From the monthly archives:

August 2005

VFP: Please keep VFP a secret

August 31, 2005 General Tech

I’d like to request that Microsoft keep VFP a secret. Unfortunately it has been getting a little bit of press with a mention in this eWeek article. The danger I see is that more and more developers may start using VFP for its great data handling features (to name but one). And with that, we [...]

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VFP: Visual FoxPro 9 for Developers by Michael Cummings

August 13, 2005 General Tech

Drew mentioned this over a month ago, but it has taken that long for our copy to arrive (that’s what you get for living down under)
I’ve posted a review about the book on the Lulu site here
In short: this is an excellent, very user-friendly read that will serve as a great training manual for beginner [...]

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VFP: VFP Runtime

August 6, 2005 General Tech

A few weeks back there was discussion on Universal Thread requesting that Microsoft make the VFP Runtime a free download from their web site. The argument goes a bit like this:
The VB runtime is distributed to all Windows machines, so are key Visual C and C++ runtimes. The .Net runtime is a free download. Visual [...]

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PERSONAL: TinTin

August 6, 2005 General Tech

Since returning from overseas I have been gradually building up my TinTin collection (as mentioned here). Turns out it was cheaper to buy them all new than it was to get them on EBay (after taking shipping into account). I keep hearing rumours of a TinTin movie coming out, but nothing concrete yet. I can’t [...]

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VFP: The FoxPro Show

August 6, 2005 General Tech

Boy am I glad to hear that the FoxPro Show is still on the air. I spent last night dreaming up ideas for how I was going to get the entire Fox community to pressure (ie ‘encourage’) Andrew MacNeill to get it back on line. Turns out it was a small accident, but I’m glad it [...]

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VFP on MSDN

August 2, 2005 General Tech

If you subscribe to the Microsoft Recently Published feed (point your RSS reader here) then you’ll have seen this article popup
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnfoxtk05/html/ft05e7.asp
It is always good to see VFP articles announced from Microsoft sources other than the main VFP site…
A great article by the way (as always Doug, excellent work) first seen in the FoxTalk May issue.
 

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