The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

August 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

L A 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.

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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.

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want to completely rewrite your existing applications but you need the latest technologies to stay competitive - You can’t afford to miss this seminar from Micro Endeavors. Micro Endeavors and Microsoft® are committed to your success. They have teamed up to provide you with all the concepts, code and tools necessary to take full advantage of today’s technologies. This seminar will demonstrate the most efficient and cost- effective techniques to convert your FoxPro 2.x code to Visual FoxPro®; all while maximizing the use of your existing code. [Ed. Note: See Feature story on Page 3.)

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 alt the details right here. So start making plans now to attend. (Ed.

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DCI’S INTERNET EXPO, Sept. 1-3, Boston: Focuses on business-to- business Internet solutions; phone 978-470-3870 or go to http:ll www.dci.com/lntem

LEARN IT. KNOW IT. BUILD IT. September 2,1998- Developer Days 98 ** Coming to Long Beach ** September28 - October 30-Visual Studio Developer Training Month. On September 2nd, plan to attend the most important developer event of the year. Developer Days 98. Then prepare yourself for the Visual Studio Developer Training month in October. A three-day intensive training class on “Mastering Distributed Application Design Using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0”, brought to you by your nearest Authorized Training Education Center (ATEC). For more information visit http://www.miccrosoft.com/devdays/

ADVISOR Developer Workshop, October 5-6, 1998, Phoenix, Anzona, Pointe Hilton Resort at Squaw Peak. The power of Visual FoxPro

6.0 is awesome, but you need to learn how to use it. That’s the purpose of ADVISOR Developer Workshop on Visual FoxPro 6.0. Presented by VFP DevCon speakers, book authors, and experts Rod Paddock and John Petersen, you’ll attend 10 sessions packed with professional guidance on how to migrate to and master Visual FoxPro 6.0. Whether you missed DevCon in May or you’re ready for hard-core training, this is the Visual FoxPro workshop that will get you going. Space is absolutely limited, so sign up soon and bring a friend. For further info, go to http:// www.advisor.com/fw9810c.nsf/wPages/Main.

1998 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER CONFERENCE (PDC). Pre-conference: October 11, Denver, CO. Conference: October 12-15, Denver CO. All PDC attendees will receive an updated PDC version of Windows NT5 Beta 2. Registration for the PDC will open on Monday, June 29. For more information visit http://events.microsoft.com/events/pdc.

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