FoxTalk magazine has been taken over by DFPUG on 1st March 2008 and renamed to FoxRockX. The new editor is Rainer Becker. The first issue is in print. The magazine will be published bimonthly online/hard copy with 24 content pages plus maybe advertising or sponsored articles.

UDF below generates 128-bit GUID and returns it as a string in the format 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.

• CoCreateGuid
• StringFromGUID2

MSDN:

• CreateDirectory function - Creates a new directory one level at a time
• SHCreateDirectory function - Creates a new directory including all intermediate folders, if necessary
• CreateFolder Method - WSH
• NewFolder Method - Shell

There is more than one way to count lines in an ASCII file.

FoxPro doesn't provide a direct way to check if variable is integer or how many digits it has after decimal point but it can be accomplished using PADL() function.

In VFP 9.0 PRG contents will be copied to clipboard in RTF format as well, if there's no 'X' in the _Vfp.EditorOptions.

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It's based on the late Ed Rauh's code around SHFileOperation Win API and requires his Heap allocation class. It supports wild cards and shows standard Windows progress bar.

Visual FoxPro 9.0 Sedna is available for download on MSDN. Sedna is a collection of libraries, samples and add-ons to Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2.

Links to the articles that cover new features in VFP 9.0 Report Writer

In order to deploy VFP 9.0 object-assisted report features in runtime, the REPORT*.APP files have to be distributed with your application and their location stored into _REPORT* system variables. The error 'Variable _REPORTOUTPUT is not found' may be generated if they are not populated properly.