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FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award

(Updated: 2007.11.08 05:53:40 AM)
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Created in 2001 by Microsoft, the FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals who've made phenomenal contributions to the Visual FoxPro community.

Recipient in 2007: Rainer Becker
Recipient in 2007: Tamar Granor
  • Spoken at every DevCon since 1993
  • Spoken at dozens of other conferences and user groups all over North America and Europe on a wide variety of topics
  • Co-author of most popular VFP book ever, "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro" from Hentzenwerke Publishing
  • Co-author of the "Bible" for Office automation, "Microsoft Office Automation with VFP"
  • Co-author of "What's New in VFP" series
  • Author of several other books including "Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL"
  • Long-time Technical Editor of FoxPro Advisor
  • 159 articles in Advisor
  • Long-time co-author of Advisor Answers column (357 answers)
  • Fifteen-time MVP award winner and one of first ever MVPs
  • One of the earliest members of CompuServe Fox Forum
Recipient in 2006: Doug Hennig
Doug Hennig received this award from Ken Levy at the conclusion of the Keynote presentation at Southwest Fox 2006 on 19 October 2006.
  • Author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT)
  • Author of the award-winning Stonefield Query
  • Author of the Member Data Editor, Anchor Editor, New Property/Method Dialog, and Cursor Adapter and Data Environment builders that come with VFP
  • Author of the My and Upsizing Wizard tools in Sedna
  • Co-author of the "What's New in Visual FoxPro" series and "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0"
  • Technical editor of "The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0" and "The Fundamentals"
  • Wrote over 100 articles in over 10 years with Fox Talk
  • Spoke at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world since 1994
  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1996
  • One of the administrators of the VFPX community initiative ( http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View/aspx?ProjectName=VFPX ), and project manager of several VFPX projects
Recipient in 2002: Rick Strahl.
  • Rick's been authoring top-notch articles since 1994, generating at least 50 articles in FPA, Foxtalk, and CODE.
  • Over 30 Whitepapers on his website at http://west-wind.com, many of them seminal.
  • Creator of the Web Connection framework, which made FoxPro an instant player for applications on the Web and is used by thousands of VFP developers. A Google search on WC.DLL returns 114,000 hits, despite the fact that this catches only a fraction of the sites that use Web Connection because they use script maps.
  • Creator of wwStore, an extensible e-commerce framework for VFP.
  • Creator of wwThreads, this community's most widely implemented message board.
  • Creator of wwHelp, which has revolutionized how many of us document our applications.
  • Creator of Fox Central, our community locus.
  • Creator of many other Internet and XML tools.
  • Profound impact on the current state of VFP through years of interaction with the Fox team.
  • His name is associated among the first citations connecting VFP with the following technologies: Internet, XML, SOAP, COM, ISAPI, IIS, Help, MTS, MSMQ, e-commerce and online payments, Adobe Acrobat, and .NET
  • He's among the first (and so far only) respected authors who are publicly exposing and demonstrating, in a constructive manner, what's NOT right with .NET and VS.NET.
Recipient in 2001: Whil Hentzen.
  • Author, editor, and/or publisher of many VFP books through his company, Hentzenwerke
  • Speaker at VFP conferences world wide
  • Creator of The Ultimate FoxPro Reference – TUFPR (two-fer)
  • Editor Pros Talk Visual FoxPro series
  • Editor of Fox Talk for many years
  • Early adopter of GenScrn X
  • Contributor to VFP certification exams
  • Tireless FoxPro promoter
  • Articles for forming and managing FoxPro user groups
  • Editorial columns for Information System Consultant (ISC)
  • Former, future marathon runner, competitive while a big contributor
  • Master of the "bonus sessions" at FoxPro conferences
  • “VFP 7.0 Only” session at Whil Fest 2001 to promote upgrades
  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Visual FoxPro

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