In this article I start building a menu infrastructure for the Mini-CMS system in Visual WebGui.

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In this second article in a serie I start building a framework for the Mini-CMS system in Visual WebGui.

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This is the first article in a serie describing how to build a Mini-CMS system from scratch using Visual WebGui.

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In this article I will demonstrate how to create a PersistentSplitter component, which remembers its position at runtime

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This article demonstrates an utility that handles exporting the data behind any currently active MS Access object to any of the MS Access-supported formats. Your users should find just about every option they need in this portable utility.

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We live in a "connected" world - almost every system has to exchange data with other systems. One of the oldest and most widespread communication protocols is FTP. In this article, I'll show how you can incorporate FTP access into your applications.

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Internationalizing your application can mean using locale-specific number and date/time settings, among other options. Many of those options are controlled in Windows by the user's environment settings. For the user interface, string resources can be built into the compiled application (usually into the EXE) to support swapping in different sets of text. These resources are usually hard-coded into the application file at compile time. If an application needs to be deployed in different languages, different application files need to be compiled and deployed.

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Microsoft Access applications can use Jet databases, other databases (as linked tables), or SQL Server. But sometimes you need to work with files on your hard disk. This article will provide you with every function that you'll need to work with file names - including converting from UNC names to mapped drives (and back again).

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If your organization or clients have multiple instances of an application running on a network, they may find it tedious to manage the various configuration options. With our Global Options object, your application can store configuration options in one place, making life much easier for administrators and users.

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In today's world, many companies are expanding overseas, and they usually have employees who speak different languages. Even if most employees who work for such companies can use a common language besides their own mother language, most of them are still more proficient in their own native one. Today, modern programming environments offer many features that allow software applications to be developed with multi-language support. In this article, I explores a method for handling on-the-fly string translation throughout an interface in Visual FoxPro applications.

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Starting with version 6.0, Visual FoxPro introduced _ACCESS and _ASSIGN methods. They added great flexibility for programmers. The classes can now validate the values of the properties when they're assigned, and custom code can be run when a property is read or changed. Business objects and visual classes can be created to be used in a much more "natural" way. This article will explain how to empower those properties to implement a global handler to be called when any property is read.

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