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Figuring out Web Connection Versions
On various occasions I’ve gotten questions regarding how to figure out what version of Web Connection is running on the server. ‘Web Connection’ has several components so the version numbers may...
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SSL Vulnerabilities and West Wind Products
Several people have sent me frantic email messages today in light of the latest POODLE SSL vulnerability and whether it affects West Wind products.The vulnerability essentially deals with older SSL...
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Visual Studio Community Edition–Visual Studio for Web Connection
A couple of months ago Microsoft announced the release of a new Visual Studio Community version to replace all the Express versions. As you probably know the Express versions of Visual Studio were...
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Use wwJsonSerializer to create Sample Data
I frequently create demos for various applications and components and quite frequently I create objects on the fly using EMPTY objects using ADDPROPERTY(). The code that does is a bit verbose and looks...
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Access-Control-Allow-Origin Header in West Wind Web Connection
Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten a ton of questions for applications that need to support cross-site script access in relation to West Wind Web Connection. This typically a requirement for service...
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Single File Image Uploads with plUpload and Web Connection
I get a lot of questions about uploading files in regards to Web Connection. Uploading is a thorny problem especially if you need to upload multiple files or if you want to use asynchronous uploads...
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A Preview of Features for Web Connection 6.0
I've set some time aside to start working new functionality for Web Connection 6.0. I've been really on the fence on whether I wanted to go down this path due to the ever declining FoxPro market....
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Visual FoxPro and Multi-Threading
A few days ago somebody asked a question on the Universal Thread on whether it’s possible to run a Visual FoxPro COM component as a free threaded component. Questions like this come up frequently,...
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Drive Mapping in Web Applications
Over the last couple of weeks a number of questions came up in regards to getting access to network drives from within your Web Connection applications. Drive mapping errors can be really insidious...
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Clicks not working in Internet Explorer Automation from FoxPro
A few days ago, somebody posted a question on our message board mentioning that when using Internet Explorer Automation (using COM and InternetExplorer.Application) fails to automate click events in...
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An Updated Web Connection Add-in for Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015 shipped a couple of weeks ago and it brings many great enhancements for Web developers with many improvements in the HTML, CSS and JavaScript editors. It provides improved...
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Web Connection 6.0 Feature: New Project Server Configuration Script
In Web Connection 6.0 there's an updated project Wizard that creates a new 'project' for you that is self contained. Web Connection 6.0 projects copy all files into a single folder hierarchy where both...
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Conference Materials from Southwest Fox
It's been a fun, but very busy week for me at Southwest Fox last week with 2 very long days of Web Connection training and then 3 more days of sessions at Southwest Fox. There seemed to be a lot more...
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String Tokenizing based on StrExtract()
I've been building a number of solutions lately that relied heavily on parsing text. One thing that seems to come up repeatedly is the need to split strings but making sure that certain string tokens...
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Outlook Email Automation–Watch out for Administrator Access
I was looking into creating prefilled emails using Outlook Automation earlier today and ran into an unexpected snag. The requirement was to display a pre-filled email that contains recipient, subject,...
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Web Connection 6.0 RTM is here
It's been a long journey but I'm happy to announce that Web Connection 6.0 RTM is finally here.To be honest it's taken a lot longer than I anticipated to do all the things I had set out to do with this...
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Calling JSON REST Services with FoxPro and wwJsonServiceClient
A few days ago I released version 6.0 of the West Wind Client Tools which includes a little gem of a class called wwJsonServiceClient that makes it super easy to call JSON REST services. This class is...
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Custom Row and Column Rendering in Web Connection with HtmlDataGrid()
DataGrids are popular use case for FoxPro developers who are obsessed with use data grids for data display. Personally I'm not a huge fan of grids, unless absolutely necessary, but for some use cases...
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Visual Studio Gets Support for FoxPro Files
Visual Studio 2015 now has support for FoxPro files by way of a very cool add-in from Mads Kristensen. Mads is a a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Tools team and the prime driver behind extensions...
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Route Web Connection Scripts, Templates and Pages to a single Process Class
West Wind Web Connection supports a number of different 'frameworks' for generating HTML. There are two styles of MVC (Model View Controller) renderers and an ASP.NET like Forms based interface for...
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