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SW Fox 2009 Sunday

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:55 PM by joel_leach :: 1 Comments
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Sunday rolled around, and I couldn't believe it was already the last day of the conference.  Sleep deprivation was starting to set in, and I had more sleep than most.  Still, I wasn't about to miss any sessions.VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Read More

SW Fox 2009 Saturday

posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:49 PM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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Saturday morning started off with three sessions on architectural/OOP topics, so I was looking forward to it. Data Driving Applications Toni M Feltman Toni is another of my favorite speakers and I love her speaking style. There have been previous Read More

SW Fox 2009 Friday

posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:48 PM by joel_leach :: 7 Comments
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In spite of staying up too late, I woke up well before the alarm went off. That's a common story at the conference as everyone tries to adjust to the time zone difference. Open Source Tools Menachem Bazian I saw Menachem for the first time last Read More

SW Fox 2009 Keynote

posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:12 PM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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The keynote is always a major highlight. This year was a bit of a departure from previous SW Fox conferences. A well known person from outside of the FoxPro community was brought in to deliver the keynote: Sara Ford. Well, Sara isn't completely outside. Read More

SW Fox 2009 Pre-conference

posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:27 PM by joel_leach :: (Comments Off)
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I arrived in Phoenix yesterday (Wednesday) and had no problems getting to the Arizona Golf Resort or getting checked in. There will probably be some late nights later in the conference, so I made sure to get plenty of rest before. One of the new features Read More

Ready for Southwest Fox 2009

posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:38 PM by joel_leach :: 1 Comments
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I don't know about you, but for me, this has been a stressful year.  The economic situation has had some effect financially, but even more than that, I noticed our users are under more pressure than before.  In turn, they are more demanding Read More

The End of 16-bit

posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:44 AM by joel_leach :: 2 Comments
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As you may have heard, 16-bit applications do not run on 64-bit versions of Windows.  The translation for Fox developers is that neither the DOS nor Windows versions of FoxPro 2.x (and earlier) will run on Windows Vista x64.  In fact, DOS Read More

The FoxTabs Challenge

posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:10 PM by joel_leach :: 2 Comments
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The latest FoxRockX issue includes an article on FoxTabs by Rick Schummer. After months of neglect, that inspired me to get another release out, so you can now grab FoxTabs 0.9 Beta from VFPX. My feeling is that FoxTabs is now “feature complete” Read More

VARIANTs on Fox

posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:33 PM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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As I mentioned previously, I have been experimenting with integrating our application with Maximizer CRM.  Working with their SDK, it doesn't take long to figure out that the COM interfaces were designed with VB and C++ programmers in mind.  Read More

VFPS: Visual FoxPro Stack

posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:49 PM by joel_leach :: 3 Comments
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UPDATE: This article is now online for free at http://www.foxrockx.com/seite.htm.-------------------The January 2009 issue of FoxRockX begins with an article by Ken Levy called "Visual FoxPro Stack":"VFPS is a Visual FoxPro Stack, an acronym used to define Read More

DAO does VFP data natively

posted Monday, January 12, 2009 5:49 PM by joel_leach :: 3 Comments
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I ran across something interesting (albeit of limited use) recently.  We are considering integrating Maximizer CRM with our software, and I've been doing some proof-of-concept work along those lines.  One thing about CRM software creators is Read More

C# 4.0 Gets dynamic

posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:51 PM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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I've been watching some of the PDC 2008 videos online.  One of the highlights is The Future of C# by Anders Hejlsberg, and I highly recommend it to anyone that's interested in .NET.  Most of the session focuses on the dynamic capabilities that Read More

Grid Header Checkbox

posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 11:55 AM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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Here's a little goodie for readers of my blog.  I have several grids that contain a checkbox column to select items in the grid.  I wanted an easy, consistent way to select/deselect all checkboxes in the column, so I created a custom grid header Read More

FoxTabs Reloaded

posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:59 PM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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Rewind to 2004 when VFP 9.0 was in Beta. Microsoft added the ability to bind to Windows events from FoxPro. The first thing that came to my mind was the ability to hook into VFP IDE windows. I like to work with my code windows maximized Read More

Diving In...

posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:51 PM by joel_leach :: 0 Comments
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After the excitement of the Southwest Fox conference, I decided to get more involved in VFP community efforts and start a blog. Confession... That was how I felt after SW Fox 2007. A year and another excellent SW Fox conference later, I'm Read More