>>Lots of stuff. Do you really want me to rattle some topics off the top of my head, or are you lieing when you say there is nothing new or intriguing to write about for Fox?
>Rattle em off..
Off the top of my head, I can think of a handle full of article that I'd like to start writing for Fox publications:
Extending XmlToCursor and CursorToXml with DBC(X)
I could probably write about 20 pages of just samples that you could use DBC and DBCX custom properties for defining how XML Generation routines shoudl go. For example, what fields to send, how to create heirarchal documents based on persistant relationships or even modeling an entire datasession
Using XML and XSL-FO to drive reports in VFP
I dunno about you, but we do an awful lot of reports in my app. Using flexible technologies like XSL-FO to create, transform, format, and mine reports is a relatively underconsidered process in IT. That would make it new and intriguing even in VS.NET standards.
Transacting Web Services
There are a couple of things holding Web Services back, I think transactions are one of them. THere is no standard way to say "Get my these plane tickets from this site, and these hotel dates from this site, but make sure I can get all or none." There's been talk, but not alot of action. This would be new and intriguing, especially if a reusble VFP component coudl be used even from VS.NET.
Using DBC Events and other techniques to backup and maintain VFP data stores
If I had time to sit down and think about how I could write some VFP code that woudl automatically keep my tables packed, my indexes clean and reduced in size, and possibly even cached, I coudl probably come up with some cool stuff for an article. Give DBFs another life to live, ya know?
And there's always more interoperability to explore.
Thats off the top of my head. ANyone who says "there's nothing new to write about" obviouslly lacks even the slightest vision and creativity required to author technical work.
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