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What is an Active Document?
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From
21/12/1999 16:43:16
 
 
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21/12/1999 15:39:31
Isabel Cabanne
Hubbard Woods Software, Inc.
Winnetka, Illinois, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Client/server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00305993
Message ID:
00306971
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33
According to Rick Strahl's book, and this makes perfect sense to me, you pretty much loose the benefit's of an internet application by using Active Docs. For example, if you are accessing SQL Server data, you typically go thru ODBC. With a true internet app, the ODBC connection only needs to reside on your server. With Active Doc, everyone needs to have an ODBC connection set up on their computer. As well as needing the VFP runtimes.

Basically you loose the ability of having your application reside in one place, with updates such as ODBC drivers, runtime files, other assorted DLLs, having to be updated on all the client desktops as well.

PF
>I'd like to know a little more about what's wrong with ActiveDocs. I'm using an ActiveDoc to put an entirely local app within a browser window. In that situation is problematic?
>
>Thanks, ISC

(On an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush
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