The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

June 2000

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

Jonathan Melvin

Wayne Stahnke

David Satson

Mike Cummings

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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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 fmm Page 1)

mented using any database or OOP language. The application imple-

mented uses a true 3-tier architecture that isolates the presentation from,

business logic, from the data logic.

The Conceptual Design Methodology presented can create a conceptual

model from an existing data model and produce a web application to

manipulate that data model. Then the conceptual model can be modified

and a new data model, object model and web application created from the

new coneptual model. The principle goal of the methodology is to be able to

revise the conceptual model as needed and then quickly produce a working

application to support the new model.

Elsewhere

September 24-28, 2000, Advisor Visual FoxPro DevCon,

Fountainebleau Resort Hotel and Towers, Miami, FL. Speakers have

finally been announced. For more info, visit the website at http:/I

www.advisor.com/cmf0009p.nsf.

November 5-8, 2000, Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2000,

Hyatt Regency, Milwaukee, WI. More affectionately known as “Whil

Fest”. The fourth semi-annual (bi-annual?) Great Lakes Great Database

Workshop features 20 internationally recognized Visual FoxPro and

software development experts presenting over 45 different sessions on

Visual FoxPro 7.0 and related areas. For more info, visit the website at

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/conference/great_lakes_2000.htm.

Since We Last Met

Not to make anyone feel bad, but if you missed the NOLA conference, you

missed one heck of a conference. Strongly supported by Microsoft, the

attendees learned all sorts of new stuff, as well as received a very large

sneak preview of VFP7 and VS7. You can still “research” the conference

by pointing your browser to the Universal Thread at http://

www.universalthread.com and clicking on DevConnections NOLA Report (on

the left-hand side of the screen). You can even view the WebCast of the

keynote address by clicking on ‘WebCast of Keynote Address” once you

get to the UT NOLA Report, or by going directly to http://

msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/technology/keynote.asp.

I was pleasantly surprised by the cross-pollination being taken advantage of

by the attendees and vendors of the three conferences...VFP, SQL, and

DevCon 200 Connections.

We’ll be discussing this event more at this month’s meeting.