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Interview on VFP and Sedna now online (by yag)
05 August 05 01:00 AM
I've been meaning to blog this for almost a week now, but I've just been crazily busy getting ready for PDC and working on reviews (yup, it's that time of the year). In June, David Stevenson interviewed Ken Levy and myself at the Visual FoxPro Devcon. Read More...
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VFP9 Case Studies Now Online (by yag)
21 July 05 01:56 PM
Ken blogs about two new VFP9 case studies that have just gone live. I just wanted to point to his more detailed post and provide the highlights of the two case studies. I'm really excited to see some of these case studies coming out and look forward to Read More...
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Dynamic languages and data (by yag)
12 July 05 04:16 PM
I've mentioned before that one of the reasons I enjoy my job so much is that I get to work with folks like Anders, Paul , Erik and Calvin on future technology. Basically, my goal is to make working with data in real applications (not just demos) something Read More...
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Cool Code Using VFP 9 (by John Koziol)
11 May 05 12:51 AM
(UPDATED) ... Whoops, wrong alias name used in the USE IN command. Repaired now <g> So Richard Stanton, part of the VFP Dev team and the author of all the great VFP Report enhancements in VFP 9, and I were going over a very cool algorithm. I can't Read More...
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Anonymous Comments Accepted Again (by John Koziol)
18 April 05 05:20 PM
For a while there, the bog wasn't accepting anonymous comments, that is, you had to register as a user at blogs.msdn.com. This has been changed and you can comment with or without an account. Read More...
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Congrats to two Fox community sites (by yag)
10 April 05 05:32 PM
One of the cool things about Visual FoxPro is its community. I just wanted to congratulate two community sites for hitting great milestones: PortalFox just hit its 20,000th user The Universal Thread hit its one millionth message It's great to see our Read More...
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Visual FoxPro and other MS products (by John Koziol)
16 March 05 12:38 PM
As you are probably aware, Microsoft is constantly improving Windows, Office, SQL Server, and other products with Service Packs and whole new versions. Several months ago, I posted about the effects of (or lack thereof) Windows XP SP2 on Visual FoxPro. Read More...
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Rob Copeland is blogging! (by yag)
11 March 05 06:07 PM
Rob Copeland, Product Unit Manager for RAD Tools (that's VB, .NET Client aka Winforms and VS Data) has joined the blogosphere . In his first post, he discusses the VB6 support policy and where he'd like to go with his blog. Please go and make him feel Read More...
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Exploring VB .Net from a VFP Perspective (Part III) (by John Koziol)
22 February 05 11:17 AM
Sometimes I feel like I'm repeating what others have already written about .Net from the VFP perspective. To those authors who have written extensively on the subject, notably Kevin McNeish, Cathi Gero, and Les Pinter, I apologize for any overlap. Hint Read More...
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A Very Cool Use for Visual FoxPro (by John Koziol)
18 February 05 01:30 PM
This is very cool. It's a database of stuff about climbing the Himalayas. http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/hawley02022005.htm Thanks for Steven Black's Wiki for mentioning this. Read More...
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Stability: VFP8 versus VFP9 (by John Koziol)
18 February 05 01:53 AM
I've gotten some emails from old friends and VFP developers where the sender is asking me which version is best to upgrade a legacy application. Some folks are worried that the "newness" of VFP9 may make it a less stable upgrade whereas VFP8 has had a Read More...
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Michel Fournier, VFP MVP, has entered an interesting contest....
16 February 05 04:22 PM
Yeah, let's vote for Mike! From the UniversalThread: -------------------------------------------------------------------- You might know already that Michel Fournier does also some other quite different things besides UT. Last Monday, Michel registered Read More...
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Exploring VB .Net from a VFP Perspective (Part II) (by John Koziol)
15 February 05 11:55 PM
Sheesh. Some of the feedback I'm getting on this series makes me feel like a traitor to the Visual FoxPro community. Nothing could be further from the truth; I love the VFP community and I am a staunch supporter of VFP and have been for many years. I Read More...
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VS Data is one team (by yag)
11 February 05 10:36 AM
John Koziol - one of the testers on my team - posted an entry in which he began to discuss some of the things he's learning as he dives in VB.NET. We've gotten a number of responses - which are of two forms: You're just trying to force VB on us Fox folks Read More...
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Exploring VB .Net from a VFP Perspective (Part I) (by John Koziol)
10 February 05 03:25 PM
This is the first in a series of posts on VB. Net observations. It's not formal; it's just an online journal of things I found cool and weird coming from a VFP developer with 20 years of database language experience. One of my tasks this past several Read More...
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