What's new and happening

West Wind Web Monitor 3.35 released 08/07/2008
We've just released an update to West Wind Web Monitor in Version 3.35. Web Monitor is a system utility that allows you to monitor Web sites to ensure that they are still up and running and returning expected results. Failures can be detected by searching content and then getting notified if the expected content is not returned. You can also fire actions (urls or applications) to fix issues. This update adds support for 64 bit versions of Windows so you can now run on Vista 64 or Windows Server 2008. There have also been a host of improvements in the Web front and the site configuration interface in the desktop app as well a host of small bug fixes.

West Wind Web Connection Training at Southwest Fox Early Bird running out 07/11/2008
West Wind Technologies will be presenting a West Wind Web Connection Training event again this year at Southwest Fox in October. The dates are October 15th and 16th in Mesa Arizona and will cover usage of Web Connection from the introduction level to intermediate to advanced topics in an intensive interactive 2 day format. The early bird signup deadline for the event expires on July 15th, after which prices go up by $100, so if you're thinking about attending the time to sign up is now.

West Wind Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET updated 07/08/2008
The Ajax toolkit includes client and server side JSON service support without requiring ASP.NET AJAX providing an efficient and lean alternative that runs on ASP.NET 2.0 and later. It includes a drop dead easy MethodCallback control for calling server methods in pages, custom controls or a custom handler with ease. The HoverPanel component makes it easy to display pop up windows with AJAX loaded content. ModalDialog provides easy to design and customize modal dialogs. There's also a small but rich client library that provides client interfaces to all controls as well as a host of utility functions so you can optionally create pure client interfaces rather than use server controls. This update improves the JSON serializer on the server, and adds several server side helper classes for generating Server variables into client code and providing a consistent script embedding interface. The library is free and comes with C# source code.

West Wind Web Connection 5.37 released 06/30/2008
West Wind Wind Technologies has released version 5.37 of its Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connection can be used to build rich Web applications that are FoxPro centric. You can use FoxPro as the native engine for developing, testing and deploying FoxPro Web and Service applications. This update is mostly a maintenance release that also adds a number of enhancements the new Web Control Framework to simplify a number of scenarios discussed by users on our forums. This release also includes a few optimizations both in the core Web Connection engine and the Web Control Framework that should improve overall performance slightly. The update is available for free to registered users of Version 5 and available as shareware to try out the product. Also, don't forget our early bird pricing is still available for training at Southwest Fox in Arizona in October.

West Wind Web Connection 5.37 Beta released 06/08/2008
We've released a Beta release for our West Wind Web Connection product for the release of version 5.37. Web Connection is a Web Development framework for building Web and Distributed applications with Visual FoxPro. This update provides a number of core feature enhancements to the Web Connection Web Control framework that simplifies a number of tasks, especially when dealing with business objects. There are new properties that aid with databinding and a few enhancements that provide cleaner HTML markup for AJAX scenarios. There have also been a number of quiet improvements in the AJAX client libraries as well. The Beta is available to all registered users of Web Connection and can be downloaded using the registration information of Version 5.35 and simply changing the version numbers of download link and password to 537.