The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California October 1995

I’ve Bought Visual FoxPro -

Now What?

By Whil Hentzen

1. Don’t install VFP under a directory called “VFP”

or VISUALFP” or something like that. You can bet

we’ll be seeing a maintenance upgrade in the next

few months, and now you’ll either haveto install a

second directory called VFPa or get rid of the

original version and install on top of it.

When you consider that you’ve probably already

got a few versions of FoxPro floating around, this

gets confusing. Try this instead:

Create a single directory called something like

“FP.” I put this right next to my WINNT32 directory,

because they’re equally important to me.

Under the FP directory, create directories for each

version of FoxPro. This way, you’d have a direc-

tory structure like so:

Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

October 16, 1995, 7:30 PM - Savannah Brentnall.

Savannah Brentnall is an independent consultant

specializing in object orientation and is a founding

partner of the Visual Training Group, which specializes

in object technology training. Savannah and her

company have recently joined forces with Flash Cre-

ative Management to offer VTG’s two-day course on

object orientation to FoxPro audiences. She has

spoken at conferences and user groups around the

world and has programmed in Xbase since 1984.

It is only fitting that Savannah is speaking at Octo-

ber's meeting. It was just about two years ago, come

October, that she spoke on object orientation, at an LA

Fox meeting, and everyone thought, ‘Well, that’s nice

and everything, but how does it apply to me?” My,

how times have changed!

November 20, 1995, 7:30 PM - Microcomputer

Engineering Services, LLC (MES). Microcomputer

Engineering Seivices, LLC (MES) has been develop-

ing custom FoxPro applications for clients all over

Southern California, as well as other parts of the

country, during the last several years. MES special-

izes in system analysis/design, custom software

systems written in FoxPro, third-party add-in products,

and quality/productivity improvement. On this night,

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The October meeting of LA Fox will be held on

Oct.16, 1995, at 7:30 PM 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.

(Con’t, page 2)

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