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West Wind Web Connection 5.51 released

01/06/2010
West Wind Technologies has released version 5.51 of its Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connecton makes it easy to build Web and distributed applications with Visual FoxPro using pure Foxo code within the Visual FoxPro IDE while optionally supporting design time integration with Visual Studio. Version 5.51 is a maintenance release that adds a handful of new features and improvements and fixes several small issues. Web Connection is distributed as shareware so you can try it for free.

West Wind Web Connection 5.51 Beta Released

12/22/2009
We've released a pre-release beta version of Web Connection 5.51 for registered Web Connection 5.50 customers to review. This update introduces a number of small breaking changes and for this reason we're releasing this pre-release beta to collect additional feedback to help documenting of the update process. Most of the changes revolve around the wwIPStuff.vcx library being deprecated with all components being replaced with feature and API compatible standalone classes that perform the same functions. In addition this update supports Visual Studio 2010 Beta and a handful of new features. The beta is open to registered users of the product and can be downloaded by changing the version number on the registration download link and password.

West Wind Web & Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET released

12/15/2009
West Wind Technologies has released Version 1.12 of the West Wind Web Toolkit for ASP.NET. This toolkit provides a host of controls, components and important re-usable utilities for every day ASP.NET and .NET development as well as a light weight LINQ based business framework for easy CRUD data access. This update is a maintenance release that provides a host of improvments: There's a new self-contained Pager control, a new ResponseFilter class for capturing and filtering Response output, several jQuery ASP.NET interaction functions in the client libraries and a host of new features for the localization provider and Resource administration application. The toolkit is free for personal and non-commercial use and generously licensed for commercial or organizational use.

West Wind Client Tools 5.51 released

12/11/2009
West Wind Technologies has released a maintenance updated of West Wind Client Tools. The Client Tools provide a host of Internet functionality to client desktop applications including support for sending and retrieving email, rich HTTP access, FTP up and downloads as well as high level data services that allow for remote data and RPC calls over HTTP. The toolkit also contains utility classes including a simple business object layer, SQL Server access wrapper, SOAP and XML class, PDF rendering and more. This update is primarily a maintenance release but also adds a few new features. A new wwSMTP class enhances existing SMTP support with SSL/TLS secure communications as well as many wwDotNetBridge enhancements for simplifying VFP .NET Interop. Client Tools is available as shareware and updates are free to registered users.

 


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