Visual FoxPro User Group

April 2008 Visual FoxPro Developer Meeting - VFP9 Report Writer

Thursday, April 24th at Symmetry Corporation, 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA - 6:30pm to 9:30pm

This month we are going to revisit the VFP 9 Report Writer with Brad Shulz showing us the way. Brad will reprise his presentation on the VFP9 Report Designer. Brad will start with an overview of its new features and enhancements, and then delve into detail about ReportListeners and Preview Containers. If time permits, we will also review Cathy Poutney's presentation on the same subject from the Southwest Fox 2007 Conference.

Raffle prizes will be awarded at the break and you must be present to win. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 4/24/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

March 2008 Visual FoxPro Developer Group - VFPX

Thursday, March 20th at Symmetry Corporation, 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA - 6:30pm to 9:30pm

IWhile March is hopefully transforming itself into a lamb, we are going to peer into the lion's den at VFPX and see what lurks there. Continuing our exploration of the Southwest Fox 2007 conference presentations, we are pleased to have Barbara Paltiel give us an overview of VFPX. What is VFPX? Who develops it? What can you do with it? And perhaps most importantly - what does it cost? Nothing!! (The best answer of all.) So join us for an evening of spelunking and discovery - there's sure to be a little bit of treasure hiding there for everyone.

Raffle prizes will be awarded at the break and you must be present to win. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 3/20/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

February 2008 Visual FoxPro Developer Meeting - COM, VFP and You

Thursday, February 28th at Symmetry Corporation, 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA - 6:30pm to 9:30pm

In February 2008 we are pleased to have our own Brian Knittel give us a Tutorial on using COM with VFP. The Component Object Model (COM) lets applications share objects on one computer, across a network, or across the Internet. COM can let FoxPro applications use objects exposed by applications such as Word and Excel. It can also let you package up functionality that you develop in FoxPro, and offer it to desktop and CGI applications. Brian's talk will give an overview of COM technology, and will give examples of its use with FoxPro.

The universe conspires. Once again we have slipped the meeting date to the 4th Thursday in the month - February 28th - due to holidays, meeting location availability and cosmic rays. Starting next month we'll be back on the schedule of the third Thursday of the month - promise!

The raffle item box is still well stocked for this meeting - prizes will be awarded at the break and you must be present to win. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 2/28/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

January 2008 Visual FoxPro Developer Meeting

Thursday, January 24th at Symmetry Corporation, 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA - 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Welcome to 2008! To kick off the New Year, our January 2008 Visual Foxpro Developer Group meeting will take a Tour of Presentations from the Southwest Fox Conference 2007. As usual, there were amazing things demonstrated and reviewed at the conference. We will briefly review each presentation, determine which ones are the favorites, and then plan future meetings to delve into them in glorious detail. All of the presenters at the SW Fox Conference have graciously agreed to share the conference content with User Groups, and that includes the solutions they have built and the source code to go with them. So come join us for our first meeting of the New Year and we will plan out several meetings with great things to come - let's get it started!

Please note, we have slipped the meeting date to January 24th for this month only. Starting next month we'll be back on the schedule of the third Thursday of the month.

Once again, we have some pretty amazing Raffle items for this meeting (Windows Vista, wireless keyboard among others - ooohhh, ahhhhh) - prizes will be awarded at the break and you must be present to win. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 1/24/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

August 2007 Visual FoxPro Develoepr Group - Sage PRO ERP - Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 6:30 to 9:30pm at Symmetry Corp., 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA

For our August 2007 meeting, Sage will be doing a presentation on their Sage Pro ERP software. Written in Microsoft Visual Fox Pro and integrated with Microsoft SQL server, Sage Pro is equipped to meet small to mid-sized business processing demands for business information, from Sales to Receivables and Payables to Inventory. The demonstration will cover a quick introduction to the product, an overview of the modules, options and end-to-end products supported, data support features, customization, and reporting, with time for QA afterwards. Many of us remember the old SBT software - this is where it went and you'll see what its features have grown into, along with all the additional modules and capabilities available today. And since it is VFP, with full source code availability, it is an attractive alternative for supporting the unique business and future growth requirements that we often find we need to provide to our companies and clients.

We have some pretty amazing Raffle items (Windows Vista Ultimate, among other things) for this meeting that will be awarded at the break. Please check our website at http:\\www.baadd.org for updates and additional details about the meeting. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4:00pm, TODAY, Thursday, August 30th. Check out Subway's website at www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks. Thanks in advance for getting your responses in early.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

July 2007 Visual FoxPro Developer Group - Servoy, a VFP Alternative?

Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 6:30 to 9:30pm at Symmetry Corp., 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA

For July 2007, we are going do a little exploring into alternatives to FoxPro. While we all agree on the benefits of using VFP, the future of database development will most probably involve other platforms for many of us. In our meeting on Thursday, July 19th we will take a look at one of the alternatives that is available today. Yvo Boom and Scott Butler with Servoy (www.servoy.com) will conduct a Webinar session and show us the in's and out's of their product.

Servoy is a cross-platform development and deployment environment entirely focused on maximizing productivity. Basically you do not have to code in Java (unless you want to) nor SQL (unless you want to). You can develop your applications 2-5 times faster than coding in plain Java and .NET. Our development environment is drag-and-drop based, they do all the "hard" SQL work (including data-binding), have built-in data-broadcasting, a zero deployment client, a HTTP- based server interface and much more. In addition to helping develop applications more quickly they will help reduce your maintenance costs while maximizing upgrade revenue. How? Using their zero deployment Smart Client (client/server) and/or their Web Client (100% HTML + CSS) you don't have to update the client software, and you can deploy your solutions from a single code-base!

Raffle prizes will be awarded at the break. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 7/19/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

June 2007 VFP Developer Group Meeting: VFP 9 Report Designer - Thursday, June 21, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007 - 6:30pm to 9:30pm at Symmetry Corp., 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA.

In June 2007, we are pleased to announce that Brad Schultz will be doing a presentaiton on the VFP9 Report Designer. Brad will start with an overview of its new features and enhancements, and then delve into detail about ReportListeners and Preview Containers. If time permits we will take a peek into what other new features are coming later this year with Sedna.

Raffle prizes will be awarded at the break. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 6/21/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Please note: Sam Friedman will be coordinating the meeting this month, so please be sure you send your RSVP to him (sam@pcconsults.com).

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Sam Friedman if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!

May 2007 Visual FoxPro Developer Group Meeting - Thursday, May 19, 2007

Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 6:30pm to 9:30pm at Symmetry Corp., 420 S. Hillview, Milpitas, CA.

For May 2007, it's time to dust off those widgets and tools and roll-your-own fixup thingys that we all use to make our lives easier with VFP. This meeting will be your chance to show off your cool tool/app/function/..., and to pickup some great tips and ideas from others! Everyone can always use a new tool (no, it's not just a guy thing). Join us for an evening of digging thru the VFP Geek Toolbox - there's sure to be some great finds.

Raffle prizes will be awarded at the break. As always, our sponsor Symmetry Corporation will provide a sandwich/salad/?? of choice to everyone who RSVP's prior to 4pm on Thrusday, 5/17/07. Check out Subway's website at http:\www.subway.com for available menu items. There will also be chips and a variety of drinks.

Meetings are free for current ADD members, and $10 at the door for nonmembers. Please contact Margaret if interested in coordinating BART rides or to RSVP. Hope to see you there!