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New postings include information on FoxtTalk 2.0 and a whitepaper on Developing Tablet PC applications with VFP

**Calendar of Events/Meetings**
Wednesday September 22	BONUSES We have two door prize products provided by Microsoft. Meeting Time: 7:00pm Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Description: Kip Dole shows a collection of his favorite functions and code that he uses to save time in VFP development. For example: * A function that returns value in 1 line of code. * Simple Formating functions for Social Security Number, Name, Zip Code, Phone Number * Set up a DSN connection Set up a combo box by just placing a few lines of code in the init function * Easily html format your code * A carriage return line feed function. In addition, he shows where he stores these functions on his website so when he needs some code he can just copy it. He also tells demos Codecharge, an HTML application wizard that allows you to create add / edit / save / search type forms just by following a wizard in formats including asp and .net. Kip is leaving some time open at the end of the meeting in case any of you would like to bring in some of your nifty code snippits to share too. In case of inclement weather you can call Microsoft's main number to check for a recording of cancelled meetings at 781-487-6400.
Wednesday July 28	BONUSES We have two door prize products provided by Microsoft. Meeting Time: 7:00pm Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Speaker: Ted Roche Topic: Using xCase For DB Design, Creation, Maintainance, And C/S Migration Description: Following up on the 'Data Design' meeting in May, Ted will spends session demonstrating the xCase tool for designing, maintaining and migrating databases. He starts with a simple design in VFP and seeing how changes made within xCase and VFP can be reconciled, and then moving the target database to a client-server system, using xCase to migrate both the data schema and the data.
Wednesday June 23	Please share this information with your colleagues. Dmitry Litvak - Using ADO.NET With VFP Meeting Time: 7:00pm Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Description: Dmitry shares his experience in creating an ASP.NET project that works with A VFP database and interfaces with a VFP desktop application.
Wednesday May 26	Introduction to Data Design by Ted Roche Meeting Time: 7:00pm Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Description: If you are only ever going to have two salesman, why create a separate table for them? And if it's always going to be Bill and Bob, why not just include their names in the sales order? If the road to Hades is paved with good intentions, then intentionally and unnecessarily violating the basic principles of normalization is the express lane. This session reviews the principles of data design analysis, normalization and naming conventions. As time allows, we take on one or two tough examples and exercise them in depth.
Wednesday April 28	Meeting Time: 7:00pm Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Description: Steve Lundahl shows DTS and SQL-DMO with SQL-DMO. Examples are in VB6, VFP and a couple interesting examples using SQL-DMO with .NET that also demonstrates how .NET works with COM objects. Then he demonstrates debugging SQL Server stored procedures with an introduction to the SQL Profiler, execution plans and demonstrations of debugging stored procedures using Query Analyzer and Visual Studio .NET .

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