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I am moving ...

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:11:04 PDT

After blogging here for almost two years, I have decided to move my weblog to weblogs.foxite.com. The reason I do so is because I faced difficulty to create post here. It always take very long time...

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I am moving ...

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:04:00 PDT

After blogging at blogger.com for two years, I decided to move to new weblog service provider - weblogs.foxite.com. The main reason for this decision is, it is very slow while I try to create new...

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I am moving ...

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:42:59 PDT

Extending Data Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:36:04 PDT

As mentioned in my previous blog, I have choosen VFP9 Data Explorer as data querying tool during testing. There are some features found in query analyzer but not in VFP data explorer. 1. Execute...

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TechEd2006 SEA

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:55:35 PDT

I just back from TechEd2006 SEA. Overally, I feel abit dissapointed on this year session. I attended Developer, Architecture or Enterprise Data Management tracks. I felt big dissapointed to...

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Why must you (VFP) setfocus to it?

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:24:31 PDT

I have a Visual Promatrix framework based application. It has few simple forms that consist of label_, textbox_ and textbox_output control(It is a textbox control that set readonly and return false...

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Procedure is not cleared!

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:02:16 PDT

I have three classes written in a single .prg file. An Asbtract class and two concrete classes. AbstractClass | ->ClassA | ->ClassBI creates an instance of each concrete class in my test program. At...

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Small try on VFP DataExplorer

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:51:05 PDT

DataExplorer (DE) is an addon tool come with VFP9. It allows us to access VFP/SQL database from single interface. It acts as same functionality as Server Explorer in VisualStudio.NET. I just have a...

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Project D.O.A

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:53:27 PDT

One more video posted, I was thinking it talks about how project manager would resolve their issues if they choose the wrong tool for their project. However, ... It suprises me!!! :)) Direct link :...

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VFPX promo video

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:13:24 PDT

After VFP promo video, Kevin Ragsdale shared VFPX promo video. Direct link : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8081999689198930750

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Another VFP Promo Video

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:18:18 PDT

Another VFP promo video posted by Kevin Ragsdale at Goodle Video. Thank you, Kevin.

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VFPX

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:26:43 PDT

VFPX is now at CodePlex. Cool logo!

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Application Loader, Self-Update

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:34:26 PDT

Upgrade is a very painful process for desktop application in multi-users environment. We got to update latest EXE, fxp, dbf and etc to ALL user machine by running upgrade program or xcopy them...

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Make VFP cool!

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:45:00 PDT

There are couple of blogs show how to make VFP look cool! For example : - Recreating OneNoteTabs in VFP9What I have done with VFP, GDI+, and a ton of help from VFP Community (OR why VFP is...

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Reason to use ViewDBC

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:29:59 PDT

In my prior post, I mentioned I hit error in multi instances environment. Failure that I hit in second instance will cause exception in first instance also. I am not sure how VFP handle connection...

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SQL Connection property reset!

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:18:42 PDT

Recently, my team is testing our application to make sure it works fine in multi instances and Terminal Server environment. Once launch second instance of our application, we hit show stopper...

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VFP raise again in TIOBE index

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:36:34 PDT

Visual FoxPro is at position 12 on the TIOBE Index. It is rate "A" now!

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Multi-Threading in VFP

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:25:40 PDT

Calvin Hsia posted sample code to run VFP in multi-threading mode. [Calvin Hsia :] Sample program to create multiple threadsCreate multiple threads from within your applicationMore Multithread...

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Simple steps, are they really simple?

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:14:12 PDT

Ted pointed out a link that show how to delete a desktop shortcut in seven simple steps. It remind me one of the product installation procedure. In order to deploy the application to customer, it...

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How to make Visual FoxPro cool from Craig Bailey

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:58:28 PDT

Craig Bailey has an excellent post, "How to make Visual FoxPro cool". Totally agree with him, perception to VFP outside of VFP community is the main problem. How to make VFP cool Andrew MacNeill...

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VFP at TIOBE

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:07:45 PDT

VFP has been staying in TIOBE top 20 list since January 2006. It is at the position 13th with status 'A-'. It shows the influence of VFP community.

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Ken Levy goes Windows Live

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:59:32 PST

Ken Levy, VS Data Group Product Manager announced to accept an offer to work be a product planner Windows Live division. Is it a good/bad news for VFP community? Anyway, congratulation Ken!

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Which is your favorite Fox head?

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:09:52 PST

Craig Boyd - Creating our own Fox logos

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SQLRollBack() reset error

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:36:26 PST

Just found out that SQLRollBack() will reset error occured during SQL Server transaction. IOW, we would not able to get the error occured during transaction after rollback. I believe it is design of...

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Visual FoxPro is a Rising Star

noreply@blogger.com (Chan Kok Kiet (John Jones)) — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:30:32 PST

A report from TIOBE Programming Community indicates that Visual FoxPro has raised its position from 51 to 20. Rising star this month is Visual FoxPro. It jumped in one year time from position 51 to...

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