July1999

The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

The LA Fox Developer the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox Developers Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with FoxPro.

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LA Fox Board of Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

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.

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Out and About (Con’t from Page 1)

And what would the Christmas party be without The White Elephant Gift Exchange? So come prepared for a good time.

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, Drew Speedie, and others. 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/conf99.html. For your convenience, the conference registration form can be found on page 9 of this newsletter or you may download it from the conference website. It’s still the best deal going!!

VFE DevCon, September 19-22, 1999, Mohte Carlo, Las Vegas, NV.

That’s right, it’s happening again. Fl Technologies is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 5th almost annual Visual FoxExpress Developers Conference. The annual Visual FoxExpress developers conference has long been the premier third party application development tool event. This year they've teamed up with Markus EggerofEPS Software and Rick Strahl of West-Wind Technologes to bring you an event like no other - The Visual FoxExpress Mega Double Impact Extreme DevCon! This one-of-a - kind event focuses on the hottest Visual FoxPro application development techniques including OOP, COM, DCOM, XML, DHTML and more, as well as using best-of-breed tools such as Visual FoxExpress, Web Connection and Visual WebBuilder for creating desktop, client-server, n-tier and Internet/I ntranet applications. You can register for both events forjust $1099, the Visual FoxExpress Developers Conference from Sunday Wednesday for $599 or the Mega Double Impact Event from Wednesday to Sunday is also just $599. For more info, visit Fl’s website at http:// www.fltech.com.

Y2K Support in FoxPro (Con’t fmm page 8)

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