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FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award 2012

Stonefield Systems Group Inc. — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:24:03 GMT

The FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award honors those individuals who have contributed a great deal to the FoxPro community over the years. See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunityLifetimeAchievementAward~VFP for previous award recipients. These recipients wish to continue the award and have created a committee to select a recipient for 2012. The committee consists of all 11 living previous recipients, Alan Griver (yag), and Sergey Berezniker representing the FoxPro community. To submit your nominations for the 2012 recipients, please email Doug Hennig (dhennig@stonefield.com) by June 15, 2012.

ChicagoFUDG meets Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:14:12 GMT

Our May 8th meeting will feature Don Higgins -- one of the most successful VFP developers anywhere. Meet at 5:30 on the 15th floor of 200 S Wacker (Tech Nexus). Don wil go over ActiveVFP and how to make VFP work easily on the web. There will be samples of simple web programming, and even some Javascript examples. You don't want to miss this one!

Southwest Fox 2012 Speakers and Sessions

Southwest Fox Conference — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:13:34 GMT

Today is one of those big days here at Geek Gatherings because we officially announce the speakers and sessions for Southwest Fox 2012. All the details can be found on the Speakers page. We?re glad to welcome back a couple of speakers who haven?t been to Southwest Fox in a long time: Rod Paddock and Kevin McNeish. And of course Cathy Knight, Kevin Cully, and Rick Strahl, who didn?t speak at the conference last year. Returning from last year are Menachem Bazian, Steve Bodnar, Rick Borup, Tamar Granor, Doug Hennig, Rick Schummer, Eric Selje, Tuvia Vinitsky, and Christof Wollenhaupt. We hope to see everyone in Gilbert in October.

Web Connection Training at Southwest Fox in Arizona, Oct. 17th & 18th

West Wind Technologies — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:11:30 GMT

West Wind Technologies is hosting West Wind Web Connection training with Rick Strahl prior to the Southwest Fox Conference again in Arizona this year. Training will be held on October 17th and 18th at the conference hotel immediately preceeding the Southwest Fox conference. We've just updated the information for the conference including session scheduling and topics covered. Focus is on the new features in the Web Connection Web Control Framework and building an application from start to finish. The training applies to Web Connection developers of all levels provides best practices and lots of practical how to tips and tricks in working with Web Connection. If you're just starting you can learn from the ground up and if you're a seasoned Web Connection developer you can take home best practices approaches and tricks for Web Connection and Web Development in general. Sign up early and save money by taking advantage of our early bird signup options.

April 2012: Intro to Node.js

MadFox - Madison FoxPro Users Group — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:38:15 GMT

April's meeting will feature longtime member Jack Smith speaking about his experience getting going with node.js. We look forward to hearing about this new alternative in server side scripting and how he uses it. We'll have our usual Q&A as well, and social time afterwards. April 17th, 2012 5:30pm Geeks and Gurus, Inc. Madison Division 1308 Spring Street, Lower Office Madison WI

Philadelphia VFP User Group--April 10--West Wind Web Connect

Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:00:18 GMT

The Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group will meet Tuesday, April 10. Jim Connolly and Steven McCann will present the work they?re doing with West Wind Web Connect for Volpe Express Trucking. They created a customer interface for rating, tracking and access to accounts receivable. They also created access for the employees to allow access of the tracking of the deliveries and the drivers. They interface with Google APIs to allow tracking and to calculate distances between stops. They use XFRX to present reports on the Web site.

West Wind Web Connection 5.62 released

West Wind Technologies — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:26:51 GMT

West Wind Technologies has released version 5.62 of their Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connecton makes it easy to build Web, RIA and distributed applications with Visual FoxPro using pure Foxo code within the Visual FoxPro IDE while optionally supporting design time integration with Visual Studio. Version 5.62 is mostly a maintenance release with many small bug fixes and performance improvements, but it also adds a handful of useful new features and works around some limitations of existing functionality. As always Web Connection 5.62 is available as shareware to try for free and it's a free update for registered users of version 5.50 and higher.

Southwest Fox Call for Speakers Reminder

Southwest Fox Conference — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:11:20 GMT

Just a reminder that session proposals for Southwest Fox 2012 are due by 8 AM EDT this Friday, March 23. If you're interested in speaking, please download the Call for Speakers and the proposal application from http://www.swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.aspx. We look forward to hearing from you.

MadFox March 2012 Meeting: SSMS for Fox Developers

MadFox - Madison FoxPro Users Group — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:52:40 GMT

Fox developers are spending more and more time in SQL Server Management Studio to handle their back-end database work. But how well do we really know this seemingly simple tool? There's a lot more than just entering queries and editing stored procedures, and we'll take a look at them in March's meeting. We'll have our usual Q&A session, and all members are welcome to show any cool stuff they're working on. Thanks to PluralSight for another month of sponsorship! 5:30 pm, 3/20/2012 Geeks and Gurus Wisconsin Headquarters 1308 Spring St. Madison, WI 53715

Philadelphia VFP User Group meets Tuesday, March 13

Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:47:37 GMT

The next meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will take place on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Bill Fitzgerald will present a tool for keeping SQL Server Tables in synch with VFP tables. Tamar Granor will show the Method Tracker, a new developer tool that fills the niche between the Debugger?s Event Tracker and Coverage Profiler. Finally, we'll have an open discussion on multi-user applications.

Chicago FUDG meets Tuesday 13 March 2012

Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:52:32 GMT

Our speaker for March 13 is Kevin Ragsdale who will present Easy Multi-Threading with Visual FoxPro. This was a big hit at Southwest Fox 2011, and is a not-to-be-missed meeting! 5:30pm next Tuesday - check the ChicagoFUDG website for more details.

Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ 2012

Southwest Fox Conference — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:16:36 GMT

Save the dates for Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ 2012! The conferences take place October 18-21, 2012. This year we have two conferences as one great event at the same location. Southwest Fox has always served Visual FoxPro developers an opportunity to learn and extend their skills, and network with fellow developers. Alaska Software is working on PolarFox, a product that keeps the Visual FoxPro language alive in their next generation tool. You get two conferences for the price of one! The conferences take place at the San Tan Elegante Conference and Reception Center, the same great location as last year. If you're interested in presenting at Southwest Fox 2012, please visit http://www.swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx, read the complete Call for Speakers document (linked from that page), and download the proposal submission application. Session proposals are due by March 23. Finally, if there are any topics you hope will be covered this year, please send them to info@swfox.net, right away.

SnagIt PlugIn For Windows Live Writer Updated

West Wind Technologies — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:47:05 GMT

We've updated the SnagIt plug-in for the Windows Live Writer blogging application. This free tool lets you easily embed SnagIt image captures directly in your Live Writer WebLog entries. This update fixes several compatibility issues with the release of SnagIt 11 which breaks some of old COM interfaces. This release also updates the UI slightly and source code is now available on Github.

MadFox: February 2012: Dojo and Mardi Gras

MadFox - Madison FoxPro Users Group — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:32:17 GMT

Cliff is going to give us a rundown of Dojo, which sounds like it'd be Don Johnson's nickname if he were still a celebrity but is actually a Javascript Framework we were first exposed to a few months ago when we met up with the Perl User Group for their JS Framework shootout. And of course bring your questions, demos, etc. We still have lots of salsa but if someone wants to bring some tortilla chips that'd be good. I'll have the usual assortment of drinks. And if we have to, I suppose we can go out to some local bar and watch the locals celebrate Mardi Gras. :) Where: Geeks and Gurus Madison Output 1308 Spring St. Madison, WI 5:30p, Tuesday Feburary 21st

Chicago FUDG meets Tues. 14 Feb 2012

Chicago FoxPro Users and Developers Group — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:12:52 GMT

This month it's an open mic night for member presentations. Dazzle us with your Fox brilliance! Same Place, Same Time. (Take your SO out on Monday and/or Wednesday when things aren't so crowded.)

West Wind Web and AjaxToolkit Version 1.20 released

West Wind Technologies — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:54:48 GMT

We've released version 1.20 of the West Wind Web & AJAX Toolkit for ASP.NET. The toolkit includes powerful and easy to use server side AJAX and REST services as well as a rich client side jQuery library to interact with server side code easily. The toolkit also provides many utilities including a two way databinding support, globalization, a business object layer (for L2S and EFCF), tools to provide logging and configuration manangement plus a plethora of utility functionality useful both in Web and desktop applications. This release adds many new features to the REST/AJAX service handlers and adds a new Entity Framework Business object framework. The toolkit is free for non-commercial use and liberally licensed for commercial use.

Philadelphia VFP User Group meets February 14--Menachem Bazian

Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:12:30 GMT

The Philadelphia VFP User Group will meet on Tuesday, February 14. Menachem Bazian will reprise his Southwest Fox 2011 session, ?Class Design Strategies." When is a class needed and when isn't it? How can you design classes that add power and flexibility not only to your current application but to all your projects? How can you simplify the development and maintenance by using classes? The "textbook" answer is to do a full blown object orientation analysis and design. But what do you do if you don't have the time for that formal process? This session, which is both theoretical and practical (code based), will discuss how to think in "OO" mode and how the traditional Cowboy Programmer approach of Visual FoxPro and the formal world of Object Orientation can come together and live in harmony. The session will also discuss how to modify classes safely.

West Wind Internet and Client Tools 4.62 released

West Wind Technologies — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:49:24 GMT

West Wind Technologies has released version 5.62 of West Wind Client Tools. Client Tools provide a host of Internet functionality to client desktop applications including support for sending and retrieving email, rich HTTP access, FTP up and downloads as well as high level data services that allow for remote data and RPC calls over HTTP. The toolkit also contains utility classes including a simple business object layer, SQL Server access wrapper, SOAP and XML class, PDF rendering and more. This update is a maintenance release that extends a few features and adds number of new small helper functions. As always, the update is free to registered users of version 5 and available as shareware to try and play with.

West Wind Message Board Update

West Wind Technologies — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:49:15 GMT

The West Wind Message Board we use for support has gotten a visual and slight functional makeover. We've updated the styling to look a bit more modern and work better for smaller devices like phones and tablets - the new look integrates a smoother looking dark theme, Gravatar support for user images and some easier navigation features. Note also that the message board now requires logins to post messages to thwart some of the spam issues that have been escalating recently. Logins were also added to make it easier to sync user accounts across devices and provide Gravatar user image support. I hope you'll take the time to check out the new design and as always please let us know if there are any problems or you have suggestions.

Html Help Builder 4.66 released

West Wind Technologies — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:31:46 GMT

West Wind Technologies has released version 4.66 of West Wind Html Help Builder. Help Builder produces documentation for Html Help (CHM), Web ready HTML and Word/PDF format for end user applications as well as developer documentation for FoxPro, .NET, Sql Server, Web Services and other environments. Version 4.66 adds many small user interface enhancements to the IDE and a host of new backup and project export features to Zip files. There are also a number of improvement for .NET imports including support for Code Contracts and multiple example code snippets. There are also a host of small UI improvements and a few bug fixes. Help Builder is available as shareware and registered users can download and re-install the latest version.