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Munich 2024 Speakers

: 06 September 2023

Speaker	Bio
Fabrice Foray	After a first encounter with personal computing and a Tandy TRS-80 in the early 80's, it was the use of Clipper 86 that led me to xBase languages. He has been teaching computer science in France for more than 30 years, especially with C++, Java and C# languages, and at the same time I continued the xBase adventure with CA-Visual Objects, Vulcan.Net and finally XSharp!

Nikos Kokkalis	Nikos Kokkalis started programming at an early age as a hobby. He studied Computer Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace, and there also earned his doctorate. He is a freelance software developer since 1996, with periods of employment. From 1996 to 2004 he worked for Anadelta Software on business software and road construction CAD. From 2009 to 2022 he worked as an embedded software and digital signal processing engineer at Intracom Telecom. During 2011 - 2015 he was a member of the GrafX development team. Since Sept. 2015 he has been a member of the XSharp development team, mainly working on the compiler, macro compiler and database engine. Since 2023 he is a software engineer at Arista Networks.

Chris Pyrgas	Chris Pyrgas started programming at the age of 12, and after several years of developing small games, utilities and realtime graphics presentations (together with Nikos Kokkalis) using Basic, Pascal and assembly language, started his professional career at 20 in 1996, developing business applications in Clipper and Visual Objects, as a member of Anadelta Software in Greece. In the early stages of the .Net Framework (v1.0), he got also involved with the CULE.Net project, in which he developed "CulEdit", the first version of the IDE that later become VIDE and now XIDE. Later he got involved with Vulcan.NET and became a member of the development team, while in the last 8 years he is a full-time member of the X# development team, working mainly on XIDE, the VOXporter, the VO-compatible binary editors, the X# runtime, quality assurance, testing and customer support.


Robert van der Hulst	Robert van der Hulst (The Netherlands) has been part of the IT industry since the 80's. He started developing applications in DOS with dBase, Clipper and FoxBase, C and Assembler. Later he developed applications for Windows and .Net with C/C++, Visual Objects, Vulcan.Net, Visual FoxPro, and C#. Robert has created several 3rd party components for Visual Objects and Vulcan developers and has been part of the Visual Objects and Vulcan.Net development team, and worked there on the compiler, IDE, runtime and RDD systems. In 2015, Robert founded the XSharp (X#) Project, together with Fabrice Foray (France), Nikos Kokkalis (Greece) and Chris Pyrgas (Greece). They were all colleagues from the former Vulcan.Net development team who decided there was a need for an open source implementation of XBase for .Net.

X# Summit, Memmingen, Oct 12-13 2023 - Register Now

: 28 August 2023

In a little over 6 weeks we have our X# Summit in Memmingen in the south of Germany.

If you haven't registered yet and if you're planning to come, please register now. We need to know how many people we can expect, so we can adjust our plans accordingly.

More information about the event can be found here.

We hope to see you there!

New Forum online

: 23 August 2023

Today we have switched our forum to a new component: phpbb3.

Old forum links will probably not work.

We encourage you to try this new forum, and report when you have any issues with the new forum.

XSharp Cahors 2.17.0.3

: 09 August 2023

Today we have released an installer (for our FOX subscribers) for XSharp Cahors 2.17.0.3 which contains some fixes for problems reported with X# 2.16, and some new features.

The what's new document describing all the changes can be found here:

XSharp 2.17 what's new Popular 2.17.0.3 319.84 KB	2023-08-04

{rsfiles path="fox/Compiler/XSharpSetupFox2.17.0.3.zip"}

This build will NOT be released to the public.

Build 2.18 will be the next public build.

Progress Update Summer 2023

: 04 August 2023

Here is a short message to inform you about our progress this summer.

First, we are completing the test for the upcoming 2.17 release. This release has several bug fixes for (small) issues found in the compiler. There are also some changed the runtime. Most of the changes are in our Visual Studio integration. You can find the what's new document here:

XSharp 2.17 what's new Popular 2.17.0.3 319.84 KB	2023-08-04

This build is for our FOX subscribers only.

A public build 2.18 is expected in the first weeks of September.

In the meantime, we are also hard at work to prepare our X# Summit in Memmingen (October 12-13).

On the event, we also plan to show the first version of the X# SQL RDD and hopefully also the new Visual Studio project system for .Net "Next" (6,7,8) so you can develop for these new versions of .Net with X# and Visual Studio.

Finally, Robert is also speaking at South West Fox in the week after our summit. If you're from the US and you cannot make it to Europe this autumn, you may be able to come to Phoenix, AZ. We are a sponsor of the event, so we will also have a "booth" there, and we will be doing a vendor session and a regular session. On the Sunday afternoon after the event, we also plan to do a workshop demonstrating you how you can move your FoxPro apps to .Net with X#.

More information about the X# Summit in October 2023

: 05 July 2023

In this article you will find more information about the speakers, sessions and schedule for the X# summit in Memmingen in October.
Please note that we are still looking for 1 or 2 speakers. We are open for all your suggestions.
And if you have specific wishes for session content, please also let us know.
We are planning to have 2 parallel tracks for a part of the event. One track will be focused on developers with a VO/Vulcan background, the other track will be focused on developers with a Visual FoxPro background.

The rest of the event will have sessions with a more "General" content that think are of interest for everybody.

For more information about the location, prices etc. look here

Website maintenance

: 30 June 2023

As you can see, we have updated our website.
The CMS has been moved to a new version of Joomla, and we have also switched to a new template.
We have also changed the commenting module. The previous one was no longer supported.
The new commenting module allows better formatting of comments and threading of comments.

Of course, with such a big update, there may be issues.
Please let us know (with a post in the forum or with a comment) if you see anything that is not working as expected.

X# and calling conventions

: 29 June 2023

Recently, there was a question on our forum about how to declare the right prototype to call a function in an external (unmanaged) DLL. The solution to that problem was selecting a different convention.
In this article, we will explain what calling conventions are and what the effect is on your code when you switch from one calling convention to another.

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