I believe the difference is that WWC uses DCOM and .EXEs and I think he's looking for the MS presribed way to do web apps with .vfp. which is with .vfp. Multi-threaded .dlls (mtdlls) which can be called from ASP, ASP.NET and web services.

>Rodman,
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>Any particular reason why you are limiting this to "pure" COM implementation. AFAIK, Rick's framework supports COM and I am not aware that it is any "less pure" than not using it.
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>FWIW, this is an interesting discussion. IMO, approx 1% of all active VFP developers have or still does actively write VFP Components. This number excludes those who dabble and play with the technology on an academic level.
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>For the most part, I think you are going to find that private sites will be your most likely candidates. Companies that invest large sums of money, far more often than not - will use somethign else - whether it be Java, .NET, etc.
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>< JVP >
>>I am curious,
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>>Has anyone here actually used VFP to build a MTDLL and hosted it on their web site.
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>>If so can you tell me what the site does and point me at the site.
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>>I want pure COM architectures not a west wind hosted site. I know Ricks's stuff works fine for this I just want to see a real site with a VFP-COM object called from ASP or ASP.NET (or some other technology capable of calling COM objects)
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>>Rodman