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I recently experimented with vfp2iis. Their claims of running VFP thru your browser -- any browser -- sounded exagerated. I had planned to post my results here at some point, so now seems as good as any.
The claims are pretty much true. I found three issues, which may or may not matter to you:
1. There are a couple of vfp commands that have to be substituted; most notable messagebox() needs to become vfp2iis.messagebox and do form has to become vfp2iis.doform. They have a list of these compatibility issues.
2. I also had some trouble with the installation. It comes with VFP 9 SP 1 runtimes, and my server had SP2 runtimes already. Once I swapped the SP 2 runtimes instead of SP 1 the installation worked.
3. The biggest problem for me was the extensive documention in english is written by non-english speakers, and is very, very difficult to understand. I see in the docs so many abilities that I wanted to try, but simply could not follow the example instructions.
The positive is as follows:
1. It really does work. Your VFP forms show up in a browser and run flawlessly.
2. The tech support is fast and very helpful, despite the language barrier. Although it appears to be a small operation, my emails were returned very quickly with answers and even with attached example forms showing how to do what I wanted.
3. They provide a pretty extensive demo app/forms showing many examples.
The demo is free with a nag screen, that allows you to try it out.
I have to say I was favorably impressed. With better english docs I would buy it in an instant, I may buy it even without that.
>I have a form and would like people could test it without have to download the whole software
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>It's the price table of a parking lot and shows the user how the software will behave as he types
>prices and schedules
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>It has only a table
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>Is there a way to put this form which its vfp native form over the internet, or an easy way to convert
>it to some internet language script ?
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