John:

Others have already suggested West Wind tools here, and I wanted to add that of all of the other tools I have looked at (cursory looks as they may have been), West Wind gets my vote because it works with standard VFP code and classes AND provides a full Microsoft .NET design surface for your UI. This combination is next to impossible for anyone else to beat -- you get the best of both worlds, if you are looking for compatibility that works out of the box.

However, there are also eTecnologia's VFP efforts happening on .NET. While their web efforts are still very much under development, there is a lot of promise there and it probably behooves you to at least keep an eye on what is coming from there. Their Windows .NET apps are already happening -- I have created and compiled and successfully deployed .NET windows apps using pure VFP code.

Having said that, I think you may still want to start getting into .NET and/or any of the other modern platforms (Java comes to mind), but using a hybrid such as West Wind or eTecnologia can be a great help in breaking some of the conceptual barriers a VFP programmer might have moving to .NET...

At the very far edge of the spectrum, a few of my regular VFP applications now run as DaaS (desktop as a service / hosted service). What you get here is an unmodified VFP app running EXACTLY the same as it runs on a workstation, except that you run it through a browser and the program runs on a server somewhere in the world. This has been quite a revelation for me, as I now move with the rest of the industry towards "cloud computing" without having to rewrite a single line of code or re-train one single current user of my apps.


Cheers,

Pertti
>Greetings folks. Please forgive me if this question has been asked / answered ad nauseam - I haven't had much time to keep up with all the postings lately, having to support a day job, and all.
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>I am looking for the easiest way, with the smallest learning curve of rewriting a desktop app I have to be browser based, and hosted on the web.
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>If it weren't for the xBase language, I wouldn't ever have become involved with programming, so please don't suggest java, C#, etc - LOL!
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>Many thanks for the help!