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Date vs. DateTime (VFP-to-SQL Server)
File this under the category “blindingly obvious…at least in hindsight” in the never-ending VFP-to-SQL Server saga. If there is the smallest chance your system will need to be converted to SQL Server...
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DefaultValue (VFP-to-SQL Server)
File this one, too, under the category “blindingly obvious…at least in hindsight” in the never-ending VFP-to-SQL Server saga. Balancing up front cost and with cost of a change: use DefaultValues. For...
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Get Stuff(ed): formatted Datetime string
ETA: 2009.12.02: This code is in version 8. As the inimitable Doug Hennig (fangirl squeal) points out in comments, VFP 9 TTOC() has a new flag for returning an XML DateTime format. I would still use...
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Refactoring: VFP form calls external PRG, uses Publics for shared data
I’ve inherited another legacy VFP application and am updating a routine to use a new format required by my client’s customer. There is a VFP form that eventually calls a program to gather, format, and...
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