Web Services are just a small piece. There also creating regular web apps with the same technology (.vfp. mtdlls) which has hardly been covered at all. The fact that you now don't need to buy a 3rd party utility to make a decent .vfp. web app has gotten no attention. Not to mention the vast territory of .NET interop with .vfp...
>>Makes you wonder why no articles on .vfp. Web Services, .vfp. Web Apps, .vfp./.NET interop - this is definitely new material that many people, based on the questions asked in this forum, would find useful...
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>the end users do not have a compelling need for web services...
>www.west-wind.com/presentations/Editorials/SlipperySlopeOfWebServices.asp
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>Usually the guys who write magazine articles were paid to do work by a 'client'/'customer base' similar to the topic of the article. For example, years ago Doug Hennig wrote great articles about the VFP database container.
> My theory is, very few VFP developers are getting paid to build web services with VFP. Thus, very few magazine articles are written on the topic.