The L.A Fox Developer Newsletter

LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from P. 3)

Pinnacle Publishing has just completed publica-

tion of the second series of reports called The Pros

Talk Fox , and is offering selected volumes at $29

each. These are excellent sources of information

by first rate authors, and are well worth the price if

the topic matches your interests. For example,

Melissa Dunn’s report on SQL is one of the best

treatments I have seen. I will have the list of topics

at the User Meeting. You can order at (800) 231-

1293.

Mac Rubel, nationally known writer and speaker on

FoxPro, has announced the availability of up-

graded versions of his two packages of application

development tools - Power Developers Library and

Development Debugger. He is offering them at

substantial discounts to user group members -

$245 for the pair. I will have brochures at the user

meeting. You can order direct from Mac at (212)

972-2330.

Neon Software is releasing the Windows version

of FoxExpress with many improvements over the

DOS version that Mike Feltman showed us in one

of our earlier meetings. Brochures with product

details are available at the user meeting.

Hot Off the Wire

DevCon Announced

Fri, 03 Jun 94 16:13:17 Microsoft Mail

To: Barry R. Lee 72723.3422@CompuServe.com

Subject: FYI: DevCon -- Here It Is! The next

Microsoft FoxPro International Developer Confer-

ence will be held January 16 - 19, 1995, in sunny

San Diego, California. We have extended the

conference by one day to be a 4-day format in

response to your feedback that you need more

time to attend all the great sessions that are given

at this popular conference. We will begin on

Sunday evening, January 15 with a welcome

reception, and sessions will begin on Monday the

16th. The conference will wrap up Thursday

afternoon, January 19th. A mini-conference will be

held on Sunday, January 15th for those new to

FoxPro.The conference will be held at the San

Diego Convention Center right on gorgeous San

Diego Bay. Conference hotels surround the

June 1994

Center and will all be within walking distance. No

more waiting for shuttle buses to appear! Registration

information will be available sometime this summer so

for now just block out the dates and wait patiently.

Mailings will go to the FoxPro list of registered users,

attendees of prior DevCons, and other miscellaneous

lists. Information will also be posted here on

CompuServe.Thanks for your ongoing support and

loyalty to FoxPro. We are looking forward to another

excellent conference and hope to see you there!

The FoxPro Team

XPro User Group News (Con't from Page 1)

Fm: Randy Unruh To: Tom Rettig

Tom,

I agree with most of your points and, personally, only

have two reservations. The first is, I don’t want to have

to put the time and money into it but if I do, I do. The

second is, it will only prove the certified know some-

thing about the mechanics of FoxPro and will prove

nothing about knowledge of how to appropriately use

it in a business solution (which is the primary reason

underlying most of the need for FoxPro programming).

I have watched MSFT market Access over FoxPro and

have firsthand experience of some customers biting

the MSFT marketing line and selecting Access where

it was less appropriate than FoxPro. With enough of

that experience in hand, I’m dubious if it will have any

greater net value to MSFT customers.

But, if it brings me business, as I suspect in will over

time from some who have selected Access

innappropnately, I don’t really mind. It can be profit-

able to clean up other's messes.

XBASE .... GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS

First, the bad news. XPro has withdrawn from the

ANSII Xbase standards committee. The costs of

membership and attendance were far more than than I

could personally justify. Unfortunately, XPro is not the

first to withdraw for this reason. The good news is that

I will continue to monitor the proceedings and that they

are on the right track to produce an actual ANSII

standard within the not to distant future. This standard

is what we, as developers, want in order to help

(Con't, Page 5)

Page 4