Just a reminder that the deadline to submit session proposals for Virtual Fox Fest is next Monday, June 7th. You'll find details on our Call for Speakers page. We look forward to your ideas and session proposals.
Virtual Fox Fest is October 14, 20, and 26, 2021.
We're excited to offer you Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (October), a three-day online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques and interoperability with other technologies. This conference provides a venue for VFP developers to come together virtually to learn more about how our fellow developers are using and extending VFP. For details about Virtual Fox Fest, please see https://virtualfoxfest.com.
The conference is going to be on October 14th, 20th, and 26th, 2021.
We've issued the Call for Speakers for Virtual Fox Fest. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document referenced in that page and consider submitting sessions.
Here are some follow-up notes about Virtual Fox Fest 2021 (May), the second online event hosted by Geek Gatherings:
Our thanks to all those who responded to our plea not to wait for the last minute. Here’s a reminder in case you got busy and forgot...
Virtual
Fox Fest 2021 (May) is next
week on May 6, 2021! Get
registered today! https://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Only 10 days until we gather virtually via the Internet! We look forward to seeing everyone soon.
We’re glad so many have already registered for the May 6th Virtual Fox Fest. We still have room for many more.
If you’re planning to attend, please register sooner rather than later. Our
hard working registration staff (Rick) is an organizer, and has a full-time job
and then some working on customer projects. If too many of you wait until the
week of the conference to register, some people may not get the credentials in
time to see the first session on May 6th. It literally takes minutes for you to
register, but it takes us longer to process your registration.
We don’t want you to miss all the details about the conference we’ll be sharing over the next couple of weeks. We want you to have a chance to read the white papers and download the examples once we release them before the conference starts. We’d hate to see you miss the opportunity to get a head start on all the goodies. Go get registered! Now, really, don’t waste another minute. Here is the link: http://geekgatherings.com/Registration
Virtual Fox Fest is May 6th, 2021! Conference website: https://virtualfoxfest.com/
If you need to get a localized day or month name (such as "Thursday" or "March" in English, which are "Donnerstag" and "März" in German), there are Windows API calls that can help you but they can be complicated to use. This is especially true if you need the localized names in a language other than the one the user's machine is configured for. We have numerous customers that have their machine configured to use, for example, German, but want these names displayed in English.
wwDotNetBridge and .NET to the rescue. Pass this function a date or datetime value, the type of name wanted (see the comments in the code for the values; for example, use 2 for an abbreviated name such as "Thu" for "Thursday"), and a BCP-47 language code such as "en-US" for U.S. English or "de-DE" for Germany German. For example, to put a list of English month names into an array, use something like:
dimension laMonths[12]
for lnI = 1 to 12
laMonths[lnI] = GetDateName(date(2021, lnI, 1), 3, 'en-US')
next
Here's the code for the GetDateName function. It assumes the files for wwDotNetBridge are in place:
function GetDateName(tuDate, tnType, tcCulture)
local loBridge, lcFormat, loCulture, lcReturn
do wwDotNetBridge
loBridge = GetwwDotNetBridge()
do case
case tnType = 1
&& day
lcFormat = '{0:dddd}'
case tnType = 2
&& abbreviated day
lcFormat = '{0:ddd}'
case tnType = 3
&& month
lcFormat = '{0:MMMM}'
case tnType = 4
&& abbreviated month
lcFormat = '{0:MMM}'
endcase
loCulture = loBridge.CreateInstance('System.Globalization.CultureInfo', ;
tcCulture)
lcReturn = loBridge.InvokeStaticMethod('System.String', 'Format', loCulture, ;
lcFormat, tuDate)
return lcReturn
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We had so much fun at Virtual Fox Fest 2020 that we’ve decided to do more
online conferences. They won’t all be three-day events; in fact, the next one
(Thursday, May 6, 2021) is a one-day event. However, it’ll still have the
same great features everyone loves about VFF: great speakers delivering great
sessions, live
chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and
old friends. This event will feature classic sessions from Southwest Fox,
updated for 2021. Registration
is available now so sign up today! We’re still discussing whether to hold Southwest Fox in Arizona this fall. We expect to announce our plans for a fall conference by the end of March. |
Recently, a friend asked me if it was possible to change the execution priority for some tasks on the fly. The issue was that when a user on a terminal server runs a report in Stonefield Query, which can be computing intensive as it retrieves and massages the data required for the report, other users may experience slower response. I did some research and it turned out to be easy to do, thanks to Rick Strahl's wwDotNetBridge.
The following code changes the priority for the running application to BelowNormal (see the documentation for the System.Diagnostics.ProcessPriorityClass enum for the different priority levels):
do wwDotNetBridge
loBridge = GetwwDotNetBridge()
loProcess = loBridge.InvokeStaticMethod('System.Diagnostics.Process', 'GetCurrentProcess')
loProcess.PriorityClass = loBridge.GetEnumValue('System.Diagnostics.ProcessPriorityClass.BelowNormal')
(This assumes you have wwDotNetBridge.prg included in your project and wwDotNetBridge.dll and ClrHost.dll in the current folder or VFP path.)
Use this code just before some process you want to run at a lower priority. Use similar code but a different value, such as Normal, to set the priority back again after the process is done.
As I have said many times, there's almost nothing we can't do in VFP with wwDotNetBridge.
Merry Christmas! Every year between Christmas and New Year's, I like to work on a fun project, such as learning a new technique or writing some cool utility. Last year, I worked on the open source version of Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro. This year, I created an open source Microsoft Office 365-like ribbon control for VFP forms.
Here's a sample form containing the ribbon control that resembles Microsoft Outlook. It has two tabs: Home and Send / Receive. Clicking a tab displays the toolbar for that tab.
So far, I've included two themes: Colorful (above) and Dark Grey (below):
The ribbon control is 100% VFP code. Please try it out and let me know of any enhancements you'd like by creating issues in the GitHub repository for the project.
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