Web Connection 5.0 Video Tutorials
Want to find out about Web Connection 5.0 for Visual FoxPro? Then sit
down and check out these video tutorial walk-throughs that
demonstrate and teach you how to use the new Web Control Framework
features in Web Connection 5.0.
These videos make up over 2 hours of training materials prepared in
live hands-on session presented by Rick Strahl. These videos also mirror
the
walk through in the help file. You can also download the template
pages in SavedTemplates
described in the demos so you can follow along exactly.
Note:
All videos are in Windows Media Streaming format (wmv) format and
should be run in full 1024x768 resolution to display properly. You
can either click and stream the data or right click and Save As...
to save to disk and run locally.
Video Quality in Media Player 10:
If the videos are not screen quality sharp, you may have to
adjust your Media Player settings. Go to the player's Tools |
Options | Performance Tab | Advanced Button and check High Quality
Mode. Your video will restart and should now look screen quality
sharp.
Creating a Project and Hello World with the Web Control Framework
This video goes through the basic setup of a project
and shows how to configure the Web Connection framework and get
ready for processing. You then see a basic Helloworld page that
demonstrates a number of key features of the framework.
(27 minutes - 14.8meg)
Using the wwWebDataGrid Control to list data
This video starts in with data access and display by using a business object
to bind cursor data to a wwWebDatagrid control. This video works through data
binding and visual customization of the grid layout and display in a variety
of ways, showing pagination, sorting and using expressions for complex
row and column displays.
(30 minutes - 16 megs)
Databinding and Displaying, Editing and saving Data
This video demonstrates databinding in a data entry form.
It demonstrates two-way control source binding, list binding to dropdown
boxes and displaying of binding errors. It also covers
using business objects to add binding errors, and managing the
databinding process for displaying, saving and creating new entries.
(33 minutes - 16 megs)
Creating User Control and adding them to pages
User controls require special attention in Web Connection
and this tutorial demonstrates the key features and things to watch out
for. This sample adds a couple of user controls to the pages
created in the previous samples. User Controls allow creating composite
content visual and this tutorial explains how to create a control,
create the layout, creating custom properties and hooking up custom
processing. Finally we'll see how to use the controls on the previously
generated forms.
(25 minutes - 17 megs)
