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NET: What the hell is Visual FoxPro?

Aimed at .Net developers, here’s two quick screencasts about Microsoft’s Visual FoxPro tool, covering databinding and very simple SQL Server access: And here’s an ‘elevator’ pitch on Visual FoxPro (OK, so maybe it is a bit long – perhaps it is a ‘Wynyard Station escalator’ speech…):: Thanks to Calvin Hsia for the script of one of the...

VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Bernard Bout

And yet another impressive blog on Visual FoxPro starts up. Nice one Bernardhttp://weblogs.foxite.com/bernardbout/ One cool thing that many people don’t know about is that you can do a Save as class… on many objects. Bernard’s post has a perfect example of this in action. Bernard sent me some screen shots of some really cool FoxPro applications he has built...

VFP: FoxTabs update – good news

I’m glad to report that I think we have a solution (and a surprisingly simple one at that) to our FoxTabs crash issue. Tracy P put us on a good path and we have been testing successfully so far.You can follow the forum thread here if you are interested. If all stays good we will be putting out a new release of FoxTabs within a week. Thanks to everyone who sent us...

VFP: Anyone interested in a Visual FoxPro Skypecast?

Scott Scovell and I have been toying with the idea of hosting some Skypecasts on Visual FoxPro.If you aren’t familiar with the concept you can check it out here (not sure why it is a https link btw). The aim would be to have a few people (say 10-15) join the discussion, which we record and then make available to anyone interested (probably hosted on our OzFoxRocks site)...

VFP: FoxTabs needs your help

Scott and I are back on the FoxTabs case (after a couple of months distracted by other things – news on that in a few weeks). We are keen to resolve the big show stopper, which is it will crash if there are compile errors in prg, forms or class code. To replicate this, all you need to do is run up FoxTabs, open a prg and type some dodgy code. Try to run the prg and whammo you...

PERSONAL: Help my wife for 30 minutes

Perhaps you can help… my wife Michele is doing research into happiness as part of her Psychology Honours Thesis.Part of this is an online survey which asks about 150 multiple choice questions. It takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. It is completely anonymous. If you are able to take part in the survey that would be a great help to her. It is fine for people living in...

VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool

VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool In case you hadn’t noticed, Visual FoxPro (VFP) is not very ‘cool’. In this post my aim is to cover 3 areas: 1. Why VFP isn’t cool 2. Why it matters 3. How we can make VFP cool 1. Why VFP isn’t cool OK, so the first thing we need to agree on is that VFP is not cool. I’ve been chatting with a few people in the .Net space...

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