Dec. 3, 2025
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 4.0, a major update to its fast, elegant Markdown editor. Designed to stay out of your way,...
Nov. 19, 2025
West Wind Technologies has released WebSurge version 3.0.3. WebSurge makes it easy to create and test HTTP and REST APIs or any Http content. Test...
Aug. 6, 2025
CORS is a necessary protocol for REST API services when making cross-origin calls between different domains using Web browser clients. CORS is a...
Jul. 22, 2025
Web Connection is a rich and mature tool for building HTML Web applications and HTTP REST API Services using Visual FoxPro. You can continue to use...
Jun. 11, 2025
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 3.6 of its rich Markdown editor. Markdown Monster makes it easy to create Markdown content with...
June 28, 2015
Errors with drive mapping can cause major headaches in Web applciations hosted in IIS because the IIS envrionemnt often obliterates existing drive maps that you might expect to be there. In this post I explain how mapped drives work inside of a system context and show a few ways that you can ensure that your drives map properly before your application starts and runs into a problem.
June 18, 2015
Using multi-threaded Visual FoxPro components often comes up for discussion and there's lots of confusion on how FoxPro's multi-threading features actually work and how they can and cannot be used effectively. In this post Rick describes how MTDLL components work and where they work well as well as what they can't do.
June 07, 2015
I've started putting together some new features and updates for Web Connection 6.0 that are coming together nicely. Here's a preview of some of the features as well as a discussion of some other things to come.