The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1999

The LA 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

A Fox Board nf Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Chuck Williams, President Emeritus

George Dvorak

David Salson

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

Membership/Subscription

The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Develop-

ers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox

Developer Newsletter, is $48.

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Out and About (Con't from Page 1)

Visual FoxPro DevCon 99, June 6-10 Palm Springs. The Tenth Anniver-

sary of Microsoft Visual FoxPro and DevCon! Don’t miss the Tenth Anniver-

sary Visual FoxPro Developer Conference 1999, the annual gathering of

FoxPro developers from around the world. DevCon is essential technical

education for serious FoxPro developers. DevCon puts you face-to-face with

the leading FoxPro experts, members of the Microsoft Visual FoxPro

product team, and FoxPro professionals from around the world. Consider-

ing how fast the 1998 DevCon filled up, don’t wait too long!! Register soon to

assure your admittance and your room in the host hotel. Get ready for the

massive technical training you’ll get at Visual FoxPro DevCon, sponsored

by Microsoft and FoxPro Advisor magazine. For further information, keep

your eye on FoxPro Advisor Magazine and their website at http:ll

www.advisor.com.

3rd Annual Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference, August

26-29, 1999, DoubleTree Hotel, Costa Mesa, CA. Sponsored by Micro-

computer Engineering Services, LLC (MESLLC), this show promises to be

one of the highlights of the conference season.The event will be held at The

Doubletree Hotel in Costa Mesa, CA, the site of last year’s conference.

We’ll be following the same format of having the opening/keynote address

on the evening of the 26th, with actual sessions beginning on Friday

morning, the 27th, and running through Sunday, the 29th. Currently, the

confirmed speakers for the conference are Menachem Bazian, Jim Booth,

Randy Brown, Gary Dewitt, Mike Feltman, Toni Feltman, Eldor Gemst,

Tamar Granor, Y.Alan Griver, Doug Hennig, Ken Levy, Rod Paddock, John

Petersen, Steve Sawyer, and Drew Speedie. More speakers will be

"signing up” over the next 30 days to complete the roster. Attendees will

have their choice of approximately 70 sessions to sit in on. For further

information, keep your browsers pointed to http://www.mesllc.com/

con f99.html. For your convenience, the conference registration form can be

found on page 9 of this newsletter or you may download it from the confer-

ence website. It’s still the best deal going!!

Since We Last Met

Our two-part feature article beginning in this issue of The Developer,

“Inserting/Retrieving Files in a DBF” by Pat Boen, opens up some very

intriguing possibilities for VFP development. Part 1 covers background and

necessary functions to effect the saving of files to a DBF. Part 2 will focus

on the retrieval of those files. FOCUS.FLL is referenced, at the end of the

article. You may find it useful to integrate this function library into your

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Time is Running Out...

1st Price Break Window Closing

Time is running out on the first price break window for The Third Annual

Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference. April 30, 1999, will be the

last opportunity to register for the conference at the low price of $375. As

of May 1, the price for the conference will jump to $450, which will be

effective through June 30, 1999. After June 30, and until August 19, the

conference fee will jump to $550. After August 19, the fee will be $675. So

beat the clock and save some money. Register by April 30.

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