The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

September 1998

Back By Popular Demand!

VFE DevCon!

from Fl Technologies

ThaVs right, it’s happening again. Fl Technologies is pleased to

announce that it will be hosting the 4th almost annual Visual

FoxExpress Developers Conference from November 8th-I Ith at

Treasure Island in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year we’ve really out

done ourselves and expect this DevCon to be the best FE

DevCon to date! Our list of speakers includes Visual FoxPro

and Visual FoxExpress experts Steven Black of Steven Black

Consulting, Randy Brown of Microsoft, Jim Duffy of TakeNote

Computing, Markus Egger of EPS Software, our own Mike

Feltman and Toni Feltman, Doug Hennig of Stonefield Systems

Group, Ken Levy of ClassX - subcontractor for Microsoft, Randy

McAtee, John Petersen of Integrated Database Technologies,

and Jeff Kuehn and Elif Kurklu from DesignMind.

For those of you still working in FoxPro 2.6 with FoxExpress

you’ll be pleased to know that on Sunday, November 8th, we will

be offering a special pre-conference seminar entitled “Migrating

FoxExpress 2.x Applications to Visual FoxExpress.” This

special pre-conference seminar is included at no charge with

conference registration, however, you must pre-registerto

attend.

We are also pleased to announce.that EPS Software will be

conducting a one-day seminar on usinq its new product, Visual

Web Builder, on Sunday, November 8th. Further details on this

event will be posted as soon as they are available.

The conference will focus on Visual FoxExpress 98, key Visual

FoxPro topics in helping you understand Visual FoxExpress 98

and the integration of other popular Visual FoxPro products with

Visual FoxExpress 98.

Exhibitors in this year’s tradeshow include Fl Technologies,

Stonefield Systems, TakeNote Computing, ClassX and EPS

Software.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone using Visual FoxExpress to develop applications should

seriously consider attending VFE DevCon. VFE DevCon is the

only opportunity for you to receive training from the authors of

Visual FoxExpress as well as noted Visual FoxPro and Visual

FoxExpress experts all under one roof. We’ve also placed a lot

of emphasis on topics that will help you understand the design

of VFE and how to leverage VFE components in other applica-

tions. These topics will most likely not be presented anywhere

else! Because the conference will coincide closely with the

release of Visual FoxExpress 98 it will also be the best opportu-

nity for you to learn all about the new features in Visual

FoxExpress 98.

Are You New to VFP?

We’re pleased to announce that we have made special arrange-

ments with Jim Duffy of Takenote computing, one of the most

respected Visual FoxPro instructors around, to hold a special

one day “Introduction to Visual FoxPro” course at Treasure

Island on Saturday, November 7th. This course is designed to

give you a jump start on Visual FoxPro so you won’t be totally

clueless for the rest of the conference! The Introduction to

Visual FoxPro couse will focus on those Visual FoxPro topics

that are most key to understanding object-orientation and the

new features in Visual FoxPro. The cost to attend this special

seminar is just $299 if you also register for VFE DevCon. If

you’d like to just attend the one day course the cost is $399.

Tune in here in a few weeks for a complete outline of the

course.

Registration and Costs

To register for Visual FoxExpress DevCon 98, contact Fl

Technologies today at (419)255-6366, e-mail info@fltech.com.

The cost of the conference, is just $599 US. If you register

before September 1st, you’ll receive a $100 discount on the

registration price. If you register before September 31st, you’ll

receive a $50 discount on the registration price. Payment must

be received with your registration in order to receive a discount.

If multiple people from your organization register for the confer-

ence you may deduct an additional $50 from each registration

after the 1st registration.

Speakers

Steven Black

Randy Brown

Jim Duffy

Markus Egger Toni Feltman

Mike Feltman

Doug Hennig

Jeff Kuehn

Elif Kurklu

Ken Levy

Randy McAtee John Petersen

Travis Vandersypen

FoxPro Q&A (Con’t fmm page 9)

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* Now suppose you want two different fields from the child table:

office, phone Ijstring office+’ ‘+phone

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