>I'm in the process of purchasing the essentials books (all 6 of them) which includes internet applications By Rick Strahl. Would you know if this book
>is going to include information on WWWC and explain/demonstrate how things
>work. ..how all of the pieces fit together for the newbie WWW folk like myself?

I don't have the book, but knowing Rick, I would bet that he tried to keep the book from being an advertisement for his product. So I don't think you will see a lot of WWWC specific stuff in the book, but you will probably see a lot of methods and teqhniques outlined that are implemented inside WWWC.

>Would you know where I could get information on WWWC, Kind of like a quick start or short tutorial that goes through the basic stages to get something produced using WWWC?

Yeah. www.West-wind.com

you can download an eval version of WC for free. If you already have a web-server set up, you can have it hitting Fox data in a couple of hours. His documentation is excellent, and you will quickly start to understand how things come together once you get going with it.

From what I have seen of the x-works product, it does indeed provide a quick and painless way to connect to VFP logic, but beyond a few basic tools, you are somewhat on your own as far as HTML generation goes. WWWC comes with a lot of utilities to provide for things like sessions and cookies, templates containing VFP code, multiple server sessions, etc. It also gives you quick ways to show SQL results, charts and a bunch of other stuff.