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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:13 PM

>L< Blogging!

Via Doug . I've been reading Lisa's stuff since before she retired the whip (I've still got the notes from the conference I saw her speak at in, I think, 1993) and then her voluminous public output slowed to a trickle. Every once in a while another gem
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:50 PM

Wow, Now I'm MCPD!

Call me unusual, but I like doing the MS Certification exams . First, some history. My first exam was way back in 1999, when I participated in the beta program for the (then) new Visual FoxPro exams, 70-155 (Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications
Posted by acoat | 10 Comments
Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:12 PM

.NET and Win32 Interop - New Toolkit Available

While I was prepping for some VFP sessions I delivered in Hong Kong last week, I pinged yag for some pointers from his DevCon keynote. In addition to a bunch of great info on Sedna and VFP 9.0 SP2 , he pointed me at a really cool resource - the Microsoft
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Attachment(s): InteropToolkitSample.zip
Friday, May 25, 2007 8:18 PM

Slide decks from the Hong Kong Roadmap and Futures Event

I've just spent a couple of days in Hong Kong culminating in 3 presentations to VFP and VB6 developers about strategies for moving their applications forward to take advantage of the platform. The three decks are attached. I posted some of the sample
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:31 PM

WPF? Pah!

I'm sitting in Joseph Cooney's (excellent) session on WPF at CodeCampOz , and it seems to me that the canonical demo of WPF is an animated button bouncing around a form. Of course, this is something VFP has been able to do for ever: **************************************************
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:41 PM

ECMA Office Open XML Session at OzFox

[Update - Fixed link to presentation. Thanks yag ] Last night I delivered my session at OzFox - Creating Office OpenXML Documents in VFP . Recently adopted as an ECMA standard, and currently undergoing the approval process for ISO adoption, the new Office
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Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:56 PM

OzFox 2007 Kicks off in Sydney

I'm sitting in the keynote of OzFox , Australia's FoxPro Conference. Craig 's kicking things off and is about to introduce Rick Schummer and Doug Hennig . The keynote's called "The Future of VFP", and here are my raw notes from the session. The future
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:36 PM

Using TFS from Visual FoxPro

Eric Lee , Product Manager for Team Foundation Server , has been in town for a couple of days after TechEd. Last night, he spoke at a special combined meeting of the Sydney VFP User Group and the Sydney .NET User Group . Eric give an introduction to Team
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:53 PM

Managing SQL Server Express

I showed off integrating SQL Express with VFP at OzFox Lite last weekend, and as part of the presentation (515 KB) , everyone got a copy of SQL Express (as well as all of the other Express products ). I did mention it at the time, but a couple of people
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Monday, March 27, 2006 9:52 AM

TFS MSSCCI Provider Update

Brian Harry 's posted an update about the availability of the next drop of the MSSCCI provider for TFS (should be some time in the week of April 3). This will allow you to use the TFS source control features from IDEs other than VS2005. The IDEs they've
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Monday, March 27, 2006 9:36 AM

OzFox Lite Rocks the house!

Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend OzFox Lite , a Code-Camp -like event for VFP developers organised by the indefatigable Craig Bailey . 40 VFP aficionados from as far afield as Adelaide, Perth and even New Zealand descended on the MS HQ in Sydney
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:44 AM

FoxTabs on the front of FoxTalk

Scott Scovell and Craig Bailey have been working on a great community project called VFP Solution Explorer for some time now. The first deliverable to come out of this project is a sensational add-on called FoxTabs . I opened the March edition of FoxTalk
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Sunday, March 05, 2006 8:40 PM

VFP Sedna March CTP Now Online

Milind Lee has posted that the March CTP of Sedna , the add-on for VFP , is now available . We have released the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Sedna. This March 2006 CTP includes the latest build of NET4COM — a library of COM wrappers
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:48 AM

TFS MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Released and it works* with VFP

Rob Caron (and a number of other folk ) blogged yesterday that the next release of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider has been posted. This is great news for people using VS2003, VS2002, VS6, SQL Server Enterprise Manager, or any
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Monday, February 06, 2006 12:57 PM

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider with VFP

When the MSSCCI Provider for Team Foundation Server was announced, I was very excited. VFP (like the VS6 IDE, VS2002 and VS2003 as well as many other IDEs such as SQL Enterprise Manager) has the ability to utilise a MSSCCI compliant Source Control provider.
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