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:
- FoxyPreview by Cesar Chalom, which provides an alternative report previewer.
- VFP Entity Framework Provider, which opens up access of VFP data through the Microsoft Entity Framework
- LINQ to VFP, which is exactly as it sounds so you can open access to VFP data through LINQ in .NET.
- VFPTweetAPI by Olaf Doschke, to integrate Twitter into VFP applications.
- VFPOAuth by Olaf Doschke, a VFP binding to the oauth 1.0a protocol, also usable in other languages as OLE class.
- VFPY by Claude Fox, for ActiveVFP (which competes with the Web frameworks like FoxWeb and WebConnection) and MTmyVFP (multi-threading spinoff).
In this session we will discuss and dive into as many of the other open source projects as time allows.
You will learn:
- What open source projects are available for Visual FoxPro developers
- Where these projects are
- How to integrate them into your applications
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:
-November 21, 2013 TBD
-December 12, 2013 TBD
Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG