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Why I'm attending the Web Connection Training at Southwest Fox 26 Jul 2012 | 11:33 pm
I've been using West Wind Web Connection in production apps for over ten years, so I'm pretty familiar with it - how it's built, how it works, and how to build apps based on it. So why would I invest ...
Videocast: Solving a Network Deployment Challenge using Inno Setup 3 May 2012 | 10:09 am
One common approach to deploying Visual FoxPro apps in a multi-user environment is for the application’s executable file and data to reside on a file server. That way, each workstation only needs the ...
How To: Browse a Mercurial log in Visual FoxPro 8 Nov 2011 | 11:30 am
If you use Mercurial as your version control system, you know it maintains a log of all repository history. You can view the log with the hg log command or with the TortoiseHg Workbench app. However,...
Updated KB2412171 no longer breaks Gmail 21 Apr 2011 | 03:11 pm
As noted here, the December 2010 KB2412171 update broke Outlook access to Gmail accounts. The KB2412171 patch was updated on January 11, 2011 and from my experience no longer causes this problem.
Outlook Update KB2412171 Breaks Gmail Account Access 16 Dec 2010 | 06:10 pm
After installing the December batch of updates from Microsoft, Outlook 2007 on my Windows Vista SP2 machine could not longer access my Gmail account using POP3. The error message was “Task ‘<gmail add...
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Conditional TRANSFORMs in VFP 21 Mar 2010 | 01:48 pm
Visual FoxPro's TRANSFORM function is a powerful tool for converting an expression into a string. The VFP Help file defines the syntax of the TRANSFORM function this way: eExpression is the value, or...
Password Agent 2.6 29 Oct 2009 | 04:46 am
While discussing backup tools in my session on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning at Southwest Fox 2009, I mentioned that I use a password management program call Password Agent from M...
Southwest Fox 2009 - Don't Miss It! 7 Jun 2009 | 06:10 am
Hard to believe, but it's only a little over four months until Southwest Fox 2009, which will be held October 15-18, 2009 at the beautiful Arizona Golf Resort and Conference Center in Mesa, Arizona. S...