The best way to build such application is to use MS SQL Server or any other client-server DB as a backend and VFP as a frontrend.
The book
Client-Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server 7.0 should be of help to you
http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogpricelists/csvfp.htm>Hi Everybody,
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>I'm new to building server apps and i want to know how I can achieve the following.
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>I want to build a server app to which several clients on separate machines can connect. The server app should contain an object which will act as a general cache for all the clients. It will hold database values which are retrieved so often that a performce-problem could occur.
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>So my question is, how to build an application like this and how to install it on the server and the client machines
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>TIA
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>Erwin Tobben
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