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  • FIX: The toolbar on an SDI form is disabled in Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2

    One fix for VFP9 SP2 has just been released:FIX: The toolbar on an SDI form is disabled in Visual FoxPro 9.0 Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948528/en-us   Good news is when they say: "This hotfix may receive additional testing....
    05-06-2008, 2:20 by VFP IMAGING
  • My Story with IMDB (imdb.dll)

    I have DVD Movie Retail Shop, In addition to my work in a company as IT Manager. The biggest problem in having such shop is the customer who came and ask for specific movie by Category, Last Release, etc...I have contacted IMDB team in roder they give...
    05-02-2008, 13:59 by Samir Ibrahim
  • Gift to AJAX (VB2008)

    When we work with Ajax over vb2008 we find 2 things, 1: Speed and performance, 2: nice view when the page are working, so you can generate the gif and dowload directly from: http://www.ajaxload.info .    Prosessing...   Best Regards,...
    04-28-2008, 1:50 by Franklin Garzón
  • FoxCharts 0.14 ALPHA released !

    I'm happy to announce that FoxCharts has recently been accepted as a VFPX project. Today I've just uploaded to VFPX at CodePlex a new version of FoxCharts. This is version 0.14 - still ALPHA - NOT FOR PRODUCTION ! Prerequisites:Visual FoxPro 9 and the...
    04-25-2008, 0:17 by VFP IMAGING
  • Updating GridView with Datasource

    Hi, the last days we need edit a row into GridView only with DataSourse, so in many places any body has a entire solution to this, then, I decided post the code to solution this. ( Note: In VFP this is easy, only a cursor, a grid and one append and replace...
    04-19-2008, 21:48 by Franklin Garzón
  • Foxite Copy/Paste

    Since this is my first weblog on this site, I decide that my first weblog will be a Foxite Copy/Paste for a cool Thread I found on this site, and I intend to make Foxite Copy/Paste always updated by such Thread.I had talked to Mr. Ken and he (very Thankfully)...
    04-15-2008, 8:14 by Samir Ibrahim
  • Using the Interop Forms Toolkit in VFP9 - IV

    True Multithreading in VFP In this 4th part I will describe here a way of obtaining true multi threading with VFP and the Interop Toolkit Usercontrol. As you know this is impossible in VFP alone although there are some ways of achieving this through...
    04-15-2008, 6:00 by Bernard Bout
  • Sync - VB2008/SQL2005 and VFP.

    With VB2008 we can explore more potentials issues to our new developments, easy, power and extensibility. Now you can see the new synchronization technique with VB2008 and SQL2005.     Dim sinc As New CacheSyncAgent sinc.Synchronize()...
    04-13-2008, 18:44 by Franklin Garzón
  • How to disable print button in report preview

    Till now I had seen many samples showing how we can make the Print button invisible from the Report Preview toolbar, but I had never seen the possibility to show it disabled.Here's a sample, totally based in Emerson Reed's, from an old post in his great...
    04-11-2008, 20:54 by VFP IMAGING
  • Ribbon y LINQ con VB2008

    The CLR integration into Office 2007 and VB2008 is great, we can use all options between tecnologies, in this example you can see LINQ also. Here you can see a pictures: Best regards community.   Franklin Garzón MVP Visual FoxPro MCITP...
    04-06-2008, 0:40 by Franklin Garzón
  • FoxCharts !!!

    Wanna create some cool charts in VFP ? With no ActiveX controls, dlls, or 3rd party products ? What do you think of these ?       Recently, I’ve seen many discussions about people asking for charts components.Since GdiPlusX...
    04-04-2008, 6:31 by VFP IMAGING
  • The day arrived

    Yes, it's not the end of the world, it's the beginning of a new experience for me. I have started to develop in C#. I was avoiding this move to be honest I didn't want to, but since there are almost no more jobs for a Visual FoxPro Developer, I had to...
    04-01-2008, 6:52 by Luis Guillermo Navas Dangel
  • Extending methods into VB2008

    With VB2008 we can explote all advantages from our potencial, so, we can extend methods, all methods not hiericals, such as string.   (I think that any thing of extensión today was acquired from VFP, Ken Levy show this working over VSx - Visual...
    03-30-2008, 4:46 by Franklin Garzón
  • New ThemedControls version (3.2.0) - Updated

    Today I've posted a new ThemedControls version (3.2.0) at VFPX site. You can download it here. Changes in this version: OutlookNavBar- Implemented a lot of suggestions.- Now it works as expected in toolbars. ToolBox (New control)- Similar to the new...
    03-27-2008, 16:56 by Emerson Santon Reed
  • Microsoft garantiza la interoperabilidad de su tecnología

    Hoy en día el bum de open source esta por todos lados donde se está acentuado la discusión entre open source y propietary source.   Muchos dicen preferir el código abierto porque no necesita pagar una licencia por equipo, otros dicen porque pueden...
    03-22-2008, 1:54 by Franklin Garzón
  • From c# to VB.Net

    In many cases we need send or convert any code in c# to VB, is important that we learn c# however not all people have the enought time to learn when the chief need this as quickly as possible. So, you can get this functionality in: http://labs.developerfusion.co.uk/convert/csharp-to-vb.aspx...
    03-21-2008, 14:17 by Franklin Garzón
  • What is the best image format for VFP

    Carlos alloatti has just published a new and very interesting article about image formats, I strongly recommend people to have a look at this new great work from Carlos. http://www.ctl32.com.ar/articles/what_is_the_best_image_format_for_VFP.asp  ...
    03-20-2008, 3:35 by VFP IMAGING
  • FoxRockX – Time to Put up, or Shut up

    Over the years much has been made about the FoxPro Community and how important it is to the life and survival of the product. However, as I have said many times (most recently in my "So, no more Visual FoxPro. Now what?" blog entry from May of 2007),...
    03-18-2008, 11:21 by Andy Kramek
  • Run application and wait (RunAs)

    I am changing my application to be Vista compatible. I need to run an external EXE and wait for until it terminate. Beside, I also need to run this EXE with Admin privilege under certain condition. To run external application and wait till it terminate,...
    03-07-2008, 12:41 by Kok Kiet's Blog
  • More on the Advantage Database Server

    If you are interested in learning more about the advantage database server that I mentioned on this blog a couple of months ago, then you should visit J D Mullin's blog here: http://jdmullin.blogspot.com/2008/02/getting-started-with-visual-foxpro-and.html...
    03-02-2008, 20:23 by Andy Kramek
  • Use NEWOBJECT() function with care

    I like to use NEWOVBJECT() to initiate object so that I don't have to care about SET PROCEDURE TO / SET CLASSLIB TO. Recently, I am re-writing my company application update program. That is a method that loop thru all the necessary directory and files...
    02-25-2008, 8:43 by Kok Kiet's Blog
  • VFP Studio - Code Editor Screencast

    Craig has posted a screencast that demonstrate his current work to use Visual Studio IDE for VFP code editing. It is amazing. Once again, thank Craig. Technorati tags: FoxPro, Visual FoxPro, Craig Boyd...
    02-23-2008, 4:40 by Kok Kiet's Blog
  • Windows Vista Dialogs in Vb.net and Sedna.

    Such as Sedna enable Windows Vista Dialogs (great featue add-ons), I review this features with VB.net and we take more things that we can control and implement. You can see this graphics. (normal progress) (error progress) With Sedna you...
    02-06-2008, 0:58 by Franklin Garzón
  • Two Features In SQL2008

    In this case we can see two features en SQL2008, no more interesting but functionalities. New datatype , date and intellisense in code editor.  ...
    02-03-2008, 2:21 by Franklin Garzón
  • Sedna esta disponible

    Finalmente Sedna ha sido liberado por MS para este mes, realmente se han demorado muchisimo, pero en buena hora estamos con este conjunto de adicionales que de una u otra forma nos ayudaran en el paso de sistemas hacia .Net. Lo pueden descargar desde...
    01-27-2008, 0:27 by Franklin Garzón
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