Nick,
The Chicago Foxpro Users & Developers Group sends you a huge THANKS. Our appreciation is for doing all of that preparation when you must be up to your armpits in many other projects. Here are the minutes of the meeting for others to see how well you covered VFP8:

Nick Neklioudov hit most of the many high points of the new Foxpro version, which is making its way to a computer near you. VFP8, which is in a public beta stage and will be released for sale early next year, has a long list of enhancements -- too numerous even for NN's diligent delivery.

On the one hand Microsoft, will ship a whole passel of smaller wish list items that had been languishing for years. Nick's first example was a problem for which he himself has devised a shareware workaround: grid highlighting. Yea!

On the other hand, the Mighty Mic devised some major improvements. The four that Nick emphasized were: a TRY -- CATCH -- FINALLY error handling paradigm, the Cursor Adaptor Class, ability to scatter field values additively to a business object, and event binding. He showed examples of custom object functionality being called by mere data assignments to other properties, or calls to other objects' events.

And check out Nick's report from Devcon.

www.levelextreme.com/conferences/DevCon/2002/

Other Fudg Business. Treasury is in good shape, Plans for a dinner for Illinois Foxers and friends at the Milwaukee GLGDW on Nov 17, December speakers to be announced -- possibly David Dee on Objectory, his application framework, and/or Curt Handley on legal issues.

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