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Manipulate IIS and Metabase from VFP?
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16/08/2000 19:36:34
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Visual FoxPro
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Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00405485
Message ID:
00406464
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>>>>I was checking out the article at www.west-wind.com/presentations/IISadmin.htm on using a WW tool to manipulate IIS properties since VFP was lacking some features (getobject that functions like VB, etc).
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>>>This article is completely incorrect. You don't need VB to get at the IIS Admin objects. You also don't need SP4.
>>>
>>>Just use
>>>
>>>oIIS = GETOBJECT("IIS://MYMACHINE/W3SVC,IIsWebService")
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>>Well the article is not incorrect, just dated <s>... Prior to SP3 that object syntax did not work in VFP.
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>
>Ok, I didn't know that. I had SP3 installed when I started playing with ADSI, so I never saw it 'broken'.

Actually there are still a number of bugs in GETOBJECT() and it can't read certain things. I've found and reported a bunch of these and they are fixed for the future so we'll get true GETOBJECT() support that is unparsed.
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