From the monthly archives:

May 2006

VFP: OzFoxRocks! Episode 4 – Aussie Visual FoxPro podcast

May 30, 2006General Tech

Scott and I have posted Episode 4 of OzFoxRocks.

In this show we talk about the Visual FoxPro Community.

The content listing is here: http://craigbailey.net/ozfoxrocks4.htm

You can subscribe to the feed here: [no longer active]

OzFoxRocks! home: http://craigbailey.net/live/page/OzFox-Rocks.aspx

Tell us what you agree with, diagree with or make a suggestion.

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VFP: Sydney VFP User Group tomorrow night

May 30, 2006General Tech

Tomorrow night (Wed 31 May 2006) the Sydney VFP User Group meets again. Andrew Coates will be demoing VFP on VistaI will be discussing Promoting VFP to the Developer Community See you at 6:30pm at Microsoft, North Ryde. http://www.svfpug.com.au 

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NET: What the hell is Visual FoxPro?

May 28, 2006General Tech

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…):http://www.craigbailey.net/what-is-vfp/Acknowledgement: Thanks to Calvin Hsia for the script of one of [...]

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VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Bernard Bout

May 20, 2006General Tech

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 [...]

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VFP: FoxTabs update – good news

May 20, 2006General Tech

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 [...]

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VFP: Anyone interested in a Visual FoxPro Skypecast?

May 20, 2006General Tech

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 [...]

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VFP: FoxTabs needs your help

May 17, 2006General Tech

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 [...]

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VFP: Another Visual FoxPro blogger – Juan Calcagno

May 13, 2006General Tech

Just happened upon Juan’s blog here:http://blog.jlcconsulting.com/ I checked and it is on UT, but not on FoxWiki yet. Juan, make sure you add yourself here:http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~BlogWatch    

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PERSONAL: Help my wife for 30 minutes

May 10, 2006General Tech

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 [...]

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VFP: How to make Visual FoxPro cool

May 2, 2006Popular

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 [...]

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