2 VFPX: Open Source Extensions
Rick Schummer
9 Deep Dive: A Generic Import Utility, Part 1
Doug Hennig
15 New Ways: Parsing und Building File and Path Names
Tamar E. Granor, PhD
19 KitBox: Managing Global Variables
Marcia G. Akins, Andy Kramek
23 Blog: Advantage Database Server V9.0, available soon
Andy Kramek
VFPX: Open Source Extensions
Rick Schummer
In 2007 I presented a session on VFPX at four Visual FoxPro Conferences in the United States and Europe. During each of the sessions I asked, “How many of you have heard of VFPX?” Approximately 10 to 15 percent of the people sitting in the room raised their hand. Since I believe VFPX is a significant part of the future of Visual FoxPro, this is a disturbing revelation. The goal of this series of articles is to introduce you to the VFPX open source project, and to do some high level overviews of the different tools and components, as well as some deepdives to show how they can be used in your day-to-day development of Visual FoxPro solutions.
This article will describe VFPX, provide a short history of this project, show you where on the Internet you will find VFPX, and provide an overview of the Web site......
Deep Dive: A Generic Import Utility, Part 1
Doug Hennig
Data entry forms aren’t the only way your users want to put data into their applications. Often, important data is stored in other applications, so you need a way to import that data into your application. This article, part 1 of a two-part series, presents a generic import utility you can add to your applications to provide import capabilities from a variety of data sources......
New Ways: Parsing und Building File and Path Names
Tamar E. Granor, PhD
I started using FoxBase+ nearly 20 years ago. In the evolution from that remarkably able product to Visual FoxPro 9, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new elements have been added to the FoxPro programming language. Each new version has introduced not only new capabilities, but new ways to do old things.......
KitBox: Managing Global Variables
Marcia G. Akins, Andy Kramek
The use of Public Variables in FoxPro applications has long been regarded as poor design. However there are many situations in which a variable that can be accessed, or updated, from anywhere in the application is really the only feasible way of handling things. In this article, Andy and Marcia design a data driven "Variable Manager" class that can either be instantiated directly, or can be attached to an application object, to manage variables that need to be globally available......
Blog: Advantage Database Server V9.0, available soon
Andy Kramek
Sybase Anywhere have been working on a Visual FoxPro compatible version of the Advantage Database Server for some time and, just before Christmas, the long-awaited Version 9.0 was released in Beta. You can download the Beta version (time limited until mid of March, beta license expiring on March 28th) from here:....