The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California

July 1997

More DevCon Details

Announced

VISUAL FOXPRO DEVELOPER CONFERENCE 1997 is the

eighth almost-annual gathering of FoxPro developers from

around the world. This is where you can gather with the best in

the industry, members of the Microsoft Visual FoxPro product

team, and developers from around the world to learn how to

solve your programming puzzles. Find out how to get it done

with Visual FoxPro and the Microsoft Visual Tools. This year’s

DEVCON is co-sponsored by Advisor Publications, publisher of

the magazines for using FoxPro, database, client-server and

Internet technology to build business solutions.

Learn exactly what you want to know. With several topic

concentrations and dozens of sessions to choose from, you can

select your own training path and emphasis. Get technical

education in the key aspects of developing with Visual FoxPro

5.0, Microsoft BackOffice, ActiveX, component creation, Internet

technology, and other Microsoft development tools.

Get an immediate and huge boost in productivity. In a few days,

you’ll gain knowledge and skills that might otherwise require

months of trial-and-error experimentation. Previous FoxPro

DevCon attendees have told us this is the best place to get in-

depth technical information regarding Visual FoxPro. If you are

developing in Visual FoxPro you can’t afford to miss this

conference and the insight you will receive on the current and

future versions of FoxPro.

Discover the most important features of Visual FoxPro 5.0 and

other Microsoft visual development tools. The problems you can

solve with Microsoft’s development, database, client-server,

Internet, ActiveX, and Windows technology are amazing. But

knowing where to start and how to move forward can be daunt-

ing. This conference shows you exactly what’s important, what’s

not, and how to make it all work for you now and in the future.

Learn from the leading expert application developers. Confer-

ence speakers are direct from the Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0

development team as well as the leaders in the FoxPro commu-

nity. All speakers are intimately involved in Visual FoxPro 5.0.

You will have an opportunity to meet with and discuss your

current development challenges with the leading trainers,

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At LA Fox

July 21, 1997, 7:30 PM - Miriam Liskin. Miriam is extremely

well-known for her contributions to the FoxPro community. She

writes a regular column for FoxPro Advisor and has authored

many books on the subject of FoxPro application development.

Her most recent books are Miriam Liskin’s Visual FoxPro

Expert Solutions (Que) and PC Magazine Programming FoxPro

2.5 (Ziff-Davis). Topic: An introduction to two basic strategies

for publishing FoxPro data on the Internet. The first involves

using FoxPro programs to generate static HTML pages,

which can then be placed on any Internet server. The second

involves using third-party tools to facilitate dynamic access to

FoxPro data. She’ll talk about the advantages and disadvan-

tages of these two approaches and suggest some strategies for

overcoming the limitations of currently available tools.

[One of the items we will be discussing Monday night will be

September’s meeting, which falls on the 15th and is in conflict

with DevCon. We’d like to meet that month, tentatively on the

22nd, but because of commitments the airport has with other

groups, we’ll need an alternate place to meet. If any one in the

group has any ideas, or a place, please bring them to the

meeting this Monday evening. And if you can’t make the

meeting, but know of a place, please call me at 800/499-6237,

ore-mail me at brlee@mesllc.com.]

Elsewhere

September 14-17, 1997. The motherof all FoxPro Developer

Conferences convenes in San Diego. Please see the lead article

in the adjacent column for all the latest details.

September 22-26, 1997. MicroEndeavors is coming to LA with

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and much more!

Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

The July meeting of LA Fox will be held on

July 21,1996, 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.

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