>Hello Victor.
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>Well now the picking up one or two books to get you going..that I can understand.
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>Only one or two < s > ? Whil's "Programming Visual FoxPro 3.0" was the one that made the light bulb come on for me with respect to OOP. Tamar and Della's Automation book save me hours of time when I was beginning to do automation. Since I have never had to do reports (just lucky, I guess), I could not be without Cathy's Report Writer book.

>I suppose that I could go on, but you get the picture < s >. The topics are so varied, if I only had one or two, I would miss out on an awful lot of good information that has saved me a countless number of hours over the years.

I guess I see your points, and I've actually read more than just two VFP books myself. Really though most of the time I'd rather just hunt the internet for a few minutes for a specific task I'm trying to acomplish than spend 4 or 5 hours reading a whole book.


>Ok I've been to one DevCon - and it was years ago & I'd only been in foxpro for about 6 months at the time so it was worth it because I learned a lot (how to use views for example) - heck I think VFP5 had just come out. But really - figure its going to cost you a week's worth of billing, plus the cost of the conference itself - airfare, hotels, meals..blah blah blah - its going to cost you 1000's of dollars.
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>Well, there are more economical alternatives than DevCon < s >. Have you checked out DevEssentials? The cost of the conference is reasonable and most of it is over the weekend so you don't miss out on so much billable work.
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>Heck give a new report writer or something BIG...THEN I MIGHT show up at a convention to learn about it! Until then - forget it!
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>Then I'll see you at DevEssentials, right < s >? It;s not a toitally new report writer, but it has been greatly enhanced. Check out some of the changes coming up in the conference report for last November's Frankfurt DevCon.

I might goto that one - I'm originally from Kansas City so its about as easy as it gets to keep the costs down.