Pre and Post-Conference Training
Want even more training than Southwest Fox provides? Plan on arriving a
couple of days early or stay a day later to attend one of both of these
additional workshops.
West Wind Web Connection
West Wind Technologies is hosting Web Connection 5.0 training with
Rick Strahl again this year. Training will be held on Wednesday, October
13 and Thursday, October 14 at the conference hotel immediately
preceding Southwest Fox. Focus is on the new features in the Web
Connection Web Control Framework and building an application from start
to finish. The training applies to Web Connection developers of all
levels and provides best practices and lots of practical how-to tips and
tricks in working with Web Connection. If you're just starting you can
learn from the ground up and if you're a seasoned Web Connection
developer you can take home best practices approaches and tricks for Web
Connection and Web Development in general. For more information, see the
West Wind Web Connection Training page.
VFP to Silverlight Workshop (free)
Uwe Habermann and
Venelina Jordanova are presenting a
free one-day "VFP to Silverlight" workshop on Monday,
October 18, the day after Southwest Fox ends. This workshop has the
following sessions:
Silverlight Business Application
This session gives a short introduction into Silverlight and Visual
Studio 2010. What is Silverlight? What can we do with it? Why do we need it?
During this session we will develop a Silverlight business application
without any programming. A data model and a domain service will be
generated. A Silverlight client will be created with base functionality.
Then, at the server site, a VFP COM server will be used to access VFP and
SQL Server databases. This VFP COM server will also contain business logic.
The application will run over the Internet or in Intranets.
Migration of VFP Applications to Silverlight
How can existing VFP controls or even forms be redesigned in Silverlight?
Which properties are available in Silverlight? How do Silverlight controls
behave? We will show ways how to create Silverlight user interfaces that are
similar to existing VFP user interfaces, including MDI forms.
VFX - Silverlight Wizard
The next version of Visual Extend will come with a wizard that allows the
migration of forms and reports from existing VFX and VFP applications to
Silverlight. Code parts will be moved to a VFP COM server. A prepared VFX
application will be migrated to Silverlight. At the end attendees will have
a running Silverlight application which accesses a database simultaneously
with a VFX application.
More Features and Silverlight Desktop Applications
Attendees will create a Silverlight desktop application that communicates
with a VFP COM server. The COM server will implement the data access as well
as the business logic. We will discuss the settings that are required to
enable a Silverlight application to run out of the browser. New in
Silverlight 4 is the print engine. Attendees will create a XAML report which
runs in a Silverlight application.
Listen to the
FoxShow #63, in which Uwe discusses this workshop and the tools his
team has been working on.
Here's what attendees have said about the VFP to Silverlight
workshop:
I attended the sessions held by Uwe and
Venelina in Vienna and was outright enthusiastic! I had already considered
the concept of Silverlight with version 1 very interesting, especially
Microsoft's approach to create a subset of WPF step by step. Now, with
version 4 available, the data-binding feature finally appears to have
reached a level that makes it interesting and usable for us - the Visual
FoxPro developers.
After the roadshow I was able to test features right away
and on my own. Those features I would never have learned of by myself. Or
the lots of new concepts and functionalities would have confused me to the
point of losing interest in the whole thing.
I got the same feedback from my colleagues at the event:
They had a look at Silverlight before, but on their own they never really
got far enough to make it worth the effort. In the step by step
introductions, a lot of details were made clear to them. And
with your brilliant migration tool a lot of Visual FoxPro developers
certainly should have a smooth start moving to the world of .NET.
Thank
you very much for this great event!
Everything worked smoothly and Uwe and Venelina did a great job. I believe
the presentation and the demos impressed the attendees very much.
I have to admit that the sessions
about Silverlight and VFP were a surprise to the positive for me. Everyone
who has the chance to attend one of the events should do so by any means. The presentations are designed in a way
that even someone who never worked with Silverlight and/or C# still gets an
easy to grasp introduction to the complete topic and can create his first
application.
Visual FoxPro Workshop with Ken Levy
Ken Levy is hosting a free full-day workshop for FoxPro
developers. If you are attending Southwest Fox or you are in the Phoenix area at that time, you should
attend this pre-conference workshop on Wednesday, October 13 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Ken will demonstrate and discuss how features common to Visual
FoxPro applications are developed in Servoy; cool Servoy features
not supported in Visual FoxPro; how Servoy works with DBF tables in
existing FoxPro applications; and the benefits to FoxPro developers
in adding Servoy expertise to their toolkit. And much more.
Lunch will be provided.
Please also read Ken's letter to the FoxPro community
here.
Servoy is a sponsor and exhibitor at Southwest Fox. Be sure to stop by the Servoy booth, and
attend the special demo-centric vendor session which Ken Levy will be
presenting.
To register for this workshop, email Carla Benassi
today, as space
is limited.