FoxPro Product Watch

ActiveVFP Released on CodePlex

2012-01-22T01:22:00.000-08:00

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

2012-01-22T01:21:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-14T01:48:00.000-08:00

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

2011-10-26T14:02:00.000-07:00

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.

New West Wind Web Connection 5.58

2011-09-08T01:55:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-09T14:28:00.000-08:00

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

2011-03-04T04:05:00.000-08:00

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.

Stonefield Query - Business Intelligence & Database Reporting Software: Stonefield Query SDK Version 4.1 Released

2011-02-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

Stonefield Query - Business Intelligence & Database Reporting Software: Stonefield Query SDK Version 4.1 Released

Key Feature highlights:

a) Dashboards

b) Win 7 Enhanced Compatibility

c) Usage Statistics

d) Multiple Page Charts

Congrats on the release!
FoxPro VFP

Visual Extend offering Silverlight Integration: FoxShow Interview

2010-05-14T06:52:00.000-07:00

Visual Extend's new version will feature Microsoft Silverlight integration.

The details are discussed in a FoxShow interview with Uwe Habermann about moving from Visual FoxPro into Silverlight. This is a preview of his upcoming Southwest Fox session but also his upcoming European tour (3 cities in June) where they will be showing the beta. You can download the interview directly or subscribe in iTunes.

FoxPro VFP

West Wind Web Connection Version 5.15

2006-10-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

Rick Strahl just announced West Wind Web Connection - Version 5.15.

While mostly a maintenance update, it includes some new features including web resources and Captcha support. What is Captcha? That's the text you have to type in when posting a comment on a number of sites.

Awesome updates - more details can be found here.

FoxMasters Has RSS

2006-08-16T11:40:00.000-07:00

If you haven't checked out FoxMasters, you should. They have a good set of developer power tools from +Macros, which offers some automated tools but also a very cool ActiveDesktop feature to CodeInspector, which does variable checking among other things across VFP projects.

(Variable checking? That's when you check to ensure all of your variables have been defined).

They recently lowered their pricing and also have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to.