FUDG stands for FoxPro User / Developer Group. This one is based in Chicago, IL. Visit our web site at www.ChicagoFUDG.com !

Bill Drew President bill.drew@sbcglobal.net
Jeff Simon Treasurer jeff@datamarkcorp.com
Tom Corrigan Secretary (his FUDG e-mail: tom@corrigan.com)
Greg Gershuny gel4it [at} hotmail {dot] com

Monthly Meetings:
When: Normally on the second Tuesday of each month, unless it collides with a major event. Meeting room is accessible at 5:15 PM; presentation starts at shortly after our 'business chatter' at 5:30.
Where:Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th floor. Conference Room C. The time will be the same as always: 5:30 pm.

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Chicago FUDG normally meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the Month at Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th floor Conference Room C, in Chicago. Meeting starts at 5:30pm-ish.

Our Next Meeting :: Tuesday, 10 August 2010 5:30pm.

Two great subjects have surfaced for Chicago FUDG: Marc Temkin will elucidate the hows and why of LINQ -- not just the version that looks like SQL in reverse but the less well known method code that compresses the syntax and incrementally adds on phrases of query specifics. Join us for an introduction to Linq from the standard flavor to the exotic.

Patrick O'Hara will show how he produces charts with SQL Server Reporting Services.

Here is the RSVP link: http://j.mp/dxqK1K

Be there. 5:30pm on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at Tech Nexus 200 S. Wacker Drive Suite 1500

Don't forget your 2010 dues. FUDG: the best user group ever, anywhere.
First meeting is free. From then on, $10 per meeting or $90 per year. The usual time is 5:30 pm and the usual place is Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 1500. (bring a few bux to chip in for pizza and brown bottle beverage.)
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Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th floor. Remember your dues ($90 annually or $10 for a single meeting).

Feed your head because times are tough. All the more reason to support, attend, and build your organization. The insights, connections, and inspiration we get from the group give us a needed competitive edge. http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com

Same time. Same place. Same dedication to self improvement. You're welcome to join us!

Our NEW location: Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th floor, meeting room C.
Most always on the Second Tuesday of the month at 5:30pm. We hope to see you there!
2010 dues are $90 -- if you haven't kicked in yet ... or pay $10 at each meeting -- your first one is free.

As always, all reasonable ideas accepted. It's a community -- indomitable. Our group has become a veritable hot house of ideas, approaches, and techniques. Striding into the future, ready and eager to tackle any new challenges. Our watchword is "NEVER STOP LEARNING". It's a great life. Come to the meeting.

Bring your own brainstorms, questions, job leads, speculations, and tips. Good time guaranteed. Challenge yourself to be among the best in the business! If you have any VFP questions you are welcome to bring them up at a VFP Q&A.

After the presentation you are welcome to bring to the attention of the attendees VFP programmers available and VFP programming positions available.

Join FUDG. After just one meeting you will be able to realize your limitless potential as a programmer. (Seriously the more you learn, the more you earn.) New skills await those of us who are willing to be amazed and become even more productive.

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Future Meetings:
August 10 '10 - Marc Temkin on LINQ and Patrick OHara on SQL Server Reporting
September 14 '10 - T.B.D.
October 12 '10 - T.B.D.
November 9 '10 - T.B.D.
December 14 '10 - T.B.A.

Past Meetings:
July 13 '10 - Juan Soto on Access Programming
June 8 '10 - Geographic Information programming & Map Point - Tom Hayward, Greg Gurshney, Bill Drew
May 11 '10 - SQL Server Tips and Tricks by various members
April 13 '10 - Brian Marquis on Fox Trails
March 9 '10 - Tom Corrigan on Amazon Cloud computing and Jim Wiggins on the VFPX graphics classes (GDIPLUSX)
February 9 '10 - Snowed out.
January 12 '10 - GeneXus development tool

December 8 '09 - Local FoxPro Talent
November 10 '09 - Sybase: Advantage Database Server
October 13 '09 - Christof Wollenhaupt on Excelporting (SWFox warmup)
September 8 '09 - Rick Borup - Quibbles, Quirks, and Quickies (SWFox practice)
August 15 '09 - Cathy Pountney (Get the most out of VFP reports) & Jody Meyer (Developing and extending the Fox Pro grid object & Exceeding Customers' Expectations by Leveraging and Automating MS Office) & Rick Schummer (Remote Data using MYSQL with VFP) Saturday morning & afternoon meeting in Western Springs
July 14 '09 - Tom Corrigan on C# DotNet and SQL Server from a VFP perspective
June 9 '09 - Bill Drew on Beginner to Beginners: Strings, File Handling, and Windows Forms
May 12 '09 - Panel: Communication wth Clients
April 14 '09 - Marc Temkin on WPF
March 10 '09 - Fox Geo by Brian Marquis
February 10 '09 - More Member Presentations on Maintaining Legacy Apps
January 13 '09 - Member Presentations on Grid Enhancements (Bill Drew) / Updating Users (Mike Hogan) / Searching Techniques (Patrick OHara)

December 9 '08 - 5 short member presentations
November 11 '08 - Dave Martin of I/O Technologies demoed a VFP web app: TaskASAP
October 14 '08 - Christof Wollenhaupt on Mobile Development with Guineu and VFP, and On the Dark Side of Visual Foxpro
September 9 '08 - Toni Feltman on eTecnologia.NET's .NET Extender for VFP and Mike Feltman on VFP as a powerful back-end development language for web development
August 12 '08 - Whil Hentzen on Corporate Wikis and Tom Corrigan on screen scraping web sites
July 8 '08 - Brian Marquis builds an eCommerce app with Fox Trails
June 10 '08 - Panel Discussion on Career Strategies and Adding New Skills
May 13 '08 - Rick Schummer - VFP9 SP2 and other neat stuff!
April 8 '08 - Internet App Demo and Project Management Tool Discussion
March 11 '08 - Rick Borup on accessing Quicken data through QODBC
February 12 '08 - Member presentations: Marc Temkin on Linq, Bill Drew on applying business rules stored in tables, and Brian Marquis on Fox Unit.
January 8 '08 - Jay van Santen - Customizing an Application

December 11 '07 - Toni Feltman on Sedna DBI controls and Etechnologia
November 13 '07 - Members Night - 3 short presentations
October 9 '07 - Whil Hentzen on Inheriting an Application
September 11 '07 - Michael Hogan on MetaTables Using XML: Tables Within Tables
August 14 '07 - Cathy Pountney on Report Listener basics
July 10 '07 - Bo Durban of Moxie Data,
June 12 '07 - Don Higgins on Skins and other 3rd party stuff
May 8 '07 - Tom Corrigan on VFP data from Dot Net and Randy Jean showed StrataFrame, plus XFRX
April 10 '07 - Brian Marquis on VFP on Rails
March 13 '07 - 4 Member presentations
February 13 '07 - Cancelled - severe winter weather (was to be Member presentations)
January 9 '07 - John Harvey on WASP, a multi-faceted VFP success story.

December 12 '06 - Kevin Ragsdale on Programming Desktop Alerts Using Callbacks in VFP
November 14 '06 - Ed Leafe on DABO, a VFP-like programming framework for Python
October 10 '06 - Member presentations of VFP success stories
September 12 '06 - Bill Drew and Tom Corrigan on Automating Excel from VFP
August 8 '06 - Greg Green on VFP tools he has developed
July 11 '06 - Carl Karsten on My SQL as a VFP back end and Nick Neklioudov on Drag-n-Drop
June 13 '06 - Art Bergquist on Highly Effective Habits of VFP Developers
May 9 '06 - Tips'n'Tricks by 5 different members
April 11 '06 - Rick Borup - Best Practices in Deploying Visual FoxPro Applications
March 14 '06 - Craig Boyd - VFP Can Do It! (a Visual FoxPro extravaganza) (This was the first stop on his VFP World Domination Tour)
February 14 '06 - Doug Hennig webinar on Stonefield Query
January 10 '06 - Tom Corrigan on data access in .NET vs VFP

December 13 '05 - Tamar Granor on Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL, Real World Solutions
November 8 '05 - Bill Drew presenting Steve Black's Business Case for FoxPro
October 11 '05 - Member presentations and reviews
September 13 '05 - Claudio Lassala of EPS on Comparison of Object Orientation between VFP and Dot Net
August 9 '05 - Rich Simpson of Minds Eye on the VFP9 Report Listener
July 12 '05 - Mike Feltman of F1Technologies on Active Fox Pages
June 14 '05 - EvanPauley on Automating Map Point from VFP & Controlling the SQL Server DMO
May 10 '05 - Rick Schummer on What's New in Nine (a myriad of improvements and extensions)
April 12 '05 - Dave Bernard of The IntellectionGroup, Inc. on Cutting Edge Multi-media Apps
March 8 '05 - Greg Gershuny on Geographic Information and Manifold, and Michael Hogan on a VFP/WebConnect scheduling app that exchanges data with a legacy desktop version designed by Jeff Simon
February 8 '05 - Mark Simon on P3P and Mike Hogan on conversion of a vertical market accounting desktop app to a web-only Internet app
January 11 '05 - Tom Corrigan on encryption with the Microsoft CAPICOM ActiveX control

December 14 '04 - VFP9 demos from Jeff Simon and Carl Karsten, and Mark Simon on Digital Millennium Copyright safe harbor provisions
November 9 '04 - Rick Borup on Extending Inno Setup and Web page design with CSS
October 12 '04 - Member Presentations on
1) MAMBO, an open souce community driven Internet contact management solution
2) fat client queries against a Web Connect back end
3) User and Developer interface/communication ideas
4) Mapping Software
5) Subversion the version control program
6) Suggestions for choosing an Internet host
September 14 '04 - David Stevenson on Encapsulating Legacy Code in a Session Object
August 10 '04 - David Stevenson, editor of Fox Talk on the VFP9 report engine
July 13 '04 - Bill Drew demoed the new stuff in the VFP9 beta
June 9 '04 - Bill Drew on Back-To-Basics: a review of screen controls
May 11 '04 - Mike Hogan on Back-To-Basics: SQL
April 13 '04 - Pat Murtaugh on C# and VFP and Carl Karsten on image acquisition
March 9 '04 - Si Skidmore on Consulting and Mike Hogan and Bill Drew on a loader
February 3 '04 - Mike Hogan on understanding how Web Connect works, member show and tell
January 6 '04 - Bill Drew on RSS, Arnold Klein on wireless, Pat Murtaugh on image analysis

Past Meetings: (Chicago FUDG Minutes 2003)
December 2 '03 - Carl Karsten and Bill Drew on paradigms for integrating queries
November 4 '03 - Pivot Tables, Report from Whilfest, Web Connect Syntax
October 7 '03 - Michael Hogan on Creation of Web pages with VFP and other tools
September 2 '03 - Hector Correa of VDSI on Try-Catch-Finally and Building a Wiki with ASP.NET
August 5 '03 - various members demonstrating their Fox apps.
July 1 '03 - Rick Hathaway and Carl Karsten on various SQL Server topics.
June 3 '03 - Rick Schummer on Get More Productive with Visual FoxPro and Intro to Project Hooks.
May 6 '03 - Andy Kramek & Marcia Akins: Q&A, potpouri, Kit Box Unplugged
April 1 '03 - Whil Hentzen on Fox and Linux
March 4 '03 - Tamar Granor, on Make the most of the Toolbox in VFP8
February 4 '03 - Rick Borup on Inno Setup and IS Tool .AND. Rich Simpson on his Minds' Eye reporting tool
January 7 '03 - Tom Perkowski on Crystal Reports

Past Meetings: (Chicago FUDG Minutes 2002)
December 3 '02 - Member Presentations Carl Karsten Mike Beane
November 5 '02 - Nick Neklioudov on New Features in VFP8
October 1 '02 - Robert Martin on Extreme Programming
September 10 '02 - Tom Corrigan on Using WIN32API with VFP, and Michael Hogan on The Tools That Made www.chicagofudg.com
August 6 '02 - Drew Speedie on Visual Max Frame Professional & VFP
July 2 '02 - Kevin McNeish of Mere Mortals framework fame on DotNet and VFP
June 4 '02 - Cathy Pountney on building a FoxPro Report Manager
May 7 '02 - Mike Feltman of F1 Technologies / Visual Fox Express
April 2 '02 - Michael Hogan on Internet Programming (using West Wind Web Connection) with Visual Foxpro
March 5 '02 - Steve Sawyer on Refactoring and Rick Schummer on Developer Tools
Feb 5 '02 - Rick Borup on Integrating PDF Documents into desktop and internet applications
January 8 '02 - Rick Hathaway on maintaining parent-child tables in a two-tier paradigm

We would like to hear from you on your preferences for topics to cover in future meetings and of your availability / volunteering to present some of these topics. Please contact me at bill.drew@sbcglobal.net

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If you consider yourself an active member, please list your name:
Rick Hathaway Tom Hayward David Stowell Joe Kuhn Bill Armbrecht Carl Karsten Steve Andrews Jeff Simon John Sinnott Arnold Klein Randy Bosma Bill Drew

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