UT Magazine, July 2004 issue is up.

There are couple of great topics in UT Magazine, July 2004 issue. The topics I like most are

• Developing FLL Libraries
• What's new in Visual FoxPro 9 Beta

FLL is VC++ written DLL, but only able to be used in FP/VFP environment. You can use SET LIBRARY TO myFLL.fll to open the library. Then, you could call it just as native function call. It is written to extend VFP functionality that usual difficult/impossible to be solved using VFP code. However, there are not much FLL around in market. One of the famous FLL would be Focus.fll. Developing FLL Libraries gives you some details about FLL, and help you to develop your first basic FLL step by step. This topic is new to me, since I never develop FLL.

Topic of "What's new in VFP9 Beta" is late for me. Why? It is because VFP9 Beta is avalaible for download at the beginning of June, before UT Mag June issue released. I expected there should be at least one topic about it in June issue. But, it doesn't. OTOH, Foxtalk is the first magazine talk about VFP9 Beta. Good Job! Anyway, we got it in UT July issue, and it covers more topics of enhancement features than Foxtalk and FoxPro Advisor. In fact, I am waiting for any article about generate custom report format in details. I have go thru _htmlreportlistener code, but still not able to catch it up. :(

Subscribe UT magazine now, if you interested. It covers topics about VFP and .NET as well. It is one of the best VFP $ .NET magazine.