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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California
August 1997
DevCon “Add-ons”
Ken Levy’s Web-Centric Visual Foxpro Development seminar in San Diego, will be on Thursday, Sept. 18, 1997 (the day after Devcon). It will be held at the same hotel, which is the Sheraton. There is a 5% discount for User Group members or $236.55. For those who are attending Devcon, and register before August 30, there is an additional early bird 5% discount or $224.10 at the full 10% discounted price. To take advantage of the additional 5% early bird discount, payments must be received no later than the close of business on August 30. For further information or to register, contact Sally Wong by phone at (916) 446-3554, by fax at (916) 446-1522, or e-mail sally@softcom.net


Microsoft and Micro Endeavors team up a on two-day FoxPro Conversion Seminar. Now extended nationwide! You Can Teach an OLD Fox New Tricks. Due to the huge success of earlier east coast presentations. Microsoft and Micro Endeavors will present a series of two-day training seminars for developers upgrading from FoxPro 2.x to Visual FoxPro 5.0 nationwide!. The FoxPro Conversion Seminar will demonstrate the most efficient and cost-effective techniques for converting FoxPro 2.x code to Visual FoxPro while maximizing the use of existing code. In San Diego, September 18 & 19 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. Registration Fee: $595.00. All paid attendees will receive the following:

One (1) training manual
The MEl Migration Manual
The Suite of Migration & Design Tools and Code
Migration Tools
Design Tools
All demo code, example code, tool code

Call MEl at6l 0-853-9231 for more information, or call Advisor to register: 800-368-3204.
Out and About
by Barry R. Lee


At LA Fox
August 18, 1997, 7:30 PM - Barbara Peisch. Barbara Peisch will be our speaker this month. She’ll be covering the basics on how to start up and run a consulting business. Barbara is a Microsoft MVP and writes a monthly tips column for FoxTalk magazine. She is president of Peisch Custom Software, Inc. in San Diego county.

September 22, 1997, 7:30 PM - LA Fox welcomes a very special guest, MicroEndeavors. Please take special note in the change of date for this meeting. Since our regular meeting (Sept. 15th) falls during the San Diego DevCon, we’ve rescheduled. Thanks to Twila Miller, our treasurer, and a stroke of luck, we’ve been able to arrange for our regular meeting place at the Torrance Airport.

October 20, 1997, 7:30 PM - Peter Butterfield. Peter will be speaking on frameworks tonight.. .their uses, advantages, effectivity, what does or doesn’t make a good framework, etc.

Elsewhere
September 8-10, 1997. Visual C++ Developers Conference, at the Anaheim Marriot. This conference will include sessions on Internet Explorer 4.0; adding browser and Internet features to your applications with the Internet SDK; OLE DB and ADO; enterprise development with Visual C++ 5.0; plus many hardcore sessions in MFC, COM, ActiveX, and ATL. Cost of the conference is $1,095. For more details, call 800/811-3486, or visit their website at http://www.vcdj.com.

September 14-17, 1997. The mother of all FoxPro Developer Conferences convenes in San Diego. This is the eighth almost (Con’t, page 2)

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The August meeting of LA Fox will be held on Aug. 18, 1997, 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.
In this issue
Save the Environment
VFUG’s Hot Tips
Implement ActiveX Controls

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