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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California
March 1996
The Death of FoxPro and More
Contributed by Kirk Nason, via The Internet

Microsoft(R) DevWire
DevWire: Microsoft FrontPage Free Trial Offer

In this Email:
1.
Microsoft FrontPage Free Trial Offer
2.
Two New Titles In The Microsoft Mastering Series
3.
FoxPro News
4.
Active VRML
5.
MSDN Ships Pre-Release of Windows NTW4.O
6.
Access95 Beta Exam has been Extended to 3.7.96
7.
Address Book Changes for VC++ or MSDN Subscribers
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topics mentioned in DevWire cite a web page but there is never
an URL listed?
Answer: Visit the DevWire page for links to all of the pages
mentioned below. The URL is http//www.microsoft.com/
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1.
Microsoft FrontPage Free Trial Offer
Visit the Microsoft FrontPage web page to learn about how you
can receive a free trial copy of Microsoft FrontPage! See for
yourself how FrontPage streamlines the creation and manage-
ment of your own web site. Please be aware that this trial offer
is only available for a limited time and that product support will
not be provided.
2.
Two New Titles In The Microsoft Mastering Series
Want to learn your MFCs? Check out “Mastering Microsoft
Visual C++,” a new, interactive learning tool that takes develop-
ers through the steps required to create professional-level
solutions using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). It’ll be
available in mid-March. Now how about the DAO of Microsoft
Access? Hot on the heels of MVC is “Mastering Microsoft
Access Programming” which will be available at the end of
March. This title helps you gain expertise in Visual Basic for
Applications, DAO, and OLE development in the Access
environment.
3.
FoxPro News
a)ln the wake of an internal reorganization in its Developer
Division, Microsoft has reaffirmed its commitment to the
Microsoft Visual FoxPro database management system.
(Con't page 7)
March 18, 1996, 7:30 PM - Sally Wong, Computer Re-
sources Technology. Sally will be presenting a system
modeling tool, XCase for Fox (distributed exclusively in the US
by Neon Software), that enables developers to design and work
through their system model, review their assumptions, identify
red undant fields and relationships, produce a logic diagram
(among others), etc., and then output to the VFP DBC. She'll
also be bringing a copy of the software to raffle off. (Only paid-
up members will be eligible for the dre wing.)

April 15, 1996, 7:30 PM - Roger Woodsmall and Mark Deric.
Roger will be returning with his latest version of AutoManual. To
jog everyone’s memory, Roger demonstrated his DOS product
to LA Fox about 1-1/2 years ago. He now has a VFP product
that automatically generates end-user documentation for any
VFP application to a MS Word file. Mark Deric, of Laguna
Group-ware, is the author of the HotLink interface which con-
nects FoxPro to various commercially available Internet VVorkJ
Wide Web servers. He will present the interface and discuss its
operation in conjunction with the techniques used in coding a
FoxPro-driven website. The websites used for the presentation
will include the Laguna Groupware site http://www.laguna1.com
the SoluMed Medical EquipNet site http://www.solumed.com,
and the demo site included with the HotLink product. In addi-
tion, he will discuss some of the other FoxPro interfaces that
are available on the market, highlighting the various approaches
to the interface software architecture.

May 20, 1996, 7:30 PM - Jonathon Melvin and Jim Thomp-
son. Jon be talking about “VFP: The Good, The Bad, and The
Ugly - post mortom of a completed inventory application".

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and much more!
Out and About
by Barry R. Lee
The March meeting of LA Fox will be held on
Mar.18, 1996, at 7:30 PM at our regular meet-
ing place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport
Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get
there, see the map on the back page.
In this issue
More SCREEN and _SCREEN Tips
FoxPro 2000 and Beyond
Windows API Calls
Simple but Effective Security

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