I've been trying to get Mike up to Vancouver to speak for a while. Lucky!
P.S. I put your meeting in into the user group tracker. That should help to get a bit more exposure for the event since Microsoft links to it from their page.

>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.
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>Mike Helland's appearance made possible by Tom Corrigan of Apt Technologies, Inc. Thank you Tom.
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>Mike Helland is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Fox Pro, a developer, presenter, trainer from the state of 10000 lakes. He presented at the Visual Fox Pro Devcon 2001 in Orlando.
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>Where:
>Harris Associates
>Suite 500
>2 N. La Salle St.
>Chicago, IL
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>Directions:
>The building is on the North West corner of W. Madison and N. LaSalle
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>November meeting summary: Presentation on Basics of Personal Web Server, Active Server Pages, Visual Fox Pro Com Object to serve data to ASP by Carl Karsten.
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>Ad hoc demos of Visual Fox Express application and a query by form control by Arnold Klein and Carl Karsten
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>Discussion of strategies for building the group. A campaign to build the next meeting through word of mouth -- dividing up the phone list.