Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
How to access VFP database from Win.Net app?
Message
 
 
To
05/05/2005 10:13:10
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
General information
Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Forms
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01011253
Message ID:
01011400
Views:
12
>>I got a little job from a cutomer to write a small application (in terms of size of VFP apps). It will have just a couple of windows and only 2 tables. It will also have a couple of reports. The customer expects me to write it in VFP, although they don't care, as long as it is windows app and does not involve IS department know about it. Yes, you heard me right, the IS hates VFP and the customer (department in a hospital) does not care what is the backend.
>>
>>I have very limited time to do it, just about one week. But I thought it could be an opportunity to learn Win.net forms. My questions to you all are as follows:
>>
>>1. How would you access VFP data from Win.Net form? I am concerned that VFP OleDb driver has too many limitations. I am concerned that Web Services (I think popular with some folks) is a good approach but I have never used it and probably not enough time to learn. What other methods would you recommend?
>>
>>2. Is it practical to expect to learn to write Win.net forms in one week and create an application at the same time?
>>
>>Thank you for any suggestions.
>
>1) VFPOLEDB does it perfectly well.
>2) No (unless you're a big genious).

Cetin,

Thank you for your input. As Bonnie (and you in a way) suggested, I will have to do this one still in VFP.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform