ASP is an excellent way of putting your data on the web. True, you'll have to learn VBScript or JScript, and you'll have to learn ADO (Active Data Objects), but it's not really that difficult. And if you've seen ASP pages that use Access, converting them to use VFP is merely a matter of changing the ODBC connection and making sure there are no Access specific syntax in the SQL statement. The beauty of ADO is that if you stick to ANSI SQL, it works against any ODBC compliant data source.
Wrox Press has some excellent books on the subject:
Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 by Brian Francis, et. al.
Profession Active Server Pages 2.0 by Alex Fedorov, et. al.
ASP 2.0 Programmer's Reference by Dan Maharry, et. al.
And IMHO, for ADO, nothing beats this book also from Wrox Press:
ADO 2.0 Programmer's Reference by David Sussman and Alex Homer
QUE has several ASP books and there's even an Active Server Pages for Dummies!
>Anyone know some good resources to learn how to hook VFP to the web? I know WW has a tool for it, but I'm not looking for something to make it easier. I'm trying to learn how to do it. I've found some ASP pages, but if they do databases, it's Access.
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>-Michelle
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