Category: FoxPro

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 […]

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.  […]

FoxPro developers, it’s time to step up our game. There is no excuse any more for apps to have that “FoxPro” look, using the pathetic pallete of controls that ship with VFP. With GDI+X, the collection of class libs that wrap the entire System.Drawing namespace in VFP, you now can do anything. Anything? After seeing […]

Suppose you’ve got a VFP app that’s running perfectly well, but you want to integrate it with your fancy new ASP.Net portal.  Or you’re running into the 2 GB file limit in VFP. Or you want to access your VFP data from across the WAN.  Sybase Advantage Database server is a great solution for overcoming […]

I’ve got a client (you know who you are) that generates a lot of reports.  All in Excel.  They spend about 24 computer hours each night accumulating data, calculating data, and then spitting out that data into Excel files for their clients. We use Excel automation to generate each and everyone of those reports because, […]

I forewent Walt Krzysteks “Sql Server Tips and Tricks,” which Kokopelli recommended to attend Doug’s session.   I did this for two reasons: 1. Walt’s notes are very good, and 2. I wanted to try something that I didn’t know much about (I use VMWare), and didn’t think I’d need. Of course you can never go […]

Let’s make this simple. If you’re a VFP developer you should be monitoring VFPX for tools that will make your life better. There are over 20 different projects there ready and waiting to make your coding life better. Here are some of the highlights that you should consider to enhance your VFP IDE: ClassBrowserX – […]

Cesar Chalom has done a fantastic job w/ FoxCharts, and Jim Nelson just ran us through this tool, elucidating the myriad properties and methods that may seem overwhelming at first. As I was sitting there, I thought it’d be wonderful to have a tool which would let the developer visually design a chart, and lo […]

Hello from Mesa! Logistically everything went perfect today. I made my plane with more than a minute to spare, connected, and landed almost simultaneously with Matt Slay and Steve Bodnar. Despite the long Avis line, we still had time to drive through a Whataburger (meh), get a little lost, check in, and still arrive in […]

The entire staff of Salty Dog Solutions is taking off Thursday through Sunday to attend the SouthWest Fox Conference in Mesa, AZ.  The intense training starts right away Thursday afternoon, with a session on integrating Subversion source control into Visual Foxpro projects.  We will blog on this site throughout the conference in order to remind […]