It was pretty cool! First time onto the UT since Sunday morning! Sorry about lack of info but it has been pretty taxing days with 7AM - 12AM days running around at DevCon.

Ken exposed the IE5 object model using VFPCOM.DLL to raise events to VFP. He also showed some pretty cool stuff by raising events form MS Word as well. I had not looked at VFPCOM Utility yet but will definitely do so now. Ken was demonstrated a way to handle the BeforeNavigate Event in IE5 to keep a user from going to a particular URL and such. Essentially you can take VFPCOM and then have it write a PRG from an object reference which takes all of the Events from the Type Library and produces the code for those events in a VFP PRG. Then you can add code to the Event Methods so you can then respond to the events after using the BindEvents for the PRG to the object. This leads to some pretty cool things now that you can do for all sorts of applications that were not able to be done before. I will probably first use it to play with the MSAGENT characters to respond back into the VFP to check the events from the character.

I'll post some VFP code soon to show all of the character's animation gestures and such using VFP. Not super useful for most but something fun to play with.

Just attended Rod Paddock's session on Converting Single Tier Apps to Multi-Tier apps. I learned quite a bit about exposing VFP COM objects to VB or ASP using ADO Recordsets. Rod has VFP code to read and write to a VFP table from a VFP COM object. He took the VFP table and created an ADO record set from the table and then loaded the object in VB and in ASP. Pretty cool stuff. There was a question about why he didn't just use ADO to save or add a new record and he said he was unable to get it to work without firing off errors yet. So he was using SEEK and then REPLACE to update the record using VFP code in the COM object.

Off to see some more of KenX on XMLDOM and IE5! Later!