The Sydney and Melbourne Visual FoxPro User Groups will be having a combined meeting on 29 September via Microsoft teleconference facilities.
Please email me if you want to be added to the SVFPUG members list
Lucky me – I’m going to Visual FoxPro Devcon at the end of September. This will be big – it is the official launch of VFP9. I’m looking forward to meeting some of the big names in VFP (see the speaker list) but especially ‘The Man’ – Rick Strahl. Down under we all call Rick ‘The Man’ because whoever I talk to – if they were having a VFP/...
If yu are using the new anchors and resizing tools in VFP9 then check out Castro’s presentation from SVFPUG last month. There’s a demo form in the zip file, but the real kicker was the tables in his presentation. Trying to work out the number combinations in the VFP9 help file requires a doctorate (OK its still in beta), but Castro’s table makes it simple. Go into the classes...
Here’s a quick presentation by Scott Woodgate who I saw at TechEd 2004 a couple of times.
Don’t be put off by the casual chatty intro, after 21 seconds it goes to a demonstration in Visual Studio which is very hands on. Roughly 10 minutes, it explains how to include a WSE 2.0 web service in BizTalk 2004.
OK, so it takes an eternity to install, and is slow to run (slower than I’d expect for a Beta 2), but this new version is damn hot. I’ve only had a few hours to play with it over the last week, so this is my initial thoughts. Everything is in one place – the SQL Server Management Studio – and it is layed out in a familiar interface. Think Solutions in Visual Studio or...
VFP gets a bit of press in the SD times
A few notes if you are playing with these:
InfoPath 2003 – make sure you download SP1 (I couldn’t find it on the public site, but MSDN subscribers can get it)
Visual Studio 2005 Beta – you may have been told it is fine to install side by side with VS2003, but be careful: Sharon, in our team, experienced problems with pages that use validator controls. The controls no longer work.
It was interesting to read Greg Low’s notes on his TechEd keynote demo with Eric Rudder. It is easy to think people get on stage and ad lib through a demo they whipped up a few minutes prior. We all know this never happens and it is always the most prepared presentations that come across as the best. There must be some maxim along the lines of ‘the more preparation, the less it looks...
The Melbourne VFP User Group is starting up again.
I will be posting further details in due course. In the interim if you want contact details please email me or leave me a comment.