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West Wind Web Connection 5.43 released 06/24/2009
West Wind Technologies has released version 5.43 of its Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connecton makes it easy to build Web and distributed applications with Visual FoxPro using pure Visual FoxPro code within the Visual FoxPro environment. Version 5.43 is a maintenance release that provides a few small enhancements and bug fixes. Web Connection is distributed as shareware and as always registered users of V5 can update to this latest version for free.

West Wind Internet and Client Tools 5.43 released 06/04/2009
West Wind Technologies has released version 5.43 of its Visual FoxPro client Internet and utility library, West Wind Internet and Client Tools. This utility library includes a wide variety of Internet functionality including SMTP and POP3 email access, a rich HTTP client, FTP client and a basic Socket client. The utility library also includes a lightweigth business object library, XML helper class, a FoxPro based SOAP client, a new wwDotNetBridge class to interop with .NET and much more. This update is primarily a maintenence release and provides a few fixes and updates to existing functionality. There are also a number of enhancements to the wwDotNetBridge, XML and SOAP classes to improve usability. As always registered users of version 5 can update for free, and a shareware version is availble to try out the product for free.

West Wind Web Toolkit for ASP.NET released 05/27/2009
West Wind Technologies has released Version 1.0 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. The toolkit contains a host of AJAX controls, a number of jQuery plug-ins and JavaScript helpers, a powerful two-way databinding control, a data driven localization provider and a large library of every day utility classes and functions that are useful in every day development both for Web and plain .NET apps and much much more. West Wind Web Connection developers will also find many familiar utility features in this toolset. The Web Toolkit consolidates many components covered in articles and blog entries into a single comprehensive set of libraries that come with full documentation and support, as well as full access to source code. The toolkit is free for personal or open source and the free download includes all source code and access to the Subversion repository.