ProFox December 2016

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PROTECTING YOUR DISTRIBUTED CODE (was Re: Using a common class from another EXE/DLL)
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

On 2016-12-01 06:27, Ted Roche wrote: > Agree. Depends on the level of security you want/need. Compiling > encrypted is enough to deter most. Nearly all Fox EXE / DLL can be > decrypted, so if you *really* need it secure, look to a 3rd party > solution, or move the secure parts off the client's machine and > require them to contact a web resource you control so they can't > access it. I recall somebody mentioning Armadillo to protect your EXEs in the past (from reverse engineering): http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Programming/Registration_Tools/The_Armad… ReFox also offers protection: http://www.refox.net/-overview.html Can you think of any other tool preferable to use for protecting your deployed apps? Any comments on the two mentioned above? tia, --Mike

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VFP Help File Problem
by Dave Crozier 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

For some reason my VFP Help file will not load. When you select help it goes into the "indexing for the first time" and never returns, requiring task manager to stop the process. Loading up the help chm by clicking on it does the same thing but immediately finishes the index and loads fine. I have tried updating the help with the newer SP2 help file to no avail as it still does the same. Any ideas? Dave

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[NF] VirtualBox and Win 10
by Carl Lindner 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

New to this, but Win 7 Pro 32 seems to run in VirtualBox (5.1.10) fine. I understand Win 10 becomes tied to the hardware. How does this effect creating a VirtualBox on a different machine? Or, running Win 10 only as a virtual box? Any insight will be appreciated. Carl Lindner --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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.prg Classes (Was: Re: Using a common class from another EXE/DLL)
by Gene Wirchenko 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

At 15:04 2016-12-01, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >PERFECT...This is EXACTLY what I wanted to do. All I was missing >was the SET PROCEDURE TO. (I use PRG classes.) So do I. The only time I do not is when I am setting printer orientation and have to use a .frx. Do we have any other .prg class users? Should we be trading notes? (GUI classes get most of the coverage, and some solutions do not work for .prg classes.) [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: 2 GB memo bloat in DBF used in WebConnection site (was RE: Friday Poll (while dl'ing MS Flash Patch))
by Gene Wirchenko 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

At 08:56 2016-11-03, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >On 2016-10-28 10:24, Kevin J Cully wrote: >X DBFs - I have a client that insisted I use DBFs for his desktop and >Web-Connection site. It's run almost flawlessly since 2008 with the >exception of the 'memo field bloat' issue. That's caught me a couple >of times over the years hitting the 2G limit per file. >I'm handling one of Jeff Johnson's (RIP) clients and having this issue. >I was about to create a simple utility for the end-user to grab the >table and pack it, but curious if you've got a better idea? I have a routine that packs and reindexes all of the tables. I have not needed anything more involved. I do see some memo bloat. I have a table that stores configuration data. When packed, the .fpt is 1280 bytes. I see from the latest sent to me that it is up to 5,205,248 bytes. That is bigger than the source code. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Using a common class from another EXE/DLL
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

I want to create a "black box" of sorts with a class I've written. There is no visible UI to it; it's just connection/validation stuff. I want to use it across multiple projects. Do you suggest it be a DLL or EXE? I do not want this code reverse-engineered so I don't want to distribute the VCX nor make an .APP (as you can view code in the .APP). I want to be able to instantiate an object of this class and use it to validate some things like login and license validation. tia, --Mike

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ProFox List Statistics for November 2016
by List Administrator Account 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

================================================== ProFox List Statistics November 2016 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 287 ProFoxTech: 187 ================================================== Total Posts: 359 (Up 91.98% from October 2016) Total [OT] Posts: 19 (Up 100.0% from October 2016) Total [NF] Posts: 96 (Up 81.13% from October 2016) Daily Message Counts for November 2016 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- T 1 - 9 W 2 - 16 T 3 - 28 F 4 - 25 S 5 - 2 S 6 - 2 M 7 - 13 T 8 - 5 W 9 - 34 T 10 - 13 F 11 - 9 S 12 - 6 M 14 - 8 T 15 - 5 W 16 - 12 T 17 - 29 F 18 - 22 S 19 - 5 S 20 - 3 M 21 - 11 T 22 - 38 W 23 - 20 T 24 - 7 F 25 - 1 M 28 - 19 T 29 - 10 W 30 - 7 Message Counts By Day of Week for November 2016 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 5 Mon - 51 Tue - 67 Wed - 89 Thu - 77 Fri - 57 Sat - 13 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to October 2016) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 53 (Up 17.78%) OT messages: 8 (Up 100.0%) NF messages: 24 (Up 33.33%) Total number: 55 (Up 22.22%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 49 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 34 Ted Roche 3. 24 Gene Wirchenko 4. 24 Dave Crozier 5. 18 Alan Bourke 6. 15 Michael Madigan 7. 14 Man-wai Chang 8. 14 Richard Kaye 9. 12 Kurt Wendt 10. 11 Jean Laeremans 11. 9 Mike Copeland 12. 9 Stephen Russell 13. 7 Fletcher Johnson 14. 7 Paul Hill 15. 6 Peter Cushing 16. 6 Paul Newton 17. 5 Thierry Nivelet 18. 5 Fernando D. Bozzo 19. 5 Kevin J Cully 20. 5 Vince Teachout Top 8 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 4 21% Michael Madigan 2. 4 100% Ricardo Araoz 3. 3 75% Michael Oke, II 4. 2 29% Adam Buckland 5. 2 18% Stephen Russell 6. 2 100% Geoff 7. 1 4% Dave Crozier 8. 1 8% Jean Laeremans Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 10 Dave Crozier 3. 7 Richard Kaye 4. 6 Man-wai Chang 5. 6 Paul Hill 6. 5 Alan Bourke 7. 5 Stephen Russell 8. 5 Kurt Wendt 9. 5 Mike Copeland 10. 4 Michael Madigan 11. 4 Vince Teachout 12. 3 Ted Roche 13. 3 AndyHC 14. 3 Gene Wirchenko 15. 2 Kevin J Cully 16. 2 Fernando D. Bozzo 17. 2 Peter Cushing 18. 2 Adam Buckland 19. 1 Darren 20. 1 Brant E. Layton Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 49 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 34 Ted Roche 3. 25 Dave Crozier 4. 24 Gene Wirchenko 5. 19 Michael Madigan 6. 18 Alan Bourke 7. 14 Man-wai Chang 8. 14 Richard Kaye 9. 12 Jean Laeremans 10. 12 Kurt Wendt 11. 11 Stephen Russell 12. 9 Mike Copeland 13. 7 Fletcher Johnson 14. 7 Paul Hill 15. 7 Adam Buckland 16. 6 Peter Cushing 17. 6 Paul Newton 18. 5 Thierry Nivelet 19. 5 Kevin J Cully 20. 5 Fernando D. Bozzo Top 19 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 8 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 7 Michael Madigan 3. 3 Adam Buckland 4. 2 Gene Wirchenko 5. 2 Peter Cushing 6. 2 Ted Roche 7. 1 List Administrator Account 8. 1 Thierry Nivelet 9. 1 Allen 10. 1 Sytze de Boer 11. 1 Fletcher Johnson 12. 1 rafael copquin 13. 1 Paul Hill 14. 1 Brant E. Layton 15. 1 John R. Sowden 16. 1 Paul Newton 17. 1 Jean Laeremans 18. 1 Ed Leafe 19. 1 Wes Wilson Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 41 Do you rebuild your indexes every night or do you leave them alone. 2. 39 [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives 3. 29 Friday Poll: What framework(s) do you use? 4. 18 [NF] LogMeIn Pro raising price to $149 from $99 5. 17 Dealing with Extraneous Parameters 6. 14 ProFox List Statistics for October 2016 7. 14 VFP9 runtimes windows 10; 8. 12 Weird font behavior on project tabs, table designer, etc. 9. 12 Stupid form question 10. 11 Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2 11. 10 Setting >1 Page Orientation in PDFs 12. 10 Excel 2016 & windows 10 13. 9 2 GB memo bloat in DBF used in WebConnection site (was Friday Poll (while dl'ing MS Flash Patch)) 14. 8 [NF] SQL Server for Linux 15. 7 Beautify 16. 6 define class xx twice 17. 6 [NF] Police are using software to predict crime 18. 6 What is the maximum number of Tags i can have in a CDX file? 19. 5 [NF] Phishing and other cyber crime 20. 5 Word doc on invoice Top 4 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 14 [OT] - Could hear a pin drop 2. 3 [OT] - Anything going on? 3. 1 [OT] Impeach Orange Hitler. :) 4. 1 [OT] Congratulations to President Elect Trump Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 41 Do you rebuild your indexes every night or do you leave them alone. 2. 39 [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives 3. 29 Friday Poll: What framework(s) do you use? 4. 18 [NF] LogMeIn Pro raising price to $149 from $99 5. 17 Dealing with Extraneous Parameters 6. 14 ProFox List Statistics for October 2016 7. 14 VFP9 runtimes windows 10; 8. 14 [OT] - Could hear a pin drop 9. 12 Weird font behavior on project tabs, table designer, etc. 10. 12 Stupid form question 11. 11 Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2 12. 10 Setting >1 Page Orientation in PDFs 13. 10 Excel 2016 & windows 10 14. 9 2 GB memo bloat in DBF used in WebConnection site (was Friday Poll (while dl'ing MS Flash Patch)) 15. 8 [NF] SQL Server for Linux 16. 7 Beautify 17. 6 define class xx twice 18. 6 [NF] Police are using software to predict crime 19. 6 What is the maximum number of Tags i can have in a CDX file? 20. 5 [NF] Phishing and other cyber crime

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