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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:29 PM by YAG

Calvin's got another cool utility

Calvin has written a blog crawler with both VFP and VB.NET versions that allows you to back up your own blog posts.

The post that started it all with the VFP version
The post with the VB.NET version
One comment on the utility
And one more...

I particularly enjoyed watching it move from answering a VFP question in a blog entry to a second language to distribution.

Filed under: Community, Visual FoxPro

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# re: Calvin's got another cool utility

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:05 PM by Franklin Garzón

Very good interview, where I am living, there are many new projects with cigar VFP9 and VFP9 - SQL2005, many courses deprived for companies, banks, business, they have seen many people VFP9 and want more VFP.

We know that this Sedna almost closed, but always we will be sending new ideas, new needs, new borders.

My question is: MS if this one bearing in mind the buy of Subscriptions MSDN for the simple reason of which VFP is a part of this set of tools?, because in the reality it if it happens.

Many companies buy MSDN for take the last update of VFP.

# re: Calvin's got another cool utility

Monday, July 17, 2006 9:51 PM by vsdata

Franklin,

What is the logic of buying MSDN just for updates to VFP? VFP itself is cheaper than MSDN.....but MSDN is a great vehicle for staying on top of *all* the development tools from Microsoft.

# re: Calvin's got another cool utility

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:33 PM by Franklin Garzón

Exactly, inside MSDN we have a quantity of others software as XP, VS, etc., but they should bear in mind that many companies that there has acquired MSDN from which MS decided to incorporate VFP in the set of products inside MSDN.
My company for example acquired MSDN for the products like XP, Server, etc and principally VFP and his updates.
Another important point is that my company is kept with platform Windows because all the systems are in VFP and this to fact that we buy licenses of Windows and do not change to Linux. And all that I believe that it should bear in mind for the budget of the team of VFP.

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Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company. Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.

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