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 re-

scheduled. 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-

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and much more!

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

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