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May 2005 - Posts

Monday, May 30, 2005 10:59 PM

We're going on vacation

Marcia and I will be taking a break in June. We're going back to the UK to visit my Sister  (Angela) and her family and my mother. Interestingly my (88 year old) mother just had a hip replacement! Bless her, but she is complaining that it's taking
posted by andykr | 5 Comments
Monday, May 30, 2005 10:50 PM

Code in Methods, not Events. But why????

One of our favorite maxims is “Always code in methods, not events” and I am often asked exactly what we mean by that, and why it matters. After all, VFP provides us with a perfectly workable command button class, that has a Click() event into
posted by andykr | 2 Comments
Saturday, May 14, 2005 2:41 PM

VFP for SQL Server Users

I was lucky enough to be interviewed, recently, by Jennifer Lawinski who writes for SearchSQLServer.Com about what the latest release of VFP meant for SQL Server developers. As usual I have my own opinions about that :) You can find her article - which
posted by andykr | 1 Comments
Friday, May 13, 2005 4:40 PM

Scope in Visual Foxpro - Part 2

As promised, we’ll continue our review of scoping in Visual FoxPro with a look at how scope affects object properties (and methods). I find it makes things easier to think of properties as “variables that are scoped to an object”. In
posted by andykr | 4 Comments
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:23 AM

Scope in Visual Foxpro - Part 1

Sorry for the delay in posting - things have been a little hectic the past 10 days or so. Anyway, here is the next in my little series of random jottings. This time I'm looking at variable scoping - and next week I'll continue with Properties and Methods.
posted by andykr | 3 Comments