RE: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-20 Thread Rick Schummer
Some losers treat you like 2nd class if you stick with the Fox and not run to the latest M$ offering. You will be in very good company. g Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com ___ Post

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-18 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:04 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Wolper wrote: From the article: All three noted that many of their FoxPro compatriots have begun to move on to .NET programming. Microsoft´s strategy has changed dramatically. It makes

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-18 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: It's a pro-M$ article. You wouldn't see anything else other than pro-M$ statements. They were all M$ folks. The site is not a M$ one. They seem well rounded in the

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-18 Thread Stephen Russell
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:27 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contrary to the way I may come off, it goes without saying that it's always good to broaden your skillset, especially in a direction where Monster.com or Dice.com shows that there's jobs to be had

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-18 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: Why wait till they do something? Why not get the software and take the 90 day trial? The videos list I presented will be easy to jump on. You could focus on doing the same thing your doing in winforms with fox as a compare which will just give you a headache. Been

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-17 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Jerry Wolper wrote: From the article: All three noted that many of their FoxPro compatriots have begun to move on to .NET programming. Microsoft´s strategy has changed dramatically. It makes [VFP] a tough sell, Duffy offered. Consequently, he added, the number of developers skilled

RE: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread Allen
] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: 16 July 2008 04:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro? I'll second that.. Been learning asp.net and vb.net off an on since january. You can download 4 video tutorials from asp.net that will teach you all of the basic concepts

RE: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:03 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro? Virgil Bierschwale wrote: I'll second that.. Been learning

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Virgil Bierschwale wrote: Go to http://www.asp.net Click on learn Click on general asp.net Go down to the How Do I section #11. Create data-driven web sites #55. Pass information from one page to another using a query string #17. Use cascading style sheets for web page layout #20.

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Russell
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Virgil Bierschwale wrote: I'll second that.. Been learning asp.net and vb.net off an on since january. You can download 4 video tutorials from asp.net that will teach you all of the basic concepts

RE: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
The only thing I will say that I had to learn is, your initial steps will be to use the controls to do all the work for you. It seems to me that when you do it that way, it becomes hard to customize, whereas if you actually code it line by line it just seems a lot easier to work with as in the

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Virgil Bierschwale wrote: I'll second that.. Been learning asp.net and vb.net off an on since january. You can download 4 video tutorials from asp.net that will teach you

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your not much on frameworks? WTF? You made one for yourself for doing all the data via mySQL. You're mixing up threads again. Virgil said that. --- Cant reply to emails

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your not much on frameworks? WTF? You made one for yourself for doing all the data via mySQL. You're mixing up threads again. Virgil said that.

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-16 Thread Jerry Wolper
From the article: All three noted that many of their FoxPro compatriots have begun to move on to .NET programming. Microsoft´s strategy has changed dramatically. It makes [VFP] a tough sell, Duffy offered. Consequently, he added, the number of developers skilled enough to support and

Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-15 Thread Bill Anderson
Not a bad article... In the magazine it's titled Developers keep FoxPro buzz alive http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32372 Bill Anderson --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Bill Anderson wrote: Not a bad article... In the magazine it's titled Developers keep FoxPro buzz alive http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32372 Bill Anderson From the article: All three noted that many of their FoxPro compatriots have begun to move on to .NET

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:12 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Anderson wrote: Not a bad article... In the magazine it's titled Developers keep FoxPro buzz alive http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32372 Bill Anderson From the

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: hahahaha you crack me up. LOL! Yeah, I say the same about you! For all those who left 75% probably stayed with Visual Studio. The other 25 probably did the java, php, big database management, or other open source products. You might be right. I certainly wasn't

RE: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-15 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
understand the quirks... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:31 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro? On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:12 PM, MB Software Solutions

Re: Where have you gone, Visual FoxPro?

2008-07-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Virgil Bierschwale wrote: I'll second that.. Been learning asp.net and vb.net off an on since january. You can download 4 video tutorials from asp.net that will teach you all of the basic concepts for asp.net and have you productive in a week.. I'm not much on frameworks, but it sure allows