The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California January 1995

LA Fox President’s Column

by Chuck Williams

The December Meeting

Show Time !! — 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 stand-

ing 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 — 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 —

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

— is that object oriented strudel George?

(Con't, page 2]

Inside this issue.....

Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

Important Reminder!!

The January meeting of LA Fox, which would normally

be scheduled for Jan. 18, 1995, has been resched-

uled 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 promo-

tional 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 danger-

ously 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” - 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-

[Con’t, page 3]

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