What's new in the Visual FoxPro Community

West Wind Technologies has released an update to the Web Service Proxy Generator, which automates the process for creating FoxPro clients to complex SOAP 1.x Web Services. The tool makes calling Web Services as easy as calling methods on a generated FoxPro proxy class. This release adds the ability to access some natively unsupported .NET types like Long and Single from FoxPro. A new HttpLogin() method has been added to the FoxPro proxy to simplify remote authentication in a more discoverable fashion. The Proxy Wizard now automatically requests Administrative Permissions from Windows UAC to run without permission failures. The Proxy Generator is available as shareware and registered users can simply re-download the registered version for a free update.

The next meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group is Tuesday, May 14. We?ll supply dinner for the group starting at 6:30 PM. If you?re planning to join us for dinner, please send an email to tamar@tamargranor.com, so we buy enough food. Our speaker is Steve Bodnar of Geeks and Gurus, Inc. and his topic is HTML 5.

Speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2013 have been announced: http://www.swfox.net

West Wind Technologies has released version 5.66 of its FoxPro Web Application framework today. Web Connection makes it easy to build Web applications using the familar Visual FoxPro environment for development, testing and debugging. Version 5.66 adds a new upload component for uploading large and multiple files using the popular plUpload library. There are also a host of styling enhancements for the default layouts provided, configuration enhancements as well as improvements in the new rock solid JSON parser. Web Connection is free to try and this is a free upgrade to registered users of version 5.50 and later

The next meeting of the Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group is next Tuesday, April 9 at 7 PM. Our speaker is Susan Gausch, Senior Solution Development Manager at SalesForce. She?ll introduce us to SalesForce: Salesforce is an online, web-based, CRM application that runs in "the cloud" allowing users to manage and perform nearly every detail of their job. Located in San Francisco, CA, Salesforce was founded by Marc Benioff and Parker Harris in 1999. Salesforce started out as a business software company distributing its product on a subscription basis. Now it has evolved into the #1 CRM solution in the world. Salesforce is also known for the force.com platform which allows external developers to create add-on applications that integrate seamlessly with Salesforce, enabling full customization to fit any business need.

A new Thor video "50 Ways to Run a Thor Tool" has been posted which explores all the ways that you can run Thor tools from the FoxPro IDE and demonstrates how to use the Thor Configuration form so that you can run them the way that best suits your personal taste. http://youtu.be/ZaBR5J9riQk

A new Thor video "50 Ways to Run a Thor Tool" has been posted which explores all the ways that you can run Thor tools from the FoxPro IDE and demonstrates how to use the Thor Configuration form so that you can run them the way that best suits your personal taste.