Build. Share. Deliver.
Hmmm—need charts in VFP? Cesar shows you powerful charting from VFP – With no ActiveX controls, dlls, or 3rd party products VFP IMAGING : FoxCharts !!! Yes, it requires GDIPlusX from VFPX but what a great project. Hey Cesar, put this into VFPX directly – this totally rocks!
If you haven’t checked out Emerson Reed’s Themed Controls for VFP, you definitely need to. The link here (VFPX – Home ) shows some samples and there’s a video as well but why not simply download the sample code and run it. One key point: don’t build the SAMPLE project and try to run it … Read more
Want a blast from the past? Check out this 1990 ad for FoxPro 2.0 up on YouTube. Foxpro – The Evolution of a New Standard Not sure, where it played but very cool to watch.Lots of footage with Dr. Dave but also some great cameos with Adam Green, Tom Rettig, Richard Grossman, Pat Adams, Walt … Read more
Many developers who want to get involved with VFPX face a bit of a challenge, especially if they’ve never used Source Control. (What!?!?! You’ve never used source control) When I started working on the Code Analyst, I used the SCCI provider within VFP but it always conflicted with my own SSC tool (SourceOffSite). There’s also … Read more
No….not me (yet!)…but the FoxShow just turned 50! After 49 not so regular episodes starting in March of 2005, we’ve hit 50 with hopefully the last of the rushed episodes (rootkit, rebuild, repeat as I mentioned earlier) but also with a great interview with Alan Stevens. (I had no idea he had worked with the … Read more
Working with FoxPro developers with different degrees of knowledge, it’s interesting to see where the general knowledge line is. What do I mean by that? If you put a bunch of FoxPro developers into a room and talk about standards, you get one indication of where their technical level is at. Yet when you look … Read more
Over on Shedding Some Light, Rick Schummer notes that JD Mullin has a demo of how to get started with VFP and the Advantage Database server. I’m glad to see these types of demos get put up more and more by the people behind the scenes of a product instead of just the marketing types. … Read more
I keep on doing Google Searches for VFP and Sedna or VFP and VFPX to gauge traffic. It’s not scientific and by in large, I use my own news aggregators for real check-ups but I like to use Google every now and then to get a reality check outside of the VFP blogosphere community. If … Read more
Many developers will tell you “Development is full of “aha” moments” – those moments when something clicks and everything falls into place. What they don’t tell you is that there are also a few “doh” moments – moments where you see code (usually your old code from years back) and instantly see why it wasn’t … Read more
According to Craig, Sedna Release Appears to be Imminent… This is, of course, great news for FoxPro developers as they have been waiting (im) patiently for it since October when they released SP2. I had noted it on an earlier post and asked around, finding out that Sedna got put behind VS2008 and SQL 2008 … Read more