Virtual Fox Fest 2026
An online conference presenting the latest in Microsoft Visual FoxPro development techniques
October 21 and 22, 2026
Speakers
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Bill Anderson
Bill Anderson is a seasoned consultant and developer based out of Southern California. Bill helped run the Los Angeles Visual FoxPro Developers Group for 20 years and it was a blast! Constant conference attendee and occasional speaker with current clients on both coasts. Retired tomato grower. Married to Christine Griego-Anderson, son Tony, and foster daughter Noelia. You can reach me at chilkatvfp@gmail.com.
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Rick Borup
Rick Borup is owner and president of Information Technology Associates, LLC, a professional software design, development, and information systems consulting firm he founded in 1993. Rick earned BS and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois and spent several years developing software applications for mainframe computers in the commercial banking industry before turning to PC database development tools in the late 1980s. He has worked full time in FoxPro and Visual FoxPro since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1998. Rick is a co-author of the books Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions and Visual FoxPro Best Practices for The Next Ten Years. He has written articles for FoxTalk and FoxPro Advisor, and is a frequent speaker at Visual FoxPro conferences and user groups. Rick is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Visual FoxPro.
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Gregory Green
Greg Green was first introduced to FoxPro 1.0 (never used FoxBase) around 1988. He has been doing database development with FoxPro since then. He developed a number of applications in FoxPro over the years, some of which are still in use. When Visual FoxPro was introduced, he moved from the DOS-based version to VFP and continued with every VFP version going forward.
One feature that he always wanted in the VFP editor, that other code editors have, is row numbering in the UI. So, in early 2005 he began to develop an alternative editor for Visual FoxPro forms (SCX), classes (VCX), and programs (PRG). Over the years, he added many features to these editors beyond what is available in the standard VFP editor (even with the enhancement of Thor). He also developed an alternative editor for menus (MNX) that has many features beyond the standard VFP menu editor.
His full-time job is an SAP Consultant where he provides technical consulting in support of ABAP (programming language used by SAP), workflow development, interface development, and Master Data Governance. Visual FoxPro development is a "hobby" for Greg since he began his SAP consulting in 1997; he supports several applications he developed for charities and his own accounting system for his personal LLC.
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Doug Hennig
Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Software Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Query; the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT); the MemberData Editor, Anchor Editor, and CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro; and the My namespace and updated Upsizing Wizard in Sedna.
Doug is co-author of VFPX: Open Source Treasure for the VFP Developer, Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, Visual FoxPro Best Practices For The Next Ten Years, the What's New in Visual FoxPro series, and The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0. He was the technical editor of The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 and The Fundamentals. Doug wrote hundreds of articles in 20 years for FoxRockX, FoxTalk, FoxPro Advisor, Advisor Guide to Visual FoxPro, and CoDe magazines..
Doug spoke at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) starting in 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world. He is one of the organizers of the annual Southwest Fox conference and of Virtual Fox Fest. He is one of the administrators for the VFPX VFP community extensions Web site. He was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 1996 through 2011. Doug was awarded the 2006 FoxPro Community Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Jeff Roberts
Jeff Roberts is a software developer with a little over 30 years of experience. He worked as a developer and PC support person in the early to mid-nineties, and then worked as a Director of Information Technology for nearly 20 years. In 2012, he started Red Mountain Solutions Group, Inc. with a long-time friend, and they've been doing full-time software development since then. They primarily write new applications, migrate old ones to the LAMP stack using the Laravel framework, and maintain Visual FoxPro applications. They also work with other languages when needed.
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Using AI to Research and Document a Visual FoxPro App You've Inherited
Irwin Alfredo Rodríguez
Irwin Rodriguez is a software developer with 17 years of experience in Visual FoxPro, where he specialized in creating developer-focused tools and libraries. In the last three years, he transitioned to X# .NET, evolving his tooling ecosystem with projects such as FoxCore, FoxPilot, and FoxServer, which significantly enhance FoxPro development workflows.
Since the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022, he has been an early adopter of AI-assisted programming, and in recent years he has focused on bringing his libraries to life by integrating AI through APIs into both FoxPro and X# applications.
Irwin is an active member of the X# development team and serves as the official X# ambassador for Spain and Latin America.
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FoxAgent: Connecting AI Agents to Live VFP Applications with X# and MCP
John Ryan
Dr. John Ryan was specializing in orthopedic surgery when he stepped aside from practice in 1992 for a year (!) to develop artificial intelligence services for surgeons. One year turned into quarter of a century, including two patents for artificial intelligence that reads medical records for research and peer review audit. More recently Dr. Ryan was the first commercial user of VFPA and VFP Compiler, which are third party projects to enhance/remedy faults in Microsoft's discontinued Visual FoxPro product.
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Rick Schummer
Rick Schummer is the president and lead geek at White Light Computing, Inc., headquartered in southeast Michigan, USA, where the team guides the customer's Information Technology investment toward success. He enjoys working with top-notch developers, thrives on the mode of continuous learning, has a passion for developing software using best practices, strives to surpass customer expectations, and shares his knowledge with others whenever he can. After hours you might find him creating tools that improve developer productivity, or having fun learning from YouTubers, reading, bingeing Netflix, riding his e-bike or relaxing in his RV.
Rick is a partner with Doug Hennig at Forward Thinking Software, the makers of CleverFox Backup (CFB). CleverFox Backup can backup DBC-based DBFs, free table DBFs, and SQL Server databases to the cloud on a scheduled basis to protect you and your customer's data. Protecting data from power outages, drive failures, theft of the computers, fire and other natural disasters, CleverFox Backup can be part of your disaster recovery plan in as little as 15 minutes. All backups are managed from an easy-to-use Web site. Backups can be run hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, and even on demand. DBF data can be backed up while in use as long as files are not opened exclusively. Email notifications let you and your users know when the data is successfully backed up, when it is missed or when it fails to backup. Simply put, CleverFox Backup is the least expensive insurance you can purchase to backup data.
Rick is a co-author of VFPX: Open Source Treasure for the VFP Developer, Making Sense of Sedna and SP2, Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the Next Ten Years, What's New In Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits, Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions, MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted To Know About Extending Visual FoxPro, and 1001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro. Rick is the lead organizer of the Southwest Fox Conference and Virtual Fox Fest, and has presented at other conferences in North America, Europe, and Australia. He is an administrator of VFPX and was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP from 2002 to 2011. Rick was awarded the FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award in October 2010.
You can contact Rick via email at raschummer@whitelightcomputing.com or via his company Web site: White Light Computing, Inc.. Read more of his thoughts on Visual FoxPro and software development, and how he runs his business on his blog: Shedding Some Light.
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Christof Wollenhaupt
Christof Wollenhaupt is an owner of foxpert GmbH. foxpert is one of Germany's leading FoxPro companies. They offer FoxPro, .NET, and web development and consulting services. More information at http://www.foxpert.com.
Christof founded foxpert in 1996. He's been a regular speaker at international conferences and user groups since 1997, an international author for half a dozen magazines, and was a contributing editor to FoxPro Advisor for a decade and a Microsoft MVP for 13 years.
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