The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

July 1999

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.

LA Fox Address

LA Fox

Barry R. Lee

714/375-3300

P.O. Box 6624

Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624

LA Fox Board of Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Jonathan Melvin

Wayne Stahnke

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)

And what would the Christmas party be without The White Elephant Gift

Exchange? So come prepared for a good time.

Elsewhere

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 informa-

tion, 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.

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

limitations, is an excellent source of information on almost all Y2K FoxPm

issues and can be found by pointing your browser to: http:II

msdn.microsoft.com/library/backgrnd/html/

vfpy2khtm#vfpy2k_languagemanipdt.

The complete contents of this article include information on: Quick

Reference of Date Issues, Ambiguous Dates, How To Use This Document,

Detecting Date Issues, Coding To Resolve Date Ambiguity, Date Language,

Language PossiblyAffected by Year 2000, Language for Manipulating

Dates, Language for Controlling Dates, Strict Date Format Errors, and

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