You will see during October many new cool things on my http://www.classx.com web site involving XML which is now basically 100% XML and script code. In fact, today, you can download from my site a new program called classx.prg for VFP 6.0. You can run this classx.prg at any time in VFP 6.0, and it will go out to http://www.classx.com and download the XML data, then build a VFP form to display the entire web site content with no HTML, no browser, just a VFP form. In fact, all the code to do this is stored in an XML file at http://www.classx.com/script.asp, so you will only have to download classx.prg once since and all updates to the form interface will be on the server and you won't have to even know about the updates. Just run classx.prg ever few days and watch the VFP version of ClassX Interactive get better and better. I think this is a good example of showing developers the benefit of XML on a web site, and how COM can compliment or even substitute an HTML/DHTML interface of the XML data and use a standard Win32 interface, with all the logic driven by code stored in XML data on the web server.

Note: Even if you are on the other side of the world, and you run classx.prg in VFP 6.0, and then run it again a few minutes later and it has a different/updated interface, you'll know I'm awake somewhere because it means I just updated the XML at my ClassX web site.

Tip: Just navigate to http://www.classx.com/classx.prg to run the program in a web browser, and either save the file (to run later) or just open to run. You don't even need to navigate in a web browser to my site to run the www.classx.com web site in VFP. You can either run the program, or save it to your hard drive to run at any time.

The form you see in VFP displaying my web site is under construction, so just run classx.prg every few days and watch for it to be enhanced. All the code that creates the UI is stored in XML at my web site, so you won't need to download anything after I make updates to the interface, it all gets downloaded when you run classx.prg.

Other front ends to my web site will be available in the future, like one for Visual Basic, Word, and possible others, simply by using CreateObject("MSXML") and downloading the code and data from http://www.classx.com, then using the code stored in http://www.classx.com/script.asp to create the interface in the local COM client. Just think of the www.classx.com web site as data, and HTML is simply one of many ways to few the data at the site, due to the benefits of moving the data out of HTML into XML and also storing code in XML to create active client pages.