VFP 8.0 in the News

[rgbean]

A news story on VFP 8.0 has been released on ADTMag.com (Application Developer Trends), based on their request for an interview after seeing the Microsoft PressPass story on VFP 8.0 at

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/apr03/04-21foxpro.asp.

Visual FoxPro 8.0: The venerable database tool gets a makeover

http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7599

The story is the headline news item on their home page at

http://www.adtmag.com

as of today. The story is also listed on their programmer's reports page at

http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6265.

Ken Levy
Visual FoxPro Product Manager
Microsoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro

http://foxcentral.net

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Additionally:
1) It's still "featured" on the MSDN home page -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/

2) There is a new White Paper on the TaskPane:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen8/html/vfp8_TaskPaneMgr.asp

Inside the Visual FoxPro 8.0 Task Pane Manager MSDN whitepaper on Inside the Visual FoxPro 8.0 Task Pane Manager by Beth Massi. Learn about the Visual FoxPro 8.0 Task Pane Manager: how the built-in panes work, how the Task Pane Manager architecture is structured, and how to create your own, including complex, dynamic task panes that incorporate XML data, link to Internet resources, run Visual FoxPro code, and display rich controls. Finally, learn to publish your task panes and share them with others. (38 printed pages)

3) The VFP web site (

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/)

has been updated to reflect 8.0's release and availability. There are a lot of links to news and special articles.

4) CoDe (Component Developers) Magazine recently released a VFP 8.0 only "Focus" issue. You can access all the articles at

http://code-magazine.com/focus/.

Rick

 

[Mike Lewis]

Rick,

Thanks for posting that. It's a rare treat to see that sort of article.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk