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Meeting Recap for June 8, 2002FoxPro News:Based on the idea of a member of the Universal Thread, the Fox Team at Microsoft is reportedly working on an official "Powered by Visual FoxPro" graphic that developers can include in their applications. Keep an eye out for that. I expect it will readily available from the Visual FoxPro website (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/ ) once it becomes available. Main Presentation:Martha Kroll presented the topic "How I *Inexpensively* converted FoxPro data to a PDA". She walked us through creating a simple PDA app, and transferring FoxPro data to and from it, using a tool called PDA toolbox. This tool is available FREE from http://www.pdatoolbox.com. For the low, low price of $25, you can upgrade it to a registered version, which gives you tech support and some additional bells and whistles. Would you like to try it, but don't have a PDA? No problem! FREE Palm OS emulators are available from http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator. Just download the skin(s) that match the Palm(s) you wish to develop for. PDA Toolbox – http://www.pdatoolbox.com/ (FREE - $25 for a registered version) Palm OS Emulator - http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/ (FREE) The following steps will take you through developing your own PDA app using FoxPro data. It is recommended you refer to the PDA Toolbox tutorial for additional information about options not covered within this presentation.
Next Meeting:Please mark your calendars! We are excited to announce that we have scheduled a special event for Saturday, August 3, featuring regular FoxPro conference speaker, former Tips and Tricks editor for FoxPro Advisor, and principal author of the Visual Maxframe framework, Drew Speedie. The festivities will start at 9:00AM with a half-day presentation on the Visual Maxframe framework, followed by lunch, then a general Visual FoxPro topic, to be determined, in the afternoon. Lunch will be by reservation, and a small fee will be charged to non-members for the lunch and the afternoon topic. A summary of the morning presentation can be viewed now at
http://www.visionds.com/vmpsite/vmplive.asp. More details will follow. |
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