The LA Fox Developer

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March 1998

August Conference

Topics Announced

by Barry R. Lee

[Ed. Note: MicrocomputerEngineering Seivices, LLC

(MESLLC) wi//be sponsoring theirsecond annual FoxPro

conference, Aug. 20-23, 1998, in Costa Mesa, CA. Following is

a list of some of the speakers scheduled to present. Of

course, some of the subjects you’ll be seeing can’t be dis-

cussed at this moment because of NDA obligations. However,

ydu can find out a//the latest information by visiting their

website at http://www.mesllc.com/conf98.htm.]

Mike Feitman

The Do’s & Don’ts of Framework Design

Mike Feltman is one of the most experienced framework

designers in the FoxPro community, with experience in develop-

ing commercial frameworks dating back to FoxPro 2.0. In this

session Mike will reveal many of the secrets he’s learned the

hard way. Mike will discuss using decorators and observers to

work around VFP limitations, creating objects that can be used

without having in-depth knowledge of their inner workings, loose

vs. tight coupling of objects, providing a high level of functionality

without sacrificing flexibility, the trade-offs of composite classes

and more. This session is intended for developers that are either

writing their own framework, trying to choose a framework or

developers trying to gain insight into the thought processes

behind the design of the framework they’re using today.

Eldor Gemst

Introduction to Remote views

Remote Views are the VFP component most commonly used

for Client/Server applications. This session gets you up to

speed quickly. What can you do with a Remote View? How do

you set one up? What tricks can save you time and frustration?

How do you handle update conflicts? How can you get more

power than is apparent through the View Designer? Eldor

Gemst shows you all of this and more in this intermediate-level

session.

Tamar Granor

New Language Features in i anoe

Each version of Visual FoxPro adds to the command language

(Con't page 3)

March 16, 1998, 7:30 PM - Michael Meer. Mike is Vice

President of Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC, develop-

ers 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 aiiows. You gotta be here for tnis

one.

April 27, 1998, 7:30 PM - An Evening With Robert Green.

Robert is a product manager in the Developer Tools Marketing

division at Microsoft, focusing on data access technologies. He

is the lead technical champion for Visual FoxPro and wrote the

Visual FoxPro session for Developer Days 97. He is a frequent

speaker at Visual FoxPro conferences and is the author of

Developing Client/Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and

SQL Server (Pinnacle Publishing’s Pros Talk Visual FoxPro

series). His articies nave appearea in FOXPRO AL) Vi SUK ana

Fox Talk and he has spoken at the last four FoxPro DevCons.

This night he’ll be presenting a special preview of”Tahoe”. We

can’t call it “VFP6.0” until after the Orlando DevCon, but I don’t

think you want to miss this one. Please note the date change

for this meeting. This meeting is being held at the DoubleTree

Hotel in Costa Mesa, CA. 3050 Bristol StreetS Costa Mesa, CA

92626.

Elsewhere...

Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

The March meeting of LA Fox will be held on

March 16, 1998, at 7:30 PM at our regular

meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301

Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on

how to get there, see the map on the back

page.

At LA Fox

In this issue

Checking for instantiated

Give the DBC a

Tip of the Month

Subclassing the VF

(Con’t, page 2)

Page 5

Page 6

Page 7

Page 8 and much more!