The VFPCOM utility is a COM server that provides additional functionality when you use ADO and access COM events with your Visual FoxPro 9.0 applications. This VFPCOM Utility is also compatible with Visual FoxPro 8.0.

I find myself checking the XE.com web site about every other day just for fun to take a quick peak to see how the U.S. dollar is against the Euro. When I was in Europe last November, it was around 1.31 $ per Euro. The $ was down to 1.34 per Euro maybe...

PCWorld.com released an article on Friday called Well-Priced In-Ear Stereophile Headphones with an overview of a new consumer product line from Ultimate Ears . So it came as no surprise when Ultimate Ears announced it would be entering this growing...

This photo of a bear in someone's backyard pool in L.A. is one of the funniest I've seen in awhile.

It wasn't that long ago when querying a top search engine on my name (Ken Levy) resulted in many top links to people other than me, I was pretty far down the result page. I notice now that both MSN Search and Google both have the #1 search result linking...

JFast is a currently based on Visual FoxPro 8.0, and DPRA developers are currently working on an update for JFast based on Visual FoxPro version 9.0. JFast uses .NET for specific parts of their applications, primarily .NET WinForms (smart client) coded...

There are many stories about people who have great blogs and as a result have had a door opened for them to get a better job, obtain new business opportunities, make new friends, and more. Often these opportunities would have have occurred if it wasn...

Do you remember the time you heard the quality of audio coming from a digital music CD and realized how much better it was over analog cassettes and phonograph records? I do. It was when I first bought a portable CD player in 1986 and installed it as...

If you visit the Microsoft Customer Evidence web site, you will find that there has been nothing new for Visual FoxPro case studies in many years. In my efforts to get more exposure for Visual FoxPro 9.0 than existed for both VFP 7.0 and VFP 8.0, we are...

Some members of the VFP team and myself will be speaking at Advisor VFP DevCon 2005 June 12-15. On June 18th I fly to Europe arriving in Prague, Czech Republic on June 19th. Randy Brown (lead VFP program manager) and Richard Stanton (member of VFP software...

A formal Microsoft Visual FoxPro Roadmap as well as my June letter with additional news is scheduled to go online on June 1st at http:///msdn.com/vfoxpro . The Visual FoxPro roadmap will not mention anything around a service pack for Visual FoxPro 9.0...

VFP MVP Andy Kramek blogged about his interview with TechTarget.com for the resent article Visual FoxPro 9.0 with SQL Server . I was also had a phone interview with the TechTarget journalist Jennifer Lawinski to answer questions on the topic of VFP 9...

MSDN has a new web-based threaded discussion system in Beta called Microsoft Forums . Josh Ledgard blogged about it and included an email he sent to the product team outlining the new features/benefits. The Visual FoxPro team had a forum created called...

Visual FoxPro 9.0 (as well as VFP 8.0 and VFP 7.0) includes MSDE 2000 on the CD for optional installation. In addition to providing the latest updates and fixes, SQL Server 2000 SP4 provides enhanced performance, security, and serviceability.

I was recently taking with Whil Hentzen about the various VFP books available through www.Hentzenwerke.com . This week I received a copy of the book What's New in Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits . This is a really great book. Check out the table of...

I have seen requests by some developers to be able to read the Visual FoxPro 9.0 EULA (end user license agreement) and the Distributable and Restricted Visual FoxPro Features and Files documents before they purchase a license for Visual FoxPro 9.0. These...

This month's letter contains a summary of some recent Visual FoxPro news as the Visual FoxPro team is busy working on future plans for Visual FoxPro to be announced next month.

A new Channel 9 Video interview has been posted titled XML Tools in VS 2005 with Robert Scoble interviewing me showing demos of the new XML tools in Visual Studio 2005 . These new XML tools are useful to any developer working with XML no matter what primary...