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, 27 Mar 2012 23:26:51 GMT West Wind Technologies has released version 5.62 of their Web Development framework for Visual FoxPro. Web Connecton makes it easy to build Web, RIA and distributed applications with Visual FoxPro using pure Foxo code within the Visual FoxPro IDE while optionally supporting design time integration with Visual Studio. Version 5.62 is mostly a maintenance release with many small bug fixes and performance improvements, but it also adds a handful of useful new features and works around some limitations of existing functionality. As always Web Connection 5.62 is available as shareware to try for free and it's a free update for registered users of version 5.50 and higher. http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/ West Wind Technologies news Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:47:05 GMT We've updated the SnagIt plug-in for the Windows Live Writer blogging application. This free tool lets you easily embed SnagIt image captures directly in your Live Writer WebLog entries. This update fixes several compatibility issues with the release of SnagIt 11 which breaks some of old COM interfaces. This release also updates the UI slightly and source code is now available on Github. http://www.west-wind.com/tools/snagitlivewriterplugin.asp West Wind Technologies news Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:54:48 GMT We've released version 1.20 of the West Wind Web & AJAX Toolkit for ASP.NET. The toolkit includes powerful and easy to use server side AJAX and REST services as well as a rich client side jQuery library to interact with server side code easily. The toolkit also provides many utilities including a two way databinding support, globalization, a business object layer (for L2S and EFCF), tools to provide logging and configuration manangement plus a plethora of utility functionality useful both in Web and desktop applications. This release adds many new features to the REST/AJAX service handlers and adds a new Entity Framework Business object framework. The toolkit is free for non-commercial use and liberally licensed for commercial use. http://www.west-wind.com/WestwindWebToolkit/ West Wind Technologies news Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:49:24 GMT West Wind Technologies has released version 5.62 of West Wind Client Tools. Client Tools provide a host of Internet functionality to client desktop applications including support for sending and retrieving email, rich HTTP access, FTP up and downloads as well as high level data services that allow for remote data and RPC calls over HTTP. The toolkit also contains utility classes including a simple business object layer, SQL Server access wrapper, SOAP and XML class, PDF rendering and more. This update is a maintenance release that extends a few features and adds number of new small helper functions. As always, the update is free to registered users of version 5 and available as shareware to try and play with. http://www.west-wind.com/WestwindClientTools.aspx West Wind Technologies news Mon, 6 Feb 2012 20:49:15 GMT The West Wind Message Board we use for support has gotten a visual and slight functional makeover. We've updated the styling to look a bit more modern and work better for smaller devices like phones and tablets - the new look integrates a smoother looking dark theme, Gravatar support for user images and some easier navigation features. Note also that the message board now requires logins to post messages to thwart some of the spam issues that have been escalating recently. Logins were also added to make it easier to sync user accounts across devices and provide Gravatar user image support. I hope you'll take the time to check out the new design and as always please let us know if there are any problems or you have suggestions. http://www.west-wind.com/wwThreads/ West Wind Technologies news Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:31:46 GMT West Wind Technologies has released version 4.66 of West Wind Html Help Builder. Help Builder produces documentation for Html Help (CHM), Web ready HTML and Word/PDF format for end user applications as well as developer documentation for FoxPro, .NET, Sql Server, Web Services and other environments. Version 4.66 adds many small user interface enhancements to the IDE and a host of new backup and project export features to Zip files. There are also a number of improvement for .NET imports including support for Code Contracts and multiple example code snippets. There are also a host of small UI improvements and a few bug fixes. Help Builder is available as shareware and registered users can download and re-install the latest version. http://www.west-wind.com/wwHelp West Wind Technologies news Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:06:32 GMT West Wind Technologies has released version 4.65 of West Wind Html Help Builder. Help Builder produces documentation for Html Help (CHM), Web ready HTML and Word/PDF format for end user applications as well as developer documentation for FoxPro, .NET, Sql Server, Web Services and other environments. Version 4.65 adds a new Command Line Console to automate Help Builder tasks from project builds, updated templates with improved direct linking features for Web Content, and improved HTML 5 support in stock templates. There are also a host of small UI improvements and a few bug fixes. Help Builder is available as shareware and registered users can download and re-install the latest version. http://www.west-wind.com/wwhelp West Wind Technologies news Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:45:46 GMT West Wind Technologies has released an update to the Web Service Proxy Generator tool which lets you easily create FoxPro clients to call complex SOAP 1.x Web Services using .NET as a service connector. 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, and wwDotNetBridge which provides FoxPro helpers to call .NET code effectively without COM registration. This release updates some of the import tools used to more recent versions for greater service compatibility. There have also been many improvements to wwDotnetBridge to facilitate many FoxPro->.NET type mappings automatically. We've added automatic DataSet -> XmlAdapter mapping. You can now also provide additional parameters for WSDL.exe to be executed. 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