The Panda and The Fox
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 24. Dec, 2009 | 1 Comment
Be careful when you name your software after animals, as not all animals get along well. At first.
On VFP and MySql ConnectionStrings
Posted by Eric in Database, FoxPro on 30. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
I’ve begun doing some preliminary data warehousing of VFP data into MySql in order to test the speed, similar to what I did a few posts back with Advantage Database Server. Since MySql can’t just use VFP tables the way Advantage can, I created a script to manually load the already extracted and [...]
Results of In-Depth Testing of Visual Foxpro vs. Advantage Database Server
Posted by Eric in Database, FoxPro on 19. Nov, 2009 | 4 Comments
I was able to spend quite a bit of time configuring a copy of Advantage Database Server (ADS), and then running a series of tests to compare its performance against native Visual Foxpro (VFP). For the ADS, I created a new database on the server and pointed it at a folder of VFP tables. [...]
Sybase Advantage Database Server @ MPCUG
Posted by Eric in C#, FoxPro, Web on 12. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Last night Jay and Chris from Sybase took a detour after their presentation at Chicago’s FoxPro User/Developer’s Group to come up to Madison to give a presentation to the Madison FoxPro Users Group.
Top 10 Memories of Southwest Fox 2009
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 19. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
10. For an interesting, insider perspective you can read everyone’s twitter feeds during the event. You don’t need a twitter account to use this, and it only shows you the ones that where tagged with a ‘#swfox’ tag, which isn’t required and not everyone did on every post, but it’s insightful to say the least. [...]
For Each … FoxObject
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 18. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Here’s a tip taken from Tamar’s session:
Prior to VFP 9, enumerating through a collection object rendered COM objects which were…problematic. In VFP9, Microsoft apparently introduced a FOXOBJECT keyword which will not make it a COM object, but rather a native VFP object. This speeds things up tremendously, improves memory and stability, and reduces overhead. I [...]
Getting Your Head Around Business Objects, with Tamar Granor
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 18. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
I chose this session with very low expectations. After all, I had been using business objects pretty religiously for quite a while and consider myself adept at their usage. I get really annoyed when I encounter an app whose business logic is embedded in the U/I, but I try to make my clients understand that [...]
What’s Guineu?
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 17. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Well, it’s Catalan for Fox, but that’s not really your question is it?
It’s also a slick runtime that allows you to run most VFP apps in a .NET runtime. Wha? Yes. And that means you can run VFP apps on Windows Mobile or Linux or of course Windows. It’s a commercial product by Christof of [...]
10+ Toolbox Tips, with Tamar Granor
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 17. Oct, 2009 | 2 Comments
Most developers will bend over backwards for their clients. Once I had to change every data entry textbox in a large, well-known accounting app so the client never had to put in a decimal point. They did the math on how many man-hours that would save and decided it was worth the cost amortized over [...]
Using .NET in Visual FoxPro Applications, with Christof Wollenhaupt
Posted by Eric in FoxPro on 17. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
There are sessions where you can play along with the speaker, and then there are sessions where you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride, knowing you’ll have to read the whitepaper on the plane in order to comprehend it all. Christof’s session on using .NET in VFP apps is definitely the latter. [...]
