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Visual FoxPro

VFP: VFPx and Southwest Fox

July 11, 2008Main

It’s been a little while since I visited the VFPx site – and boy is it coming along nicely. (For those that don’t know VFPx is the open source add-on community for Visual FoxPro)
I like how they’ve categorised all the projects by Release type: Production, Release Candidate, Beta, Alpha, etc. VFPx is the place to [...]

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Microsoft Fiji naming fiasco – not the first time

June 30, 2008Humour

Having your code name objected to is nothing new. This (possibly hoax) story about Fiji (the island nation) objecting to Microsoft’s use of ‘Fiji’ as a code name is nothing new. Most recently this happened when the Visual FoxPro team were releasing the Sedna Add-ons and received numerous complaints from the inhabitants of Neptune [...]

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VFP: Visual FoxPro Sedna release – biggest launch ever!

February 5, 2008Main

TechCrunch went into meltdown with the news. CNN covered it live. And Super Tuesday has been rescheduled to cope with the disruption…

Amazingly though, in what I can only imagine is an embarrassing oversight, there was no press release about it.

In possibly the tiniest launch announcement I've ever seen (you'll need hours to read through this [...]

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Visual FoxPro Sedna… the wait continues

January 21, 2008Visual FoxPro

I'm with Andrew MacNeill on this – where's Sedna? Craig Boyd notes it is imminent. There's been a bit of palava about whether Microsoft should fix SP2 before releasing Sedna. I'm all for getting out Sedna as quickly as possible. Who knows what issues we might have in SP2 that are only highlighted by Sedna? [...]

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Craig Boyd discusses the Vista progress bar in VFP

December 22, 2007Visual FoxPro

A nice little post from Craig Boyd covering the various Vista progress bar states and how they can be controlled in  Visual FoxPro (VFP).
Long time no see Craig, great to see your brilliance shining again on the blogosphere.
Technorati Tags: Craig Boyd, Visual FoxPro, VFP, Progress bar

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Southwest Fox – what a conference

October 30, 2007Technology

Oh man I wish I coulda been at Southwest Fox – do those crazy kids know how to run a conference!
Doug has the full rundown of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4.
Congratulations to the team of Doug, Rick and Tamar on an amazing achievement.
Technorati Tags: Southwest Fox 2007, Doug Hennig

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VFP: Did someone mention FoxPro?

October 18, 2007Visual FoxPro

Apparently there was some news about a Visual FoxPro release this week. I searched but couldn’t find anything . Except this, this, this, this, this, this. (To be fair to myself I did mention it on my link blog here.)
Or perhaps I was getting it confused with this article about salesforce.com’s new Visual Force, [...]

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VFP: Sydney VFP special event 17 Oct 2007

October 1, 2007Visual FoxPro

I’m excited that we have Nick Neklioudov in Sydney in mid-October, coming to give us a special Sydney Visual FoxPro User Group presentation.
Click here for Sydney VFP User Group Special Event details
Nick will be presenting a session on using Drag and Drop in Visual FoxPro forms. Drag and Drop is an important usability element of [...]

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VFP: More meaningless press about FoxPro

September 18, 2007Visual FoxPro

Here’s another example of how FoxPro gets misunderstood. Thankfully Tod McKenna sheds some light (in the Discuss page).
Technorati Tags: VFP, Visual FoxPro, FoxPro

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VFP: Importing VFP data into SQL Server

August 15, 2007Visual FoxPro

I’ve written an article outlining How to use SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) to import Visual FoxPro data into SQL Server.
The article is reasonably basic and covers:

Using SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio to create the package and manage errors
Using SQL Server Management Studio to create the Integration Service
Using SQL Agent job to schedule [...]

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VFP: Visual FoxPro posts of interest

August 11, 2007Visual FoxPro

I’ve been a little behind on my blog reading of late, so here’s a quick list of links I’ve enjoyed (many of which you no doubt read weeks ago

Vienna will support 32-bit: Even longer life for FoxPro applications
Another great new site for learning FoxPro (for free!)
Embed II – The Smart VFP Treeview Class
One month [...]

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OZFOX: Thinking about OzFox 2008

August 4, 2007Visual FoxPro

I’m starting to think about the next OzFox conference, and I’d love your thoughts.
To help me organise the most appropriate conference for y’all, I’ve put up a very simple survey.
If you are a potential attendee, please take the OzFox 2008 survey – it only takes 60 seconds.
It’s anonymous (unless you optionally want to leave your [...]

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VFP: VFP5 for dessert

August 1, 2007Visual FoxPro

Michele and I were out at dinner on Saturday night with Adam and Anastasia Cogan.
The food was good, the conversation was great, but then came dessert… Here’s what Adam had organized prior with the staff to deliver to me for dessert:

It’s a copy of Visual FoxPro version 5.0, and it now sits up on the [...]

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VFP: FoxPro blogs

June 14, 2007Visual FoxPro

As noted by others, there are a two new VFP bloggers, including:
Bo Durban
Craig Boyd (not sure about this guy – tread carefully J)
Btw does anyone know what Kevin Ragsdale’s new blog address is? The new FeedBurner link he provided last week doesn’t appear to be working…

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VFP: 3+ days to FoxPro ass kicking?

June 14, 2007Visual FoxPro

Interesting tidbit from someone who needed to learn VFP in a hurry
http://n0tablog.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/how-i-learned-visual-foxpro-in-an-emergency/
Compare this to this

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VFP: Important announcement concerning the Sydney VFP User Group

May 24, 2007Visual FoxPro

This is a difficult one to announce, but I have to let everyone in the Fox community know that I’ve made a drastic change to the Sydney VFP User Group.
In this post I’ll outline the reasons why and the outcomes I am hoping for.
Firstly, I need to let people know that the Sydney VFP UG [...]

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VFP: Goran Zidar blog

April 3, 2007Visual FoxPro

I’m sure you all know about Goran’s blog by now (thanks to Jamie’s link last month). If not then check it out here (RSS here).
Goran is the manager of the Tab Menus project on VFPx, a big supporter of VFP in Australia and an all round good guy (perhaps even a clever cookie
Technorati [...]

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VFP: OzFox quick survey results

March 27, 2007Visual FoxPro

Here’s some interesting stats from the OzFox networking session.
At the networking session there were 40 or so attendees (plus the speakers). I have not included the speakers in the results below.
I asked the following questions about VFP developer ‘behaviour’:
How many people attend User Groups (VFP or other): 21 (ie ~50%)How many read blogs (VFP or [...]

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VFP: Sydney VFP User Group this Wednesday 28 March 2007

March 27, 2007Visual FoxPro

This Wed we have an interesting meeting.
First up we will be discussing the recent announcement regarding VFP.
Next, Doug Bower will be repeating his excellent session from last year covering connecting to MYOB via VFP.
Then, as usual we will finish with our Q+A session.
Details on the UG site – http://www.svfpug.com.au/
See you there at 6:30pm for free [...]

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VFP: Message from YAG about VFP

March 14, 2007Visual FoxPro

Much to be said about this in the coming weeks, but for now I think he has given us a good summary and clear direction.
http://blogs.msdn.com/yag/archive/2007/03/13/message-to-the-vfp-community.aspx
Plenty to discuss – I’ll be posting about this in a week or so once I have collected all my thoughts…
btw YAG, thank you for all the hard work you and [...]

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