The shareware version contains the Web Connection libraries in a pre-compiled format and as such imposes a few limitations and special behaviors.

Alias name already in use Errors when running demos

This error can occur if you've loaded the Web Connection libraries and then run some of the demos that use code contained in CONSOLE.EXE. Both WCONNECT.APP (the Web Connection pre-compiled library) and CONSOLE.EXE contain the Web Connection classes and if a class library is already loaded it can cause the above error to occur.

This is not an issue with the full version as source code is available and VFP can properly
load the classes from the source code when run.

If you see this error there are two ways to deal with it:

• Ignore it - code will run fine because the class is already loaded
  
• Exit to the command prompt and do:
  

  CLEAR ALL
  CLOSE ALL
  SET CLASSLIB TO

  and then re-run the demo or menu option.
  

It's good practice to assign the following to a Macro key in VFP:

CANCEL
CLEAR ALL
CLOSE ALL
RELEASE ALL
CLEAR PROGRAM
CLEAR
SET CLASSLIB TO
SET PROCEDURE TO

and excercise this key frequently to clear the environment.

The shareware version cannot build a VFP Project

Because the shareware version is precompiled and you can't add .APP files to a project directly, the shareware version of Web Connection does not build a VFP project file when building a new Web Connection application.

However, you can stil run any Web Connection application simply by executing the main PRG file (ie. DO webDemoMain.prg).

The shareware version runs in debug mode

Because the shareware version is precompiled a number of Web Connection's compiler directives are precompiled into the application. One of these settings - DEBUGMODE - specifies how errors are handled in Web Connection. The shareware version runs with DEBUGMODE = .T. which stops on errors, so all errors actually stop the Web Connection server and pop up in the Debugger.

In the full version you can swap the flag to .F. which makes Web Connection handle errors and display an error page and send notification emails etc. but in the shareware version the behavior is fixed to break at the error.

The shareware version pops up a shareware form every half an hour

In shareware mode Web Connection pops up a form every half an hour to notify you that this is the shareware version. This screen also stop operation of the server until you accept the form.