David Tansey

David Tansey

David Tansey is Director of Consulting for F1 Technologies, developers of the award-winning business application framework, Visual FoxExpress. Based in San Francisco, he oversees F1 Technologies' consulting projects and participates in product design and development. David was the primary developer of FullContact, F1 Technologies' framework for developing CRM applications.

David has spoken at the Computer Associates CA-WORLD software expo, at software development user groups across the country, and has published articles in CoDe Magazine and CAS-WORLD.

Articles Authored

  • Defining and Using Custom Attribute Classes in C#

    Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - July/August

    The complex, component-style development that businesses expect out of modern software developers requires greater design flexibility than the design methodologies of the past. Microsoft's .NET Framework makes extensive use of attributes to provide added functionality through what is known as "declarative" programming. Attributes enhance flexibility in software systems because they promote loose coupling of functionality. Because you can create your own custom attribute classes and then act upon them, you can leverage the loose coupling power of attributes for your own purposes.

  • Add Speech Recognition to your Applications

    Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2001 - Issue 1

    In this article, David Tansey explores how developers can integrate speech recognition into their applications using Dragon NaturallySpeaking and its Developer's Suite. He details the use of ActiveX controls within Visual FoxPro to enable dictation, voice commands, and speech output, providing practical code examples for synchronizing dictation buffers, creating voice menus, and implementing voice-driven navigation. Tansey emphasizes the improved accuracy of modern speech recognition, discusses setup and training tools, and highlights considerations for deployment environments and user acceptance, ultimately demonstrating that incorporating speech interfaces is both feasible and beneficial for enhancing application accessibility and usability.