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.
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MVP, I feel honored and surprised.
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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
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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
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VFP CAN do Double Byte Characters.
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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
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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?
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Read about things to take care of when teaching adults (like software developers!)
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Visit that DevCon near you!
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Although IntelliSense is maybe one of the best productivity tools in the long hsitory of VFP it sometimes is very much present in a way that can really bother you. Simple example, type the SELECT command and a huge popup shows up right over your code.
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I use this tool for quite a while now. VariSense it is called. So what it does is simple but increases your productivity a lot.
When starting VFP it does start the prg as a typical "on key label" thing.I personally use ctrl+SPACE for this.
So, here
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Software developer, you ARE a salesperson as well.
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About people and problems.
During the 20+ years of software development experience in all layers of organizations I have VERY often seen that people describe any problem they are confronted with in terms of solutions to that problem.
Accepting the solution
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Software Economics and VFP
There are more than enough articles available on how to create robust and well working software. Not may articles however, describe the economics behind the decision making on software. This article is the second in a range
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Software Economics and Visual FoxPro
There are more than enough articles available on how to create robust and well working software. Not may articles however, describe the economics behind the decision making on software. This article is the first
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