Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
SWFox Preview! Two Presentations!
Presentation #1 - Bo Durban - Extending VFP using the Web Browser Control
AFUG is pleased to announce that Bo Durban, president of Moxie Data, Inc. will be making our first August presentation.
Enhancing the user experience has become a necessity for new development. Users are demanding easier ways to navigate and view their data. There is a figurative "world" of GUI elements and libraries out there for enhancing the user experience via the web browser. Why not incorporate some of these into your Windows form applications using the Web Browser control? This session will show you how you can significantly enhance the look and feel of your application by creating custom controls based on the Web Browser control. Learn how to seamlessly display data, accept user input, and respond to events and how to hook into a world of cool visual libraries and services using the Web Browser control. Practical examples will demonstrate the benefits the Web Browser control can offer.
Bo Durban is the president of Moxie Data, Inc. They are an experienced software development company. For more than 20 years, their staff has been developing a wide range of projects for numerous clients. Moxie Data, Inc. prides themselves on keeping up with and utilizing the most recent technology available.
Presentation #2 - Steve Ellenoff - Creating Database Abstraction Classes in VFP: Switch your Back-End with Ease
AFUG is pleased to announce that Steve Ellenoff, president of SJE Consulting will be making our second August presentation.
One of the few complaints developers have about VFP is that it cannot handle true multithreaded processing. Typically developers require this functionality when implementing long running processes in order to keep the user informed visually, and even more importantly, to allow them to cancel the process before it is finished. In this session we review several ways to simulate multithreaded processing, and show how you can incorporate similar functionality in your applications. To demonstrate the code techniques, we review a VFP application that collects information in an explorer style window for all files and folders on a user's hard drive while keeping the user visually informed and allowing them to abort the process at any time
Steve Ellenoff is the president of SJE Consulting / Custom Technology Solutions founded in 1999. He has been working with Foxpro since version 2.6 for Windows, and prior to that Dbase and Clipper. He and his company continue to utilize Visual Foxpro to deliver cost effective, feature rich, database intensive desktop and web solutions. Steve also has a background in C and C++ development and currently is working on an Xbox 360 video game project, as well as a custom designed Pinball Computer Replacement product.
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