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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.

LA Fox Address
LA Fox
Barry R. Lee
714/375-3300
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
Randy Unruh
310/399-9159
2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161
Santa Monica CA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group
Mike Vincent
(714)970-9147
MembershiplSubscription
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Develop-
ers 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.

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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 consid-
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consequential damages in connection with, or arising
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opinions. Brand names and product names may be
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tive owners.
Out and About (Con’t from Page 1)
graphs;
A naming convention that allows automatic generation of a data dictio-
nary;
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 custom-
ers.

March 16, 1998, 7:30 PM - Michael Meer. Mike is Vice President of
Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC, developers of highly-custom-
ized, 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.
Elspwherp..
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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