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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| Visual Foxpro 6 | 7/24/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: 1. How i can append record in browse window or grid control with Enter Key and cursor also move to ... A: Vikas, 1. How i can append record in browse window or grid control with Enter Key and cursor also ... | ||
| Color Listbox | 7/22/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: VFP 9, how can i change the color or some character in a row of a listbox. A: Eduardo, You want to change the color of a character in a listbox. It is possible to have different ... | ||
| Foxpro Related Help Need | 7/19/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I had a question regarding Dos Based Foxpro. Can you please help me regarding it. How can I create ... A: Yezdi, YourHow can I create the PRN file in a Foxpro program? What is the command to do so? ... | ||
| visual foxpro | 7/18/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: How i can use the all dos comamnds through visual foxpro without showing the window display when run ... A: Vikas, See How to hide the FoxPro Run Command window in Visual FoxPro ... | ||
| Visual Foxpro Painting | 7/18/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: How I Can use painting in visual foxpro 6 like in paint brush and that painting store in bmp or jpg ... A: Vikas, I have given you a couple of places to view for sample code. <see> ... | ||
| visual foxpro | 7/18/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: You Give me the Answer of previous Question. Now Question is 1. How i can move the cursor in grid ... A: Vikas, Your1. How i can move the cursor in grid control from one row to another row by pressing ... | ||
| MS Word data to VFP | 7/18/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: There is a file "file1.doc" (saved in MS-Word)containing 500 pages of pictures of ... A: Girish, You'll have to use MS Word automation to capture the information and save it to your table. ... | ||
| visual foxpro on different operating system | 7/16/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I develop a simple application for account in visual foxpro and this application is totally develop ... A: Vikas, There is a form resizer class written by John Herring You can contact John for a copy. ... | ||
| Foxpro and MS Access incompatible | 7/13/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I developped an application in delphi, using as database a MS Access File. my boss asked me to catch ... A: Renato, I would need more information, but think it could be an MDAC problem. The Jet OLE DB data ... | ||
| FOXSTART11.EXE | 7/12/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I´m running a aplication using foxpro 2.5 and i'm having the error: "Divide by Zero", I known that ... A: You may need to run a program called Foxstart11.exe to avoid the "Divide by Zero or Overflow" error ... | ||
| graphics in VFP | 7/7/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: can I scan a letter (w/o variable data) into a field in VFP and have a particular version of letter ... A: Jay, You can scan the letter and use OCR to convert the letter to text. Once the letter is in text, ... | ||
| Running a Foxpro exe | 7/6/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I have a Foxpro EXE and dbf/cdx files for a system which is running happily at a client's site. I ... A: Alison, What line of code is throwing the error? generally speaking, if no table is open in a work ... | ||
| backup to CD | 7/4/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: i'm using foxpro 6. how to backup the data (*.dbf) to CD? when use getdir(), i can see all the ... A: Yap, Use VFP to copy your data to a designated backup directory then using your burner ... | ||
| Listbox - change item color | 7/3/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I have a list box whose rowsource is a sql query. I'd like to check the values in this listbox ... A: John, For this to work, you'll have use a grid instead of a listbox. < see my answer > Changing ... | ||
| opening tables in a multi user environment | 6/23/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I need some FoxPro 9.0 code that will allow different users on a network to access the same free ... A: Jay, If you are going to use your table on a network, you have to do some buffering. These are ... | ||
| ugly crosstab window | 6/22/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: is there a way to prevent the ugly crosstab query window from popping up ... instead getting the ... A: Ted, How are you running your CrossTAB? DO (_GENXTAB) WITH 'SomeCursor' or DO vfpxtab It is ... | ||
| Printing Problem | 6/20/2006 | Rozaldy A. Gutierrez |
| Q: I am sorry to say that you did not get my question correctly. I am trying to explain you my problem ... A: Sorry for the delay to answer your question, i try to find a fit solution for your problem. These ... | ||
| Printing Problem | 6/17/2006 | Rozaldy A. Gutierrez |
| Q: I have two operating system on same machine (dual bootable) one is Windows 98 and another is Windows ... A: if that is the case build your exe using foxpro for dos in different os environment because the ... | ||
| ESC Code & their use | 6/15/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I want to know that what are the Esc code of a printer and how can we use them in our programming ... A: You'll find a list of the printer codes ... | ||
| Grid for Input | 6/15/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I just want to use Grid as a Input control, i want the same Control on the Gird's text box [Cell] ... A: I have found that using a grid for anything other than displaying information is always more trouble ... | ||
| Visual Foxpro application on Windows 2003 Terminal server | 6/14/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I have created an installible application with Visual Foxpro 9. I have installed the application ... A: Robert, Try changing permissions in HKLM\software\classes and giving rights to authenticated users. ... | ||
| How to change hot key in form | 6/12/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: How to change a hotkey to a control in a form ? A: Do Huy Thong, I have answered with 2 possible solutions. Since you didn't specify a verson I am ... | ||
| Programe converting numerics to words | 6/11/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: My programe to convert numeric to words is working fine. This is for your perusal. Ashish ... A: Ashish, I am so glad you were successful. I think you should submit your code to FoxPro Advisor ... | ||
| video capture by VFP | 6/11/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: Sorry for my English. How to use VFP7 capture picture from video and save it ? I ... A: Tommy, You are asking me how to capture a picture in VFP and save it to file. I would recommend a ... | ||
| Convert Numerics to Words | 6/9/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I am using Foxpro2.6 for dos. I want to convert Numarics to Words (like as Amount For Example: 1500 ... A: Ashish, Because you are using DOS there is no easy way to do this. I would recommend saving the ... | ||
| Database on CD | 6/9/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: 8 years ago I was using Foxbase/Foxpro. Afterwards, I stopped using this software due to ... A: Nelson, You can most definitely run Foxpro 2.6a and all versions above without having FoxPro loaded ... | ||
| VFP8 program not running on XP Pro edition | 6/7/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: Carla We just got a new computer with XP Professional edition. I tried to run a program that I have ... A: Aruna, Did you install the VFP 8.0 application on the XP Home Edition computer PC with all the ... | ||
| Unicode Support in Foxpro | 6/7/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I want to develop an application which supports the unincode font in it, my main intention is to ... A: I wasn't familiar with Hindi Writer, but I did review the specifications online: "HindiWriter works ... | ||
| Unicode Support in Foxpro | 6/5/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I want to develop an application which supports the unincode font in it, my main intention is to ... A: There are several types of Unicode. On the Web it is encoded as UTF-8. UTC-16 is what Microsoft ... | ||
| How to use max() in a query | 6/2/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I have a table 'Customer' containig the card no, the expiry date and the userId. I need to have the ... A: Roro, It is because you are on VFP 8.0 that it won't work unless you enter this command first SET ... | ||
| How to use max() in a query | 6/1/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I have a table 'Customer' containig the card no, the expiry date and the userId. I need to have the ... A: You wrote: <<As i understand each field used in the select should be in the group by too.>> There ... | ||
| From VB 6 to Foxpro | 6/1/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: Where can you go to learn the programming for Foxpro? No one seems to be able to tell me how to ... A: Minnie, Join FoxPro User Group There lots of FoxPro conferences and seminars that you can attend. ... | ||
| From VB 6 to Foxpro | 6/1/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: 1. I recently switched to Visual Foxpro from Visual Basic 6. I see that the command codes like End ... A: Minnie, Les Pinter was nice enough to write a complete VFP6 - VB6 Concordance at ... | ||
| foxpro in dos | 5/31/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: can my progrram made in foxpro dos in 1992 can be runned today& how A: Rajeev, Would you happen to know which version of FoxPro you have? FoxProŽ for MS-DOS, 1.x, 2.0, ... | ||
| Visual Foxpro 9 | 5/31/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I am having trouble with the "Copy to" command since upgrading to VFP 9. The following command ... A: Darran, I tried to duplicate your problem but could not. When I set safety off. I am able to ... | ||
| change field order programmatically | 5/30/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I'm using VFP 6 with SP5. I am creating and running a lot PRG files to automate tasks and there's ... A: Raul, If you want to change the field order in a table permanently you must rebuild the table. You ... | ||
| Printing from Foxpro dos version to new printer | 5/26/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: Was previously using XP Pro operating system and printing to HP Laserjet 4550. Changed printer to ... A: Katrina, DOS programs such as FoxPro 2.6 for DOS don't recognize newer concepts such as USB ... | ||
| Changing the color of a cell in a grid VFP 9.0 | 5/17/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I am still having a problem mostly because I never subclassed before. I created a textbox class and ... A: Mike, I found a soultion that might be easier for you to implement. I haven't tried this, but I ... | ||
| combining .dbf's into 1 in foxpro | 4/26/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I made a table and have 4 .xls that I imported into foxpro but I need to put them in the table I ... A: I am assuming that you can't use the SQL UNION to combine all the tables because the tables formats ... | ||
| Executable Project | 4/20/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
| Q: I'm preparing a project and I hardly need from you information about how to make my project ... A: There several ways to go about this The cheapest way is to use free software such as Open Workbench, ... | ||
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Carla Fair-Wright
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Expertise
I can answer most general questions regarding Visual FoxPro. I am also very good with WSH, WMI,and FSO scripting and most internet technologies. I like to answer questions. To me there is no such thing as a dumb question. Don't be afraid to ask me anything about FoxPro or Visual FoxPro. I will try to answer all questions as quickly as I can. It may take me a day or longer for a complex error or one that is hard to reproduce. Please include the version of FoxPro you are using.
Experience
My professional experience with computer programming started in my early twenties, I went back to college with thoughts of finishing an engineering degree and ended up in computer science.
I have used Oracle, SQL Server, Access, and FoxPro.
Experience in the area
I have been using the product for over 10 years. I am a MCP in Visual FoxPro (Desktop).
I am ASQ Certified in Software Quality Engineering
Publications
Books
Chapter Author, Case Studies and Applications of Web Based Energy Information and Control Systems (Fairmont Press), June 2005
Chapter Author, Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology 1st Edition, (Francis Books) Spring 2006
Magazines
Component Developer Magazine
Maintenance Technology
Education/Credentials
BS - Computer Science
AS - Management Information Science
AS - Technical Management
AS - Electronic Systems Technology
Organizations
Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Member of American Society for Quality (ASQ)
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