Rick Schummer wrote: > Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents: > "On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" > By Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert > Thursday, February 21, 2008 > > - "On the Darkside of Visual FoxPro" by Christof Wollenhaupt of FoxPert > > Visual FoxPro is a lot: it's fast, productive, stable, amazing, surprising... > but it certainly isn't > logical and consistent. Over more than two decades with three fundamentally > different programming > concepts, four operating systems and two compilers left their traces in the > product we love. FoxPro > as a high-level development tool doesn't require knowledge of the internals; > much less than .NET. > But should you encounter problems it's helpful to know a bit about what's > going on behind the > scenes. This session covers the internal management of variables, memory > management, the handling of > classes, objects and containers (and why those are the same, yet completely > different), the system > datasession, the impact of cache, buffers and transactions, table access, > Rushmore optimization, and > so on. > > In this session, you will learn: > > * How variables are managed > * How memory and buffers are managed > * How VFP deals with objects > * How to avoid problems with a buffer > * What to consider with Rushmore > > - Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks. > - Anything else people want to talk about. > > *** NEW MEETING LOCATION *** > Holiday Inn Express - Southfield > 25100 Northwestern HWY > Southfield, MI 48075 > > Hope to see you there. > More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org > > Agenda: > 6:00 - 8:00 Presentation > 8:00 - Food and FoxPro discussion > > Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers: > February 21, 2008 - "The Darkside of Visual FoxPro" - Christof Wollenhaupt > March 13, 2008 - Stonefield Query SDK - Frank Perez > April 10, 2008 - TBD > May 15, 2008 - TBD > June 12, 2008 - TBD > July 2008 - No Meeting > August 14, 2008 - TBD > September 11, 2008 - TBD > October 9, 2008 - TBD > November 20, 2008 - TBD > December 11, 2008 - TBD > > DAFUG meets on the second or third Thursday of the month (except for July). > Free parking is > available near the farmers market. > > Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) > meeting. After that you must > either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or > you will be asked to > pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other > rights or privileges of > membership. > > Rick Schummer, Secretary for DAFUG > > >
Sounds like a great meeting....wish I could be there! -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
