The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1998

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox Developers Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with FoxPro.

LA Fox Address

LA Fox

P.O. Box 6624

Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624

LA Fox Board of Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Chuck Williams, President Emeritus

George Dvorak

Bill Seldon

Mike Cummings

Michael Meer

George Porter

LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in Southern California. The newsletter contains regular columns as well as articles from other user groups.

XPro User Group

2210 Wilshire Blvd. -#161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group

Membership/Subscription

The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Developers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox Developer Newsletter, is $48.

Disclaimer

Neither the LA Fox User Group, the XPro User Group, the OC FoxPro Developers Group, their officers or board of directors or their members make any express or implied warranties of any kind with regard to any information disseminated, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and! or fitness for a particular purpose.

Opinions provided by newsletter articles, or by speakers, members, or guests who address the meetings, are individual opinions only, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the group. All opinions and information should be carefully considered, and the group is not liable for any incident or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing or use of any information or opinions. Brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Out and About (Con’t from Page 1)

you saw Peter last year, at OC or LA Fox, you know that he is one of the original thinkers in the arena of developing VFP application frameworks.

JUNE Tenative: Products that fax from FoxPro.

JULY This is usually our Short Subjects night. Subject to change, you’re on the program!

COMING

Microsoft—after the release of Tahoe

Bill Anderson Visual Fox Express

[Ed. Note: Orange County FoxPro Developers Group meets at 7:00 PM on the 2nd Wednesday of each month in the Hard Disk Cafe at Ingram Micro, 1600 St. Andrews, Santa Ana. From anywhere, take a freeway until you get on the 55 between the 5 and the 405. Exit the 55 at Edinger and go WEST on Edinger. Turn left on Lyon. Go to the next stop sign, which is St Andrews. They meet in the Ingram Micro building across St. Andrews, to your right. Go in the front door, (or around the left to the back, they’re under construction and you never know), and enter thru security.]

VISUAL FOXPRO DEVCON 98 May 17-20, Orlando, FL. Come learn all about Tahoe, the next version of Microsoft Visual FoxPro at Visual FoxPro DevCon, presented by MSDN and FoxPro Advisor Magazine. For more information visit: http://www.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/http://www.advisor.com/ fc9805c.nsf/wPages/main.

MICROSOFT TFCHED 98 June 1-4 New Orleans, LA. This is the definitive technical conference for building complete solutions with Microsoft technologies. For more information or to register visit: http:// www.miccrosoft.com/events/teched/.

August 20-23, 1998 - 2nd Annual Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference. Sponsored by Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC, this conference was one of the highlights of the 1997 “conference season”, providing a chance to see nationally-known speakers in a somewhat smaller, more intimate setting. Last year, the conference drew attendees from New Jersey to The Phillipines. This time out, the conference is going to be held at The DoubleTree Hotel in Orange County. The conference WebSite is up and running (http://www.mesllc.com/conf98.html), providing all the details for this great cost-effective event. And, of course, you can follow all the details right here. So start making plans now to attend. [Ed. Note: For your convenience, a conference registration is included on page 9 of this issue.]

Since We Last Met

Important Announcement. We’re adding PageWatch Services to the LA Fox Website (http://www.mesllc.com/lafox.html). Certain pages - the download page, the meeting announcement page, etc. - will be “earmarked” with the PageWatch symbol to make it easier for you to monitor the website and stay current. If you’re interested, you just enter your e-mail address at the bottom of any page where the PageWatch symbol appears and you’ll be notified by e-mail (with a “hotlink” to the page) whenever the page changes.

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