George, the XML should be no problem and I think that was answered already. The best way to develop such an ASP VFP component is to include code in the Project Hook that simply 'Unloads' the VFP mtdll when you recompile it. This way it's all transparent to you as you develop your web application. This is a lot better than IISRESET since it's faster and only affects your application. This is also assuming you've created a Virtual Directory for your web app. There's a free generic Project Hook in the downloads that you can use for this. Also worth checking out is the methodology for debugging VFP mtdlls at: http://www.theproblemsolver.nl/aspdevelopmentanddebugging/index.htm
and if you're interested in a framework that already has all of this and more, you might want to check out www.activevfp.com ...
>Hi troops,
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>I've been banging my head against a wall for long enough. Being "Internet challenged" (I deal mostly with desktop appications), I thought I'd turn to the one place that I could count on to answer something that I haven't been able to figure out. Here's the scenario...
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>Using IIS 5.0, I've been trying to pass a valid XML string to an ASP page (I told you about the TLAs < g >), as a parameter, to my local machine's ASP page without success. The ASP page, using VBScript, creates an instance of a VFP DLL, which it's supposed to pass the XML string to for processing.
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>I've inserted output to confirm the status of the operation, and all seems fine. I created a function in the DLL to return a string, and it works perfectly. The parameter seems to have been passed successfully from the indications displayed by the ASP page. However, the MTDLL, otherwise seems to not process the XML string. Any code inserted to display it or its length fails.
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>The question is: Can you pass an XML string to an ASP and have a VFP DLL process it?
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>There's a side issue here too. Despite all my attempts to make sure that the object reference gets released, it doesn't. I've got to re-boot to re-build the DLL. Anyone have a clue about this?
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>tia,