ProFox October 2019

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OLE iDispatch Exception
by Chris Davis 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

The following code works most of the time but occasionally it throws the following OLE error when .send is called, any ideas? lcURL=www.bbc.co.uk<http://www.bbc.co.uk> && not the real url oHTTP = CreateObject("msxml2.xmlhttp") oHTTP.open("GET",lcurl,.f.) oHTTP.send() OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from msxml3.dll: The system cannot locate the resource specified Regards Chris. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Will Visual FoxPro run on Windows 10's successor?
by wes.wilson＠yahoo.com 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

>From the internet: Microsoft is planning to release a new operating system called Windows 12 in early 2019. Indeed, there will be no Windows 11, as the company decided to jump straight to Windows 12. The reason behind this name is rather a symbolic one. Windows 12 is the bridge between the classic Windows OS and the new innovative OS.May 2, 2019 Will Visual FoxPro run on Windows 12? All support for Windows 10 will end in 2025. For small companies who do not have the resources to convert to .NET, this could be a major financial blow. What might be the danger of running Windows 10 beyond 2015? Any thoughts on how long VFP is likely to work? Thanks,Wes Wes Wilson, President ERW Custom Programming, Inc. Crescent Lake Plaza 5459 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48327 (248) 683-4182 LinkedIn Profile "Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it" Philip Kotler www.erw.com wes(a)erw.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Congradulation, Ed
by Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Congratulation Ed (Leafe <https://www.linkedin.com/comm/in/edleafe?midToken=AQFf1vsWLNDdtA&trk=eml-em…> ) *for starting a new position* as Senior Software Developer at DataRobot *Shai / שי **Charles Hart Enzer, MD(Ohio, USA), FAACAP* *Aliyah <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah>: Cincinnati to Jerusalem <http://www.gojerusalem.com/items/263/German-Colony/>'s German Colony <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Colony,_Jerusalem> May, 2017* *Volunteer Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of Cincinnati Medical CenterWebSite: **EnzerMD.com <http://EnzerMD.com>* *Publications* <http://www.enzermd.com/CV.html#Publications> *Tiny Country, Huge Dreams* *ארץ זעירה, **חלומות ענקיים* *עם ישראל חי* --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] What is X# compared to VFP
by Johan Nel 18 Oct '19

18 Oct '19

Hi ProFoxers, A question was asked by a person that did not understand the X# website and what it brings to the party. Robert (Owner) posted a reply and for those who might also not understand, I share it also here: Visual FoxPro is an environment that consists of several pieces: - An IDE - A source code editor - A form and menu editor - A report editor - All of these produce source code that is compiled with the VFP compiler into so called "P-Code" - This p-code gets interpreted by the Visual FoxPro runtime - - and runs with the help of a set of classes and functions and support for DBFs, SQL etc. The most important part of X# is the compiler, that takes the same source code and produces .Net assemblies. The biggest difference of X# is that it is a compiled environment and not an interpreted environment. X# tries to figure out at compile time what you want to do with your code and warns you if there are language elements that are ambiguous. For example, you can use undeclared variables, but the compiler will warn you about that. And for example something like "Customer.LastName" could be a field in the Customer cursor or a LastName property of an (undeclared) Customer variable. For its tools X# uses Visual Studio with its forms editor, menu editors, source code editors etc. X# also comes with a runtime library of functions and DBF support and can use all the available components in the .Net framework, for example for reporting (there are many reporting solutions for .Net) and SQL access. X# itself is more function based than command based (like VFP) but has a pre-processor that helps to translates commands into functions. So you can still write code like you do in VFP. For example "SKIP 1" is translated to DbSkip(1) and "SKIP 1 IN Customer" is translated to ("Customer")->DbSkip(1). We have recently added support for most of the VFP language elements (but we are not completely there yet) X# and especially its VFP support is not fully ready yet. For example: we are investigating how we can get VFP forms to run in .Net. Should we recreate the whole VFP class library or should we convert VFP form definitions to code and use the normal .Net Windows Forms. This is one of the topics that we plan to show and discuss at SW Fox next week. I hope this gives you a bit of an idea about what X# is. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have more questions. Finally: the public version of X# is a free download. The only thing we ask from people is to register themselves. I think that is not too much asked. After all we are offering a free download of a fully functional product. And to post messages to our forums you also have to register yourself (just like on other forums). That is the only way to prevent spammers from flooding our forum. Robert van der Hulst XSharp Development team The Netherlands.

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Outlook automation
by wes.wilson＠yahoo.com 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

We are creating invoices in PDF form and then emailing them via Outlook With OutMail .To = lcEmail .Subject = lcSubject .HTMLBody = Message .Attachments.Add(xinvoice) .Display .Send Endwith Our client wants to be able to add to the body of the email but Outlook will not stay up. Just flashes by on ".Display", Is there a way to keep Outlook up? If I do not issue the ".Send" command, the email will reside in Outlook drafts. Client does not want this. Wes --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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X# Bandol 2.08 released to FOX subscribers
by Johan Nel 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

Hi all ProFoxers Just a quick note to inform you about the above release. The public release will be available later this week. Without replicating what is said on the website, here are the most important features of this release: 1. More added support for VFP specifics. 2. DEFINE CLASS is now recognized by the compiler. 3. And lastly, but not the least: The compiler source code was released in the public domain under the Apache 2.0 license! https://xsharp.info Hope it is of interest to some... Johan Nel Friends of XSharp (FOX) member George, South Africa.

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X# VFP DEFINE CLASS posting on the web
by Johan Nel 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

Hi VFPers, Well who else than the owner and main developer of X# himself making an announcement regarding VFP syntax support for DEFINE CLASS, which should be released in a week... See the following link: https://www.xsharp.info/forum/public-vfp/1527-foxpro-class-syntax This adds to the already available TEXT/ENDTEXT, WITH/ENDWITH, SCAN/ENDSCAN (Basic) and most of the XBase commands, functions and procedures. This release should speedup support for other features like Cursors, VFP classes, .DBC and VFP project/repo files (hopefully by end of year). Hope it is of interest to most. XBase greetings, Johan Nel Friend of XSharp (FOX) member George, South Africa

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_reportlistener.vcx
by Joe Yoder 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

I have some code that uses the report listener to create PDF report files using XFRX. In May it was functioning properly but now when I load the program I get the following message: "File 'C:\...\common files\microsoft shared\vfp\ffc\_reportlistener.vcx' does not exist" The code runs without error but does not produce the report files The error report is correct that the file is not at that location. A search finds the file at "C:\Program Files (86) Microsoft\ Visual Foxpro 9\FFC\_reportlistener.vcx. What could have caused this to happen? How do I fix it: - Create the structure where Foxpro reports that it expects to find it? - Somehow tell Foxpro where the file is actually located? - Something else? Thanks in advance, Joe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Southwest Fox 2019: Keynote announced
by Rick Schummer 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

The Southwest Fox 2019 Keynote Presentation will stream using Facebook live video starting at 7:00 pm MST (10:00 PM EDT), Thursday, October 24. Kevin Ragsdale is presenting the keynote session titled "The Fox Family: A Whimsical Celebration of FoxPro and the FoxPro Community". Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com 586.254.2530 - office

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Re: Welcome, new guy!
by Gene Wirchenko 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

At 14:07 2019-10-08, "MB Software Solutions, LLC" <mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: >Well there's something that rarely happens >around here...you notice a new guy!Â Welcome, >cctbysteve(a)gmail.com aka Steve in >Florida!Â Tell us about your travels with the Fox! <GASP!> Someone young! Possibly under fifty? Does he know what he is getting into? <SIGH!> I wish Microsoft had been serious-good about VFP instead of The Slow Death. Welcome, Steve. If you do not already know how good the Fox can be, we hope you find out soon. What are you using it for? What do you already know? What do you need to know? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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