LA Fox is honored to have Richard Stanton from Microsoft as our guest speaker on October 12. Richard will be presenting the new Report Writer in Visual FoxPro 9!

Here's the outline of Richard's topic:

Report System Design-time Extensibility:
I will cover the vast array of new features that make the VFP report design experience more productive. I will demonstrate the new Report Designer event hooks, and how the shipping Report Builder replaces the native dialog and extends the native functionality of the Report Designer. I will show how Protection can be assigned to elements of the report layout to make CREATE/MODIFY REPORT safe - and comfortable - for users of distributed applications.

Report System Multiple Detail Bands:
Reports can be created that use multiple detail bands. This allows report to be created that represent independent one-to-many relations. I will show how these reports can be created, the kind of scenarios this would be useful in and how this feature can be used to easily pre-calculate data and do percent of total.

Report System Run-time Extensibility:
The report engine's output generation process has been re-built from the ground up, providing a new "object-assisted" reporting mode for the REPORT FORM command. I'll show off the new language extensions provided to enhance report output. The new ReportListener object assists the report output process to enable object-oriented code to change the results of print and preview, or generate exciting new kinds of output. I'll show off how to generate multiple output results from a single report form command, and "chaining" multiple reports into one output result.

Bio:
Richard Stanton is a developer on the Microsoft Visual FoxPro team. He joined the VFP team at the start of development of VFP 8.0 and is the developer of the Report Designer features in VFP 9.0. Richard has spoken at several VFP user groups and is active in various community related efforts.

LA Fox is a great place for both fun and education. For further details, please see http://www.lafox.org or email me directly.

See you there!

Bill Anderson