VFE DevCon 2K2 - 16 DVD Set!

DVD 1 - New Client-Server Features in Visual FoxExpress

(1hr 16min)

Mike Feltman

Recent additions to Visual FoxExpress have focused on client-server enhancements. In this session Mike will explain the new transaction, connection management, dynamic SQL generation and other new client-server features added to the framework and demonstrate how you can put them to use in your applications. While this session focuses on client-server features, the majority of the new features added to the framework also apply to local data. 

DVD 2 - Using the Business Object

(1hr 10min)

Bill Anderson

The business object is the "workhorse" of an n-Tier application. This session will highlight the use of the business object within a VFE application. We will cover the most commonly used business object methods and properties as well as practical examples of their usage.

DVD 3 - Debugging Visual FoxExpress Applications

(1hr 13min)

Charles Hankey

Visual FoxExpress' applications can sometimes be difficult to debug due to the frameworks' n-tier architecture. In this session Charles will demonstrate how to effectively use the Visual FoxPro Debugging tools with Visual FoxExpress and share debugging tips and tricks he's learned from years of Visual FoxExpress development. Charles will also demonstrate a new tool that makes it easier for you to examine and understand your applications' object models. 

DVD 4 - Mind Your Own Business Rules

(1hr 15min)

Bob Archer

Perhaps one of the most underused of all Visual FoxExpress classes is the BizRule class. This session will take you on a tour of that class. We will learn how to create and apply a BizRule to a BizObj and when and how the BizObj applies those rules. We will also take a look at some example BizRule implementations. Finally we will take a look at using the BizRule as a class to build an ‘Event’ object to perform a certain processing task.

DVD 5 - Optimizing Views

(1hr 25min)

Dan Goodwin

Everyone needs their applications to run quickly.  Unfortunately, the biggest bottleneck for most applications is the views.  Until F1 creates a wizard that will automatically create optimized views for you, hacking views will remain an essential skill for creating fast and robust applications.  Optimizing Views will cover the basics of Rushmore optimization and then extensively examine optimizing JOINs, sub-queries, UNIONs, WHERE clauses and view parameters.  Through real-world examples, Dan will explain how to test views in your application and demonstrate tricks to significantly accelerate views and work successfully with the most complex views.  While this session will focus on and use examples with local views, much of the material will also apply to remote views.

DVD 6 - Visual FoxExpress Lookup Techniques

(1hr 27min)

Toni Feltman

Visual FoxExpress includes very powerful features for implementing lookups. In this session Toni will cover the various features related to lookups, explain how to customize them, demonstrate how to create lookups for optimal performance and more. This session will focus heavily on new features added to the framework designed to deal with lookups against large tables. 

DVD 7 - Introducing CrystalVFE!

(1hr 8min)

Charles Hankey

CrystalVFE! is a new tool from F1 Technologies that provides complete integration of Crystal Reports with the Visual FoxExpress framework. In this session Charles will give you the down low on CrystalVFE!. Specifically, Charles will cover:

• How to add CrystalVFE  to your applications,  

• How to take advantage of Crystals many output such as output to Word, PDF, HTML and other document formats..

• How to create sub reports with CrystalVFE and more!

DVD 8 - The Ins and Outs of Context Menus

(1hr 17min)

Bill Anderson

VFE provides excellent support for shortcut menus and menu pads. Discover how to use these hidden gems to provide an extra sparkle to your custom applications.

In this session I'll explain the development process for custom menu pads and shortcut menus. We'll see how other parts of the framework operate while we walk through the process.

DVD 9 - Creating Web Services with Visual FoxExpress

(58min)

Mike Feltman

Visual FoxExpress has powerful XML features that make Visual FoxExpress applications easily accessible from non-Visual FoxExpress or Visual FoxPro front-ends. In this session Mike will cover the XML features in the Visual FoxExpress framework and how those features can be used to provide access to your Visual FoxExpress applications via Web Services.

DVD 10 - Team Development with Visual FoxExpress

(1hr 32min)

Toni Feltman

At some point in each developer's career they will need to work with at least one other developer/programmer on a project. In this session Toni will investigate ways to effectively design and implement a VFE application in a team environment. Topics will include modular design, delegation of responsibilities, source control and more.

DVD 11 - Extending VFE Security

(1hr 7min)

Dan Goodwin

Out of the box Visual FoxExpress security provides solid, basic application security.  Additionally, with VFE’s security framework and OOP, a developer can easily integrate far more sophisticated security into their application.  In this session Dan will briefly review how VFE security works and then explain several ways to extend VFE’s security.  Dan will demonstrate how to add record or cell level security, tricks to easily secure output and report data and other ways to leverage VFE’s built-in security.  Additionally, Dan will show how to build extensions to the VFE framework to give the user control over the security names assigned to objects, fields, reports and menus, and an addition which allows an administrator to track who’s in the system, kick users out or limit logins. If there’s time, Dan will also demonstrate his new shareware, VFE Security Manager – a utility which allows you to easily view and set all of an applications security settings from one simple place.

DVD 12 - Can You Relate?

(1hr 34min)

Bob Archer

One of the most important aspects of programming with Visual FoxExpress is having an understanding of how the framework deals with related data. In this session we will take a look at the methods in the business objects that deal with related cursors. Once we understand the business layer we will explore the many user interface choices you have for related data and how to build each type. This will included the dreaded Parent-Child-Grandchild scenario.

DVD 13 - What’s On The Menu?

(1hr 17min)

Bob Archer

At first glance the Visual FoxExpress menus look complicated. OK, they are a bit complicated. This is only due to the many ways you can set up the menus. In this session we will take a look at the menu classes, and break down how GenMenuX uses the information in the .MPR file to create the class based menus. We’ll also look at creating shortcut menus, form specific menus, and hooking into the frameworks default shortcut menus.

DVD 14 - Creating Internet Applications with the Visual FoxExpress Voodoo Toolkit

(1hr 21min)

Mike Feltman

Mike has been hard at work making it easy for you to take advantage of EPS-Software's Voodoo Web Controls with Visual FoxExpress. In this session Mike will demonstrate the new Visual FoxExpress Voodoo Toolkit and show how to create Voodoo Web Pages that interact with Visual FoxExpress applications. 

DVD 15 - Making Reports & Output Work for You

(1hr 9min)

Dan Goodwin

Reports and output are usually what interest developers least and, unfortunately, users most. This session will demonstrate tricks for getting VFP’s anemic report writer to do your bidding.  You will learn how to easily produce the output you want by pre-processing cursors, using references to the goReportObject to leverage the bizobj and with stupid report tricks. This session will also cover the methods and properties of the output object and how to customize VFE’s report and output wizard to prompt the user for whatever you might want.

DVD 16 - Go International with the Visual FoxExpress INTL Toolkit

(1hr 8min)

Toni Feltman

The Visual FoxExpress INTL Toolkit makes it a breeze to create multi-lingual applications with Visual FoxExpress. In this session Toni will demonstrate how to use the VFE INTL Toolkit to create a multi-lingual Visual FoxExpress application.