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

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Developer Newsletter, is $48.

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Out and About (Con't from Page 1)

these books have been revised for the Visual Studio 6. DPSI can be found

at www.dashpoint.com.

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 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 howfastthe 1998 DevCon filled up, don't wait too long!! Register soon to

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