>>Hello all! My boss went to a VFP users group meeting and saw a video showing some features of VFP 6. One of these features was dragging a VFP form onto a web page (I assume in FrontPage) and hey presto! your data is on the web. Now he thinks we’ll be able to take our existing VFP application and with little or no trouble convert our app to a Web based app. I keep telling him it can’t be that easy but then I haven’t seen the video so I don’t know what he saw.
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>>Does anyone out there have any information on this? With the expected release date of VFP 6 sometime late summer I’d hate for him to delay our Web production (we’re currently considering using Visual InterDev) until then on a faulty premise.
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>We all know that a full application EXE as is will run on the Web without any modification in the future. We even saw some little overview of that at DevCon. But, this is not for now. For now, what you have is limited feature of taking existent forms and put them on the Web with about 60% of the actual features. But, you know that some features like grid will not be portable. That video is still illusion. Even ISAPI is a very slow mecanism to put stuff on the Web.
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>The future looks good however, being able to run an EXE as is will be extremely powerful. The database tool we have on the Web right now is just a transition to be back where we were before, which is a desktop application development but on the Web as well.

When you say the future do you mean VFP 6 will do this or is the ability to run an EXE going to be something that Web servers will allow you to do?