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Exhibitor Sessions
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Stonefield Query: The Next Generation of Reporting
Presenter: Doug Hennig
Saturday, October 17th, 10:00 a.m.
Sunday, October 18th, 8:30 a.m.
Are you being inundated with requests from the users of your
applications to create new reports or tweak existing ones? Let them
do it themselves! Presenting the Stonefield Query SDK. Stonefield
Query allows you to create a customized ad-hoc report writer for any
application. It can query on any data, including VFP, SQL Server,
Oracle, Access, and MySQL. In this session, Doug Hennig shows how
Stonefield Query works from an end-user perspective, then goes
through creating a customized version for your database.
Stonefield Query, from Stonefield Software Inc., is a
user-friendly data mining, business intelligence, query, and report
writing tool. With its intuitive wizard driven design, Stonefield
Query makes report writing a snap for even the most novice user.
Elegant and persuasive reports can be created in minutes will little
or no technical knowledge required.
http://www.stonefieldquery.com
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Using Advantage Database Server with FoxPro
Presenter: Ken Levy
Friday, October 16th, 3:30 p.m.
This session is an overview with useful scenario samples of using
VFP with Sybase's Advantage Database Server (Advantage), as well as
the free Advantage Local Server, OLE DB Provider, ODBC Driver and
.NET Data Provider. Advantage can be used with Visual FoxPro as a
database system, but its unique functionality is its data dictionary
wrapping and using existing DBF data. This allows .NET and other
technologies to use DBF based data of VFP applications while not
requiring VFP applications to be modified. Advantage will play a key
role in modernizing VFP applications with DBF data into the next
decade. Ken will present a series of useful scenarios of using VFP
DBF data with .NET, Office, and other products and technologies by
leveraging Advantage tools and products, many of which are free for
both development and deployment.
Advantage Database Server - Have We Met?
Presenter: Chris Franz
Saturday, October 17th, 11:30 a.m.
As companies store more and more data the need to organize and
retrieve this data becomes critical. Use of a client/server database
system provides secure storage of large amounts of data while
providing high performance. Advantage Database Server provides a
unique client/server solution for Visual FoxPro development while
making data conversion unnecessary.
This session will provide an overview of Advantage Database Server's
key features and demonstrate those features that are unique to
FoxPro. You will learn:
- How to connect to Advantage from FoxPro using remote views,
cursor adapters and SQL passthrough.
- Concurrent access to data from a FoxPro application and an
ASP.NET website
- Data security through restricted access and encryption
- Accessing very large DBF tables ( >2gb )
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The Fox and the Polar Bear!
Presenter: Steffen F. Pirsig
Friday, October 16th, 10:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 17th, 3:30 p.m.This session is for any Visual FoxPro developer who feels
comfortable with the VFP language in general or have made a
significant investment into the VFP language but doesn't want to
abandon his/her existing knowledge, investments and of course the
power of the language itself.
If you are interested in seeing how the xBase language beyond
Visual FoxPro has evolved, this session is a must see for you!
Topics covered are:
- Visual FoxPro and Xbase++ - common roots and future!?
- Dynamically loadable/exchangeable Database Engines
- The Xbase++ language: commands, functions, classes, objects,
code blocks
- Intelligent/automatic multi-threading with Xbase++.
- Similarities and differences between Xbase++ and VFP
- Using a transpiller tool to convert VFP code to Xbase++
- Where does Alaska Software want to go!
The Polar Bear is the mascot of Alaska Software. He symbolizes
inherently strength, presence, self-confidence, determination and
robustness of the company in order to consequently meet the
challenges of the market and to ensure investment protection by
unifying consequent backward-compatibility with the latest
technology developments. Beyond doubt, no other animal represents
the above mentioned characteristics so aptly then the polar bear -
being the king in his territory, a very hostile environment on its
own.
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Foxfire!
Presenter: Chick Bornheim
Friday, October 16th, 11:30 a.m.
Sunday, October 18th, 11:30 a.m.
The Foxfire! Report Writer v8+ product line is a
family of data mining tools designed for regular business users.
Developers can adapt it to almost any database and add any needed
features on demand, in order to fit user needs like a glove. It is
the only set of report writers for the VFP environment that can
operate interchangeably on both platforms. Its new interactive
drag-'n-drop design tools (released May 2007) has been praised by
users and usability experts alike for simplicity without sacrificing
power. Micromega Systems, its developer/publisher offers Foxfire!
consulting, integration, and training services. Our growth strategy
is partnering, and we are currently seeking other developers
who want to partner to create custom or localized versions to
address special market opportunities. Go to
www.foxfirereporting.com to explore how we might work together.
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Can Productivity and Scalability Coexist?
Presenter: Sean Devlin, Sr. Technical Engineer, Servoy USA
Friday, October 16th, 2:00 p.m.
Question: How long would it take to build and deploy a
cross-platform, client/server application AND a fully Ajax-driven
web application from a single code base?
Answer: 30 Seconds! See a live demonstration!
Are you considering migrating your application to a modern platform?
What would a modernized version of your application look like?
Will it be browser-based or client-server? Will it deploy as a SaaS/Multi-Tenant
product or On-Premise?
Will you have to sacrifice the productivity and reliability of a
tool like VFP for the scalability of a platform like .NET or Java?
What are the technologies to choose from? How can they be
integrated? What is the learning curve?
What is the cost of development and the burden of maintenance? And
most important, where are the opportunities to grow new business?
Come find out the answers to these questions and more!
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Add MOXIE to Your Reports!
Presenter: Bo Durban
Saturday, October 17th, 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 18th, 10:00 a.m.
Moxie Report Objects, from Moxie Data, Inc. is an advanced set of
add-on controls to enhance your VFP 9.0 reports. With Moxie Report
Objects you can easily incorporate HTML or RTF formatted text
fields, most ActiveX controls, as well as many other cool features
into your VFP reports. It is very easy to integrate and works well
with large or small projects. Download our, full functioning, demo
version today and see how easy it is to add MOXIE to your reports!
http://www.moxiedata.com
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Go Mobile with Guineu!
Presenters: Christof Wollenhaupt and Tom Francl
Saturday, October 17th, 5:15 p.m.
Think Guineu is just wishful thinking or vapor-ware? Christof
Wollenhaupt will present the latest release of Guineu, the FoxPro
runtime for Windows Mobile. This time it's not just about demos.
Tom Francl will be showing his rewrite of AirDynamite, a PDA-based
tool for field technicians which is now shipping to Dynamite
customers. AirDynamite is completely written in Guineu without a
single line of .NET application code. Tom will demonstrate the PDA
application, the interaction with his main VFP application, and will
even get into some code.
Christof Wollenhaupt will show several applications that Guineu
developers wrote. Some of them have been in production for almost a
year and a half year now. Mobile devices are becoming increasingly
popular. Don't miss this opportunity to see how you can leverage
your Microsoft Visual FoxPro knowledge to provide mobile solutions
to your customers.
http://www.guineu.net
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