The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

May 1995

President’s Column (Con't from page 3)

The annual FoxPro Users Conference will be held

from June 4 through 6 in Minneapolis. This is a

three day educational conference which focuses

exclusively on FoxPro. The speakers are estab-

lished leaders in the database field from the pri-

mary development, education, and publishing

companies in our industry. The topics are heavily

oriented to the new Visual FoxPro release. The

conference is actively supported by Microsoft,

FoxTalk, and the Advisor magazines. The price is

$365. You can register or get more information at

(612) 941-9820. We will have brochures at the user

meeting.

FoxPro Q & A (Con't from page 4)

Hi. I have a parent table (EMPLOYEE) that looks at a

child table (DEPRTMNT) using SET RELATION TO

command. My problem is that I wish to look at two

different records in the child table (EMPLOYEE. DEPT

and EMPLOYEE.OLD_DEPT) for the one parent. Is

this possible?

— Robert Shapiro

Dear Bob,

Yes it is. Try the following:

Candy Machine (Con't from page 6)

Most of us are both the designers and users of all

the functions that we write. Writing clear code is

nice, but results are what matters. At first glance,

Steve’s technique looks more appropriate for large

shops with many programmers potentially using

code that you write. Actually, in practice, I’ve found

that using this coding style lets me focus more on

the candy and less on the candy machine interface.

Quote-of-the-Month....

“Why am I writing this book? I am writing in the

totally selfless hope that this book will engender good-

will among all the nations of the earth, help dean the

environment, and lead to the development of inexpen-

sive solar power.

“Ok, ok.

“I am really writing this book to make people aware of

Micro Endeavors’ FoxPro training dasses. Not the

most altruistic motivation I admit, but an honest one.

We have trained more than 3,000 FoxPro program-

mers at Micro Endeavors, and most of them have

asked for a book to take back to the office. Well folks,

here’s the book I promised. Enjoy.”

George F. Goley, IV fFrom the introduc-

tion to his very influential book, Creating FoxPro

Applications]

It Can’t Get Any Easier......

We’ve come up with an easy way to submit articles to

the LA Fox Developer Newsletter one that has

been overlooked for a long time.

You can submit your articles to either Chuck Williams

(72330,2326) or Barry Lee (72723,3422) on

Compuserve.

These articles can be on any FoxPro-related topic,

whether it concerns a new technique you’ve discov-

ered, a certain development technique you may favor

over others, book reviews, etc.

The quality of this newsletter really depends on the

members that support it, not just read it. And I think

we’d all be surprised by the useful information that

could be circulated around the membership.

So

How ‘bout it?

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