The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

February 1998

The L.A 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.

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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.

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Out and About (Con’t from Page 1) graphs;

A naming convention that allows automatic generation of a data dictionary;

Transparent splitting of very large tables (>2GB) into separate files that can reside on separate disks or even separate servers;

Per table SQL query optimization.

Each feature will be described in detail.

The discussion will also cover:

How half a million lines of code were converted from FoxPro for DOS and Windows to Visual FoxPro last fall by two people in 6 weeks;

Internet communication issues;

Strategies used for deploying and maintaining 200 field computers; Database problems that have come up and their resolution; Performing system customization regularly required by specific customers.

March 16, 1998, 7:30 PM - Michael Meer. Mike is Vice President of Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC, developers of highly-customized, mission critical applications written in FoxPro. For this session, he’ll be demonstrating Visual MaxFrame Professional, an application framework developed by Drew Speedie. He’ll take you through the basic framework principles, develop an application on-the-fly, and address customization issues, if time allows. You gotta be here for this one.

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May 17 to 20, 1998 - Visual FoxPro DevCon ‘98. Microsoft and Advisor Publications surprised all of us by announcing their next DevCon for May of 1998 to be held in Orlando at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Hotel. Call (800) 368-3204 or (203) 268-3204 to make your reservations. You can fax at (203) 261-3884. The email is vfpdevcon98@advisor.com. Stay tuned, right here, for more details. (Ed.Note: Check out the lead article in this month’s issue on page 1.]

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.htmt), 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.]

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