Hello Mike.

As you may know, Web Connection requires recompiling of the .exe each time you make a change (like Clipper years ago) and then there is a lot of fooling around to get the screens up.

Actually, I know of no such limitation. A couple of years ago I worked on a very large Web Connection app that was run solely as FXP's on the server. So I'm afraid that you are mistaken here.

In my humble opinion, it would be very difficult to take new features like advanced cursors and use them in HTML because the cursor dies with each hit. Cursors have to be converted to a uniquely named .dbf file if you want to use them at the next screen.

I am afraid that we will just have to agree to disagree here. What you are really saying is that you are locked into a methodology that is so rigid that it does not allow you to take advantage of new features.

IMHO, one of the biggest benefits of going to conferences is to be able to network with other developers and get new ideas and talk to other people to see how they are using Web Connection. After all, you are not the only VFP developer using Rick's product and I am sure that a lot of them will be at the conference < s >. As a matter of fact, Lauren Clarke is one of the speakers.

What I am now doing is developing the code as above and writing my own HTML inside of Web Connection. Its a slow process.

Yes it is. But there are other, much more efficient ways of data-driving production of HTML for your web pages without doing the sort of tedious, repetititve work that you are talking about. As a matter of fact, one of my examples in a session I gave at GLGDW 2001 showed how to do this. See! If you had come to that conference, you could have saved yourself a LOT of work with just that one tip < s >.

give us the same capabilities that VB users have for using VB.net.

You should be using the best tool for the job and if you think that VB.Net is better for development on the web, you should learn that language and start using it for your development.

I will look at Whil's agenda to see which VFP Web Tool stuff is being covered and maybe I will go to Whilfest.

I hope to see you there.