within your VFP application. He'll demonstrate how to create the indexes, search common document types (text files, Word Documents, PDF's, etc.), plus how to index and search text cont...
MapPoint - Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Map Your Data: Using MapPoint and Visual FoxPro Together"
By Steve Bodnar of Geeks and Gurus, Inc.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
- "Map Your Data: Using MapPoint and Visual FoxPro Together" - Steve Bodnar
Steve's object is to Explore Microsoft MapPoint and demonstrate how VFP Developers can incorporate this comprehensive mapping tool into VFP-based solutions. Demonstrations will include using MapPoint out of the box with VFP data, Automati...
OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms - Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms"
By Cathy Pountney of Memorial Business Systems
Thursday, October 11, 2007
- "OutFox the VFP Report Writer: Printing on My Terms" - Cathy Pountney
Southwest Fox Rehearsal Night!
The Visual FoxPro Report Writer has great power, but sometimes you need to print reports slightly different than the native behavior. In this session I'll show you how to use the VFP ReportListener object, co...
VFP Compiler for .NET and the .NET Extender for VFP - Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP Compiler for .NET and the .NET Extender for VFP"
By Toni Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday, August 9, 2007
- "VFP Compiler for .NET and the .NET Extender for VFP" - Toni Feltman
Toni will be demonstrating some cool new technologies under development that will allow VFP developers to extend their Visual FoxPro applications with .NET and even compile VFP code so it runs with the .NET framework. The session will have a fast paced over...
Introduction to the DBI Controls Included in Sedna - SWF 2007 Rehearsal - Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Introduction to the DBI Controls Included in Sedna"
By Toni Feltman of GiftRAP Corporation
Thursday, August 9, 2007
- "Introduction to the DBI Controls Included in Sedna" - Toni Feltman
This is an early Southwest Fox 2007 Rehearsal!!
Toni has been a fan of DBI Technologies for a long time. They have a well-deserved reputation as providing the best VFP support from an ActiveX control vendor. With Sedna, DBI has really outdone themselve...
Using the VFP Debugger Effectively - Thursday, June 14th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Using the VFP Debugger Effectively"
By Tamar Granor of Tomorrows Solutions, LLC.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
- Using the VFP Debugger Effectively - Tamar Granor of Tomorrows Solutions, LLC.
Visual FoxPro has a powerful debugger that provides many tools for finding problems with your code. This session will dig into the Debugger, showing you how to make the most of its tools to speed development, improve your code, and understand Visual FoxPro ...
Comparison of Remote Access and Administration tools - Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 18h00
More details to come.
VFPX Tools and Components - Thursday, April 5th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFPX Tools and Components"
By Rick Schummer of White Light Computing, Inc.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
- VFPX Tools and Components - Rick Schummer, White Light Computing, Inc.
The VFPX open source project on CodePlex is designed to create add-ons and tools VFP developers can use to develop custom solutions for their customers. The mission of VFPX is to extend Visual FoxPro by creating open source add-ons and to complement Microsoft’s efforts ...
VFP and Vista - The Inside Story - Thursday, March 8th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP and Vista - The Inside Story"
By Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems
Thursday, March 8, 2007
- VFP and Vista - The Inside Story - Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems
Dale has spent the last month installing Vista and his VFP applications to perform system testing, and to certify his applications on the Windows Vista OS. He is going to share his experiences, explain problems he encountered installing them and runni...
Creating Outlook-Style Desktop Alerts with VFP - Thursday, February 8th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Creating Outlook-Style Desktop Alerts with VFP"
By Kevin Ragsdale of PC-Interactive
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Sponsored By - White Light Computing, Inc.
- Creating Outlook-Style Desktop Alerts with VFP - Kevin Ragsdale
Kevin loves the Desktop Alerts in Outlook 2003. They provide useful information without interfering with your work. He can't stand to be working on one thing and suddenly have a MESSAGEBOX appear from an app informing ...
Cool Third Party Tools - Thursday, January 11th, 2007 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Cool Third Party Tools"
By Paul Mrozowski
Thursday, January 11, 2007
- "Cool Third Party Tools" - Paul Mrozowski
Paul is going to show some cool third party tools and miscellaneous things he has run across (plus a few minor suggestions for Intellisense scripts).
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.
Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at
http://www.d...
VMWare vs. VirtualPC - Thursday, December 14th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VMWare vs. VirtualPC"
By Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems and Frank Perez of Complete Computer Services
Thursday December 14, 2006
- VMWare vs. VirtualPC - Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems and Frank Perez of Complete Computer Services
Dale and Frank are going to do a side-by-side comparison of the two popular virtual machine product VFP developers can use to test their applications and deployment packages on. Th...
VFP Application Support - Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP Application Support"
By Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems
Thursday November 9, 2006
- VFP Application Support - Dale Zimmer of Innovative Programming Systems
Dale is going to show how his company's support software performs. Some of the features and functions they have written to handle their wide variety of customers. Hopefully he will be able to attach to a few customers to show the software in action. Dale will demon...
VFP Developer Tool Enhancements - Thursday, September 14th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP Developer Tool Enhancements"
By Rick Schummer of White Light Computing, Inc.
Thursday September 14, 2006
- VFP Developer Tool Enhancements - Rick Schummer of White Light Computing, Inc.
Rick is going to give an overview of some changes he has implemented in his projecthook class (available on the White Light Web site) and some enhancements he is making to the Sedna Data Explorer (available in the Sedna October CTP).
- Open discuss...
Quality Assurance - Testing Your Application (DevCon rehearsal) - Thursday, August 10th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Quality Assurance - Testing Your Application"
By Cathy Pountney of Memorial Business Systems
Thursday August 10, 2006
*** NEW MEETING LOCATION ***
We are back to the Royal Oak Library!
222 E. Eleven Mile Rd.
Royal Oak, MI 48067
(see DAFUG Web site for map)
- Quality Assurance - Testing Your Application
Testing is often the weakest link in a software development process. Poor quality assurance results in buggy software that wastes mo...
How to Use InfoPath as the Face of Your Visual FoxPro Application - Toni Feltman - Thursday, June 22th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"How to Use InfoPath as the Face of Your Visual FoxPro Application"
By Toni Feltman of F1 Technologies
Thursday June 22, 2006
- "How to Use InfoPath as the Face of Your Visual FoxPro Application"
The idea behind n-tier design is to break an application into distinct layers so that any single layer can be replaced with one of a different flavor. This session expands on this idea by showing you how to use InfoPath as the user interface (or F...
Craig Boyd - VFP World Domination Tour - Thursday, May 18th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Visual FoxPro World Domination Tour"
By Craig Boyd of Sweet Potato Software
Thursday May 18, 2006
- VFP World Domination Tour
Craig is doing a Visual FoxPro extravaganza presentation. Serving up VFP dish after VFP dish - custom controls, APIs, GDI+, Cryptography, FLLs, .NET controls, RSS, Interface Design, Skinning.... (two hours and 200 examples later) ...VFP on Windows Vista. If done right, attendees are left breathless, energy is high, ...
Best Practices for Project Management - Thursday, April 13th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Best Practices for Project Management"
By Cathy Pountney of Memorial Business Systems
Thursday February 16, 2006
- "Best Practices for Project Management"
Cathy will be rehearsing her GLGDW 2006 session. This session will focus on how to manage a software development project in an imperfect world. You’ll learn about requirements gathering, writing specs, estimating, and scheduling your resources. You’ll also learn about testing, bug track...
What's New in Visual FoxExpress from a Code Perspective - Thursday, March 16th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"What's New in Visual FoxExpress from a Code Perspective"
By Mike and Toni Feltman from F1 Technologies
Thursday March 16, 2006
- "What's New in Visual FoxExpress from a Code Perspective"
Mike and Toni will be exposing the new functionality they have recently released in Visual FoxExpress to show techniques used in their popular framework.
- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want...
Advanced SQL Queries in VFP 9.0 - Thursday, February 16th, 2006 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Advanced SQL Queries in VFP 9.0"
By Andy Kramek of Tightline Computers
Thursday February 16, 2006
- "Advanced SQL Queries in VFP 9.0"
As Visual FoxPro developers we are all very familiar with using Structured Query Language (SQL) to retrieve, add, update and delete data from a database. However we often forget that SQL is an extremely powerful and potent weapon in our developer's arsenal. The purpose of this session is to illustrate some ...
Office Automation Beyond the Basics - Thursday, January 19th, 2006 at 18h00
Tamar Granor from Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC will demonstrate how 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 will look at some more complex Automation tasks, including responding to Office events, shutting down abandoned servers, using Office's spelling checker, and more.
SQL Server Replication - Thursday, December 8th, 2005 at 18h30
DJ and Steve Bodnar from Geeks and Gurus will be showing off everything they have learned about SQL Server Replication. Be prepared to hear about the challenges and the solutions these geeks had to find to deploy replication for a real client project.
"Getting the Most Out of Intellisense" FoxCast - Thursday, November 17th, 2005 at 18h30
Andy Kramek is an expert on Intellisense and has presented many sessions on this topic. This session will dive into Intellisense, detail how you can write your own Intellisense scripts and show real world practical examples which will make you more productive as a VFP developer.
Building N-Tier Applications with Visual FoxPro - Thursday, June 9th, 2005 at 18h00
N-tier application development has been around for a long time and yet, it
still means different things to different people. In this session you'll
gain a better understanding of n-tier architectures, and explore where and
why and how to use them. You'll learn the roles Visual FoxPro can play in
n-tier. You'll see techniques for implementing n-tier architectures in
Visual FoxPro, and learn how Visual FoxPro components can be consumed by
other environments.
- Anything else people want to...
Building N-Tier Applications with Visual FoxPro - Thursday, May 12th, 2005 at 18h00
N-tier application development has been around for a long time and yet, it still means different things to different people. In this session you'll gain a better understanding of n-tier architectures, and explore where and why and how to use them. You'll learn the roles Visual FoxPro can play in n-tier. You'll see techniques for implementing n-tier architectures in Visual FoxPro, and learn how Visual FoxPro components can be consumed by other environments.
- Anything else people want to talk ...
Introduction to Active FoxPro Pages - Thursday, April 14th, 2005 at 18h00
**** NEW LOCATION THIS MONTH ****
Hampton Inn Southfield
2nd Floor Hotel Conference Room
27500 Northwestern Hwy,
Southfield, MI 48034
(located on the northern I-696/Northwestern service drive, east of
Telegraph)
Please note, Mike did this presentation all week in California last week and sessions were running 2.5 hours, but Mike can reduce it if we want.
Active FoxPro Pages is a Visual FoxPro web development tool developed by ProLib in Hamburg, Germany. In Introduction to Active...
Extending Inno Setup and Web Page Design with CSS - Thursday, March 10th, 2005 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Extending Inno Setup" and "Web Page Design with CSS"
By Rick Borup of Information Technology Associates
Thursday March 10, 2005
**** NEW LOCATION THIS MONTH ****
Intelligent Office
20700 Civic Center Drive
Suite 170
Southfield, MI 48076
(located on northern Lodge service drive at Civic Center Drive)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=20700%20Civic%20Center%20Drive,%20Southfield%20MI
1) Extending Inno Setup: Using Pascal Scripting To ...
Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins in Detroit - Thursday, December 9th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Working with Objects" and "Programming To Interface"
By Marcia Akins and Andy Kramek of Tightline Computers, Inc.
Thursday December 9, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Royal Oak Public Library
Please join our very special guests from Akron, Ohio...
(we are even waving our entrance fees for non-members for this meeting)
"Working with Objects" by Andy:
Object Orientation is supposed to benefit developers by allowing us to create re-us...
14 Things I Learned at Southwest Fox 2004 - Thursday, November 11th, 2004 at 18h00
Steve is going to show some of the many cool things he learned at the premier fall Fox conference in the USA, which was held last month in Tempe, Arizona.
Nominations and Elections will be opened for offices of President and Secretary/Treasurer.
- Anything else people want to talk about.
Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.org
Agenda:
6:00 - 7:30 Presentations
7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro discussion
Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
November 11...
VFP 9 Material - Thursday, October 14th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
VFP 9 Material
By Paul Mrozowski and Rick Schummer
Thursday October 14, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Royal Oak Public Library
DevCon Recap and Miscellaneous Enhancements
Paul Mrozowski of Park West Gallery will be giving a brief overview of the recent DevCon in Las Vegas and presenting some of the miscellaneous enhancements in VFP 9.
Property Editors
Rick Schummer of White Light Computing will be presenting new material on the Vi...
VFP 9 Report Designer - Cathy Pountney - Thursday, September 9th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
VFP 9 Report Designer
By Cathy Pountney
Thursday September 9, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00pm - 8:30pm, (we need to start right on time)
Royal Oak Public Library
The Visual FoxPro Report Writer -- Part 1
-----------------------------------------
The next version of VFP has some long-awaited changes to the Report Writer. In this session, you'll see many of the new reporting features and enhancements of Visual FoxPro 9.0, including the new UI, mu...
VFP 9 Reveal - Part 1 - Thursday, June 10th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP 9 Revealed - Part 1"
By DAFUG Members Using the VFP 9 Beta
Thursday June 10, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- Come one, come all, check out some of the new features in the VFP 9 beta (released to the public last week. Several members of DAFUG have been playing with the beta, so come and show one or more of the new features you find compelling for your applications and development.
- DevEssentials Overview
- A...
DevEssential Rehearsal - Doubleheader - Thursday, May 13th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"DevEssentials Rehearsal - Doubleheader"
By Toni Feltman, F1 Technologies
and Rick Schummer, White Light Computing
Thursday May 13, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- Rick Schummer will be rehearsing his Debugger Essentials session which will be presented at the DevEssentials conference in June. This presentation will demonstrate a number of tricks, tips and techniques that Visual FoxPro developers can use to improve the...
Visual FoxPro Integrated with QuickBooks - Thursday, March 11th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Integrating QuickBooks with Visual FoxPro"
By Paul Mrozowski of Park West Gallery
Thursday March 11, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- Paul will be demonstrating how to control Quick Books Pro using the SDK through it's COM interface. He will show how to open & close connections, adding "items" such as Vendors and Parts through a generic class, how to create invoices, and how to extract information through reports. He ...
Standards and Tools - Thursday, February 12th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Developer Programming Standards and Tools"
By All DAFUG
Thursday February 12, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- Bring your ideas and concepts for programming standards to discuss and share as a couple developers were interested in getting some ideas for their own. Also, bring a tool you find indispensible in day-to-day development and show it off for 5-10 minutes (or more if needed).
- Anything else people want to ta...
SQL Server - Application Role and Connection Management - Thursday, January 8th, 2004 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"SQL Server - Application Roles and Connection Management"
By Steve Sawyer, Geeks and Gurus, Inc.
Thursday January 8, 2004 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- Steve is going to present how Visual FoxPro developers can take advantage of SQL Server application roles and better handle connection management. Steve will be demonstrating a number of SQL Server tools in this regard including Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer and Prof...
VFP 8 Task Pane Manager and Code References - Thursday, December 11th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"VFP 8 Task Pane Manager and Code References"
By Toni Feltman, F1 Technologies
Thursday December 11, 2003 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- "Visual FoxPro 8.0 includes several new developer productivity tools. Two of these are the Task Pane Manager and Code References. Each of these tools can increase your productivity dramatically. Like many other Visual FoxPro tools, these items can be configured and customized as needed by...
Open Discussion Night - Thursday, November 20th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Open Discussion Night"
By All in Attendance
Thursday November 20, 2003 - Auditorium
6:00 PM
Royal Oak Public Library
- We will be hosting our popular "Open Discussion Night" this month. Members and visitors are encouraged to bring questions, be ready to discuss a short topic, or show off a new tip/trick/trap for the other developers at the meeting.
- Anything else people want to talk about.
Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details a...
Practical Uses for New Features in Visual FoxPro 8.0 - Thursday, October 16th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Practical Uses for New Features in Visual FoxPro 8.0By Doug HennigThursday October 16, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library- Doug Hennig from Stonefield Systems Group will be doing an encore presentation of his GLGDW session "Practical Uses for New Features in Visual FoxPro 8.0". This was a very popular session at the conference. This session takes a practical look at new features to create things like picklist grids, pageframes with dela...
Creating Help - Made Easy! - Thursday, September 18th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Creating Help - Made Easy By Rick SchummerThursday September 18, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library- Rehearsal for Rick Schummer's "Creating Help - Made Easy" session at next month's GLGDW conference. This presentation will demonstrate how easy it is to implement a help system in your custom applications, the various options you have when implementing a help system, and some of the tools available to ease the pain of developing help. Th...
Use of Flash/VFP/WebConnect for Data Retrieval - Thursday, June 19th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Use of Flash/VFP/WebConnect for Data Retrieval By Stan Mendenhall, Dave Holden, and Jason BitmanThursday June 19, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library- Demonstrate the transition of a database product sold to hospitals from a CD-based, Access design application designed in the mid -1990's to an application that uses interactive Flash 6.0 on the front-end to select hospitals and VFP/Web connect on the back end to perform the data retrieval...
No topic - Thursday, May 15th, 2003 at 18h00
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Network Database Applications with Linux on Embedded Hardware - Thursday, May 15th, 2003 at 18h00
By Paul NowakThursday May 15, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public LibraryPaul Nowak's presentation is going to be a quick how-to on installing Linux on an embedded computer followed by a demo of some applications that can be run on the computer. Install topics will include kernel compiling, file system creation, bootloader install, and some reference pointers. The demo will include making an Ethernet connection to the computer and interacting with some popular open source software includin...
Building your Data Access Layer with VFP8 - Thursday, April 10th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Building your Data Access Layer with VFP8By Toni FeltmanThursday April 10, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library- "Building your Data Access Layer with VFP8"The one thing that Visual FoxPro has been missing for years is easily reusable data classes. Data environments and Cursors could be sub classed in code, but the classes could not be used easily or intuitively in a native Visual FoxPro form. Visual FoxPro also did not provide a native w...
Fox is Everywhere World Tour: Fox and Linux - Thursday, March 20th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Fox is Everywhere World Tour: Fox and LinuxBy Whil HentzenThursday March 20, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library- Whil Hentzen will be visiting Detroit as the second stop on his world tour discussing FoxPro and Linux.- Anything else people want to talk about.- UniversalThread.com PUTM drawing.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro discussionFuture Planned D...
Builders - Made Easy - Thursday, February 20th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Builders - Made EasyBy Rick Schummer of Geeks and Gurus, Inc.Thursday February 20, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library- This session will demonstrate builder technology inside of Visual FoxPro, how to leverage the existing builders (especially the cool ones included in VFP 8), and create and register your own builders (traditional and non-traditional ones). We will step through creating several builders from scratch, using the “old-fashi...
VFP 8 (Part 3) - Thursday, January 16th, 2003 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:VFP 8 Revealed (Part 3)By Steve Sawyer and Rick Schummer of Geeks and Gurus, Inc.Thursday January 16, 2003 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public LibraryVFP 8 Revealed (Part 3):- Steve Sawyer and Rick Schummer will be presenting the third and final meeting dedicated to the next release of Visual FoxPro.- Anything else people want to talk about.3) UniversalThread.com PUTM drawing.(make sure to check out our big names for early 2003 in the schedule)Hope t...
VFP 8 Revealed (Part 2) - Thursday, December 12th, 2002 at 00h00
The meeting topics suggested for discussion include:VFP 8 Revealed (Part 2):- Paul Mrozowski and Rick Schummer will be presenting the second meeting dedicated to the next release of Visual FoxPro.- Anything else people want to talk about.
To be Announced - Thursday, November 21st, 2002 at 00h00
GLGDW Rehearsal Double Header - Thursday, October 17th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:GLGDW Rehearsal Double HeaderBy Rick Schummer and Steve Bodnar of Geeks and Gurus, Inc.Thursday October 17, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Steve Bodnar will be rehearsing "Automating MapPoint 2002".2) Rick Schummer will be rehearsing "Get More Productive with Visual FoxPro" (includes preview of VFP 8 features).3) UniversalThread.com PUTM drawing.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Pre...
To be announced... - Thursday, September 19th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:TBDBy Someone {g}Thursday September 19, 2002 - Auditorium6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Main Topic2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.3) UniversalThread.com PUTM drawing.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro discussionFuture Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:October 17, 2002 - Auditorium November 21, 2002 - Auditorium December 12, 20...
IntelliSense Scripting - Thursday, August 15th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Writing Custom IntelliSense ScriptsBy Mike Potjer from Optimal Solutions Thursday August 15, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Mike Potjer from Optimal Solutions will be demonstrating many of the custom scripts he has written for the IntelliSense engine.2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.3) UniversalThread.com PUTM drawing.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7...
June 2002 - VMWare - Thursday, June 20th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Crystal Reports and VFPBy Paul Mrozowski Thursday May 16, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) DAFUG member Chuck Jacob will be presenting VMWare, a tool that allows developers to load virtual machines on on e 3) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro discussionFuture Planned DAFUG Meetings a...
May 2002 - Crystal Reports - Thursday, May 16th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Crystal Reports and VFPBy Paul Mrozowski Thursday May 16, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) DAFUG member Paul Mrozowski (of Kirtland Associates) will be demonstrating the reports inside of an app that is currently using a wrapper class to Crystal Reports (CR) that he wrote. Then he will move on to discussing how he connected VFP to CR, what he encapsulated inside of the classes, etc., and show the reports in CR. Paul may talk a bit a...
Detroit Area Fox User Group (April 2002) - Thursday, April 11th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:GPS integration By Dale ZimmerThursday April 11, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) DAFUG member Dale Zimmer (of Innovative Programming Systems) will be presenting GPS integration with applications in the last of three consecutive presentations.2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and ...
March - Designing a Data Model Using a CASE Tool - Thursday, March 21st, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Designing a Data Model Using a CASE ToolBy Steve SawyerThursday March 21, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) DAFUG member Steve Sawyer will be rehearsing his Essential Fox Conference session: "Designing a Data Model Using a CASE Tool".2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro dis...
February - PocketPC Embedded Visual Basic - Thursday, February 21st, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:PocketPC Embedded Visual BasicBy Dale ZimmerThursday February 21, 2002 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) DAFUG member Dale Zimmer (of Innovative Programming Systems) will be presenting PocketPC Embedded Visual Basic in the second of three consecutive presentations that will later cover GPS integration with applications.2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
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January - Wireless Technology - Thursday, January 17th, 2002 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Wireless TechnologyBy Dale ZimmerThursday January 17, 2002 - Auditorium6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) DAFUG member Dale Zimmer (of Innovative Programming Systems) will be presenting wireless technology in the first of three consecutive presentations that will later cover Pocket PCs and GPS integration.2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:3...
December: Automating MapPoint - Thursday, December 13th, 2001 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Featured Presentation:Automating Microsoft MapPoint from VFPBy Steve Bodnar Thursday December 13, 2001 - Auditorium6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Steve Bodnar will be demonstrating how to automate Microsoft MapPoint from VFP. 2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro discussionFuture Planned D...
November Meeting - Thursday, November 15th, 2001 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Featured PresentationsBy Jacci Adams and Gary Mandela Thursday November 15, 2001 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Jacci Adams will be presenting "The Consulting Contract: Necessary Clauses and Negotiating Tips". 2) Gary Mandela will be presenting "Data Conversion, the arduous task of migrating data from the previous system"3) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Open Fun...and general Q&A as usual.Hope to see...
DevTools: Build, Grab, or Buy - Thursday, October 11th, 2001 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Developer Tools: Build, Grab, or BuyBy Rick SchummerThursday October 11, 2001 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Rick Schummer will be previewing his GLGDW session "Developer Tools: Build, Grab, or Buy". 2) Whatever anyone else wants to ask or talk about, bring questions.Open Fun...and general Q&A as usual.Hope to see you there.More DAFUG details at
http://www.dafug.orgAgenda:6:00 - 7:30 Presentations7:30 - ? Food and FoxPro dis...
Advisor DevCon Recap - Thursday, September 20th, 2001 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Advisor DevCon 12 RecapBy DAFUG DevCon AttendeesTo all those who had their life altered by the terror on the east coast, you are in our thoughts here in Detroit.Thursday September 20, 2001 - Auditorium 6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Want to find out what happened at the Advisor DevCon, what Ken Levy had to say about the future of Visual FoxPro, what Calvin and Randy showed when they demoed VFP.Next, how the terror in NYC and Washington DC affected ...
Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins speaks at DAFUG - Thursday, August 16th, 2001 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:Planned Presentations By Andy Kramek and Marcia AkinsThursday August 16, 2001 - Auditorium6:00 PMRoyal Oak Public Library1) Andy Kramek and Marcia Akins"Data Driving Your Applications (from the Desktop to the Internet"This presentation discusses the benefits of data driving your application so that, when circumstances change, you minimize the need for code changes. It doesn’t matter if you are developing desktop, client-server, or distributed applicat...
