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Director of ASP Development,
USDataCenters & BugCentral |
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Co-Author, with Tamar E. Granor, of Hacker’s
Guide to Visual FoxPro |
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Microsoft Certified Solution Developer |
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Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer |
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Author, Essential SourceSafe |
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Microsoft Most Valuable Professional |
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HackFox3 |
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Kathleen Tibbets @ A-W |
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Tamar E. Granor |
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Arnold Bilansky |
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Drew Speedie |
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Steven M. Black |
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HackFox 6 |
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T&T decide to revise |
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Hentzenwerke Essentials |
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Steven Black, once again |
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Doug Hennig as tech editor |
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Sections 1-3 introductory but not tutorial – why
not what or how |
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Section 4 – Reference |
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Section 5 – Bonus Advanced |
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HF3: Wizards & Builders, OLE |
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HF6: Class Browser and Component Gallery |
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Section 4 |
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Covers every command, function, property, event,
method, system memory variable and SYS function. |
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~800 separate articles |
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12,000 hyperlinks |
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Using DBFs, of course! |
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Every article assigned a title, author, tracking
status |
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Use VFP to analyze and report |
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Use DBF to drive Automation of Word to generate
HTML |
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Use Automation of Word to assemble sections in
order |
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Use Automation of Word to generate (ugly!) HTML |
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Use VFP text processing to clean up HTML,
generate hyperlinks, HH Index and Table of Contents |
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cFoo = Bar(nSOP [,cSSDD]) |
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Is cSSDD always optional? |
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How big can it be (2Gb?) |
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What about NULLs? Integers? General fields?
Pictures? |
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Does Bar() work in FXPs, COM, stored procedures? |
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cFoo = Bar(nSOP [,cSSDD]) |
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Understand the context |
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Use it in places you shouldn’t |
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Test it with real examples |
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Test it with nonsense – off by one, edge cases,
unusual types |
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Errata |
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SET HELP TO |
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Use for Tip of the Day |
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Decompile the Help File |
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Find the Easter Egg! |
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Depends on demands & needs |
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Changes to the language |
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Changes to the delivery mechanism |
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You tell us what you need |
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PDF? PDA? ASP? OIC! |
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Please remember to fill out your evaluation. |
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