And further to that, a big, big shout-out to Doug, Rick & Tamar, and all the speakers for making this happen. The amount of work that goes into pulling off something like this is a labor of love, and Geek Gatherings deserves all the love they get in return.

Here are a few of my highlights:

In a session on internationalization, Cathy Poutney announced that Steven Black's INTL Toolkit is now open source. If you need a framework that handles translations for different languages or even industries, head over to Github and download it.

The aforementioned Cathy Poutney did a session on, what else, extending the reporting engine with a framework she's calling fxReports. This is (or will be soon) available as an open source project in VFPx.

Eric Selje did a very interesting session called "VFP Advanced: Is this the next version of Visual Foxpro?". Basically a rocket scientist lone developer in China has reverse engineered VFP, and patched at least 96 bugs (to date) in our favorite tool and its runtimes. All you need to try this out is a licensed copy of VFP9 SP2, hotfix3, and you can install this side by side. He has also released a 64 bit version. There are pros and cons to using the 64 git version. For example, he has not breached the 2GB file size limitation. OTOH it uses newer supported versions of the C++runtime (10.1, I believe) instead of the apparently out of support 7.1 library that VFP is written in.

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rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:44 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: SWFox 2019 recap

I was not a presenter, like Tracy <vbg>, but I also had a great time at SWFox. It's a joy to spend time with one's peers learning new (and sometimes old) things, as well as meeting in person with both old and new friends. I would also encourage anyone on this list who still works with the Fox to consider attending next year's conference, which is scheduled for November 12-15, 2020.

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rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:38 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: SWFox 2019 recap

I am back to calm after the first day back to work. I had a great time at the conference and hope to stay connected with those I met. I answered an email this morning and thought about the conversation I had with Richard Kaye. <grin>

Good conversations, good information, and a fun time.

I hear I did well as my first time speaking at the conference.

Maybe we can get more ProFoxers to go in 2020.

See you around! Tracy

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Thanks, Eric. It was great to meet you in person. I think we have to get some ProFox t-shirts for next year so we can fly the list's true colors...

One other thing I wanted to mention. Rick Schummer has built a replacement for the menu designer and will be releasing that as open source as well. The native menu designer is one of the oldest things in the product and Rick's replacement will make managing MNX based menus so much more efficient.

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rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:38 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: SWFox 2019 recap

Great recap of VFP Advanced, Richard. And yes you did great Tracy! Great to see you there, and would love to see more next year.

Eric

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:43 AM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:

And further to that, a big, big shout-out to Doug, Rick & Tamar, and all the speakers for making this happen. The amount of work that goes into pulling off something like this is a labor of love, and Geek Gatherings deserves all the love they get in return.

Here are a few of my highlights:

In a session on internationalization, Cathy Poutney announced that Steven Black's INTL Toolkit is now open source. If you need a framework that handles translations for different languages or even industries, head over to Github and download it.

The aforementioned Cathy Poutney did a session on, what else, extending the reporting engine with a framework she's calling fxReports. This is (or will be soon) available as an open source project in VFPx.

Eric Selje did a very interesting session called "VFP Advanced: Is this the next version of Visual Foxpro?". Basically a rocket scientist lone developer in China has reverse engineered VFP, and patched at least 96 bugs (to date) in our favorite tool and its runtimes. All you need to try this out is a licensed copy of VFP9 SP2, hotfix3, and you can install this side by side. He has also released a 64 bit version. There are pros and cons to using the 64 git version. For example, he has not breached the 2GB file size limitation. OTOH it uses newer supported versions of the C++runtime (10.1, I believe) instead of the apparently out of support 7.1 library that VFP is written in.

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rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:44 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: SWFox 2019 recap

I was not a presenter, like Tracy <vbg>, but I also had a great time at SWFox. It's a joy to spend time with one's peers learning new (and sometimes old) things, as well as meeting in person with both old and new friends. I would also encourage anyone on this list who still works with the Fox to consider attending next year's conference, which is scheduled for November 12-15, 2020.

--

rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:38 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: SWFox 2019 recap

I am back to calm after the first day back to work. I had a great time at the conference and hope to stay connected with those I met. I answered an email this morning and thought about the conversation I had with Richard Kaye. <grin>

Good conversations, good information, and a fun time.

I hear I did well as my first time speaking at the conference.

Maybe we can get more ProFoxers to go in 2020.

See you around! Tracy

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I liked that Doug brought up the Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise has a built in Windows Sandbox. If you don't have a VM, this is an instant VM. It allows you to do install testing quickly on a clean machine.

I checked. Windows 10 Home does not have the ability to add the feature. Here's a link explaining how to install it, and what it is doing. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sand box/ba-p/301849

Tracy

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:09 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: SWFox 2019 recap

Thanks, Eric. It was great to meet you in person. I think we have to get some ProFox t-shirts for next year so we can fly the list's true colors...

One other thing I wanted to mention. Rick Schummer has built a replacement for the menu designer and will be releasing that as open source as well. The native menu designer is one of the oldest things in the product and Rick's replacement will make managing MNX based menus so much more efficient.

--

rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:38 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: SWFox 2019 recap

Great recap of VFP Advanced, Richard. And yes you did great Tracy! Great to see you there, and would love to see more next year.

Eric

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:43 AM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:

And further to that, a big, big shout-out to Doug, Rick & Tamar, and all the speakers for making this happen. The amount of work that goes into pulling off something like this is a labor of love, and Geek Gatherings deserves all the love they get in return.

Here are a few of my highlights:

In a session on internationalization, Cathy Poutney announced that Steven Black's INTL Toolkit is now open source. If you need a framework that handles translations for different languages or even industries, head over to Github and download it.

The aforementioned Cathy Poutney did a session on, what else, extending the reporting engine with a framework she's calling fxReports. This is (or will be soon) available as an open source project

in VFPx.

Eric Selje did a very interesting session called "VFP Advanced: Is this the next version of Visual Foxpro?". Basically a rocket scientist lone developer in China has reverse engineered VFP, and patched at least 96 bugs (to date) in our favorite tool and its runtimes. All you need to try this out is a licensed copy of VFP9 SP2, hotfix3, and you can install this side by side. He has also released a 64 bit version. There are pros and cons to using the 64 git version. For example, he has not breached the 2GB file size limitation. OTOH it uses newer supported versions of the C++runtime (10.1, I believe) instead of the apparently out of support 7.1 library that VFP is written in.

--

rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:44 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: SWFox 2019 recap

I was not a presenter, like Tracy <vbg>, but I also had a great time at SWFox. It's a joy to spend time with one's peers learning new (and sometimes old) things, as well as meeting in person with both old and new friends. I would also encourage anyone on this list who still works with the Fox to consider attending next year's conference, which is scheduled for November 12-15, 2020.

--

rk

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:38 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: SWFox 2019 recap

I am back to calm after the first day back to work. I had a great time at the conference and hope to stay connected with those I met. I answered an email this morning and thought about the conversation I had with Richard Kaye. <grin>

Good conversations, good information, and a fun time.

I hear I did well as my first time speaking at the conference.

Maybe we can get more ProFoxers to go in 2020.

See you around! Tracy

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