The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

VFP 6.0 Announcement (Con’t from page 1)

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 compo-

nents.

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 applica-

tion that are consuming the most resources, in terms of perfor-

mance.”

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.

DevCon Updates

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.

VISUAL FOXPRO

Sample Programs

(Ed. Note: This is a cool little site / happened upon one day

while surfing around the ‘Net. ..check it out at http://discover-

net.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 Environ-

ment 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

(Con't, page 8)

Viagra Warning!!

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>

May 1998