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An Interesting Online VFP Resource..
by Kurt Wendt 30 Jan '25

30 Jan '25

Hey there folks, Figured some of you might find this interesting! Recently I had done a couple posting replies to Two different FoxPro groups on LinkedIn (and actually saw a couple responses from folks in this forum). And, this one guy on there - he went to view my profile - and, so, I decided to reach out and connect with him and message him. I even let him know a little of my own VFP background (starting w/Foxbase+ & also attending Fox conf. where FP for DOS was unveiled) - and he sent me this link to a resource webpage he created: https://www.homecont.ro/Istoria-Foxpro-win32-API-documentatie-wiki-resurse-… Now, yeah - the dude is from Romania - so it initially comes up in a very different language. Lucky for me - my web browser asked me to translate it. Anyway - figured it might be an interest share - in case some folks hadn't seen it before... L8r, -Kurt --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ChilkatVFP Version 1.41 released
by Bill Anderson 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Folks, This release is a bug fix version of the 1.40 release. https://github.com/billand88/ChilkatVFP 1) Chilkat Events can be set again. The rest is "other stuff"... 2) An additional CallBack*.PRG was added in 1.40, but never called. Fixed. 3) Secrets class added to the list of Chilkat objects that can have an event handler. 4) Removed the three deprecated properties/methods from the BaseChilkat class. Went through the framework to remove all references. At least two classes (One of them HTTPRequest) couldn't instantiate in version 1.40 without this fix. 5) Added m. (m dot) prefixes to the BaseEventHandler class and subclasses. 6) Other random fixes. Bill Anderson --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET
by Alan Bourke 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

Well sorta. https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ChilkatVFP version 1.40 released
by Bill Anderson 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

Folks, ChilkatVFP 1.40 update can be found here: https://github.com/billand88/ChilkatVFP Highlights: Main class library name changed from Chilkat.VCX to ChilkatVFP.VCX (and iChilkat.VCX to iChilkatVFP.VCX) This release has Chilkat Version 10 compatibility which includes... Support for new two dot notation [10.1.0] and three dot notation [9.5.0.62] Support for OLE prefix "Chilkat_9_5_0" and new prefix "Chilkat" Added new Secrets class released in Chilkat version 10.1.0 Support for Chilkat class retirement New Versioning class to support version format changes. Changed all internal source code to support the new versioning style. Found two classes that didn't get the "m." prefix for memory variables as described in Version 1.31 changes as well as other random methods Bill Anderson --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ProFox List Statistics for 2024
by List Administrator Account 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

================================================== ProFox List Statistics 2024 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Year: ProFox: 305 ProFoxTech: 184 ================================================== Total Posts: 297 (Up 4.58% from 2023) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from 2023) Total [NF] Posts: 26 (Down 7.14% from 2023) Daily Message Counts for 2024 ------------------------------------------------ Date Count ---- ----- 1 - 22 2 - 4 3 - 2 4 - 16 5 - 4 6 - 4 7 - 3 8 - 1 9 - 2 10 - 11 11 - 8 12 - 13 13 - 6 14 - 18 15 - 7 16 - 2 17 - 21 18 - 20 19 - 15 20 - 8 21 - 2 22 - 16 23 - 16 24 - 17 25 - 7 26 - 8 27 - 12 28 - 11 29 - 7 30 - 9 31 - 5 Message Counts By Day of Week for 2024 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 15 Mon - 61 Tue - 83 Wed - 34 Thu - 63 Fri - 31 Sat - 10 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to 2023) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 42 (Up 10.53%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 13 (Up 18.18%) Total number: 42 (Up 10.53%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 22 Joe Yoder 2. 21 Kurt Wendt 3. 20 Paul H. Tarver 4. 20 Tracy Pearson 5. 15 Chris Davis 6. 15 Alan Bourke 7. 15 Ed Leafe 8. 14 Ted Roche 9. 14 Richard Kaye 10. 13 List Administrator Account 11. 12 Eric Selje 12. 10 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 13. 9 Vincent Teachout 14. 9 Bill Anderson 15. 8 Rick Schummer 16. 8 Ajit Abraham 17. 6 Philip Borkholder 18. 6 Dave Crozier 19. 5 Mike Copeland 20. 4 MB Software Solutions, LLC Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 13 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 8 Kurt Wendt 2. 4 Virgil Bierschwale 3. 3 Paul H. Tarver 4. 2 Paul Hill 5. 1 Ted Roche 6. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 7. 1 Alan Bourke 8. 1 Ed Leafe 9. 1 Tracy Pearson 10. 1 Dave Crozier 11. 1 Jean Laeremans 12. 1 Richard Kaye 13. 1 Vincent Teachout Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 22 Joe Yoder 2. 21 Kurt Wendt 3. 20 Paul H. Tarver 4. 20 Tracy Pearson 5. 15 Chris Davis 6. 15 Alan Bourke 7. 15 Ed Leafe 8. 14 Ted Roche 9. 14 Richard Kaye 10. 13 List Administrator Account 11. 12 Eric Selje 12. 10 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 13. 9 Vincent Teachout 14. 9 Bill Anderson 15. 8 Rick Schummer 16. 8 Ajit Abraham 17. 6 Philip Borkholder 18. 6 Dave Crozier 19. 5 Mike Copeland 20. 4 MB Software Solutions, LLC Top 20 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 15 Joe Yoder 2. 13 List Administrator Account 3. 8 Rick Schummer 4. 5 Chris Davis 5. 5 Bill Anderson 6. 4 Kurt Wendt 7. 4 Ken Watkins 8. 4 Paul H. Tarver 9. 3 Rafael Copquin 10. 2 MB Software Solutions, LLC 11. 2 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 12. 2 Ted Roche 13. 2 Tracy Pearson 14. 2 Philip Borkholder 15. 2 Ed Leafe 16. 1 Desmond Lloyd 17. 1 Dave Crozier 18. 1 Carl Lindner 19. 1 Richard Kaye 20. 1 Man-wai Chang Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 Database Migration Pointers 2. 14 FoxPro Conf Binder 3. 14 [NF] Website Coding Assistance! 4. 13 It's been a long time... 5. 12 [ADMIN] Google blocking ProFox posts to gmail addresses 6. 11 Outlook Automation Help Needed 7. 11 VFPAdvanced - My Problem, My Tests & Some Results 8. 9 OS(3) number result for Windows 11 9. 9 List box issues 10. 8 VFP 8, ODBC connection to Azure SQL Server Pausing 11. 8 [NF] AFter Hurricane Helene in Asheville NC 12. 6 Restore Backup 13. 6 ODBC / VFPA / 64 Bit 14. 6 vfp 15. 5 [ADMIN] Email issue 16. 5 Windows handle of VFP combo box via API 17. 5 VFPA 18. 5 T'was the night before crisis... 19. 5 Form designer to first time use of class designer 20. 5 VFP Code Conversion Workbench Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 Database Migration Pointers 2. 14 FoxPro Conf Binder 3. 14 [NF] Website Coding Assistance! 4. 13 It's been a long time... 5. 12 [ADMIN] Google blocking ProFox posts to gmail addresses 6. 11 Outlook Automation Help Needed 7. 11 VFPAdvanced - My Problem, My Tests & Some Results 8. 9 OS(3) number result for Windows 11 9. 9 List box issues 10. 8 VFP 8, ODBC connection to Azure SQL Server Pausing 11. 8 [NF] AFter Hurricane Helene in Asheville NC 12. 6 Restore Backup 13. 6 ODBC / VFPA / 64 Bit 14. 6 vfp 15. 5 [ADMIN] Email issue 16. 5 Windows handle of VFP combo box via API 17. 5 VFPA 18. 5 T'was the night before crisis... 19. 5 Form designer to first time use of class designer 20. 5 VFP Code Conversion Workbench

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ProFox List Statistics for December 2024
by List Administrator Account 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

================================================== ProFox List Statistics December 2024 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 305 ProFoxTech: 184 ================================================== Total Posts: 14 (Down 41.67% from November 2024) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from November 2024) Total [NF] Posts: 0 (Down 100.0% from November 2024) Daily Message Counts for December 2024 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- S 1 - 1 T 17 - 4 W 18 - 1 T 19 - 2 F 20 - 1 M 23 - 3 T 24 - 2 Message Counts By Day of Week for December 2024 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 1 Mon - 3 Tue - 6 Wed - 1 Thu - 2 Fri - 1 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to November 2024) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 11 (Down 21.43%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 0 (Down 100.0%) Total number: 11 (Down 21.43%) Top 11 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 2 Jeff Roberts 2. 2 Dave Crozier 3. 2 Chris Davis 4. 1 Paul H. Tarver 5. 1 List Administrator Account 6. 1 Ajit Abraham 7. 1 Jean Laeremans 8. 1 Vincent Teachout 9. 1 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 10. 1 Ted Roche 11. 1 Kurt Wendt Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 0 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 11 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 2 Jeff Roberts 2. 2 Dave Crozier 3. 2 Chris Davis 4. 1 Paul H. Tarver 5. 1 List Administrator Account 6. 1 Ajit Abraham 7. 1 Jean Laeremans 8. 1 Vincent Teachout 9. 1 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 10. 1 Ted Roche 11. 1 Kurt Wendt Top 3 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 1 List Administrator Account 2. 1 Jeff Roberts 3. 1 Ted Roche Top 5 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 5 T'was the night before crisis... 2. 4 Database Migration Pointers 3. 3 visual foxpro 5 and paths 4. 1 ProFox List Statistics for November 2024 5. 1 AW: visual foxpro 5 and paths Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 5 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 5 T'was the night before crisis... 2. 4 Database Migration Pointers 3. 3 visual foxpro 5 and paths 4. 1 ProFox List Statistics for November 2024 5. 1 AW: visual foxpro 5 and paths

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T'was the night before crisis...
by Ted Roche 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

First posted here in 2006, and I've only missed an eve or two since, so ... Twas the night before crisis, and all through the house, Not a program was working, not even a browse. The programmers were wrung out, too mindless to care, Knowing chances of shipping hadn't a prayer. The users were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of inquiries danced in their heads. When out in the lobby there arose such a clatter, That I sprang from my cube to see what was the matter. And what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a SUPER PROGRAMMER, oblivious to fear. More rapid than eagles, his programs they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name: On Update! On Add! On Inquiry! On Delete! On Batch Jobs! On Closing! On Functions Complete! His eyes were glazed over, his fingers were lean, >From weekends and nights in front of the screen. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, Turning specs into code, then he turned with a jerk. And laying his finger on the ENTER key, The system came up, and worked perfectly. The updates, updated; the deletes, they deleted; The inquiries, inquired; and the closing completed. He tested each whistle, he tested each bell, With nary an abend, and all had gone well. The system was finished, the tests were concluded, The client's last changes were even included! And the client exclaimed with a snarl and a taunt, "It's just what I asked for, but NOT what I want" (attributed variously, my copy came from here[1]) [1] http://www.mdarwin.ca/humour/night-before-xmas/night-before-crisis.phtml https://web.archive.org/web/20070923102738/http://www.mdarwin.ca/humour/nig… Merry Christmas, Chag Hanukkah sameach, happy Qwanza, merry Solstice, happy Saturnalia and so forth to all!

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Database Migration Pointers
by Chris Davis 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Hi All Before we start this just figured it would make sense to reach out to you guys for any general advice or pointers you can give. We have a typical multiuser VFP application using a DBC with DBF’s and local views. The forms that interact with this data all have a DE and for the deployed versions we have DPATHMGR sorting the DE paths out making everything work. We have no immediate need to change anything about from front end , it’s relatively straight forward and most of the code is based around TABLEUPDATE and TABLEREVERT. Our mission is just to loose the DBFs and move the data to SQL as our first pass. No intentions to make use of SQL things like stored procedures , we just want to treat it as a data dump for the moment. So after using VFPX/UpsizingWizard our initial thoughts are to replace the local view with remote views and then continue with the current method of CRUD via the views. Anything you feel is worth a heads up on for us to consider before we get on with it? Regards Chris

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visual foxpro 5 and paths
by Jeff Roberts 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

I've been asked to help document business logic in an old (even for Visual Foxpro) app. It appears that it was built using Codemine and VFP5. I've worked with Foxpro on and off almost all my life, but with the exception of an old VFP6 that I do very little ongoing maintenance on, my Foxpro is getting pretty rusty! I think they have all the source files, including Codemine, but it seems to be looking for classes and other files that shipped with VFP5, and it doesn't see the Codemine files. I plan to either try to locate a full copy of VFP5 or try to get it to work with my existing copy of VFP9, then try to add the places it may need to look for things into the path. Am I missing anything? Is it worth tracking down a copy of VFP5 or do you guys think it will find the updated components in a VFP9 install? Many thanks in advance for any tips! -- Jeff Roberts | jefflroberts(a)gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ProFox List Statistics for November 2024
by List Administrator Account 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

================================================== ProFox List Statistics November 2024 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 305 ProFoxTech: 184 ================================================== Total Posts: 24 (Down 4.0% from October 2024) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from October 2024) Total [NF] Posts: 1 (Down 95.45% from October 2024) Daily Message Counts for November 2024 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- F 1 - 2 S 2 - 1 M 4 - 1 T 14 - 5 F 15 - 2 F 22 - 1 S 24 - 2 M 25 - 5 T 26 - 2 F 29 - 3 Message Counts By Day of Week for November 2024 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 2 Mon - 6 Tue - 2 Thu - 5 Fri - 8 Sat - 1 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to October 2024) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 14 (Up 16.67%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 1 (Down 90.91%) Total number: 14 (Up 16.67%) Top 14 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 4 Richard Kaye 2. 3 Vincent Teachout 3. 3 Eric Selje 4. 2 Tracy Pearson 5. 2 Michael Glassman 6. 2 Kurt Wendt 7. 1 Chris Davis 8. 1 Alan Bourke 9. 1 Ajit Abraham 10. 1 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 11. 1 Stephen Russell 12. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 13. 1 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 14. 1 List Administrator Account Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 1 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 1 Kurt Wendt Top 14 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 4 Richard Kaye 2. 3 Vincent Teachout 3. 3 Eric Selje 4. 2 Tracy Pearson 5. 2 Michael Glassman 6. 2 Kurt Wendt 7. 1 Chris Davis 8. 1 Alan Bourke 9. 1 Ajit Abraham 10. 1 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 11. 1 Stephen Russell 12. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 13. 1 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 14. 1 List Administrator Account Top 4 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 1 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 2. 1 Kurt Wendt 3. 1 Chris Davis 4. 1 List Administrator Account Top 6 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 12 Database Migration Pointers 2. 6 Restore Backup 3. 3 Charles Hankey, RIP 4. 1 AW: Restore Backup 5. 1 [NF] Ghost Software Engineers?? 6. 1 ProFox List Statistics for October 2024 Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 6 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 12 Database Migration Pointers 2. 6 Restore Backup 3. 3 Charles Hankey, RIP 4. 1 AW: Restore Backup 5. 1 [NF] Ghost Software Engineers?? 6. 1 ProFox List Statistics for October 2024

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