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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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VFP 6.0 Announcement
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object-oriented framework allows programmers to more rapidly build menus, forms, installers, and other common development parts.
Exclusive to FoxPro among Microsoft’s Visual Studio tools suite is a new Component Gallery, which uses a visual interface similar to Windows Explorer to help developers catalog, locate, manage, and share application classes, widgets, and components.
The VFP 6.0 release also adds support for building multitier distributed applications, and leverages the company’s Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) to scale components at run time. The MTS support, along with better Active Server Pages (ASP) and Internet Information Server (IlS) integration, should help FoxPro developers exploit the new distributed and Web environments, Microsoft officials say.
To give developers more control over application performance, VFP 6.0 features an automatic coverage profiler that logs and times every line of code executed. The process, officials say, is fully automatic. “You just turn the logging on, and that’s it,” says Robert Green, Microsoft Visual FoxPro product manager. ‘It will find ‘dead’ code, and also flag those parts of your application that are consuming the most resources, in terms of performance.”
Honeywell used VFP to build and maintain one of the firm’s data Narehouses, which polls multiple SQL and mainframe data sources worldwide, filters and acquires updated data, cleans and normalizes it, and then makes it available to plant users though FoxPro application data tables running on a Windows desktop or through a Web browser.
‘Certain people in Honeywell would call me a renegade for using FoxPro to build a data warehouse,” Lanctot says. “But as far as rapid database application development goes, we’ve been able to run circles around other data warehousing development teams in other divisions.”
Pricing for the new tool has not been set.
Keep an eye on the LA Fox website
(http://www.mesllc.com/
lafox.html)
while DevCon is going on. I’m not making any promises, but we’ll try to keep you updated on the goings-on, on a day-by-day basis.
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(Ed. Note: This is a cool little site / happened upon one day while surfing around the ‘Net. ..check it out at
http://discovernet.net/~dhenton/ghtml/vfpfree.html.]
Disclaimer: Unless stated otherwise by the author, all software from this site is presented as is, without warranty of any kind express or implied. The site maintainer makes no claims as to suitability for a given task. Users of these programs understand that they assume all responsibility for the proper use of this code, and for making certain that it applies to the jobs they want to do.
Data Envwonrnent Extractor
AUTHOR: Arnon Gal-Oz ontime@NetVision.net.il CompuServe : 100310,457
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away. You get OOP in VFP, but you don’t get to OOP those spiffy little Data Environment setup things in forms. This utility extracts the info and creates a prg that contains a data enivironment class. For those of you who like to do things for yourself.
Download Data Environment Extractor 24 K
Hiahliahtina A Sinale Row on a Grid
AUTHOR: Donaby Henton Straight Arrow Consulting, LLC dhenton@rvlink.com
A code sample that answers the pressing question: just what is dynamicbackcolor for, anyway? This demo form illustrates a method of highlighting a single row on a grid object. Look at the custom method in the form and the keypress event in the grid textboxes.
Download Grid Highlight Demo 8 K
If you’re male and anticipating taking the new anti-impotence pill, Viagra, I’ve heard you have to swallow the pill really fast otherwise, you’ll get a stiff neck. <g>
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May 1998
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