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The LA Fox Develooer Newsletter
July 1995
The L.A Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox User Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with FoxPro.
LA Fox Address:
LA Fox User Group
Chuck Williams (310) 539-9439
977 Ashbndge Lane
Harbor City, CA 90710
LA Fox Board of Directors
Chuck Williams, President
Barry Lee, Vice President/Newsletter Editor
Allen Garfein, Treasurer/Membership
George Dvorak
Bill Seldon
Mike Cummings
Bill Anderson
LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in Southern Califomia.The newsletter contains regular columns and articles from other user groups.
XPro User Group
Randy UnrUh
(310) 399-9159
2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161
Santa Monica, CA 90403
OC FoxPro Developers Group
Larry McQuerrey
(714)639-3313
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LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from page 1)

John underscored the idea that it will be quite a while before the FoxPro community absorbs the newness of Visual FoxPro and turns it to full advantage in client applications. The best advice seems to be to get started now by reading about the object oriented ideas, the database container ideas, the OLE ideas, and the event model, and then start experimenting to get the feel of the tools before you tackle a sizable client application where results, quality, performance, schedule, and man-hours count. Don’t expect the “framework” and “generator” products to be ready very soon - the good ones are based on experience and nobody has much experience yet. Maybe one of those interim conversion jobs isn’t so bad after all - it can buy you time while you climb this newest learning curve.

Our appreciation to John for driving the hour and a half to get to our meeting after just getting home from a month on the road doing FoxPro training sessions. Thanks, John.

dDAY Fair
Well, the Valley West group did it again, another excellent dDAY fair. A full Saturday of good speakers and demos with key people from Microsoft and Boiland as well as many thought leaders from the FoxPro community, including Ken Levy from Flash Creative Management Tom Rettig from his own company. Alan Schwartz from Micromega, and Mike Feltman all the way from Neon Software in Toledo.

I’m really glad I didn’t pass up Ken’s Object-Oriented Programming presentation on the basis that I had heard him talk and heard the topic many times before. This time he used an innovative presentation technique based on FoxPro itself instead of PowerPoint, and was able to smoothly weave the working code examples into the story. He walked through the standard litany of ideas about classes, objects, events, messages, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, but it seemed clearer and more pertinent with his technique - always expect something extraordinary from Ken.

Alan Schwartz is one of my favorite FoxPro speakers and writers and he presented one session on using the FoxPro Form Designer and another on Ad Hoc Reports. As the author of FoxFire!, the very successful third party report writer, he is well- qualified to extend from that base to his larger ideas about a “Managed Query Environment” which would be much more useful than today’s products. The objective is a tool that allows an end-user to play around freely and investigate data with much more flexibility than today’s rather rigid tools support. His tool would be obvious enough to invite queries on impulse, fast

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