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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
March 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

LA Fox Board of Directors
Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor
Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs
Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership
Chuck Williams, President Emeritus
George Dvorak
Bill Seldon
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 Developers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox Developer Newsletter, is $48.

Disclaimer
Neither the LA Fox User Group, the XPro User Group, the OC FoxPro Developers Group, their officers or board of directors or their members make any express or implied warranties of any kind with regard to any information disseminated, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and/ or fitness for a particular DurDose.

Opinions provided by newsletter articles, or by speakers, members, or guests who address the meetings, are individual opinions only, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the group. All opinions and information should be carefully considered, and the group is not liable for any incident or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing or use of any information or opinions. Brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Elsewhere,....
Conferences play an important and useful part in the FoxPro community. Here’s a rundown of upcoming events:

FoxTeach, April 10-12, 1999, The Delta Chelsea Inn, Toronto,
Canada. Val Matison is resurrecting the conference he ran for six years in Canada. The show runs for two days this year: April 10,1 12 1999. That’s Sunday and Monday. Opening sessions will be presented the even ing before the main conference begins. On the first day of the event, sessions will go late into the evening. This is a first for the conference but he thinks t will be well-accepted. This conference will have three tracks * beginper, intermediate and advanced.

The conference is sponsored by Microsoft Canada, Matison Consulting
Group, Object Arts, Hentzenwerke, Stonefield Systems, GE Capital
Consulting, Micro Mega Systems, West Wind Technologies, The Universal
Thread, Fl Technologies, and Steven Black Consulting.

Confirmed Speakers: Steven Black, Jim Booth, Eldor Gemst, Ken Levy Randy Brown, Robert Green, Drew Speedie, John Peterson, Rod paddock, Whil Hentzen, Ted Roche, Rick Strahl, Doug Hennig, Markus Egger

Costs: 749 $CDN until March 12, 799 $CDN thereafter or in 517 $US until March 12, 551 $US thereafter. The conference fee entitles you session notes and source code from all sessions on CD ROM, welcome reception, product discounts, lunch and refreshment breaks on both full conference days. The US dollar is very strong compared to the Canadian dollar. Each US dollar is worth approximately $1.50 Canadian. This confer ence and the hotel are very inexpensive.

For further Info and details, visit Val’s website at http://www.dbcentral.com call 800-265-1362 or416-444-1071, ore-mail him at matisonv@dbcentral.com.

“Make it Happen!”

Microsoft Tech-Ed 99, May 21-28,1999, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX. Micosoft Tech-Ed 99 has been expanded to ive you choice of three days of focusing on IT operations management - the people who plan, evaluate, deploy, maintain, and support IT systems or five of devel oper courses for those who design, develop, or test software applications For more info, go to http://events.microsoft.com/events/teched.

Visual FoxPro DevCon 99, June 6-10 Palm Springs. The Tenth Anniver sary of Microsoft Visual FoxPro and DevCon! Don’t miss the Tenth Anniversary 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 Considering howfastthe 1998 DevCon filled up, don't wait too long!! Register soon to
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