Lately, my external editor of choice has been Notepad++. It’s flexible, highly configurable, and supports user-defined syntax coloring. Of course, it doesn’t ship with a syntax coloring file for VFP, so I came up with my own. After a while, I got tired of typing in commands as I got to them, and wrote a program to generate the whole thing.

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Well, not exactly, but some Googling led me to these posts, which show how to put it together yourself using the Visual Studio Shell.

Which reminds me, Craig Boyd and Bo Durban are still working on VFPStudio. Wish I could get to SWFox for the presentation Craig is giving…

I couldn’t remember how to get VFP editboxes to accept tabs as input instead of instruction to move to the next control, so I was coding something elaborate in the KeyPress event to handle it.

After all, remembering the AllowTabs property would be just too easy…

Andrew MacNeill has a good article over here about using the new “My” class, that shipped with Sedna, to store application configuration information.

Seeing Craig Boyd’s FLLs inspired me to finally figure out how to do them myself. I learned C in school, so I have a passing familiarity with it, though I’m very rusty. I’ll assume that if you’re reading this, you’re about at the same level.

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Steven Black has a good article about text handling in VFP that touches on most of the possibilities. I can’t remember if I’ve read it before, but I wanted to link it so I didn’t forget where it was.

Kevin Cully announced yesterday that there won’t be a FoxForward 2008, and that he doesn’t have plans for another one: it takes way too much time away from his business and family.

Andrew MacNeill found this neat promo film for FoxPro 2.0 from back in 1990. They filmed some of it at Brown, so I may very well have been in the building while they were taping — or maybe even in the room, since they filmed in the Mac Lab. :-) I’m pretty sure I’m not any of those people in the top row, though.

Beyond Compare is an excellent file comparison tool, but when you try to compare Fox DBF-based files like forms or classes, it doesn’t work so well, because of the non-ASCII bytes they contain.

Frank Perez has come out with a converter that allows BC to work well with these files. I’ll be downloading it first thing tomorrow when I get to work. :-) (h/t Rick Borup)

Craig Bertnson points at the MSDN Code Gallery, which allows people to upload code samples for general consumption. I just put up my GDIPlusX/ReportListener sample to see how it works. Pretty neat.