ActiveVFP Released on CodePlex

ActiveVFP 5.51 and 5.61 have been released today on CodePlex: 


Demo at: http://thetechconsult.com/demo (at GoDaddy shared web hosting) New and improved features: Error Handling improved, Interactive Debugging for AVFP 5.51 using the VFP debugger (requires the VFP IDE and Visual Studio), Debug Dump feature to display AVFP variables for any page, AVFP source code cleanup ActiveVFP is a totally free and open source solution for creating web applications with the Visual Foxpro programming language and database (and other DBs like MSSQL or MySQL). Faster than PHP on Windows, easier than C#, ActiveVFP makes it easy to use FoxPro on the web!!

Html Help Builder 4.66 released

West Wind Technologies has released version 4.66 of West Wind Html Help Builder. Help Builder produces documentation for Html Help (CHM), Web ready HTML and Word/PDF format for end user applications as well as developer documentation for FoxPro, .NET, Sql Server, Web Services and other environments. Version 4.66 adds many small user interface enhancements to the IDE and a host of new backup and project export features to Zip files. There are also a number of improvement for .NET imports including support for Code Contracts and multiple example code snippets. There are also a host of small UI improvements and a few bug fixes. Help Builder is available as shareware and registered users can download and re-install the latest version.


Full Details are here 

Accessing VFP Data in Entity Framework

Tom Brothers pointed me to a new project he's working on:  the successor to his LINQ for VFP work: an VFP entity framework 4.0 provider.

This means using the VFP OLEDB driver, you can easily access FoxPro data in VS 2010 Entity Framework solutions.

The project is on Codeplex but the post noted here gives full details.

Home of ActiveVFP - Foxpro on the World Wide Web

A new version of ActiveVFP has been released on the web.

From the site:

ActiveVFP(AVFP) is a completely free and open source project for creating web applications with Visual Foxpro. It provides an easy-to-use framework in pure fox code for utilizing a multi-threaded vfp dll (vfp mtdll) called from ASP.NET. If you're considering web programming with FoxPro, this tool is for you.

Home of ActiveVFP - Foxpro on the World Wide Web

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New West Wind Web Connection 5.58

Rick Strahl just released a new version of his popular West Wind Web Connection for Visual FoxPro.

As well as an upgrade to jQuery 1.63, there are also some new HTML Helpers for data grids, records and error displays.

The whole list of new features and updates are listed here:

West Wind Web Connection 5.0

Southwest Fox 2011 Call For Speakers

Doug Hennig: Southwest Fox 2011 Call For Speakers

Southwest Fox is gearing up for the 2011 conference season by issuing an open call to speakers.

Go to the Speakers page for details.

As with last year, they are looking for a wide variety of topics from core VFP, extending VFP, new technologies and becoming better developers.

This year's SW Fox is October 26-29, 2011

SanTan Elegante Conference & Reception Center/Legado Hotel
Gilbert, AZ

Session proposals are due by March 28.

West Wind Web Connection 5.55

Rick Strahl just released an update to his popular West Wind Web Connection. Check out the details here -West Wind Web Connection 5.0

He notes: This is a fairly major update that adds a lot of new functionality both for the Web Control Framework as well as for classic Web Connection.

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