Welcome to Rick Strahl's West Wind Technologies site. I love to code and this site is a reflection of that. On this site you can find Rick's development Weblog, an extensive article archive of Rick's articles, and a support message board to have developer discussions. West Wind Technologies is also the developer of variety of development and end user tools and offers consulting services for projects large and small.
Version 5.0 Beta 4 - December 15th, 2015
Help Builder is a tool to create documentation for all kinds of scenarios including
application or developer documentation, FAQs, snippet repositories, knowledge bases,
Help Desk references. You can even use it as a content Web site creation tool.
Using Help Builder's low friction interface to create content, you can generate
HTML Web site output, CHM files or export to Word or PDF. It uses all Web based
technologies for styling, templating and customization, and lets you focus on creating your content not worrying
about markup. Using 5.0's new editor and support for the Markdown text format, content
writing becomes distraction free. 5.0 also introduces new mobile friendly templates
that make content more accessible, fast to navigate and SEO friendly. For developers, Help Builder
allows creating class and database documentation from source files including .NET types,
SQL Server database, FoxPro code, Web Services definitions and data and COM objects. Mix and match
imported documentation with your custom documentation content. Documentation doesn't have to be a
chore - let Help Builder help!
Version 6.0 Beta 3 - December 1st, 2015
Create Web applications with Visual FoxPro and take advantage of a
powerful and proven framework using the FoxPro environnment
you already know. Develop and test your code inside of the VFP IDE against
live Web requests. Web Connection provides a core foundation engine, and several highlevel
frameworks for developing just about any kind of Web application you can imagine. Create
server driven HTML with our ASP.NET like Web Control Framework, or chose a more MVC like
Templating approach. Build rich JavaScript apps and use REST services to feed data. Build raw
POX or SOAP backends or use no framework at all and create your own low level engine on top
of the core. If you need Web for FoxPro - Web Connection can do it all.
Version 1.0 - September 2nd, 2015
Need to test URLs for API testing or stress test a Web site under heavy load?
WebSurge is an easy to use tool that makes it easy to create or capture URLs for easy playback
either interactively or under load. Test individual URLs for development testing of HTML, REST or SOAP
services, run sessions under heavy load for stress testing. Use our easy to use environment to run tests,
play back individual URLs or sessions, or use the command line interface to automate the process. Simple
text based session files make it easy to store and create repeatable scripts that you can store on disk or the cloud,
and share in source control or shared resources. Check out WebSurge for all your URL testing needs.
Oct 14th & 15th 2015, Gilbert Arizona
Interested in getting up to speed with Web development in Visual FoxPro in a hurry?
Then come to our 2 day West Wind Web Connection workshop prior to Southwest Fox this
year and find out how to create powerful Web applications in 2 content packed days.
Find out about the new features of Web Connection 6.0 and see them applied in hands on
sessions that walk through creating a Web application from scratch. Day one covers general
Web Development topics in combination with Web Connection. Day 2 delves into client centric
Web and mobile applications using JavaScript and the AngularJS framework and Bootstrap for
creating responsive layouts that can handle mobile device displays effectively. Come join
us in Gilbert and up your skillset to build modern Web applications.
Version 5.72 -
May 11, 2015
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 1.40 -
September 30th, 2015
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 any complex SOAP 1.x services in minutes using a simple FoxPro class
and a few lines of code.
Version 2.0 - June 23rd, 2015
This library provides a database driven ASP.NET Resource Provider and .NET Resource Manager
to server Localization resources from a Sql Server database. Use either the provided Web
based interactive resource editor, .NET code using our Localization data manager class,
or simply manipulate data directly in the database to enter and update resources. Many
related tools and utilities simplify resource management and use in your ASP.NET applications.
Version 3.51 - October 28th, 2014
Web Monitor can help you monitor your Web sites or any URL for
failures or changes, and notify you when the URL fails or changes.
Get notified on failures via email, or execute a URL or a local
application in response to a failure. Why use expensive online services,
when you can run your own, easy to use solution using Web Monitor in-house
for a fraction of the cost?
Version 2.64 - May 20th, 2015
The West Wind Toolkit for .NET 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 2.50 -
Dec. 30th, 2013
Create easy to use, strongly typed configuration classes in .NET and store configuration data
in a variety of common storage formats. Store config data in .config files, different sections
or external files, or use plain XML files, strings, or SQL tables to store configuration data.
Never have missing configuration values again as defaults are always present and can optionally
be written to the configuration store if they don't exist yet. Encrypt individual configuration
keys selectively and write configuration any time. Lots of features and easy to use - it's never
been so easy to create easily managed configuration data into your apps.
December 15th, 2013
Need to access .NET code from FoxPro? wwDotnetBridge is a free and open source
.NET Runtime hosting engine and .NET access helper for Visual FoxPro. It allows hosting
of the .NET runtime in your FoxPro applications, and can access .NET components without
having to register those components for COM first. This opens up most of the .NET framework
and .NET 3rd party libraries to your code.
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.
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