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special symbols

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 rightclick in an ActiveX Treeview control, revisited

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

The skinny fox

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

prague day 3

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

Prague day 2

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

VFP die-hard going into a VB.NjET adventure

If you really want nothing then nothing ain't gonna work Read More

VFP Die-hard going into VB.NjET

yep, this VFP die-hard confronts himself with the Very Bad truth of VB.NjET. Follow the adventures of this dare devil who seems to like pain (what other reason would there be for picking up a not even half mature development tool?) Read More

Sending mails, using NetExtender

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 pleased and surprised

MVP, I feel honored and surprised. Read More

Interesting email exchange

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

new site

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 Character Sets

VFP CAN do Double Byte Characters. Read More

Working hard on a new site

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

The errors MS made in the .NET introduction

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

The added values of visiting DevCons

Visit that DevCon near you! Read More