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Web Connection 7.02 has been released
I'm happy to announce that I've released v7.02 of West Wind Web Connection today. This is primarily a maintenance release that fixes a few small issues that have cropped since the initial 7.0 release,...
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API Declarations in Performance Sensitive FoxPro Code
Visual FoxPro has good support for interfacing with API interfaces by using the DECLARE API keyword that lets you essentially map a function in Win32 DLL and map it a FoxPro callable function.The good...
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Deploying and Configuring West Wind Web Connection Applications
So, you've built your shiny new Web Connection Application on your local machine for development and you're proud of what you've accomplished. Now it's time to take that local masterpiece and get it...
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Enhancing Web Applications with VueJs
prepared for:Southwest Fox 2019Session Materials on GitHubWeb Frameworks come and go - frequently. VueJs is yet another Web Framework (YAWF), but I think you'll find that VueJs is a bit different than...
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Web Connection 7.10 is here
Web Connection 7.10 is out and this release brings a few significant enhancements. Here are some of the highlights I'll cover in this post:A new self-contained Web Connection Web ServerUpdates to the...
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Web Connection 7.12 Release Notes
We've just released another update to Web Connection - Version 7.12 is a maintenance release that brings a handful of new features and fixes a few small issues.This release continues on the current...
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Troubleshooting Asynchronous Callbacks into FoxPro Code
FoxPro is not known as a platform for multi-threading or for dealing with asynchronous code, so it comes as no surprise that when working with asynchronous code that calls back into FoxPro from other...
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FoxPro Date Rounding Errors in COM and .NET
Ran into a nasty problem with COM Interop in .NET recently based on a message on the West Wind Message board. Basically the initial message points out that dates were getting compromised in two way...
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Workaround for horrendously slow SUBSTR Character Parsing in FoxPro
FoxPro string processing generally is reasonably fast. String processing has always been optimized with a number of optimizations that make FoxPro - despite its age - reasonably competitive when it...
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Web Connection 7.15 Release Notes
We've just released an update to Web Connection. Version 7.15 is a maintenance release that brings a handful of new features and fixes a few small issues. The changes in this release center around...
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Workflow for using wwDotnetBridge to call .NET Components
Today there was a question on the message board on how to use wwDotnetBridge to access the .NET Regex classes. Although I've posted lots of information and a detailed white paper about how to use...
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West Wind Web Connection 7.20 has been released
I've just released an update to West Wind Web Connection. Version 7.20 is a maintenance release that brings a handful of new features and fixes a few small issues. The changes in this release center...
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Should we add Bootstrap 5.0 Support to Web Connection?
Over the weekend spent some time updating the support site to run on Bootstrap 5.0 as an excercise to see what's involved in updating from v4 to the latest v5 version. In case you missed it Bootstrap a...
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Updating Launch.prg to Latest Version in Web Connection
In v6 and later of Web Connection, the launch.prg is a nice easy way to launch your Web Connection application on the local machine, and get all the moving parts started at once without having to...
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Building and Consuming REST API Services with FoxPro
by Rick Strahlprepared for Virtual FoxFest, 2021Session Example Code on GitHubREST APIs, or Web Services that use plain HTTP requests and JSON, have largely become the replacement for more complex SOAP...
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Web Connection 7.26 has been released
Web Connection 7.26 is out and in this post I'll go over some of the new features of this post. As has been the norm for many of the recent updates, this is a relatively small update, with only small...
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Watch out for 64 bit Incompatibility using the Visual FoxPro OleDb Provider
Yesterday I ran into a problem in an application that has been using the the Visual FoxPro OleDb Provider. There dreaded error is:'VFPOLEDB.1 provider is not registered on the local machine'Old Driver,...
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Delaying or Waiting Code in Web Connection Applications
Here's a question that comes up quite frequently:How can I safely wait for a few seconds inside of Web Connection without running into problems in COM operation?As you probably know if you use Web...
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Web Connection 7.32 released
Web Connection 7.32 is out and in this post I'll go over some of the new features. This release is a small update, mostly with bug fixes and a few small adjustments to existing functionality. Some of...
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