Rick Borup on Microsoft's BI - Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 at 18h30
Rick Borup will be previewing (aka - practicing) his upcoming Southwest Fox presentation on Microsoft's 'Business Intelligence' tool - especially pushing data into the desktop BI tool.
Getting your data into BI allows you and your end users to view or design sophisticated reports around your data. Some samples of the power of BI are here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-videos/
A detailed summary of Rick's talk is at:
http://swfox.net/SessionsSWFox.aspx#Introduction_to_Microsoft_Power_BI
Speaking of which - if you have not already registered for Southwest Fox this year, please consider it. It's one of the best training bargains out there for VFP developers, and it has let to a great deal of work for many of us. Highly recommended!
Members attend free, non-members please contribute $10 to help cover expenses.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (CDT) at WeWork, 332 S Michigan - 9th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604.
General information
| Web site: | http://www.chicagofudg.com |
| Location: | At WeWork |
| Address: | 332 S Michigan - 9th Floor |
| City: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Country: | United States |
User group history/membership rate/objectives
CFUDG meets on the 3rd Monday of every month in Chicago.
Presentations on Database and FoxPro topics by national speakers or local talent are followed by group discussion and shorter presentations. Attendance is stable between 6 and 12. Camaraderie is in abundance and data wisdom abounds.
Our objective is to educate ourselves about database technologies and VFP by sharing knowledge that will improve our programming skills while using the best data-centric desktop application IDE in the civilized world.
Membership is $10 per meeting or $100 per year.. Use the Eventbrite link on our home page to RSVP and prepay your dues for the next meeting.
Speaker
Rick Borup
Rick Borup is owner and president of Information Technology Associates, a professional software development, computer services, and information systems consulting firm he founded in 1993. Rick earned BS and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent several years developing software applications for mainframe computers before turning to microcomputer database development tools in the late 1980’s. He began working with FoxPro in 1991, and has worked full time in Fox...
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Randy Bosma, Mannager Systems
Randy Bosma is a seasoned amatuer in FoxPro/DOS and VFP application development which he dabbles in as side work. His computer education started at DeVry University where he learned to program an IBM 1401 in assembler using punch cards. He later did database-like applications in Fortran 77 to track engineering projects for his employer. Back in 1986 he started with dBaseII v2.3b on a KayPro C/PM 'portable' computer and has progressed through dBase III & IV & 5, FPD 2.6 and VFP6, and now works i...
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Randy Bosma, Mannager Systems
Randy Bosma is a seasoned amatuer in FoxPro/DOS and VFP application development which he dabbles in as side work. His computer education started at DeVry University where he learned to program an IBM 1401 in assembler using punch cards. He later did database-like applications in Fortran 77 to track engineering projects for his employer. Back in 1986 he started with dBaseII v2.3b on a KayPro C/PM 'portable' computer and has progressed through dBase III & IV & 5, FPD 2.6 and VFP6, and now works i...
Archive of meetings
Updating the VFP Interface - Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 at 18h30
At our February CFUDG meeting we will take on the challenge to help bring the VFP interface into this century.
Starting with the checkbox: What should a modern on/off yes/no checkbox look and act like? Should it resize itself as the form is resized? Should it look like a slider? Should the caption be part of the image? What role does color play?
At this meeting, we will be doing some live team programming with the objective being to deliver a working and improved checkbox object to the att...
Jody Meyer on SQL Server Indexing - Tuesday, November 8th, 2016 at 18h30
Celebrate Election Day Night with rational people in their quest for facts at Chicago FUDG.
Jody Meyer will be joining us to present what she has learned about SQL Server Indexing for mortals. SQL Server is an ideal alternative to native VFP tables as far as reliability and size limitations on the network, but for speed it is quite a step down from the performance of DBFs and Rushmore. Jody will cover indexing basics, best practices and the myths for SQL Server Indexes. This presentation will...
Southwest Fox Debriefing - Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 at 18h30
Members who attended Southwest Fox this year will share and discuss the most exciting presentations in Phoenix. Among the favorites was using version control in VFP, and adding DotNet functionality (such as two-way network communications between applications) through VFP. There was also a presentation that allows you to make your desktop applications accessible through the cloud without using web technologies - like remote desktop, but better and cheaper!
More info at
HTTP://www.ChicagoFUDG.c...
Rick Borup on Microsoft's BI - Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 at 18h30
Rick Borup will be previewing (aka - practicing) his upcoming Southwest Fox presentation on Microsoft's 'Business Intelligence' tool - especially pushing data into the desktop BI tool.
Getting your data into BI allows you and your end users to view or design sophisticated reports around your data. Some samples of the power of BI are here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-desktop-videos/
A detailed summary of Rick's talk is at:
http://swfox.net/SessionsSWFox.aspx#I...
Tuvia Vinitski on dbSchema - Tuesday, August 9th, 2016 at 18h30
At Chicago FUDG this month, Tuvia Vinitski will be presenting the features of dbSchema as it relates to SQL and NEW SUPPORT FOR VFP DATA! Tuvia says:
You can use DbSchema to compare, design, analyze, set up, and manage SQL Server as well as VFP databases. Not only is DbSchema the design tool VFP has always needed, now you can seamlessly move between database platforms!
This session will demonstrate how to use the dbSchema tool to create and manage SQL Server and VFP databases, queries, dat...
DVCS demonstration - Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 at 18h30
A special treat and a new location! Harold Washington Library (400 S. State Street, downtown Chicago) - 7th Floor North meeting room - SECOND Tuesday May 10th 5:30 - 7:00 PM. Randy Bosma will be demonstrating some source control components: SourceTree, Bitbucket, and Mike Potjer's Git utilities from VFPX.
Please RSVP using the link on our home page:
http://www.ChicagoFUDG.comApril 2016 meeting - Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG will meet TUESDAY the 19th of April 2016 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm at the Harold Washington Library, 400 S State Street - 6th Floor North meeting room! This month we're trying another day of the week, and checking out some new digs. We'll discuss member topics - progress bars are on the agenda, and managing limited width record ID's (in this case, generating SKU's from autoinc fields). Bring your own troubles and discoveries for discussion. Please RSVP using the Eventbrite link on ou...
Topic on WPF - Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 18h30
*** Old posting - bad date - IGNORE ***
CFUDG's April 2009 meeting will demonstrate the rich client features of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that affect layout, controls, document presentation and computer graphics to create new successful applications using standard business PC hardware.
Other short presentations and discussions as time permits.
Check out our new high tech/high altitude conference room at Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Drive. 15th floor. The time will be the ...
Kevin Cully on "Xojo Development" - Monday, February 15th, 2016 at 18h30
Our February meeting will feature Kevin Cully of Atlanta who will speak on "Xojo Development with focus on 64bit apps and Raspberry Pi".
Xojo is a great development tool for developers who are used to developing in Microsoft Visual FoxPro and Microsoft .NET. It allows application development, not just only Windows, but Mac, Linux, Web, iOS and now the Raspberry Pi computer as well. In addition, Xojo now allows for building 64-bit applications in addition to 32-bit applications. We'll look a...
Bob Pierce on Manufacturing Automation w/VFP - Monday, January 18th, 2016 at 20h00
Our January 2016 meeting is scheduled for 5:30pm (CST) on Monday the 18th (today!) at 1871 in the Merchandise Mart suite 1212, IMSA classroom. Bob Pierce will present a session on Manufacturing Automation with VFP. This promises to be an interesting and unique topic for VFP developers. Please register using the EventVrite link on the home page at
http://www.ChicagoFUDG.comGems and Nuggets learned at SWFox 2015 - Monday, December 21st, 2015 at 18h30
The Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group will meet on Monday, the 21st of December 2015 at 5:30pm at 1871 (in the Merchandise Mart, 12th floor) in the IMSA classroom.
Our topic for December will be a discussion of gems and nuggets found at SWFox 2015 presented by members who attended that conference.
Please RSVP using the EventBrite link on our home page:
http://www.ChicagoFudg.comToni Feltman on 'Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services' - Monday, September 21st, 2015 at 18h30
We are very excited to have Toni Feltman presenting her 'Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services' session:
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is the Microsoft answer to reporting tools like Crystal Reports. The really nice thing about SSRS is that a version is now included with SQL Server Express which is FREE. Free is good, right? SQL Server Reporting Services is a quick and inexpensive way for developers to create and deploy reports when using SQL Server as the database engine. It i...
Phil Sherwood on New Rules in Sales and Marketing - Monday, August 17th, 2015 at 18h30
What does it take to market and sell your software? Do the old methods still work? Yes…and, NO! The landscape has changed in marketing and sales. You used to be the gate-keeper of the information; now the potential customer is in charge. You used to have to sell your application to a potential client; now they usually know what they want when they contact you. We'll look at what you need to be doing to attract potential customers and how to provide them with useful information that tilts the dis...
Tuvia Vinitsky on FoxInCloud - Monday, July 20th, 2015 at 18h30
For our July 2015 meeting, Tuvia Vinitsky will speak on "FoxInCloud - What's new and improved".
Taking some cues from his upcoming SWFox post-con training event, Tuvia will help us reimagine Visual Foxpro applications running in a web browser as HTML/JS/CSS, complete with anything and everything the web has to offer, and using VFP code to create one application for web or desktop.
Monday, 20 July 2015, 5:30pm at 1871 in the Merchandise Mart, 12th floor west. Please register using the EventB...
Eric Selje on Database Hacks - Monday, June 15th, 2015 at 18h30
You are invited to the June 2015 meeting of the Chicago FoxPro Developers Group to be held
5:30 PM to 9:30 PM (CST) on Monday June 15, 2015 at
1871
222 West Merchandise Mart Plaza
IMSA Classroom
Chicago, IL 60654
Do you ever hear about a database hack and think “Wow, whoever pulled this off must be some super-smart hacker type with access to advanced technology and supercomputers?” Well in reality nothing could be further from the truth. Database hacks are accomplished with a combination...
CFUDG - April - Rick Borup - Monday, April 20th, 2015 at 18h30
Our speaker for April is Rick Borup, a well-known and highly regarded SouthWest Fox speaker. His topic is: "Refactoring VFP Code: If it Ain't Broke, Fix it".
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"? In this session we'll explore how and why code gets stale, and how refactoring can be an effective solution.
...
SaaS using VFP, WebConnection, and MySQL - Monday, March 16th, 2015 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG is pleased to announce that Michael Birnholz will be presenting his tools and techniques in creating a successful automotive commerce 'SaaS' business based upon VFP, WebConnect, MySQL and the various other tools needed to run a business.
This is a rare opportunity for current and prospective entrepreneurs to see the components and techniques of another success story of a thriving business and chat with the guy who made it happen.
Full details available on our website at http:/...
Chicago FUDG: Carl Karsten on Python - Monday, February 16th, 2015 at 18h30
Our February meeting will feature a long-time member from way-back: Carl Karsten. He'll be revealing the Python programming language to us.
You know what programming is, now learn how to do it in Python with a crash coarse in the syntax. We'll start with 'Hello World!', followed by an introduction to the list and key/value dictionary data types, then touch on function and class definitions, and end when we run out of time. I will mention the standard library and package index, but discover...
January 2015 - Doug Henning on Deploying VFP Apps - Monday, January 19th, 2015 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG will meet on Monday the 19th of January 2015 at 5:30pm. This month's presenter is Doug Hennig; he will speak on "The Latest Techniques in Deploying VFP Applications".
Here's the scoop: "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 applica...
December at Chicago FUDG: Hank Fay on Lianja - Monday, December 15th, 2014 at 18h30
Looking for a modern but familiar development environment to easily transition to? There has been a great deal of interest in the cross-platform Lianja environment - supporting Web, Windows, Mac and Linux.
We're looking forward to seeing this presentation by Hank Fay. Hank is a very experienced VFP developer and tools developer who has decided that Lianja will be his new focus. We hope you can make it!
Eric Selje on Data Breaches - Monday, November 17th, 2014 at 18h30
Our November 2014 meeting is scheduled for 5:30pm (CST) on Monday the 17th at 1871 at the Merchandise Mart suite 1212.
Eric Selje will be our speaker and his topic is "Stealing Home ... Depot", an analysis of data breaches that have made headlines so often over the past year. He'll also talk about making calls to CouchDB from VFP, the new IntellisenseX Script Sharing feature, Test-Driven Development and the latest FoxUnit changes. Another must-see presentation at Chicago FUDG!
More info at...
Christof Wollenhaupt on Lessons Learned: SQL Server - Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 at 18h30
Our October 2014 meeting is scheduled for 5:30pm (CST) on TUESDAY the 14th at 1871 at the Merchandise Mart suite 1212. IMPORTANT: please RSVP using the Eventbrite link on our web page at
http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com
Our speaker will be Christof Wollenhaupt, who is stopping in Chicago enroute to SWFox 2014. His topic will be "Lessons Learned: SQL Server".
Migrating data with SQL Server is easy: Export the source database, then bulk import into the destination. No problem. But then reality hi...
September 2014 meeting - Toni Feltman speaking - Monday, September 15th, 2014 at 18h30
Toni Feltman, a Microsoft Certified Professional, is an experienced software developer, project manager, instructor and speaker. She is a well known contributor to the Visual FoxPro development community, and has spoken at most major FoxPro conferences in North America and Europe over the last several years. In 2011, Toni was honored by the FoxPro community with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of her contributions to the community throughout her career. She will present two sessions...
May 2014: BindEvents in FoxPro - Monday, May 19th, 2014 at 18h30
Monday's presentation will be a recorded presentation by Tamar Granor, and we'll follow that with discussion of the use of bind events in our applications. A link to the presentation will be made available to members on our web site. If you are not yet a member, please use the Eventbrite link on our website to join or RSVP:
http://www.chicagofudg.com/ PLEASE NOTE: May, June and July meetings will be held in the OCA classroom. We hope you can make it!
April 2014: Open Discussion Night - Monday, April 21st, 2014 at 18h30
Yes, we are meeting this evening - it will be an open discussion night.
5:30pm (CST) on MONDAY the 21st at 1871 at the Merchandise Mart suite 1212. When you arrive at the 1871 front desk (adjacent to the west elevator bank) ask to be directed to the FoxPro meeting in the IMSA classroom. Reasonable ($10) parking is available 1 block north of the Orleans Street (west) entrance of the Merchandise Mart.
Open Mic Nite - Development Tools - Monday, March 17th, 2014 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG's March 2014 meeting will feature members Open-Mic night to show favorite development tools. Michael Hogan will also present a simple FoxPro/WebConnect/JQuery Mobile business application for tablets and handhelds. We will also discuss plans for the spring thaw - whenever it decides to arrive. Our usual agenda includes a few moments for business chatter followed by one or two presentations on a relevant Database Development topic and some group discussion We occasionally have nationa...
Data in the Cloud - "Cast Iron" - Monday, February 17th, 2014 at 18h30
Our February 2014 meeting is scheduled for 5:30pm (CST) on MONDAY the 17th at our NEW location: 1871 at the Merchandise Mart suite 1212.
For the February meeting, Arturo Caines will be presenting a technology called "Cast Iron" which allows you to integrate cloud and web data sources with your in-house application data. Data sources include web services (including Amazon, UPS, and SaaS providers like Salesforce) and XML data. This should be another good one! Members attend free, non-members...
Active Server Pages - Monday, January 20th, 2014 at 18h30
Our January 2014 meeting featured a discussion of ASP and various features thereof. Visual FoxPro 9 (and earlier versions) can interface with active server pages through various tools including West Wind and a few others. ActiveVFP (AVFP) is a completely free and open source project for creating web applications with Visual Foxpro; it can be found on CodePlex.
VFE and Other Tools - Joe Lucero - Monday, December 16th, 2013 at 18h30
December's CFUDG meeting will feature Joe Lucero demonstrating creating applications using Visual Fox Express (VFE), as well as reviewing other useful tools.
NEW DAY NEW LOCATION - Our next meeting is scheduled for 5:30pm (CST) on MONDAY the 16th of December 2013 at our NEW location: 1871 at the Merchandise Mart suite 1212. When you arrive at the 1871 front desk (adjacent to the west elevator bank) ask to be directed to the FoxPro meeting in the IMSA classroom.
RSVP link on our website's hom...
Member Presentations - Monday, November 18th, 2013 at 18h30
Member Presentations: What I Learned at Southwest Fox 2013, and other topics of mutual interest.
Monday (today!) the 18th of November 2013; 5:30pm. 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza Suite 1212 "1871" (use west elevators, Orleans St. entrance). C U there!
October 2013 meeting - Tuvia Vinitsky presenting - Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 at 18h30
Our October meeting will feature Tuvia Vinitsky practicing his presentation for Southwest Fox 23013 "Credit Cards and EFT/ACH in VFP".
Many applications today require the user to charge a credit card or process an ACH bank account transfer. Processing credit cards and EFT transactions in VFP involves both technical aspects and security aspects.
What is the best approach? What does PCI-compliant mean? What is the best way to connect securely to the credit card processor? What are terms like AVS...
Eric Selje on Unit Testing a SQL Server Database - Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 at 18h30
Our next meeting is happening on the 10th of September 2013, and we have a NEW location: 1871 at the Merchandise Mart suite 1212! When you arrive at the 1871 front desk, ask to be directed to the "Credit Swiss" conference room.
The speaker will be Eric Selje (
http://www.linkedin.com/in/saltydog) from the Madison FoxPro users group; he'll be practicing his upcoming SWFox presentation: "Unit Testing 201: Testing Our SQL Server Backends".
Here's the synopsis:
Nobody wants to find out the "o...
Bill Drew on Retirement - Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 at 18h30
We will be honoring and thanking Bill Drew for his many years of service as President of ChicagoFUDG. We’ll have some special food to nosh on while we spend a few hours reminiscing about work and the skills we’ve absorbed, and looking forward to the changes in our industry: a guild of data craftsmen. If you’ve ever gotten a tip, an encouraging word, or a job lead from Bill, join us to thank him in person, and congratulate him on his retirement.
June 11 meeting - Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 at 18h30
No meeting this month - June 2013. Save the date for the next Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on 9 July 2013. There will not be a meeting of the Chicago FUDG in June 2013. Save the date for our next meeting on Tuesday the 9th of July 2013.
Case Study of a .NET Data App - Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG - May 14th meeting features a Case Study by
Bob Kulla presenting SpreadValue Software (Option Spread Pricing).
> Total Memory Resident Data Storage
> Synchronous and Asynchronous Aspects of Applications and Programming
> Multithreaded Asynchronous Binary Sockets
> IQFeed™ Financial Markets Data Feed
> Subscription Controlled User Verification
> Implementation of Third Party .net Charting Tools
Same Time and Place: 5:30 pm at 200 S. Wacker Suite 1500. RSVP by e...
C#/SQL data for VFP developers - Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 at 18h30
Our April 9th meeting will feature Tom Corrigan presenting a look at one approach to transitioning from a VFP to C#/SQL Server environment.
This is an enhancement of a presentation he did a couple of years ago. It is timely because it deals with a problem common to all C# programmers: it there a set of classes that simplifies the data access? Some of us have tried the overkill methodologies like Entity Framework and Typed Data Sets. Tom streamlines and simplifies; you will not be disappointe...
Handling Data in .NET from a VFP perspective - Friday, March 8th, 2013 at 20h00
This month we will view a session remotely from the Philadelphia Fox Pro Group. The speaker is Bill Fitzgerald.
Abstract: About 6 years ago I started learning .NET and now more than 50% of my programming is done in .NET. I found some good books but most of them don't approach .NET from the point of view of a desktop database programmer and the few that do are seriously out of date.
Unlike VFP which has its own built in methods for handling data, .NET is data neutral, so countless ways of h...
SQL Server 2012 - Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 at 18h30
Our February meeting will feature a great review of what's new in SQL Server 2012 here at FUDG meeting, and features it may bring to your Visual FoxPro app. Our speaker is Menachem Bazian reprising his session from SWFox 2012 via Skype from New York.
ETL in SSIS: an SQL tool for developers - Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 at 18h30
Our first meeting of 2013 will focus on SQL Server Integration Services. We talked at the last meeting about broadening our focus to include topics on industrial strength data storage systems like SQL server, cutting edge programming like mobile apps, and more generic tools like source control and xml and json handling.
So please invite co-workers and others who may not be familiar with our long time focus of VFP to our Jan. 8 meeting. We will look deeply at the Extract - Transform - Load ...
Excel Power User Tips - Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at 18h30
As a holiday treat we are hosting Tim Milll-Groninger and his well practiced tutorial on maximizing Excel as a desktop tool. Tim is a veteran of many years at the Information Training Resource Center and of data battles big and small. Currently he is my co-worker at Axa-Assistance. He will amaze you with the features you never realized were there. And he will be glad to hear the tricks that his audience can contribute.
This subject matter is good for anyone who works with data -- not onl...
Chicago FUDG welcomes Tuvia Vinitsky - Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 at 18h30
Our speaker for November is Tuvia Vinitsky, fresh from Southwest Fox with more insight into Fox on the Web, and skinning your FoxPro app to modernize its appearance.
Session 1) Thin Clients and VFP: It's a Terminal Server world. /
Pizza /
Session 2) Give Me Some Skin: Making VFP have a sleek modern appearance.
It promises to be an information-packed evening. See you there!
Eric Selje to speak: "More Fox on the Run" - Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 at 18h30
This month the cheddar curtain will part to reveal _two_ VFP speakers.
Eric Selje (of MadFox) returns to present "More Fox on the Run", which expands on last year's SWFox presentation where he showed us how to make FoxPro data available on Android and iOS devices by using HTML5, web services, and PhoneGap. Now he'll dig a little deeper showing how we can save data in an app, even if we're offline, and different ways to synchronize data back to a main database once the app detects that we're ...
Eric Selje on SMMS for Developers - plus Fox on the Run 2 - Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at 18h30
Our speaker, Eric Selje, appears from behind the Cheddar Curtain to teach us about "SSMS for Developers": We are developers, but a lot of us become de facto SQL Server administrators without getting any formal training. We may get by with only a shallow knowledge of the main tool we have for managing SQL Server, but it's time to dig a little deeper into SQL Server Management Studio. Do you really know what this seemingly simple tool can do? There's a lot more there than meets the eye. This is no...
Cathy Knight on the VFP Report Writer - Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 at 18h30
The August 14, 2012 meeting of Chicago FUDG will feature Cathy Knight previewing her Southwest Fox presentations. Cathy -- known around the world as Cathy Pountney, the diva of the FoxPrp report writer -- has enlightened our group numerous times in the past several years. Her topics are: OutFox the VFP Report Writer - Printing on My Terms, and VFP Report Writer Tips & Tricks. She will do a remote presentation on one of these topics or highlights from both.
Two Member Presentations - Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 at 18h30
Our June Chicago FUDG meeting will feature two (or more) member presentations:
Patrick O'Hara will show an Asp .NET C# Web App, SQL Server w/ Axsoft SDK integration.
Tom Corrigan will do a presentation on using various portions of Rick Strahl's West Wind Tools package. Topics would be: sending email, processing credit cards using http, sending text messages, and interacting with sql server, all from a VFP application.
When: Tuesday June 12, 2012 at 5:30 pm. Where: Tech Nexus, 200 S ...
Don Higgins on ActiveVFP - FoxPro Data on the Web - Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 18h30
Our May 8th meeting at Chicago FUDG will feature Don Higgins -- one of the most successful VFP developers anywhere. Here is Don's message:
I am going to go over ActiveVFP and how to make VFP work easily on the web. Tips and tricks I learned when my company was asked to make one of my programs available on line.
There will be samples of simple web programming, and even some Javascript examples.
I design not only Drag Racing software but work with Honda and Acura dealerships all over the ...
Kevin Ragsdale on Easy Multi-threading in VFP - Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 18h30
Are you getting run ragged with multi tasking? Let VFP assist you!
At the March Meeting of the Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group Kevin Ragsdale will present "Easy Multi-Threading".
"For years, FoxPro developers have longed for multi-threading capabilities. Thankfully, several developers have found ways to provide multi-threaded capability in Visual FoxPro applications. Kevin tried every published method he knew of to create multi-threaded applications, but the easiest method (by far...
Member presentation night - Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 at 18h30
Come out to the February meeting of the Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group.
Tuesday Feb 14th will be a member presentation night. Open mic.
You are invited to show off your work. Anything is fair game. Amaze and dazzle your colleagues with solutions that only the most fertile mind can even imagine.
Member Presentations / Q&A - Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 18h30
At the January meeting we will have member presentations.
Tom Druffel will show his database update utility. After that it will be open mic for anyone who has some new achievements to show or problems that need help. Many of us don't get enough collective consideration of our work -- think of January as a chance for some code review. Bill Drew will let the group peek into a couple things he's been working on.
Note: Because of Wacker Drive reconstruction, the ONLY access 200 S Wacker w...
Jody Meyer speaks on Parallel Fox and PDF Output - Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 18h30
Our December meeting features Jody Meyer, a Fox Expert from Grand Rapids who has presented at SouthWest Fox for the past three years. She has an infectious enthusiasm and great teaching style. Her presentations:
1) Wanted: More Processing Speed! (ParallelFox)
2) It's Easy and It's Green - PDF Output
Short Subjects by Members - Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at 18h30
Come out Tuesday Nov 8 at for demonstrations by Patrick O'Hara (SQL Server stored procedures), Tom Druffel (Database Update Utility), and Randy Bosma (FoxCharts and Highlights from Arizona).
We will be in the Executive conference room at Tech Nexus.
To RSVP, simply email
bill.drew@sbcglobal.net and he will forward the names to Tech Nexus.
Eric Selje on Lightswitch: Turn On the Light! - Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 18h30
One of our favorite presenters, Eric Selje is coming in from Madison to practice his Southwest Fox Conference presentation.
Here is Eric's topic description: Lightswitch is Microsoft's latest development tool and it is aimed squarely at the same market who may have considered Visual FoxPro in the past. Lightswitch creates beautiful Silverlight applications which can run on Windows or the Web (and theoretically Linux too).
If you're creating CRUD applications for databases, you should defin...
Borup and Selje to rehearse SWFox sessions - Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 at 18h30
We have two excellent speakers at ChicagoFUDG for September.
First, Rick Borup will describe Mercurial, a distributed version control system (DVCS) well suited for use with Visual FoxPro application development. Although DCVSs are based on a decentralized model designed to facilitate team software development, Rick will show that they are also useful for the independent developer who is working solo.
And right after a pizza break, Eric Selje who will give his very first runthrough of his...
Michael Hogan on FoxPro on the Web WITHOUT having FoxPro on the Web - Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 18h30
In the movie 'Enter the Dragon', Bruce Lee bragged about the 'Art of Fighting without Fighting' to an aggressive opponent - and defeated his opponent by using it. Michael Hogan, one of our own, will share 'FoxPro on the Web WITHOUT having FoxPro on the web'. Recent work has led him more and more to putting FoxPro data on the web without necessarily installing FoxPro on the server - using ASP/PHP includes, and AJAX data and display tools in conventional HTML pages.
He says "The concept is simp...
Leveraging VFP code in a Post-Fox world - Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 at 18h30
Our July 2011 Meeting will feature Brian Marquis who will lead a discussion of how his employer, QuotePro, is adapting to the current tech environment and leveraging a big base of VFP code into a post Fox world. Others also want to talk about strategies that they are pursuing. Bill Drew has a handout which he put together for our SQL Server meeting --- and then wasn't able to attend. We'll also talk about future plans and directions for our group.
Jim Nelson - the Tools of Thor (a VFPX project) - Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG's June meeting will feature a remote presentation from Jim Nelson -- the famous VFPX tool developer. Jim will outline the efforts 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, a tool for managing add-on tools in the IDE. He will start the session by showing ...
VFP/SQL Upsizing and Discussion - Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG topic for May 10th: "In May the SQL comes out of hibernation" by CFUDG member Jim Wiggins. Always a well organized presentation from Jim. In our tradition of group leadership, there is a role for anyone who wants to contribute in any way.
Part I: "Upsizing FoxPro", an introduction to MS SQL Server and MySQL, including the Sedna Upsizing WIzard, Data Explorer and Cursor Adapter Builder.
Part II: Real-world examples from members who have used these products for a while, includin...
Remote from Saskatchewan "Cool Controls" - Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 at 18h30
Doug Hennig will examine some controls you can add to your applications to provide a cleaner or fresher user interface. Controls discussed include a splitter, a combobox that drops down to a TreeView control, object-oriented Microsoft Office-like menus, a 100% VFP code date picker control, a control for displaying "balloon tips", and a modern-looking progress bar control.
Same Time and Place -- Tech Nexus, 200 S Wacker Dr. Suite 1500 on Tuesday April 12 at 5:30 pm.
Here is the RSVP for t...
Tuvia Vinitsky on FoxinCloud - Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 at 18h30
Since the dawn of the Internet, owners of useful and stable FoxPro applications have asked, "Isn't there some way to adapt my code to become an Internet application?"
Tuvia Vinitsky recently wrote us, "I have been doing some prelim work with the FoxinCloud system, and, although I was not prepared to be, I am actually pretty excited about it. I was wondering if the group would be interested in me doing a topic on it?" We said: yes!
The RSVP link is
http://j.mp/geuWmw
Check out the vid...
Reporting, Analytics, and Integration Services for MS SQL - Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 at 18h30
A Seminar on Reporting, Analytics, and Integration Services for MS SQL.
The FLAs are SSIS, SSRS, SSAS. (Four letter acronyms.) Come to the FUDG meeting to enhance your game. Nandan -- a SQL Server expert will present from his experience creating packages, data cubes, and reports. Patrick O'Hara will show us some charts created with the Reporting Services component. Don't think everything is rectangular -- think cubes.
Tuesday February 8th 5:30 PM TechNexus 200 S Wacker Dr 15th Floor Chica...
A Buffet of SQL and Web Development - Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 at 18h30
A new year is upon us -- squirming and crying like a baby in diapers. January 2011 at Chicago FUDG will feature ???.
Our scheduled presenter has been ill, so as an alternate we may have a bit of Web Connect, API calls, Web development tools, and related stuff. Patrick will show how to present graphs with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Time and Place as usual: Tuesday Jan 11 at 5:30 pm; Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker, Suite 1500.
RSVP Link will be posted here:
http://www.ChicagoFUDG.comPomodoro & Dropping Acid - Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 at 18h30
Two Feltmans grace our marquee for December.
First, Toni Feltman doing an encore of her session from SWFox 2010 on the Pomodoro Technique.
Then, Mike Feltman will show us how he goes about Dropping ACID (or the NoSQL movement and introduction to MongoDB).
We will be at our regular place and time: Tech Nexus 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 at 5:30 on Tuesday, December 14. Last chance this year for some self improvement.
Watch for the reminder with the RSVP link.
iPhone & Mobile Apps - Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 18h30
Hold the phone- We have a double header at Chicago FUDG this month.
1) Tom Corrigan will give a big picture overview on programming for the IPhone. Tom is a long time member of Fudg who has demonstrated numerous programming solutions from SQL Server to Cloud computing to C Sharp.
2) Antonio Wells on trends in the hand held devices industry. He is Chief Editor & Founder of AndroidTapp.com, a popular niche website offering expert consumer reviews of applications from Google's highly anticip...
Special Meeting - SWFox rehersal sessions - Saturday, September 25th, 2010 at 11h00
Our regular Tuesday meeting for September has been rescheduled in favor of a special 4 presentation event on Saturday, 25 September 2010 starting at 10:00am. The day will consist of rehearsals for the Southwest Fox sessions by Cathy Pountney and Eric Selje.
http://www.swfox.net/
The meeting will be held at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library in Western Springs, IL at 800 Chestnut St. (that's on the west side of Wolf Road between 42nd & 43rd Streets). We anticipate that the change of time and loc...
LINQ & SQL Server Reporting - Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 18h30
Two great subjects have surfaced for Chicago FUDG: Marc Temkin will elucidate the hows and why of LINQ -- not just the version that looks like SQL in reverse but the less well known method code that compresses the syntax and incrementally adds on phrases of query specifics. Join us for an introduction to Linq from the standard flavor to the exotic.
Patrick O'Hara will show how he produces charts with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Here is the RSVP link:
http://j.mp/dxqK1KAccess Programming - Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 18h30
We made an offer to another brotherhood in the Federation of Data Workers: Chicago Access Users Group -- they have a very experienced speaker in Juan Soto and we are pleased that he will present to us. We will explore the joys and agonies of Access development, cover the basics, discuss proper function and subroutine calls, view some examples, briefly touch on SQL Server with Access and answer all of your Access.
About the presenter: Juan Soto is the principal at IT Impact Inc, (AccessExper...
Chicago FUDG meeting - 8 June 2010 - Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 18h30
Our June meeting will feature Bill Drew showing how to automate MapPoint from VFP. The application is thematic presentation of precinct election data. He will show how to interrogate the MapPoint Object model using the Object browser. Don't say you can't make it because his response will be -- "What do I have to draw a map for you?"
Tom Hayward will follow up with an application which renders Google maps from a West Wind Web Connect Internet application.
Other Geo Information offerings ...
SQL Server Tips and Tricks - Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 18h30
Years of turning the crank -- generating data row by row and set by set. New techniques are always appearing -- bring along some of your own. Shake your head in disbelief at: passing a large number of parameters to a stored procedure, nested case statements, common table expressions, annotating columns, integrating Excel with SQL server row by row, functions, extracting the top n orders for each of a group of salesmen and more!
We have a good deck of slides that is filled with effective data ...
Brian Marquis on Flexible Fox Trails - Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at 18h30
Fox Trails was designed from the ground up to be a web architecture that insulates the distinct tiers of an application from each other. This allows different components to be swapped out with a different implementation without breaking the entire application. Join us on April 13th when the author of Fox Trails will demonstrate some interesting applications of this concept by replacing standard web pages with an interactive Adobe Flex application that connects to the same back end FoxPro busines...
Cloud Computing and GDIPLUSX library - Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 18h30
Chicago FUDG's March meeting will feature 2 members - Tom Corrigan on Amazon Cloud computing and Jim Wiggins on using the VFPX graphics classes (GDIPLUSX) library.
Here is the RSVP url click:
http://bit.ly/aQnmD8 Do it now. See you then!
Snow Day / meeting cancelled - Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 18h30
Our February meeting has been cancelled due to the winter storm predicted for Tuesday, 9 Feb 2010. Mark your calendars for our next meeting on 9 March 2010: speaker(s) and topics(s) T.B.A.
GeneXus IDE demo at Chicago FUDG - Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 18h30
On Tuesday Jan. 12 we will have a GeneXus rep to do a live demo of their IDE & development platform for VFP, as well as many other languages like Java & .Net. They recently released their 11th version. Local customers will also talk about their use of GeneXus. Les Pinter who many in the VFP community know, is a big proponent of GeneXus:
“The degree of intelligence in the GeneXus IDE is really amazing. It is an eye-opener.” Les Pinter VFP MVP 2002-2005
Check it out--
http://www.genexus.com/...
Member Presentations - Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 18h30
Our holiday meeting will be a forum for members to show some of their work.
Jim Wiggins will demonstrate a data driven technique for creating tree view controls.
Carl Karsten says that his presentation will show 1. MySql-Workbench - GUI data modeling, 2. xml processing with Python
http://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/dj/scripts/xmldemo.py and 3. Using Python to pre-process broken csv data so VFP can read it.
Jeff Simon will demonstrate working with West Wind's HTML Hel...
Advantage Database Server - Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 18h30
We have a couple of representatives of Sybase coming to Chicago to demonstrate their Fox-friendly data server -- Advantage; An alternative to pricey backends with an easy conversion route. It should be a good time -- another milestone in a long history of tech twists and turns.
From their promotional material at
http://www.sybase.com/products/databasemanagement/advantagedatabaseserver:
* Flexible data access via either native relational SQL or direct navigational database commands.
* Opt...
OktoberFUDG - Christof Wollenhaupt on ExcelPorting - Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 18h30
Christof Wollenhaupt is world renowned as a Fox Pro Expert. We are lucky to have him at our October meeting. He will present his Southwest Fox session entitled Excelporting.
We all know that the only place to keep data is a database. Surprisingly, 150% of our customers firmly believe that data has to be stored in Excel sheets. Ever since Excel XP (Excel 2000 with downloadable plugins) Excel supports XML files in XMLSS (XML Spreadsheet) format. That's almost a decade now!
We cover how you...
Rick Borup presents 'Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies' - Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 18h30
At the Fudg "back to school" meeting on September 8, expert presenter, Rick Borup will travel from Champaign to show us his "Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies" session that he will also present at Southwest Fox 2009. Here's the session description:
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 in these...
SWFox Practice - 'mini-conference' - Saturday, August 15th, 2009 at 11h00
Come to a dress rehearsal for the 2009 South West Fox Conference! We'll have 5 of the sessions:
Cathy Pountney -- (2 part presentation)
Get the most out of VFP reports One of VFP's best presenters will show a myriad of never-before-possible enhancements to the report writer. She'll explore the new interface and the Report Listener.
Jody Meyer --
1) Developing and extending the Fox Pro grid object. Make them data driven, customizeable, striking in appearance, and easy to do.
2) Exc...
C# DotNet and SQL Server from a VFP perspective - Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 18h30
Tom Corrigan had the dreaded Error Reading Drive C just before he was to present at the June Meeting. He will cover his topic at the regular meeting July 14. His talk:
"How to set up a Windows Forms data editing solution using C# .Net and SQL Server from the perspective of a VFP programmer"
- Database concepts: C# approach vs. VFP approach
- Organizing the solution into projects
- Implementing the MVC (ModelViewController) paradigm
- Tips and tricks for keeping things simple
...
Starters and Beginners - C#.NET & WinForms for VFPers - Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 at 18h30
CFUDG's June meeting features our own Professor Tom Corrigan who will talk on "A C# Starter Kit for Windows Forms Database Programming". The focus is on setting up a Windows Forms data editing solution using C# .Net and SQL Server from the perspective of a VFP programmer.
Topics include:
- Database concepts: C# approach vs. VFP approach
- Organizing the solution into projects
- Implementing the MVC (ModelViewController) paradigm
- Tips and tricks for keeping things simple
All...
Panel: Communication wth Clients - Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 18h30
In May, we'll learn from three of our hard core members who will form a panel to show effective, Internet-based mechanisms for promoting yourself and keeping in touch with clients.
Steve Munson -- on social networking with Twitter, My Space, and Face Book
Jim Day -- on a Time and Billing tool
Jim Wiggins -- on sharing project progress and expectations with your clients
To reserve a perch in our new eagles nest meeting room at Tech Nexus, 200 South Wacker, Suite 1500, RSVP at
http://tinyu...
Fox Geo - Using FoxPro and Google Maps with Java Script - Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 17h30
Topic: Fox Geo -- using Fox Pro, Google Maps, and Java Script to build a site locator Internet app. Speaker: Brian Marquis.
To get past building security, you need to send an RSVP before March 10 to Tech Nexus here:
http://tinyurl.com/fudg310
Be there by 5:30pm on March 10, 2009 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th floor. Conference Room C.
The subject is fresh and interesting. The speaker is ready to turn on some lights and open some doors in your dusty brain.
Maintaining Legacy FoxPro Apps - Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 17h30
Our sponsor in the Monadnock Building is being shut down by a parent company back East, so we have to move to a new location. This month we move about a mile west for our meeting (see below).
Be there for a brain meld on the subject of "Maintaining Legacy FoxPro Apps". Jim Wiggins is offering to add some insights on keeping alive reports written way back in FoxBase. Combine that with a refactoring case study by Tom Druffel. Tom will show how to use the collection class to manage non modal...
Grid Enhancements, Updating Users, and Searching Techniques - Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 17h30
Remember the Visible V8 Engine -- the plastic toy that showed how pistons go up and down? Now we have Visible FoxPro! It's a presentation technique that integrates Power Point style bullets with working VFP controls including windows which show the properties and methods -- all in a multi paged form.
Bill Drew will give a lesson on Grid Enhancements using his new Visible FoxPro teaching machine. He'll be examining grids and how Visible FoxPro is programmed.
Next Mike Hogan will show ...
December meeting - 5 short member presentations - Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 17h30
This will be our last and best meeting of 2008, a night of short presentations from our members and an evening of Christmas cheer.
Mike, Steve, Randy, Tom, and Bill have volunteered to show
-- an approach used for sending program and data updates to desktop users and getting around problems with Vista permissions.
-- a Mind Mapping tool used to track and display unsystematic data.
-- Analyst.app, the VFPX Source Code Analyzer that Andrew McNeil reviewed at SouthWest Fox.
-- interesting t...
Chicago FUDG 11 Nov 08 - Dave Martin - Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 18h30
Join us to learn more about one of the leading frameworks for serving web pages from VFP. Dave Martin of I/O Technologies of Wauwatosa, WI will be in town showing a product for developers to collaborate in projects over the Internet.
From an I/O press release: "TaskASAP is an online, web-based team task management application accessible over the internet. The software runs on Microsoft web servers running Internet Information Server (IIS). It is an ideal solution for companies who receive wo...
Chicago FUDG 14 Oct 08 - Christof Wollenhaupt - Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at 17h30
Our special guest for our October 14 meeting will be Christof Wollenhaupt. He'll be here all the way from Germany en route to the SouthWest Fox conference. This is one meeting you don't want to miss!!
The first topic, "Mobile Development with Guineu and VFP", will be introduced with Christof's take on the future of Visual Foxpro.
Mobile devices are a natural extension for many Visual FoxPro applications. They allow you to collect and retrieve information whenever and whereever needed. Thi...
Toni & Mike - On the cutting edge of FoxPro - Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 17h30
September at Chicago FUDG features a pair of Feltmans - both with programming roots in Fox Software, and a marriage made in Toledo.
Toni and Mike are partners at F1 Technologies, a Toledo, Ohio based product development and IT consulting firm, where they create and sell a Visual FoxPro framework called Visual Fox Express. Both have spoken at numerous FoxPro conferences and user groups, and written articles for publication.
Toni Feltman will speak on eTecnologia.NET's .NET Extender for VFP w...
Whil Hentzen - Developer/Client Wikis and Tom Corrigan - Web Page Screen Scraping - Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 17h30
We'll have a Milwaukee Brewer in town for a twilight twin bill.
Lifetime FoxPro MVP, Whil Hentzen, will show us his techniques for setting up free form information web pages for his clients. Browsable, searchable, user maintainable, they are a great contribution to an organization.
The nightcap will feature Tom Corrigan showing his use of Internet protocols to grab content from web sites for display in other formats.
Rick Schummer at Chicago FUDG - 13 May 08 - Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 17h30
Lets give a great welcome to Rick Schummer. He will cover a buffet of VFP subjects.
First: the state of SP2: it’s been wrongfully given a bad rap because of a few bugs despite having fixed over 100 bugs. Everyone should load it and test their apps with it so that we can flush out any other nasty bugs that might need to be addressed by Microsoft. Rick has a white paper on his website (
www.whitelightcomputing.com) that explains how to load VFP 9 RTM, VFP 9 SP1, and VFP 9 SP2 all on the sam...
Internet App Demo and Project Management Tool Discussion - Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 17h30
Mike Hogan will show his most recent Internet Application -- a tool for realtors to track listings, customers, and their preferences. Of particular interest, he says, is a template for uploading data and merging it to back end tables and FTP techniques.
Patrick O'Hara is doing a short demo of a project back up utility.
We'll also discuss favorite project management tools and techniques. How do you use source control, bug tracking, and other aids to collaboration and making deadlines? Ma...
Rick Borup on QuickBooks QODBC - Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 17h30
QODBC is A fully functional ODBC driver for reading and writing QuickBooks 2008-2002 accounting data files by using standard SQL queries. Many applications have ODBC support built-in and can automatically use QuickBooks data with wizard ease once this driver has been installed. Applications such as VFP, Access, Excel, Visual Basic or Crystal Reports will immediately have real-time access to accounting data.
http://www.qodbc.com/qodbc.htm
IF anyone else has some experience with QuickBooks or ...
A Trio of Users Show Tips and Techniques - Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 17h30
This month brings three interesting short presentations by our members:
1) Marc Temkin -- a technique to create stored procedures for queries
against a hierarchy of SQL server tables.
2) Bill Drew -- using rules evaluation to reduce complexity when dozens
of variables must be considered.
3) Brian Marquis -- how to use Fox Unit to implement test driven
development.
Join us. Bring your own best practices. There are a lot of problems
still seeking solutions out there.
Same time and p...
Customization of Applications - Jay van Santen - Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 at 17h30
January at CFUDG will feature Jay van Santen. When multiple customers use an
application, it is important for the developer to maintain application and custom code as two separate code bases. His presentation will illustrate different mechanisms for doing so, with multiple examples of increasing sophistication. The focus will be on a customization infrastructure.
Jay van Santen has been a Fox developer for the past 18 years. He has developed his own applications and worked on a number ...
Toni Feltman unwraps Sedna DBI controls and Etechnologia - Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 17h30
Merry Xbase! Gather at the Chicago FUDG meeting as Toni Feltman unwraps presents from DBI Technologies. They are some sparkling screen controls which are included in the Sedna release of Fox add ons. She'll also give us a peek at Etechnologia, the tool that compiles VFP code into Dot Net executables. Toni is one of the original Fox Software employees from its days in Toledo and now an owner of F1 Technologies (Fox Express framework).
Remember November is for Member Talks - Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 17h30
November at CFUDG features presentations by our local members. This month we have Jim Wiggins, Tom Corrigan, and Marc Temkin.
Jim Wiggins will share my techniques for getting users to be more specific about what they want and demonstrate a program he uses to help him do this. Jim has been using Fox since the days of FoxBase.
Tom Corrigan will talk about generating code (Foxpro, .Net, whatever) from templates using a derivative of Foxtrails and about why you'd want to do this.
Marc Temkin h...
Whil Hentzen :: Inheriting an Application - Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 17h30
Whil Hentzen is responsible, through his publishing company, for more FoxPro education than any other person in the world. A visit from Whil is always appreciated and worthwhile. Come out to the October meeting and learn again from his presention "So You've Inherited an Application. Now What?"-- working with vintage code, and managing client expectations.
Stick around for pizza ($5) and more networking at the end of the presentation. See ya then.
This years' dues are $70 -- if you haven'...
Michael Hogan - Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 17h30
The topic at the September 11 meeting of Chicago FUDG will be "MetaTables Using XML: Tables Within Tables" presented by Chicago's own Michael Hogan.
Data changes: fields required for different types of records may differ. When different records within the same table require one-to-one joins with different child tables or when a table gets bloated with mostly unused fields, it's time to consider a more efficient way of handling the supplemental data.
XML to the rescue! Using VFP’s CursorToXML a...
Cathy Pountney on the VFP9 ReportListener - Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at 17h30
ChicagoFUDG welcomes Cathy Pountney on August 14 when she will impart some of her accumulated wisdom about using the VFP report writer highlighting the new beast introduced with Version 9 - the ReportListener. It gives you the ability to extend your reports beyond the native behavior. In this, the world premier of her session, you'll learn all about this animal and how to take advantage of it, including:
> How to run reports using a ReportListener
> What properties are available and what the...
VFP - Sedna - SP2 - VFPX - Vista -- and ReportListener - Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 17h30
July brings Bo Durban to FUDG University. He's the moderator of the open source project - VFPX. He'll give two talks:
1) What’s around the corner for VFP - Sedna - VFPX? What’s up with Vista? Why be excited about the upcoming release of VFP SP2? Find out how you can take advantage of the enhancements and how you can be a part of the open source effort.
http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX
2) Making the most of VFP9’s reporting enhancements related to the ReportListener. Find out how easy it is to cus...
Don Higgins (of CrewChiefPro fame) on cheap 3rd party enhancements - Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 at 17h30
Strap yourself in for a High Octane meeting. Don Higgins is coming to town for a follow up to his presentation of Crew Chief Pro - software that's a must-have for anybody who wants to stand a chance in the high tech sport of drag racing.
This month Don will show us FREE graphing utilities, Low Cost alternate "skins" for achieving custom looks, User Customizable Search Classes, and other 3rd party classes. He will show members how to spice up their applications, improve the overall user experi...
CFUDG University - Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 at 17h30
Don't miss another fine educational program from Chicago FUDG. Tom Corrigan will show us how to access Fox Pro data from a Dot Net application. Then Randy Jean will give us a first look at Strata Frame, an application framework for Dot Net programming, and share some good experiences about XFRX, the PDF (and other format) report generator that renders directly from VFP report files.
Our watchword is "NEVER STOP LEARNING". It's a great life. Come to the meeting.
Same time, DIFFERENT place (W...
April 2006 meeting - Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 at 17h30
Come learn some techniques that will allow you to leverage VFP code and skills in Internet Applications. CFUDG member Brian Marquis will show us a new technique for developing interactive applications utilizing the latest Web 2.0 techniques to access data stored in Foxpro tables. He borrows the client-side frameworks utilized by Ruby on Rails and replaces the backend system with a Foxpro multi-threaded dll.
Ruby on Rails' main tenants are "Don't Repeat Yourself" and "Convention over Configura...
March 2006 - Member Presentations - Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 at 17h30
Learn by teaching. Come out an show us what you're working on. So far we have 5 short demonstrations line up. Brian Marquis -- Inter process communications: how a standalone pause-able progress bar can monitor a running executable. Mike Hogan -- Lessons from his most recent Internet applicaton -- a realtor's tool box. Bill Drew -- Using prg-based classes to carry out remote data structure maintenance. Greg Gershuny -- mapping Doppler radar in a Geographic Information system. Tom Druffel...
February 2006 meeting cancelled due to severe weather - Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 at 17h30
Don't mind all that snow ... global warming will melt it soon!
January 2007 meeting - Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 17h30
The January Ninth 2007 meeting of the Chicago FoxPro Users & Developers Group will feature Lt. John Harvey of the Shelby County (Tennessee) Sheriff's Department. His application is an integrated Internet system based on SQL Server, Visual FoxPro, Web Connect, ASP, Mapping, and Instant Messenger technologies. It has dramatically improved police tracking of criminals and other law enforcement data.
You definitely will get lots of new insights and inspiration.
As always, all reasonable ideas ...
Kevin Ragsdale on Programming Desktop Alerts Using Callbacks in VFP - Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at 17h30
Our annual holiday FUDG meeting will feature a talk by Kevin Ragsdale of PC-Interactive in Manchester, Tennessee. His subject is Programming Desktop Alerts Using Callbacks in VFP.
Kevin was voted best presenter at the FoxForward Conference in Atlanta in October because he taught an advanced topic with a patient step-by-step approach. With his techniques you will be able to call VFP screens from any COM client and receive back the results. It opens up a lot of possibilities that we formerly ...
Intro to Python / Dabo for VFP developers - Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 17h30
Ed Leafe is a developer's developer. He's here from Rochester, New York to show us Dabo, his open source framework for developing desktop applications in Python.
Significance? Read Ed's words:
"There are a ton of web application frameworks, but none in Python that target the desktop app other than Dabo. Its primary target is developers who come from a background in proprietary Microsoft-centric tools, such as VFP and VB, but it also targets Delphi, Filemaker, and other desktop app developers ...
User Presentations featuring Steve Munson's Everyware - Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 17h30
The Chicago FUDG October meeting will feature member presentations. At these kinds of meetings, great ideas cascade in a mighty torrent.
First up will be Steve Munson's Everyware:
"VFP App Drives Sales for Over a Decade"
"A Fortune 50 communications company wrestles with a mostly manual process for proposing products to their customers. They want to reduce the length of the sales cycle. Everyware developed a client-based application that streamlined the process from Contact to Contract...
Excel Automation from VFP - Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 17h30
It's September. Let's hit the books again. Bill Drew and Tom Corrigan will tag team on a "how to" session on Automating Excel from Visual FoxPro.
From Bill Drew's white paper, "If a VFP report is a data snap shot, then reporting from a worksheet is like the video. Better yet, it's like a movie set and your user is the director."
We will discuss the fundamental difference between the worksheet and the data table. The former is based on a positional metaphor, the later is geared toward stora...
Greg Green demos his Developer Tools for VFP - Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 17h30
Come to the ChicagoFUDG meeting on Tuesday 8 August 2006 and check out another example of creativity and ingenuity in the VFP community. Our speaker will be Greg Green, a SAP consultant working on a contract in the Chicago Area. His passion is building a better programming environment. Here is Greg's description of what he will be demonstrating at the meeting:
“The menu editor is actually a subset of tools that I have been working on. I also have a program (prg) editor, a form editor, a visual ...
The Hidden Powers of Drag and Drop. - Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 17h30
Nick Neklioudov, three times Microsoft MVP, will be in town to give the presentation about using the Interceptor-type class for handling Drag & Drop functionality in VFP forms. Drag & Drop functionality is common in Windows applications and typically requires adding the code to every control to support Drag & Drop operations. However, there is a way to implement it without changing a single line of code in your existing form controls.
Habits of Highly Effective VFP Developers - Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 at 17h30
Chicago is one of the stops on Art Berquist's 2006 Lake Michigan tour. On June 13 he will be speaking on "Habits of Highly Effective VFP Developers." It promises to be a great overview of the best tricks, practices, and tips in programming techniques from a man who spends every working day in the VFP trenches.
Art Bergquist is a Senior Consultant at Visionpace, and has extensive experience working on numerous Visual Maxframe Professional applications both as the sole developer and on a team. Ar...
What have You done with Fox lately? - Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 at 17h30
What are YOU working on?
This month's FUDG meeting will give members a chance to present their work and get some feedback. We've had a long string of out-of-town presenters, and now members are lining up to show what they are doing. Be there. Get some new ideas.
Here's what's being served on this month's smorgasbord: Mike Hogan on new possibilities with Web Connect. Greg Green on an Excel-like control he offers for download. Carl Karsten on SQL Server Express. Randy Bosma on Log Me In. Bil...
Best Practices for Deployment - Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 at 17h30
Rick Borup presents "Best Practices in Deploying Visual FoxPro Applications"
Rick is the author of a book available at Hentzenwerke on the same subject.
He's has consistently brought the most useful techniques to our attention -- such as Inno Setup, Beyond Compare, Cascading Style Sheets, and Tag Clouds.
He is a consumate teacher, who brings to bear his many years of experience as an
independent developer. He is giving us a Sneak Preview of his presentation at the upcoming GLGDW Best P...
Craig Boyd presents a VFP Smorgasboard Extravaganza - Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 at 17h30
Very interesting upcoming meeting. Craig Boyd has been a leading force in
espousing the continuing viability of Visual Fox Pro. To that end he has
released a dizzying array of libraries and utilities designed to keep Fox
more than competitive with anything out there. We asked Craig to present a
smorgasbord of his offerings. Here is his response:
"I can certainly put on a Visual FoxPro extravaganza presentation. Serve up
VFP dish after dish - custom controls, APIs, GDI+, Cryptography,...
Stonefield Query Webinar - Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 at 17h30
The February Chicago FUDG Meeting will be a Webinar on Stonefield Query.
Doug Hennig is the author of Stonefield Query and of the Stonefield Database Toolkit and a guru of gurus. Doug wrote the Cursor Adaptor builder that is in VFP 9. Check out his site at Or attend the February 14th Foxpro Users and Developers Group meeting.
Doug says it's not cold enough in Chicago in February. He'd rather stay home in Winnepeg Saskatchewan. Instead he'll be available via streaming video and Skype phone at...
Tom Corrigan on Database Programming in VFP vs .NET - Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 at 17h30
This month 'Professor' Tom Corrigan will look at the similarities (many) and differences (some) between database programming in VFP and .Net.
Two examples will be presented. The first is more or less the equivalent of using SQL Passthru in VFP. The second will involve the use of typed Datasets, table adapters and binding sources -- some of the spiffy new features in VS 2005. This should be of interest both to those who want to jump into the .Net world and those who just want to see what the...
Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL; Real World Solutions - Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 at 17h30
Tamar Granor, well known for her several VFP-related books and Microsoft Most Valued Professional status, will be in town December 13 to explain SQL. You'll want to come to this event as there are no better teachers than Ms. Granor. She is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a lecturer at VFP conferences here and abroad. She'll be drawing from material in chapter 8 of her new book, "Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL, Real World Solutions". Her talk is of value to anyone who wishes to harn...
The Business Case for Using Visual FoxPro - Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 at 17h30
Steve Black, the Toronto-based IT business theorist, team leader and mentor, and host of the Fox Wiki, gave a great presentation at the Southwest Fox Conference. He addressed the business case for choosing Visual FoxPro as a development tool.
He has given us permission to show his Power Point demo and pepper it with commentary. As time permits we'll cover other hightlights of Southwest Fox.
5:30 p.m. November 8 at Suite 826, Monodnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago Loop.
http://www...
Member Presentations and Tips - Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 at 17h30
We'll have a gong show style meeting in October. The gong will be to enforce a 7 minute time limit - no heckling or fruit throwing will be tolerated. Come on down and share your tips, tricks, interesting approaches, and favorite 3rd party tools.
Randy Bosma will play a pod cast of one of Andrew McNeil's Fox Shows, Patrick O'Hara will reveal a well-guarded secret trick for simulating a run time user session to test his application, Carl Karsten will demonstrate an Entity Relationship Modeler...
Claudio Lasalla to speak on Object Orientation - Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 at 17h30
As a back-to-school bonus bonanza, FUDG presents "Comparison of Object Orientation between VFP and Dot Net." Claudio Lasalla, a Brazilian software superstar and currently a senior programmer with Houston's EPS Software, will explain concepts and practices that will keep us uptodate with our ever-changing occupation.
Bring your own brainstorms, questions, job leads, speculations, and tips. Good time guaranteed. Challenge yourself to be among the best in the business!
Time and Place are the sam...
Rich MEREly Simpson to show VFP9 Report Listener Tricks - Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 at 17h30
This month in Chicago we have Rich Simpson, the developer of the popular reporting tool recently updated to use VFP9's report listener feature. Rich is a non-stop, always telling another anecdote, enthusiastic, programming maniac. We very much enjoyed his insights when he was here a couple of years ago, and are looking forward to his return. The Mind's Eye Reporting Engine, written in VFP and Delphi, creates multiple formats (PDF, TIFF, Word, BMP, JPG) from VFP reports. It emails, and previe...
The Feltmans Present Active Fox Pages - Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 at 17h30
Mike and/or Toni Feltman of Visual FoxExpress will give us a show on Active Fox Pages. AFP is an internet server extension that processes program code inside an HTML page. Like Microsoft's ASP, it is a script engine. It processes xBase Code and lets you dynamically present your data on the Internet. Since it does not require ODBC or ADO to access the data, it is much faster.
Mike showed us his VFE framework a couple of years ago and we are very happy to have him back.
Date: Tuesday, July 1...
Evan Pauley on Automating MapPoint and Controlling the SQL Server DMO - Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 at 17h30
We'll have a guest speaker, Evan Pauley, pitching both ends of a twin bill:
"Automating Map Point from VFP" and "Controlling the SQL Server DMO."
Map Point is Microsoft's inexpensive mapping tool -- plenty powerful for many common tasks. The DMO is a COM object (Distributed Management Objects) that provides access to administration features of SQL Server. Creating tables, viewing and editing system parameters.
Evan, who is a leading member of the Dallas Fort Worth Fox Pro Developers Group...
Rick Schummer on New In Nine - Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 at 17h30
Rick Schummer will stop in Chicago on his New In Nine World Tour.What animal has 9 lives? FoxPro, of course. Come to the May FUDG meeting and get a tour of the new version, VFP 9.0.
Dramatic improvements to the Report Writer are the big selling point of the new FoxPro. But what about the myriad of other improvements and extensions? How can they improve the quality of our applications and help us get them out the door faster?
Rick Schummer, author of What's New In VFP 9, will demonstrate:...
Natural Language Processing with English Query, SQL Server and VFP - Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 at 17h30
Find out how Dave strung together text to speech, wireless data retrieval on a PDA, natural language processing features of SQL server, and commentary about pieces of art in a museum. Hint: it starts with a V and it has an F and a P in it.
Dave, who is a leader of the Atlanta FoxPro Users Group, will be in town for a WI-FI convention. Let's meet or beat the enthusiasm that comes out in his recent FoxTalk article by showing him a great Chicago turnout.
A couple of other items: A recruiter...
Geographic Information Systems and VFP/WebConnect demo - Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 at 17h30
Come to the March FUDG Meeting for a double header: Greg Gershuny will
present some basics of Geographic Information systems using Manifold -- a
very full featured and affordable programming tool. He will also show us a
fascinating example of Spatial Analysis.
Michael Hogan will demo a web application written in VFP/WebConnect. It
presents scheduling information to subscribers and exchanges data with a
legacy desktop version designed by Jeff Simon.
The meeting will be on March 8th...
Case Study: Refactoring for the Web - Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 at 17h30
Mike Hogan will provide a case study of a conversion. He'll recount lessons of movinmg a successful vertical market desktop application from a single-user, single-company accounting tool to an Internet application. In succession he'll touch on multi-user issues, conversion from FoxPro tables to SQL Server, refactoring existing business objects for data delivery "through the cloud", and decision to preserve existing legacy code. The applicaton, CPAnalyst, is a "what-if" tool for Certified Publi...
Encapsulating Legacy Code in an Object Oriented Framework Using the Session Object - Tuesday, September 14th, 2004 at 17h30
Our friend, Dave Stevenson, the editor of Fox Talk, will be in town on business on the second Tuesday of next month. And he is willing to share his presentation -- "Encapsulating Legacy Code in an Object Oriented Framework Using the Session Object".
He perfected the technique when he was asked --- as many of us often are --- to convert a desktop program to an Internet application. Though there is no practical way to reuse screens between platforms, complex calculations, algorithms, and even...
C# on the IPOD for VFP programmers! - Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 at 17h30
Pat Murtaugh couldn't leave his programmer's mind at the office. When the youth soccer team that he coaches, complained about everyone not getting equal playing time, Pat wrote a timer program to moniter each kid's time on the field.
To get it running on an IPOD, he converted a Fox Pro prototype to C Sharp. Come to our April meeting to see how a simple C # program works, how it compares with VFP, and how it can be further developed. Pat's not going overpower us with a slide show filled with a...
Selling Yourself & Web Based Program Updates - Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 at 17h30
Historic Change! FUDG will meet the 2nd Tuesday of the Month (not the First) from now on. Come to the meeting on March 9th. 5:30 at 53 West Jackson Conference Room 826.
Si Skidmore presents tips he's learned in 30 years of successful consulting.
The 4 reasons that companies hire consultants and which ones to be wary of.
How to impress the right players of the value of your potential contribution.
Si will also give us a quick tour of a customizable manufacturing package that makes room ...
XML, Wireless, and Image Analysis - Tuesday, January 6th, 2004 at 17h30
Location: Monadnock Building 53 W. Jackson, Suite 826
Don't miss the January 6th Foxpro Users & Developers Group Meeting! We'll be at our new location, the Monadnock Building 53 W. Jackson, Suite 826. 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Here are the topics.
Bill Drew on the new XML publishing format called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS is a standard for distributing article titles, summaries, and URL addresses. Bill will show how to read RSS web pages into strings and then parse the XML into sen...
Steve Sawyer Client Server Seminar in Chicago - Tuesday, December 9th, 2003 at 13h00
Steve Sawyer has been asked to present his excellent "Upsizing to Client/Server - Data and Code" at the Chicago Fox User/Developer Group (FUDG). The syllabus is still being decided by the membership, but here is potentially what might be discussed.
Upsizing to Client/Server - Data and Code
If you are faced with possibly re-writing or adapting an existing application to work with SQL Server or other database server, or if you're planning on writing a Visual FoxPro application that will even...
December Monthly Meeting - Views & Read Write Cursors - Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003 at 17h15
Bill Drew & Carl Karsten engage in a dialog on integrating basic edit abilities with user defined queries. See some of the internals of Fox Express. Look at a query builder class that shows hit counts for sub-queries and shields the user from complexities while constructing up to eight levels of conditions. See how to put it all together to do table editing based on viewing a subset in a grid that is based on a readwrite cursor.
We are meeting this month in conference room 826 of the Monad...
Report from GLGDW and More Web-Connect - Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 at 17h30
We need to find a new spot for our monthly meetings!
This month (only) we will meet at the offices of Microtime.
(Thanks for your community spirit & generousity, Paul) Address is 22 N. Morgan Suite 111 Press # 666 to be buzzed in.
Agenda:
Report from Great Lakes Data base Conference Demo from one of the sessions -- Hector Correa's Automating Excel Pivot Tables from VFP For those of us who are still hazy about how Web Connect generates web pages, Mike Hogan will review some of the Higher...
Application Development -- FUDG Members Best Practices - Tuesday, August 5th, 2003 at 17h15
Come out for a tag team presentation by our members explaining the design decisions and ingenuity that make their applications great. Certain kinds of apps are shown over and over again in slick marketing demos and text books. Our members have addressed these in their own experience and found some to be trickier in reality that than might be expected. How they were handled, what principles of software development were affirmed or violated.Sample subjects:Customer managementInventory controlCo...
Rick Schummer Mega Fox Tour in Chicago - Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003 at 17h15
Fox pro trainer, developer & author, Rick Schummer will give us 2 of his training sessions: Get More Productive with Visual FoxPro and Intro to Project Hooks1) The "More Productive" session will demonstrate as many tips and productivity ideas that can be crammed into a 45 minute session. Tips for developers working with all versions of VFP, including VFP 8.2) Fishing with a ProjectHook will detail how to use the Project Object, File Object and ProjectHook class included with Visual FoxPro. This ...
Crystal Reports - Thursday, May 15th, 2003 at 18h00
New user group. Agenda will focus on integrating Crystal Reports with Dot Net.Location is Microsoft Technology CenterSuite 2300 77 West Wacker Drive downtownFree
Akins & Kramek Mega Presentation - Tuesday, May 6th, 2003 at 09h00
Two Co-Authors of MegaFox, 1002 Things You Wanted to Know about Extending Visual Fox Pro, Marcia Akins and Andy Kramek will present. This will be the best Chicago FUDG training yet. We offer 4 sessions -- ONLY $15 apiece AND half price for students/unemployed and under-employed. All followed by the Monthly Foxpro Users & Developers Group meeting where with Q&A and potpourri by K&A. Pizza in between. Sessions in Suite 620 -- Meeting in Suite 500. 2 N. LaSalle, Chicago. Here are the sessions: ...
Whil Hentzen April Fool's Day Appearance at Chicago FUDG - Tuesday, April 1st, 2003 at 17h15
No joke! Whil Hentzen will make a stop in Chicago as part of his Fox is Everywhere World Tour - which is already scheduled for 7 cities. Whil is the publisher of numerous Foxpro books, editor of Fox Talk, and host of the annual Great Lakes Great Database Workshop. He will speak on using Foxpro with Linnux. Chicago, come out to welcome Whil!
Tamar Granor in Chicago - Tuesday, March 4th, 2003 at 13h00
Now lets get the word out for a rare opportunity -- well-known Fox Pro trainer Tamar Granor will make Chicago a stop on her tour to give two classes and a user group presentation on March 4th. Both the afternoon session (starting at 1 pm) and the evening (5:15) will be held at 2 N. LaSalle. The classes ($40 for one $60 for two) will be in suite 620 and the user group in suite 500. Get the word out. Here are Tamar's abstracts:Title: Building Queries in Visual FoxProAbstract: VFP 8 features ma...
Rick Borup and Rich Simpson -- 3rd Party Installers and Reporters - Tuesday, February 4th, 2003 at 17h15
We'll have our friend Rick Borup for another trip up from Champaign. He'll show us a third party installer: INNO Setup and ISToools.Also: we'll follow that with Rich Simpson showing his fabulous reporting tools. And as much fox wisdom as late as anyone is willing to trade questions, opinions, and answers.Join. Introduce yourself. Express yourself. Enhance your abilities. Be in the loop.
Chicago Fudg Hosts Intro to Crystal Reports - Tuesday, January 7th, 2003 at 17h15
Chicago FUDG member, Tom Perkowski, a certified Crystal Reports Trainer will present an intro to Crystal Reports. Other members may line up the laptops for quick demos of their applications. Off the cuff discussion, sharing of war stories, general good time and encouragement will prevail. Make FUDG even more successful than it already is. Job announcements, the 2003 schedule, and tips in preparing for VFP8 and Dot Net training.
Member Presentations - Tuesday, December 3rd, 2002 at 00h00
Members will present.Initial volunteers: Curt Handley -- Legal issues for consultants & employees, copyright lawCarl Karsten -- tips and tricks (from his Great Lakes Great Data Base Conference presentation)Mike Beane -- New VFP 8 feature Code References !David Dee -- His OBJECTORY frameworkOthers welcome -- line up the laptops!Door prize Universal Thread MembershipExpress yourself, your friendship, and solidarity.Lets make some ambitious plans for 2003.
Nick Neklioudov Demo's Visual Foxpro 8 - Tuesday, November 5th, 2002 at 17h15
What an opportunity! Nick Neklioudov of the Universal Thread, Microsoft MVP, will be in town for our November meeting.He was the UT on-the-spot correspondent at the recently concluded Ft. Lauderdale Devcon where VFP 8.0 was unveiled. Nick will give a "First Look" presentation which is being prepared by Ken Levy, Microsoft 's product manager for VFP. Described as the most stable and feature-full release yet, VFP 8 includes an impressive array of improvements, many of which had been on develo...
Xtreme Programing Panel - Tuesday, October 1st, 2002 at 17h15
Description: Hear Nationaly Recognized Experts Robert Martin, Wyatt Sutherland, and Bill Caputo on the new approach to programming which emphasizes collaboration, flexible design process, and refactoring. Bill is a former Fox Pro programmer. Robert has just written a book on the subject. They will "tag team" with explanation and insights. Get a vision of a promising new way to lift the burden of solitary, deadline slipping, code grinding. Bob Martin's book is "The Principles, Patterns, and Pract...
Under the hood: Using Windows API & Web Connect - Tuesday, September 10th, 2002 at 17h15
Catch a great opportunity to learn about two mechanisms that can extend your programming capacities: the Windows API and a Fox Pro - based web site.Time: 5:15Date: September 10thPlace 2 N. LaSalle, Suite 500Tom Corrigan's words:Using built-in Windows systems functions in VFP programs. A brief look at how to do this, some examples of things you might want to do, and an overview of where to get more information. One example will show the single neatest function VFP programmers can use to debug Act...
Drew Speedie on Visual Max Frame and VFP at August FUDG Meeting - Tuesday, August 6th, 2002 at 13h30
Chicago FUDG announces a great opportunity. Spend the afternoon of August 6th with nationally know Fox Pro guru, Drew Speedie. The former editor of the Tips and Tricks section of Fox Pro Advisor, will demonstrate his Visual Max Frame Professional framework. In his words:Visual MaxFrame Professional is a powerful framework for developing 1-, 2-,and n-Tier Visual FoxPro Applications. Drew Speedie will demonstrate whatit's like to develop a new VMP application from scratch, presenting both a 1...
Kevin McNeish on Dot Net for VFP Developers - Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002 at 17h15
Give a Windy City welcome to Kevin McNeish, author of "Whats New in Visual FoxPro 7.0" and the Mere Mortals Framework. He'll explain the uses of C#, Dot Net, Win Forms, Web Forms.Kevin will give a special training in the afternoon focussing on the Visual Studio IDE and Dot Net. The location will be 2 N. LaSalle, Conference Center 620. Time will be 2 to 4 pm. Charge will be $60, checks payable to Oakleaf Enterprises.User group meeting will follow at 5:15 at the same LaSalle St. address in Sui...
Cathy Pountney Report Writer Tips - Tuesday, June 4th, 2002 at 17h15
Cathy will enlighten an especially hard headed bunch to the magic of the unheralded Foxpro Report Writer. We're hoping also to see her report manager. This is a skill that everyone can benefit from. Cathy has just completed a Hentzenwerke book on the report writer.
Mike Feltman Drives the Fox Express - Tuesday, May 7th, 2002 at 17h15
Mike elaborates on some of the programming paradigms that have made Fox Express one of the top commercial frameworks for VFP developments. He'll cover business objects, n tier, frameworks, and inheritance. Get on board.
West Wind Roars April 2 - Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002 at 17h15
Attend the April 2nd Foxpro Users & Developers Group and Hear Michael Hogan on Internet Programming with Visual Foxpro. 5:15 pm at Harris Associates, 2 N. LaSalle St. Chicago.Michael, who dazzled our group with some of his web-based applications last fall, has agreed to do a curtain call performance. Having recently completed a Task Scheduling and Calendaring application, he will take us under the hood to see how West Wind Web Connection libraries and dlls simplify the presentation of complex...
Sawyer & Schummer Double Header - Tuesday, March 5th, 2002 at 17h15
We'll be hosting a special double presentation by our motor city compatriots, Steve Sawyer and Rick Schummer. Call it a twilight twin bill Chicago Fox vs Detroit. Steve, well known author and guru, will extend his discussion of Refactoring -- Complex Refactoring. And Rick Schummer, who is equally notable, will elucidate on a topic not yet decided -- most likely Installation and Deployment but maybe Developer Tools.
Integrating PDF Documents to Desktop and Internet Applications - Tuesday, February 5th, 2002 at 17h15
Rick Borup, UT member and tools developer, will demonstrate use of PDF documents in applications working with such 3rd party tools as West Wind Connection, Amiuni, and another few.
Going Beyond Remote Views to Full Client Server with SQL Server - Tuesday, January 8th, 2002 at 17h15
Rick Hathaway will show how he solved difficult problems of synchronizing large distributed research data sets from different offices of his company. He will show how to get beyond some of the limitations in the Fox Pro view creation tools.Attendance was good: 18. Members came from all corners of the metro area --- from Elgin to Highland Park to Naperville to Downtown.Our speaker, Rick Hathaway, showed us some of the problems in maintaining parent-child tables in a two-tier paradigm. His solu...
Using VFP 7 to create next generation applications - Web Services with Mike Helland - Tuesday, December 4th, 2001 at 17h15
Chicago Fudg will sponsor Mike Helland at its monthly meeting on December 4th at 5:15 PM. He will speak on: Learn how to use the new Visual Fox Pro 7.0 to create next generation applications - Web Services! Find out how VFP7 uses SOAP and XML to create and use Web Services, and what .NET means to VFP. Mike Helland's appearance made possible by Tom Corrigan of Apt Technologies, Inc. Thank you Tom. Mike Helland is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Fox Pro, a developer, presenter, trainer from the state o...
Installing PWS and doing some asp/vfp com things - Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001 at 17h15
Installing PWS and doing some asp/vfp com things
Getting Up and Running with Personal Web Server - Tuesday, September 11th, 2001 at 17h15
Carl Karsten will take us step by step in creating a simple web page that dynamically displays data from a Fox Pro table. Open discussion to follow.
Pictures
 Craig Boyd and Carl Karsten exchange ideas before the meeting starts
March 2006 | |  Don Higgins and two newer members networking during the pizza break
March 2006 | |  Connie's pizza brings a smile to every developers face
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 Motions help when telling the story
March 2006 | |  Serious networking going on back there
March 2006 | |  Craig Boyd, refueled with pizza and caffine, ponders his next point
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 Doug Henning's webinar in progress, Carl and Bill listening in.
February 2006 | |  Here's most of the gang posing with our 'speaker' for this meeting, who looked somewhat younger than we remembered him.
February 2006 | |  CFUDG president Bill Drew prepares to award a Hentzenwerke book as a door prize.
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 Members eagerly awaiting Tamar Granor's SQL presentation.
December 2005 | |  Guest speaker Tamar Granor enjoys dinner at Berghoff's with Bill Drew
December 2005 | |  FoxProgrammers enjoying a Christmas dinner celebration at Berghoff's
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 More FoxProgrammers enjoying a Christmas dinner celebration at Berghoff's
December 2005 | |  Even more FoxProgrammers enjoying the Christmas dinner celebration at Berghoff's
December 2005 | |  And even more FoxProgrammers enjoying the Christmas dinner celebration at Berghoff's
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 Bill Drew gazes at Mike Hogan's screen as he prepares to present his talk. Carl Karsten is alreay trying out the new techniques.
March 2005 | |  Greg Gurshney thinks about GIS while Carl Karsten applies knowledge newly gained from Mike Hogan who is demonstrating a Web Connection technique
March 2005 | |  Carl Karsten deep in thought
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 Jeff Simon (left) and Greg Gershuny share comments
June 2003 | |  Guest speaker, Rick Shummer, makes a friendly response to Carl Karsten
June 2003 | |  Bill Drew, Carl Karsten, and Rick Schummer checking out the VFP 8 Object
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Randy Bosma
VFP - Because life is too short to code in something else...
