First, I recommend going to www.hentzenwerke.com and purchase two books. One of them is on sale right now (Internet Applications with VFP, regularly $49.95, only $29.95). The other is WebRad. Once you purchase the books, you'll be able to download the electronic versions.

Second, don't be afraid to install and run the ActiveVFP demo and look through the sourcecode to see why it behaves as it does.

Third, go to www.west-wind.com and browse the many papers at Rick's site. You can also download his wconnect framework that includes very good "getting started" information.

You also need to have a good understanding of HTML and be able to use programs such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver.

>Hi
>
>Reading a lot threads in the forum found replies and links
>about activeVFP. Checked the site and saw the product was free,
>so this has been a big push to encourage me to try developing web
>apps using vfp.
>Unfortunately, figuring out how to start developing this type of
>apps seems to be a very confusing task, basically you don't know
>what technolgy to adopt, there are so many and you can find a lot of
>info about them, but even so there is no easy way to know what to pick.
>So if I begin using activeVFP, what technologies should I really know
>or learn to make this tool work the best way for me? I mean, should I
>learn Vscript or javascript, cgi or isapi, Do I have to learn foxisapi,
>ADO or xml, do I need to create my own COM components, etc?. Could someone
>give a guide on with what or where should I begin before start using
>it? What are the limitations of this product? what is it best for?
>
>So far I haven't even unzipped the files I'd rather have some background
>first in order to avoid frustration while I read the docs.
>
>
>Thanks in advance.