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Visual FoxPro
Versions 9.0, 8.0, 7.0 or 6.0 SP3
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Web Servers supported:
Microsoft Web Server (IIS 4-7)
Apache 2.0/2.2 and later for Windows
Visual Studio Web Server or
Cassini
(included)
Any ISAPI or CGI Compliant Web Server
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Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer
Recommended but not required.
Use Visual Studio 2008, 2005 or the free
Visual Web
Developer 2008
for visual designing of Web Control pages.
For Web Connection
purposes the Standard version of Visual Studio is sufficient.
The free Visual Web Developer also works, but the Web Connection
add in cannot be used in it due non-support for add ins.
Please read the following before installation.
Requirements
Web Connection 5.0 and 4.0 are optimized for Visual FoxPro 9.0 and
install with VFP 9.0 binaries by default. Both versions also work with VFP 8.0.
The older 4.x version also works with VFP
6.0 and 7.0 but VFP 6.0 may see a few errors in
the demos due to some features not being available for 6.0. Make sure you read the _Readme.htm
document shown at startup which sets up Web Connection to run with older
versions of Visual FoxPro.
You also need a Web server - all versions of Windows except the Home
Edition come
with a Web server. IIS installation is an optional component. Please make sure you install the
Web server before starting the Web Connection installation. Web Connection
supports Microsoft IIS and Apache 2.x and the Visual Studio Web
Server/Cassini with full automated setup
and configuration tools. Web Connection also works with any true ISAPI
or CGI compliant Web Server, but you have to configure other servers
manually and compatibility may be limited due to server implementations.
Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 or Visual Web Developer are
recommended if you build
Web Control Framework pages, which can be
designed using the Visual Studio visual designer and property sheet for
rapid WYSIWYG design. Use of these tools is optional and if you build
classic Web Connection Process Classes or Template/Script based pages
these tools don't offer much beyond basic HTML editing support. Web
Control Pages however are specifically designed to take advantage of the
Visual Studio environment.
Installation
Web Connection is installed from a self-extracting EXE file that allows you to unzip the program files into a directory of your choice. The files extracted are the actual installation files so put these files into a
permanent directory, not your temp path. A Readme document pops
up after installation with further instructions and a link to a
configuration setup program that configures the Web Server and installs
and configures the many Web Connection samples. Help pops up
automatically to assist you during the installation process. The help
file WCONNECT.CHM serves as
full documentation. You can access it through Explorer or directly from
the VFP Menu under Web Connection.
Shareware
This file is a download for the shareware version of
Web Connection, which is fully functional but does not include any
source code and thus cannot be recompiled. Several options are set to
default for development mode. You can however modify the samples
and even create new applications to check out the feature set with your
own applications. Web Connection is available as shareware,
so you can try out a fully functional version of the software prior to making a final
decision on purchasing. Several features are not available in the shareware version
due to its precompiled nature:
- Creation of new Visual FoxPro Project files
(you can run your new applications as PRG files)
- Re-compilation of the framework. Since there's no source code
you can't recompile the framework and some settings are permanently set.
- SQL Server system files for logging and session state
because these are compilation switches
- A nag screen pops up everytime you start a Web Connection
application.
So what are you waiting for? See for yourself why more
people are choosing Web Connection for their Visual FoxPro Web development than any other
VFP Web development tool.
Purchase Web Connection
Online Registration of
Web Connection
Once you've convinced yourself of the power and flexibility of Web
Connection you can register the software and get the full source code to
the Visual FoxPro application framework.
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