Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
How to Start?
Message
 
To
25/01/2002 14:33:01
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
West Wind Web Connection
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00610667
Message ID:
00610755
Views:
20
Alan;

Good points! As Rick pointed out (and you did also in this post) to us during a training session, personal web server will work but will have a limited feature set. IIS can be "so much fun to set up"! :)

Tom


>As tracy said, the www.west-wind.com message board is the best place for questions. However, here are a couple of guide lines
>
>1) in the shareware version you can not compile the project. To create and EXE you will have to have the full version. You can , however, run web apps by running the project from within VFP.
>
>2) use WIN2k pro with IIS for you development machine if possible. Win 98 and personal webserver will work but are very questionable when trying to run script files.
>
>3) Run "do console" from the command box in VFP. build a new project following the help "step by step" instructions provided by Rick. When completed and you are running the connection server just created you should be able to run the default.html page that the setup wizard creates.
>
>4) use the help system the WWC provides to learn the basics. Cut and paste out the code that is in the help to see how the code interacts with the web browser.
>
>5) get over to the message board at west-wind.com and post questions. Like here, people on that board are VERY willing to help.
>
>This is how I started and it worked well for me.
>
>HTH
>
>Alan Wyne
>IS Manager
>Rollpak Corp
Previous
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform