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Authors:
Rick Schummer,
Doug Hennig,
Tamar E. Granor,
Jim Booth,
Venelina Jordanova,
Uwe Habermann
Length: 24 pages (A4)
Formats Available: Printed (incl. electronic) or Electronic only
Printed format: A4 (210x297 mm or 8.3x11.7 in)
Electronic format: PDF
Single Issue Price ($US): 29.00 (printed+electronic) $19.00 (electronic only)
Press date: January, 2010
Printed issue availability: 2010/01 issue being mailed on January 25.
Electronic issue availability: Available for download.
Source code: Available for download.
January, 2010 - Number 12
Editorial: Get on the VFPX bandwagon
[[Rich Schummer]]
Results of the bonus session at Southwest Fox regarding VFPX.
VFPX: SCCTextX
[[Rick Schummer]]
Source code control is an integral part of the devel-
opment process for Visual FoxPro developers, but
much of the source code elements in Visual Fox-
Pro are stored in binary format (DBF fles), which
is not friendly to source code control repositories.
The Alternate SCCText project and specifcally the
SCCTextX program is the key ingredient to fat-
tening the DBFs into text fles so comparisons can
be performed between versions, and merging of
two changed versions can occur. Jurgen “wOOdy”
Wondzinski leads the SCCTextX project that con-
tains what is considered the gold standard for the
Visual FoxPro SCCText process..
Deep Dive: Introduction to GDIPlusX, Part 2
[[Doug Hennig]]
GDIPlusX is a VFPX project that exposes GDI+
to VFP applications as a set of VFP class libraries.
GDIPlusX makes it easy to add new graphical abili-
ties to your applications, allowing you to provide
a fresher and more powerful user interface. This
article is the second in a series that provides an
introduction to GDIPlusX, going through the ba-
sics of GDI+, looking at the classes in GDIPlusX,
and going through various samples of how to use
GDIPlusX in VFP applications.
New Ways: Take advantage of SQL improvements
[[Tamar Granor]], PhD
When SQL commands were added in FoxPro 2, it
didn't take me long to see that they could make
writing code easier. SQL SELECT, in particular,
was very appealing since it made it possible to re-
trieve the data I needed by specifying what I wan-
ted rather than how to fnd it.
New Ways: Where's the Beef?
[[Jim Booth]]
Many times I have found my self using onto a piece
of software for one purpose only to fnd out that it
has many other very valuable uses as well. It’s like
fnding a free tool in my tool box. Well FoxRockX
is just like that once you discover its web version. If
you haven’t yet visited http://www.foxrockx.com
please make it a point to visit there and spelunk
around abit real soon. There are gems lying around
that place worth their weight in gold.
New Ways: String.Format for VFP
[[Eric Selje]]
If you haven’t used C#’s String.Format() method,
it’s a real treat. There’s nothing natively like it in
VFP, but we can certainly roll our own equivalent.
This will make our code easier to read and main-
tain. This article will show why you want to do
that, and how to do it.
Updating project files from the source control management
[[Venelina Jordanova, Uwe Habermann]]
To make our daily development work easier we
have brought many useful little tools to life. In this
article in two parts we would like to introduce two
of our “V&U Project Tools“. This second part con-
cerns how to update project fles from the source
control management.
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