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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application
Developers in Southern California
January
1995
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The December Meeting
Show Time !!
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Microsoft brought the FoxPro 3.0 Show to town and dazzled us all! Our friend Kirk Nason from the Irvine office, and Cns Witrous from Redmond, put on a very complete and effective demonstration of the Beta test version to a standing room only crowd. And this was more than a canned PowerPoint-based sales pitch. For several hours they did a live, interactive demo of the new features, and were very responsive to developer oriented questions from the group. Since this was a special preview of the product in its pre-release form, I can’t write about content details, but I am allowed to be excited and impressed!! I think its okay to say that the tantalizing things we have heard about this release, starting at last year’s Devcon, were all very much in evidence in the demo. If you thought FoxPro 2.0 and 2.5 were biggies, get ready for another wave and get your head ready for another stretch
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our world is going to get a lot richer in a few months.
Our thanks to Microsoft for their time and effort to demonstrate to our group, and for taking the risk of showing their product before it has finished the development cycle. This is s a good example of how well Microsoft supports their user groups
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we appreciate the great product and we appreciate the support.
Thanks to
Karl
Hogquist for providing the use Of his Microdatics training facility for the meeting, and thanks to George Dvorak for all those helpings of delicious Christmas Strudel to top off the meeting
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is that object oriented strudel George?
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Important Reminder!!
The January meeting of LA Fox, which would normally be scheduled for Jan. 18, 1995, has been rescheduled to Jan. 23, 1995, at 7:30 PM, due to a scheduling conflict with DevCon. It will still be at our regular meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get there, see the map on the back page. The meeting was rescheduled in order to devote half of our meeting to an open discussion on everything we saw and learned at DevCon, while it’s still fresh in our minds. If you don’t plan to attend DevCon, this meeting will be very important to you, since we’ll be talking about FoxPro 3.0, or as it is now officially being called, “Visual FoxPro”.
Speaking of Devcon....
For those members attending DevCon, LA Fox is planning on handing out “business cards” as a promotional campaign aimed at increasing our membership and bringing attention to our group.
As some of you may know, our “official” membership (paid-up members) increased substantially during November and December, thanks to a little “nudge” from the board members and a very well-timed demo of Visual FoxPro from Microsoft. The bottom line of this effort was to take our group from being dangerously close to insolvency to once again having a healthy group with a healthy treasury.
Now that we’re healthy again, we should think about kicking in “Phase II”
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getting the word out about our group and new recruitment. In order to facilitate this effort, these “business cards” will be available to those members attending DevCon and the membership-in
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