Marsha Akins and Andy Kramek are doing the SoCal tour this week. If you're in the area, please be sure and stop by. It will be an educational and fun evening!

Here's their schedule:

January 11 -- LA Fox -- www.lafox.org
January 12 -- OC Fox -- www.ocfox.org
January 13 -- San Diego -- www.foxdevsd.org
January 14 -- Phoenix -- www.elzorro.org

Here's the speaking agenda at LA Fox:

Effective Techniques for Using a Combo in a Grid (Marcia)

This session covers all aspects of using combo boxes inside grids. The combo box is a very useful control when you need to limit the options that a user may select from, but it is not easy to use well in any situation, and inside a grid it sometimes seems to acquire a life of its own. I will show you how to add combo boxes to your grids and how to make them display and behave properly. We will also cover how to use a view as the grid's RecordSource as well as the easiest and most effective way to use an updateable cursor as the grid's RecordSource. The session finishes by showing some really cool things you can do with a combo in a grid.

Advanced SQL Queries (Andy)

SQL Server’s implementation of Structured Query Language has long been more comprehensive than the native Visual FoxPro SQL. However, the changes introduced in VFP 9.0 have brought VFP a lot closer to SQL Server in several significant areas. In this session Andy examines some advanced query techniques that are applicable to SQL Server and assesses their applicability in VFP 9.0. Some can be used ‘as is’ others require some re-thinking, but the results are certainly surprising.

Come on out to your local user group! You'll be glad you did.

Bill Anderson