1. Venelina Jordanova Venelina@OutsourcingITservices.net Uwe Habermann Uwe.Habermann@dFPUG.de SEM 20 Visual Extend Power for VFP Developers

2. Visual Extend 10.0 11 years VFX dFPUG c/o ISYS GmbH Market leader in Europe More developers than all other frameworks together Only framework with full support of cursoradapters

3. Visual Extend 10.0 Available for download www.visualextend.com 3 demo applications 20 hours video tutorials 9.0? A new book will come soon!

4. Visual Extend 10.0 Homepage: http://www.visualextend.de Documents: http://portal.dfpug.de/dFPUG/Portal/VFX Support: http://forum.dfpug.de news://news.dfpug.de News: http://newsletter.dfpug.de

5. Who is talking? Venelina Jordanova Master degree in CS from TU of Varna FoxPro developer since FPD 2.0 MCP for SQL Server and other Visual Extend Software Development Team Leader Owner of JEI – Varna, Bulgaria Outsourcing Center Uwe Habermann Master degree in CS from TU of Berlin FoxPro developer since FPW 2.5 MCP für VFP Visual Extend Product Manager Freelancer working for ISYS, Wizards & Builders, ProLib Uwe Habermann & Kathrin Leu GbR Venelina Jordanova Master degree in CS from TU of Varna FoxPro developer since FPD 2.0 MCP for SQL Server and other Visual Extend Software Development Team Leader Owner of JEI – Varna, Bulgaria Outsourcing Center Uwe Habermann Master degree in CS from TU of Berlin FoxPro developer since FPW 2.5 MCP für VFP Visual Extend Product Manager Freelancer working for ISYS, Wizards & Builders, ProLib, … Uwe Habermann & Kathrin Leu GbR Frankfurt 2003, Praha 2004, Frankfurt 2004, Praha 2005, Frankfurt 2005, Bucharest 2006, Praha 2006, Frankfurt 2006, Utrecht 2006, Paris 2006, Praha 2007

6. VFX – What is this? Rapid Application Development Framework Template project Task pane Many builders and wizards Projects for PDF Output Modify Report Customer Management Web Service for product activation and much more…

7. Installation VFX100Setup.exe Run Vfxmnu.app via desktop icon Register online and get a free activation key valid for 30 days! At the 1. start of Vfxmnu.app the VFP Task Pane gets opened and the VFX Task Pane gets added No path settings in VFP required

8. Our Mission Create an application within 75 minutes 3 forms Products Customers 1:n Orders 2 Pick list Parent/Child relation For DBC and SQL Server

9. Our Sample Application enelina´s pace hop V S S

10. VFX – Application Wizard Create a new project 1. Select the folder and the database 2. Text for about dialog 3. Settings for the application object 4. Text for project info dialog 5. Compile all files and go... Czech and Slovak available!

11. The generated VFX Application Splash-Screen Login dialog Menu and toolbar Windows XP style open dialog User management User rights Database maintenance About dialog and much more...

12. What to do now? Development of the database with VFP Database Designer with SQL Server Management Studio with xCase with SDT

13. Our Data Model

14. VFX – Cursoradapter Wizard Automatic Generation of CursorAdapter Classes for all tables and views of a database for VFP databases for SQL Server Select the data source Select the classes and class libraries Settings for updatable fields

15. Products VFX – CTableForm Builder Select form class Setup data environment Search grid and edit controls are side by side Reentrant builder (reusable) Use own classes

16. The Form at Runtime Autoedit, New, Delete Incremental search in grid Multi column sort User specific settings Size and position of forms at the desktop Column width, column order, and sort order of grids Search criteria

17. Customers VFX – CDataFormPage Builder Select form class Setup data environment Search grid and edit controls are placed on a pageframe Reentrant builder

18. The Form at Runtime Print in all forms without creating reports Reports are created at runtime Save as HTML, XML, TIF, BMP, PDF Installation of Ghostscript not required E-Mail MAPI Fax Fritzfax, Winfax

19. Orders VFX – COneToMany Builder cOneToMany Edit and search in parent data similar to cDataFormPage Edit child data in a grid Edit child data in with any other control type Support of multiple children Foreign keys? VFX does it for you orderid = ?caorders.orderid

20. Pick Customers VFX – CPickAlternate Builder Select a customer for an order Enter the customer name Select a customer by list All search options available

21. Pick Products VFX – CPickTextbox Builder Select a product for an order detail Enter the product number Select a product by list All search options available

22. Parameter for Orders Optimized data access Add controls in VFX – Form Builder Add Where clause customerid = ?thisform.tCustomerid Done!

23. Relations VFX – Parent/Child Builder Call a child form Multiple children possible Hierarchical children possible Many control options Example: Customers – Orders

24. VFX – Upsizing Wizard No DSN required All connection types supported Keep ID values No codepage conflicts Bulk Insert works Supported of protected field names Allow NULL values Create a new database

25. VFX – Manage Config.vfx Manage data access Client database selection for end-users Compatible to Vfxpath Switch between DBC and SQL Use of ConnectionString recommended cConfigPassword – Password for encryption of the file Config.vfx

26. Mission completed Generated application Generated forms Many features No code High quality = pleased customers

27. Test VFX now! Free activation key for 30 days! Demo application VFX100Test Demo application VFX100Traders Demo application VFPizza100 User manual in German and English Huge amount of information Newsgroup – 20000 messages Portal – 50 documents

28. Thank you very much and have fun with VFX! Venelina & Uwe