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SCCTextX for Data
Published June 24, 2013 | By Joel Leach
Over the years, there have been debates about whether it is best to use source control integrated with the VFP Project Manager or to keep it
separate. I’ve always preferred to have the integrated experience. Regardless of which side you fall on, it is very useful to have textual
representations of VFP’s binary source files (SCX, VCX, etc.). These text files enable diffs, so a developer can compare different versions
of a source file and see what changes were made. VFP includes SCCText.prg in the box, which has improved over time, but leaves a lot
to… Continue reading →
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Why Microsoft Cancelled Visual FoxPro
Published October 13, 2011 | By Joel Leach
For a while now, I have debated whether or not to post this entry. About six months ago, I wrote most of this article, then decided not to
post it. So yeah, I’m wishy‐washy on this one. Since then, Microsoft has put a lot of emphasis on HTML5 and introduced Windows 8 and
the Metro UI, leaving a lot of existing MS developers wondering about the future of their previous technology choices. With that in mind, I
think it's good to look at Microsoft’s treatment of VFP and how their decision processes work in regard to… Continue reading →
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ParallelFox and HyperThreading
Published April 3, 2011 | By Joel Leach
Years ago, Intel added a HyperThreading feature to their CPUs before dualcore processors were available. More recently, Intel
reintroduced the technology into their "Core i" series of processors. What is HyperThreading and how does it affect ParallelFox? Let's start
with the Wikipedia description:
Hyperthreading works by duplicating certain sections of the processor—those that store the architectural state—but not duplicating the
main execution resources. This allows a hyperthreading processor to appear as two "logical" processors to the host operating system,
allowing the operating system to schedule two threads or processes simultaneously. When execution resources would not be used by the
current… Continue reading →
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ParallelFox 0.7 Released
Published March 27, 2011 | By Joel Leach
I just released ParallelFox 0.7 on VFPX. This release features... wait for it... documentation! That was the big piece missing from
ParallelFox. I created ParallelFox.chm with West Wind's excellent Html Help Builder. The help file is designed to be used in conjunction
with the training videos I made previously. Use the help file as a quick reference or short overview of topics. Watch the training videos for
more indepth discussions, examples, and techniques.
This release also includes improved IntelliSense. ParallelFox takes advantage of Doug Hennig's Favorites for IntelliSense, which Doug also
used in the… Continue reading →
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FoxTabs Finally Hits 1.0
Published March 12, 2011 | By Joel Leach
Five years in the making (I say that like it's a good thing), or even longer if you go back to when I first started playing with this concept,
FoxTabs has finally reached the coveted "production release" status on VFPX. Actually, it has been stable for quite some time now, but
since FoxTabs works so closely with the internals of VFP, it's the kind of project you want to let incubate for a while so you can shake out
all the bugs. Causing C5's in the VFP IDE doesn't win you any popularity contests! Many developers… Continue reading →
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Debugging in ParallelFox
Published October 1, 2010 | By Joel Leach
ParallelFox 0.6 Beta was released today. Earlier this week, I posted a couple of new training videos about Worker Events on VFPX. When
I started, I figured the training video would be 3045 minutes to cover all the features in ParallelFox. I'm now up to 4 videos clocking in at
almost two hours. Part of that is my slow presentation (sorry for that, I was doing most of it off the cuff), but if you've ever put together
videos like this, then you know how time consuming they are. I feel like it was… Continue reading →
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Introducing ParallelFox
Published August 9, 2010 | By Joel Leach
ParallelFox is a parallel processing library for Visual FoxPro that I've been working on for a little while now. Parallel processing is getting a
lot of attention these days and with good reason. Parallel extensions/libraries are popping up for all languages/platforms, and if VFP were
still in development at Microsoft, I'm sure the Fox Team would be hard at work on adding those features for us. But, that's no reason for us
to do without. FoxPro developers can benefit from parallel processing just like everyone else, and ParallelFox aims to help us do that.
The first Beta… Continue reading →
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FoxTabs 0.9.2 and Multiple Windows Event Bindings
Published April 11, 2010 | By Joel Leach
I know... I've been seriously neglecting my FoxTabs duties... again. After a long delay, FoxTabs 0.9.2 has just been released. There have
only been a few issues since the last release over a year ago. Unless new issues are introduced in this version (very possible), I expect this
version will become a release candidate, and then version 1.0.
One of the reasons for the delay was an issue discovered by Greg Green, and I wasn't sure of the best way to handle it. Greg has created
several replacements for the standard VFP editors and designers. … Continue reading →
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SW Fox 2009 Sunday
Published October 21, 2009 | By Joel Leach
Sunday rolled around, and I couldn't believe it was already the last day of the conference. Sleep deprivation was starting to set in, and I had
more sleep than most. Still, I wasn't about to miss any sessions.
VFP and MySQL: Case Study for Remote Data
Rick Schummer
For the purposes of this session, "Remote Data" meant using a database server that resided anywhere, on a local server or out on the
internet. Rick started off with some client/server basics and the various ways you can access remote data from VFP. It's common
knowledge that… Continue reading →
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SW Fox 2009 Saturday
Published October 21, 2009 | By Joel Leach
Saturday morning started off with three sessions on architectural/OOP topics, so I was looking forward to it.
Data Driving Applications
Toni M Feltman
Toni is another of my favorite speakers and I love her speaking style. There have been previous sessions about using meta data in
frameworks, but this session was more about refactoring legacy code (there’s that subject again) into data. A realworld example she gave
was code that ran for specific users. The users were defined by an IF INLIST(“USER1”, “USER2”, etc.) command that was duplicated
many times throughout the code. If that sounds ridiculous, perhaps you have… Continue reading →
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