What's new in the Visual FoxPro Community

Yes, it's the 3rd Tuesday and that means MadFox! The meeting is at Salty Dog Solutions' HQ in beautiful downtown Madison. The students are back and this place is buzzing. Tonight's meeting will begin with our usual Q&A and member demonstrations. If we have time, I'll demonstrate "The AJAXifcation of a FoxPro web service" using some WestWind tools. If you're looking to expose your VFP data on the web in an eye-popping manner, do not miss this presentation. We actually don't have door prizes tonight, but there is a new CoDe mag! Plus afterwards we'll head over to some venue for libations and bird watching. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a presentation to write.... Where: 3018 Spring St., Madison WI 53715 (map) When: 5:30pm, August 19th

Oak Leaf Enterprises announces our latest .NET for VFP Developers ON-LINE Training Class, Sept 15-17, 2008, 11am-4pm Eastern. This live, online training class has been completely updated to include information on the new .NET 3.5 and Service Pack 1 technologies such as the Microsoft Entity Framework, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow, and Windows Communication Foundation. It is taught by Kevin McNeish, author of the book .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers, a Microsoft .NET MVP, and an internationally popular INETA speaker. This class has helped many VFP developers climb the .NET learning curve and gain confidence in building well-designed Windows and Web applications in .NET. The class is just $499 with our early bird special (expires 07/01/08) and the entire class is recorded using Camtasia for your later review! Just go to our home page (http://www.oakleafsd.com) and click on the Training link.

Episode #57 of the FoxShow is now available for download, featuring an interview with Art Berquist on what he's got planned for the upcoming VFP Bootcamp. We also talk about the latest FoxPro versions and other software development news. You can download the latest episode (or any of the older ones) from iTunes (search for FoxPro) , right from the TheFoxShow web site or through your favorite RSS reader. Hosted by Andrew MacNeill.

Episode #57 of the FoxShow is now available for download, featuring an interview with Art Berquist on what he's got planned for the upcoming VFP Bootcamp. We also talk about the latest FoxPro versions and other software development news. You can download the latest episode (or any of the older ones) from iTunes (search for FoxPro) , right from the TheFoxShow web site or through your favorite RSS reader. Hosted by Andrew MacNeill.

The Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) announces Toni Feltman is presenting "Square Peg, Round Hole - Retrofitting Client Server Data Access into Legacy FoxPro Applications" on Thursday August 14, 2008. In this presentation Toni will discusses how the increasing size of tables and changing application requirements have many seasoned FoxPro developers are being forced to move their data out of FoxPro and into a real database server. This would be an easy task if we all had the time to completely rewrite our applications from the ground up. Unfortunately most business cannot just be put on hold while 15+ years of development is evaluated, refactored and rewritten for client-server. This session will look at ways to easily migrate existing applications into client server architecture without much disruption to the business. Check out the Web site for directions, maps, email contacts, future meeting dates and topics, and other details.

The August 8, 2008 release of the VMP framework, has been posted, containing various bug fixes as well as some enhancements including the ability to display audit trail options (Display History for Field, Display History for Record) on shortcut (context) menus.

The August 8, 2008 release of the VMP framework, has been posted, containing various bug fixes as well as some enhancements including ability to display audit trail options (Display History for Field, Display History for Record) on shortcut (context) menus.

We've just released an update to West Wind Web Monitor in Version 3.35. Web Monitor is a system utility that allows you to monitor Web sites to ensure that they are still up and running and returning expected results. Failures can be detected by searching content and then getting notified if the expected content is not returned. You can also fire actions (urls or applications) to fix issues. This update adds support for 64 bit versions of Windows so you can now run on Vista 64 or Windows Server 2008. There have also been a host of improvements in the Web front and the site configuration interface in the desktop app as well a host of small bug fixes.

Menachem Bazian returns to the Philadelphia VFP User Group next week to continue his discussion about combining VFP with MySQL. This will be the first meeting on our new, seond Tuesday schedule. The meeting begins at 7 PM on August 12, but you're welcome to bring some dinner and arrive as early as 6:30 PM. Menachem Bazian, CPA (NY), CITP is the President of BC Consulting Services, Inc., a business management and technology consulting firm specializing in enhancing client efficiency with intelligent application of technology. He has been a Fox developer for over 20 years and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the topic. He was a featured speaker at DevCons for over a decade. This session will discuss how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. It's a continuation of his last session on MySQL, but those who missed that meeting can still benefit from this one.

We'll have a Milwaukee Brewer in town for a twilight twin bill. Lifetime FoxPro MVP, Whil Hentzen, will show us his techniques for setting up free form information web pages for his clients. Browsable, searchable, user maintainable, they are a great contribution to an organization. The nightcap will feature Tom Corrigan showing his use of Internet protocols to grab content from web sites for display in other formats. Plenty of seats available. Tuesday August 12 at 5:30 pm. Monodnock Bldg., Suite 826, 53 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago Loop.

This episode features an interview with Tamar Granor, Doug Hennig and Rick Schummer about their plans for Southwest Fox, the FoxPro developer conference coming up in October, 2008 in Mesa Arizona. Hear about the great prizes, sessions and what went into the planning of this year's conference. If you haven't heard the FoxShow before, the FoxShow is a podcast featuring the latest news, tools and interviews with people in the FoxPro community and with softtware and database development in general. You can subscribe through iTunes, your favorite podcatcher or just visit the web site at http://www.thefoxshow.com.

These are the show notes for episode 55 of the FoxShow, the latest in news and software development ideas in the FoxPro Community. Twitter Summize on Prague Devcon: Thanks Olaf! FoxCentral Upcoming: Cathy Pountney in Philadelphia on July 16, early bird deadline for SW Fox West Wind training ends on July 15th Great Developers What Makes a Guru? - By Rick Strahl Code Kata - Coding Horror This I Believe... - Patrick Cauldwell Command of the Day : TXTWidth or Doug's better implementation Interview with Naim Sula of xSQL Software - one of the sponsors of Southwest Fox

Paul will show an in-production application I've written for my client using Dabo. Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. Paul willtalk about the methods used to develop, test, and deploy it, highlight some points in the code that show some of the real strengths of Dabo and Python, and then also hopefully have time to show some of the in-development RAD tools such as the class designer.

West Wind Technologies will be presenting a West Wind Web Connection Training event again this year at Southwest Fox in October. The dates are October 15th and 16th in Mesa Arizona and will cover usage of Web Connection from the introduction level to intermediate to advanced topics in an intensive interactive 2 day format. The early bird signup deadline for the event expires on July 15th, after which prices go up by $100, so if you're thinking about attending the time to sign up is now.

We have extended the early-bird deadline for our upcoming .NET for VFP Developers ON-LINE Training Class, July 14-16, 2008, 11am-4pm Eastern until JULY 11, 2008. This live, online training class has been completely updated to include information on the new .NET 3.5 technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow, and Windows Communication Foundation. It is taught by Kevin McNeish, author of the book .NET for Visual FoxPro Developers, a Microsoft .NET MVP, and an internationally popular INETA speaker. This class has helped many VFP developers climb the .NET learning curve and gain confidence in building well-designed Windows and Web applications in .NET. The class is just $499 with our early bird special (expires 07/11/08) and the entire class is recorded using Camtasia for your later review! Just go to our home page (http://www.oakleafsd.com) and click on the Training link.

Cathy Pountney will present "Customizing Your Vertical Market Application" on Wednesday, July 16 at 7 PM. The gorup is providing dinner beginning at 6:30 PM. Cathy Pountney is a five-time recipient of the Microsoft VFP MVP award and the author of "The Visual FoxPro Report Writer: Pushing it to the Limit and Beyond." She works for Memorial Business Systems writing software for the cemetery and funeral home industry. Cathy will show how to to implement a customization methodology in your vertical market application that keeps your standard code independent from your custom code, yet have the two code bases play nice together.

Our July presentation will be HOT. Brian Marquis will give us an in depth look at the Fox Trails framework. Go beyond a basic understanding of Fox Trails while we build an eCommerce application together. Modernize your game! Same Time and Place. Tuesday, July 8th, 5:30pm. Monadnock Building, Suite 826, 53 W. Jackson, Chicago. See ya there!

West Wind Wind Technologies has released version 5.37 of its Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connection can be used to build rich Web applications that are FoxPro centric. You can use FoxPro as the native engine for developing, testing and deploying FoxPro Web and Service applications. This update is mostly a maintenance release that also adds a number of enhancements the new Web Control Framework to simplify a number of scenarios discussed by users on our forums. This release also includes a few optimizations both in the core Web Connection engine and the Web Control Framework that should improve overall performance slightly. The update is available for free to registered users of Version 5 and available as shareware to try out the product. Also, don't forget our early bird pricing is still available for training at Southwest Fox in Arizona in October.