special symbols used in a button are sometimes easier than creating your own image file. This form displays the webdings, wingdings, wingdings 2 and wingdings 3 characters from the acsii values 1 to 255. Read More

detecting a right click in a treeview is not as hard as it seems. Here is some code that works (for me at least) Read More

Skiining foxes is only allowed when you want to make the fox look good. In any other case the RSPCA will be warned as well as the National Guard Read More

After last nights dinner I went to bed but hardly could sleep. Up at 5 for the last day. Yesterday I had a session on software protection. Not all things went as good as I wished. So this morning I did work on the loose ends because I had the same session Read More

Day 2 in Praha. Day 1 of the DevCon. I had two session today, one on the VFPCompiler and one on the NetExtender The Compiler session was visited by 60 people, the extnder session was visited by 30 people. All in all it was quite an experience to speak Read More

Up at 3 in the morning to catch a plane at 7 is beyond human efforts for me, but I did it. Right now I am in my hotelroom, looking out over a street and a small park playground. Plane took off at 7:05 exact and landed 1h 10mins later at Ruzyne (the Read More

One nice development in our part of the developer's world is the NetExtender. It enables you to implement .Net functionality in your VFP apps. As a bonus you get the .Net compiler for VFP. In this blog I show how simple it is to send emails using a few .Net classes. You need 5 lines of code for that. Read More

MVP, I feel honored and surprised. Read More

OK, Back home again. A stay in the hospital is bad for my sense of humor. Earlier this week I sat in one of those conversation rooms where two old men were bragging how sick they were and how painful their operations were et cetera. There I Read More

From the hospital, still a bit drousy from last Friday's operation. Thank God they have Internet. After last weeks devastating news from MS I decided to set up a new site. VFP2dotNJET.com. AND NO that is NOT a typo. I still hate that less Read More

VFP CAN do Double Byte Characters. Read More

Years ago, on Profox, Ken Levy suggested a guerilla tactic in marketing to make Visual FoxPro more visible. So here is my part. I am now working on a site, www.vfpdevelopers-online.com where any self employed Visual FoxPro addict and any software Read More

You foxers are a curious kind of human beings. So Eric Tagged me (how dare he). You really want to know 5 things about this doubledutch Dutchman you do not know, always wanted to know but were afraid to ask? Do I want to tell you all the gory details? Read More

Read about things to take care of when teaching adults (like software developers!) Read More

Visit that DevCon near you! Read More