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Welcome to  Rick Strahl's West Wind Technologies Web Site, home of West Wind Web Connection. This site is a resource for Visual FoxPro and .NET developers building Web and Enterprise applications. Here you can find a large white paper archive, a very active message board, Rick's Web Log and many tools designed to help developers deliver Web and Enterprise solutions with Visual Studio .NET and Visual FoxPro.

Version 5.62Mar. 28th, 2012
Create Web applications with Visual FoxPro and take advantage of a powerful and proven framework. Version 5 adds a new Web Control Framework on top of the core Web Connection engine, adding a rich, visual and control based approach to FoxPro Web development. Optionally use Visual Studio to layout your controls and HTML with full layout support and Intellisense, but create and debug code using pure FoxPro code in the FoxPro IDE. While the Web Control Framework is new, Web Connection still works and improves upon the classic MVC style mode with new HtmlHelpers and templating of earlier versions. So what are you waiting for? FoxPro Web Development was never easier than this.
Version 4.66 January 19th, 2012
Help Builder is here to help you create profession documentation for end user applications, developer components or even documentation or online knowledgebases for a project, product or service. Focus on creating documentation content quickly with an interactive editor and design templates that let you concentrate on content creation. Create Html Help (CHM), Web Html and Word or PDF output all from a single source. If you're a software developer you can also import and document .NET, FoxPro and COM objects, Web Services, Sql Server and FoxPro databases and work with Help Builder directly in Visual Studio. Help Builder is your one stop documentation solution.
Version 1.18Feb. 10th, 2012
The West Wind Web & Ajax Toolkit provides a host of essential utility functionality for your ASP.NET Web applications. From easy to use AJAX and REST services and jQuery client access, to a powerful DataBinding control, to Globalization, to core ASP.NET utility functionality like logging, error handling and configuration and script management, to a large set of utility functions useful in just about any .NET and/or ASP.NET Web project. This toolkit comprises a set of functionality that is not flashy, but covers many core, day to day tasks required in almost every .NET and Web application. Get productive today.
Version 5.62Feb. 7, 2012
West Wind Client Tools is a rich suite of utility classes that provide Internet functionality including SMTP & POP3 Email, full featured HTTP Web access, FTP and low level TCP/IP access. Utility classes include  object based data access to SQL Server and Web Data, a light-weight business object framework, a .NET Interop helper component, XML conversion features, basic graphing for both desktop and Web applications, several configuration management classes and a rich library of utility and API functions useful in everyday Visual FoxPro development.
Version 1.21 Dec. 6th, 2011
West Wind Web Service Proxy Generator Need to call Web Services with Visual FoxPro? Then check out our Web Service Proxy Generator that can easily create FoxPro SOAP 1.x Web Service clients using the reliable .NET service client as the connector interface. This tool automates the .NET service client generation and creates a FoxPro front end class. It's easy and you can call complex SOAP 1.x services in minutes using simple FoxPro classes.
Version 3.43 Feb. 20, 2011
Keep an eye on your Web sites with West Wind Web Monitor and make sure your sites are up and running and returning results that you expect. Web Monitor can notify you via email or pager when your site is not responding to requests. Get notified when sites go down and when they come back up. Fire URLs and/or applications in response to failures to take automated corrective action. Version 3.0 is built using Microsoft .Net technology and adds support for Windows Service operation, Web based remote administration, improved logging and is available as an optional source code version. Version 3.41 provides allows RegEx searches of content, notification tresholds and many small user interface enhancements.
Version 2.50 10/30/2009
The Web Store provides a source code based, .NET e-commerce base implementation and business and Web framework. Get a store a store setup and running in minutes with quick Web based setup, a full online administration interface, flexible user interface design, support for several Credit Card Gateways including Authorize.NET, PayFlowPro and PayPal, and easily extensible business logic based using a provided business framework. The Web Store is more than just an application - it's also a full featured Web application framework that can be used for any type of application, plus it includes a full featured offline WinForms offline client application.

West Wind Web Store for Web Connection
Version 3.50 08/19/2005
Want to get a shopping cart e-Commerce application online quickly with Visual FoxPro? Then get a jump start with our new full featured West Wind Web Store Sample Application for Web Connection and VFP. Version 3.50 sports a new look, better customizability, added merchant support for Authorize.NET, LinkPoint and PayPal, improved SQL Server integration (optional), interoperability with the .NET version and many new enhancements to the base operation of the Web store application and the optional Offline Order Processing application.

West Wind Application Configuration for .NET
Version 1.20 9/14/2008
Do you need to manage your configuration settings in your application in sensible manner that goes beyond the basic features found in .NET's ConfigurationSettings class? The base functionality that .NET provides is a big improvement over no configuration features at all, but it leaves a lot to be desired in usability terms. The wwAppConfiguration class provides relief by allowing you to create configuration settings as members of a strongly typed class which can persist its content to and from a variety of storage containers. Because you're dealing with a class you get easy portability, strong typing and Intellisense, read/write access, along with a much simpler interface to your configuration data inside of your application.


Free West Wind Web Configuration Utility
Version 1.0 8/1/2005
Ever need to quickly install a Web application on a different server? You copy files and then you start fiddling with IIS to create a virtual directory, set directory permissions, possibly configure your Visual Studio.NET solution file to run in the different application path or configure MSDE/SQL Server to create a accounts? If you do this a lot this utility is for you. This utility performs these tasks through either an easy to use Windows Forms interface or through a command line interface that uses an XML configuration file that can 'just do it'.

Free .NET Tools from Rick Strahl
Pick up a number of free tools, components and controls for .NET, most with source code and a 'story' behind them. There are several ASP.NET controls, several tools for ASP.NET and a number of samples that provide a variety of functionality for .NET developers.

Free Visual FoxPro Tools
Check out our set of free utilitities classes and tools for Visual FoxPro. Needs an XML parsing class that can parse object and provide many XML parsing utiliities including Xml To Cursor and Cursor To XML funtionality for pre-Version 8.0 applications? wwXML is your tool. Need a FoxPro based SOAP client and server implementation that doesn't rely on the SOAP toolkit? Then wwSoap is your tool. Stop by and check out a number of free tools that come with source code ready for you to use in your applications. 

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EPS Software and West Wind Technologies have teamed up and are proud to bring you CoDe magazine. The magazine focuses on Microsoft development tools and technologies with focus on the .NET Framework as well more general software development and architecture topics. Sign up for a free subscription today.

 

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