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18/05/2004 19:09:48
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Visual FoxPro
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00905119
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Calvin,
Thanks - that's cool! I don't know how I missed it. You know, it's a simple thing to call that same vfp mtdll from ASP.NET :) ...
>Hi,
>
>A while ago, I posted a blog about a sort of informal programming contest at Microsoft.
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>The idea was to write a program that finds phrases that represent a given phone number, like 642-394-6369 is NiceWinFox using a normal touch tone phone keypad (ABC = 2, DEF =3,etc.)
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>It turns out my submission was the first entry, and the contest moderator was quite impressed that it was written in VFP.
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>Just after, I wrote a more efficient version of the algorithm and wrote a VFP PRG to host it on a web site. I thought I'd share the algorithm and code.
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>At the time I used an internal Microsoft only web site because my web server was too old to handle a lot of traffic.
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>I’ve since bought a new machine, so my old machine is now my web server, and so I thought I’d share the phone number program on my public site at http://www.calvinhsia.com/default.asp?Page=Phone . The site is run by a VFP Multi-Threaded DLL
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>You can type in a phone number and see the results. The source code is also on the site.
>
>Keep in mind that this algorithm is computationally intensive.
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