http://www.west-wind.com West Wind Technologies - Making waves on the Web. Developer resources for .Net and Visual FoxPro developers building Enterprise and Web applications. en-us 1440 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:09:30 GMT West Wind Technologies has released version 5.65 of its FoxPro Web Application framework today. Web Connection makes it easy to build Web applications using the familar Visual FoxPro environment for development and debugging. Version 5.65 adds many new administrative features including better support for root Web configuration, support for IIS Express, better configuration for the .NET Handler, and Windows 8 support. Also new are IF/ENDIF support in templates and a new rock solid JSON deserializer. Web Connection is free to try and this is a free upgrade to registered users of version 5.50 and later. http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/ West Wind Technologies news Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:27:18 GMT West Wind Technologies has released an update to the Web Service Proxy Generator, which automates much of the process of creating FoxPro clients to call complex SOAP 1.x Web Services. The tool makes calling Web Services as easy as calling FoxPro methods on a proxy. This release adds better support for local, non-Web WSDL source files, handles Windows UAC security, improves custom parameter passing for DataSet, Guid, Arrays and a few other problematic COM Interop types. The Proxy Generator is available as shareware and registered users can simply re-download for a free update. http://www.west-wind.com/wsdlgenerator/ West Wind Technologies news Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:35:19 GMT If you need to call FoxPro COM components from ASP.NET recent changes in .NET 4.0 have made this process a bit easier. This article expands on my previous articles on calling FoxPro COM components in .NET and ASP.NET in particular by using more modern technologies like ASP.NET MVC and Web Services to call FoxPro COM Components and taking advantage of the Dynamic language improvements in .NET 4.0 that make it much easier to consume FoxPro COM components in .NET. http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/AspNetFoxProRevisited.pdf West Wind Technologies news Thu, 4 Oct 2012 01:59:08 GMT West Wind Technologies has released version 5.64 of its FoxPro Web Application framework today. Web Connection makes it easy to build Web applications using FoxPro code using the familar Visual FoxPro environment for development and debugging. Version 5.64 adds a host of enhancements including better support for Windows Authentication, support for extensionless URL mapping, improved request and response encoding (UTF-8 specifically) features as well as many small improvements to core features. Web Connection is free to try and this is a free upgrade to registered users of version 5.50 and later. http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/ West Wind Technologies news Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:42:26 GMT West Wind Technologies has realeased wwDotnetBridge as open sourced software on GitHub. This tool that's been part of West Wind Web Connection and West Wind Internet and Client Tools is now available independently and free. wwDotnetBridge provides .NET Runtime hosting for Visual FoxPro and makes it possible to access most .NET components directly from FoxPro and without COM registration. The library provides a large set of helpers to work with problematic .NET types to help alleviate some of problems normally associated with COM Interop. It's .NET Interop for Visual FoxPro made easy. http://west-wind.com/wwDotnetBridge.aspx West Wind Technologies news Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:50:24 GMT West Wind Technologies has released West Wind Application Configuration for .NET, a small library that facilitates creating strongly typed configuration classes for your .NET applications. Go from code to configuration store not the other way around - read and write configuration data and create default configuration data in the configuration store from default values. Never again have missing configuration values. Store configuration data in a variety of different formats including .NET .config files, external XML files, strings and databases tables or create custom providers or use the string provider to customize configuration output. You can have multiple configuration stores per application to segregate configuration logic smartly. This is what Configuration was meant to be in .NET. http://west-wind.com/Westwind.ApplicationConfiguration/ West Wind Technologies news Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:50:18 GMT West Wind Technologies has released an update to the Web Service Proxy Generator tool, which automates much of the process of creating FoxPro clients to call complex SOAP 1.x Web Services. The tool consists of a Wizard to generate the .NET assembly and FoxPro proxy class that makes calling Web Services as easy as calling a FoxPro method. Plus it includes wwDotNetBridge which provides FoxPro helpers to call .NET code effectively without COM registration and .NET features not available directly through COM interop. This release adds better support for local, non-Web WSDL source files, improves custom parameter passing for DataSet, Guid, Arrays and a few other problematic COM Interop types. We've also added automatic DataSet -> XmlAdapter mapping. The Proxy Generator is available as shareware and registered users can simply re-download for a free update. http://www.west-wind.com/wsdlgenerator/ West Wind Technologies news Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:29:52 GMT West Wind Technologies has extended the early bird deadline for the the Web Connection Training at Southwest Fox from today to the end of July. If you plan on attending the event this can save you a good chunk of change signing up early. We're hosting Web Connection training for 2 days prior to the Southwest Fox conference in Gilbert, AZ on Oct. 17th and 18th. The training provides an introduction to Web development with Visual FoxPro using the Web Connection framework. Starting with the basics, in the course of two days we touch topics all the way from installation and creating your first application the basics of setting up Web Connection all the way to intermediate and advanced topics like AJAX applications, mobile development and performance tuning with this framework. This training touches on all aspects of HTML based Web development in addition to Web Connection specific content. http://west-wind.com/webconnection/training/di_swfox2012.htm West Wind Technologies news