Thanks
to Jan Wells for bringing the donuts once again!! By the way, Jan is going
to start spending his winters in
Some
items of interest that I learned about at the DevEssentials conference in
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Check out
www.dotnetnuke.com
for a cool tool for designing web sites. Best of all … it’s free!!!
Jim Duffy of TakeNote Technologies has been using this tool and really raves
about it. He’s also starting up some training courses for learning the tool.
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Check out
www.foxunit.org
for a cool tool for automating your testing of Fox applications. This is also
free.
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Microsoft
has “Application Blocks” available for download for free. These consist of
.Net code that encompasses their “best practices”. You can use this code in
you application. You get full source code so you can change it if you want. The
two that I saw were “Error Management Application Block”, EMAB, and “Data
Access Application Block”, DAAB.
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West
Wind’s Help Builder is a cool tool for creating documentation. I saw an
example of creating technical documentation for Fox apps as well as .NET apps.
It was extremely simple to use. Just answer a few questions and it goes off and
generates pages and pages of documentation. www.west-wind.com
Visual
FoxPro 9.0 Beta is now available to the public for free, http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro.
Go ahead and download this and play around with all the new features. Also,
Microsoft wants us to run our current apps in VFP 9 to see if anything is
broken.
FoxTalk
2.0 is now available. For those of you that didn’t know … FoxTalk almost got
canned!! The publisher was about to kill it, but some people got involved and
revived it. David Stevenson is the new editor. You may get a 3 month free
subscription and check it out before committing to a full subscription. FoxTalk
2.0 needs our help. If we don’t buy it – the publisher will kill it!!!
http://www.pinpub.com/html/main.isx?sub=11
Main
Presentation
Cathy
is in the process of writing some articles about the Report Writer for
Microsoft. These two articles will go into great deal about how to use all the
new features. These will be posted on the MSDN website once they are done. Keep
your eyes open for these free articles!!
Upcoming
meeting
Reminder
…. We take a summer break!! There will be *NO*
July or August meetings!!!!!!
Our
meetings will resume on September 11 (Yikes – that’s weird!!!) We
don’t have a formal topic lined up yet, but most likely we will discuss some
new features in VFP 9.0. In fact, I expect that the next several meetings will
be dedicated to VFP 9.0.
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