Rick Schummer
Rick Schummer is the president and lead geek at White Light Computing, Inc. headquartered in southeast Michigan, USA. He prides himself in guiding his customer’s information technology investment toward success. He is a co-author of 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. He is regular presenter at user groups in North America and has enjoyed presenting at GLGDW, Essential Fox, VFE DevCon, Southwest Fox, German DevCon and Advisor DevCon conferences. You can find all of his developer tools at his company Web site: http://whitelightcomputing.com.
Contact Information:
- Email: raschummer@whitelightcomputing.com
- Phone: 586-254-2530
Articles Authored
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The New and Improved Data Explorer
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 1 - Sedna: Beyond Visual FoxPro 9, VFP Conversion Papers
The Data Explorer introduced in VFP 9.0 allows developers to work with different types of data from diverse data sources independent of specific projects.The Sedna update extends this already powerful and productive tool.
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Upsizing Simplified
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2007 - Vol. 4 - Issue 1 - Sedna: Beyond Visual FoxPro 9, VFP Conversion Papers
The Sedna Upsizing Wizard is leaps and bounds better than the version previously shipped by Microsoft in any version of Visual FoxPro.The Fox Team listened to the complaints from the Fox Community over the years about the wizard being deficient, with some fatal flaws, and recognized how it became outdated with the advent of SQL Server 2005. Sedna attempts to correct all of this and more.