Today was the first official day of the 3 day's SWFox 2010 conference. I started off with an enthusiastic and well prepared conference about the PEM editor a replacement and enhancement for the Property/Method editor. I was already using this tool for now over a year and although very satisfied with the product so far I have learned at least 3 very useful functions today of which I was not aware. The PEM editor was built by James Nelson and can be download at the VFPx site for everybody’s use.
The next show was a conference by Uwe Haberman and Venelina Jordanova about the development of Silverlight applications. It was good to see and hear how these two persons where so responded to each other. Later in the afternoon in a session where conference attenders showed us there latest or most impressive VFP applications, Bernard Bout showed us how the two products – VFP and Silverlight where seamlessly possible to work together.
The last conference before lunch was a given by Eric Selje. Eric explained and showed us the possibility of the classes made by Carlos Aloitti, VFP2C32.vcx There is virtually nothing any api all in Windows anymore which is not accessible for VFP by using VFP232.
After lunch we were informed by Dough Henning about the ThemedControls.vcx to be found in VFPx. This class designed by Emerson Reed. It makes it possible to build a nice GUI mimic the Office 2003 and 2004 look. The Outlook menu bar inclusive the coloring on mouse movements and color shadings according to Outlook 2003 and 2007 are easily effected by using his class. Emerson also started the Word- and Excel2007 top menu – ribbon. This class is not yet completely finished knowing that MS has meanwhile with Office2010 not continued this object it is rarely logic Emerson will finish this class
The last conference I attended today was the “Show us your application” James Nelson, the author of the PEMEditor and for that product was presented with the SWF-Fox 2010 award, showed us and explained the coding of his Codereference class. The class is a fine enhancement to the Coderefence class delivered with VFP9 out of the box. Cesar Chalom presented the FoxyPreviewer, a total wrapper of at least 6 different classes, inclusive the Raportbehavior.app, for reporting in VFP. A simple one line of code makes it possible to present your existing reports with several nice extra tools. Joel Leach showed us ‘Paralell Fox’. His tool resulted in up to 50% time gain when performing different procedures simultaneously instead of conventionally sequentially. Slobodan Gajinovic showed us an application with forms which where real-time data-driven constructed.
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