>Thanks for giving this some attention. There are basically no examples of web applications with COM except for some web services. You have made the statement that FOXISAPI is not the focal point of .vfp. web development anymore and the VFP8 FAQ states that we can develop .VFP. web apps called from ASP.NET/ASP and yet, to my knowledge, there are little to no examples of this in VFP 7/8. Yes, there are some web services examples which is good. But, why the lack of support, knowledge-base articles, etc. For example, it seems no Microsoft technical support answer any web-based questions. Is it because they're not skilled in this (I'm not being sarcastic since this may really be the case)?
>I guess it boils down to 1.) do you agree that building web applications with .vfp. is not being focused on any substantial way by your team. and 2.) If yes, then is it because .vfp. developers don't really care about this or is it because you'd rather just have them develop web apps in .NET.
>The other issue is: what are the options for developers with thousands of lines of existing VFP code that want to go to .NET short of re-writing everything. Are there any tools to ease the transition? I'm just curious about this - not trying to be overly critical...
The best way to create an XML web services involving VFP is to wrap ASP.NET with
around a VFP COM DLL object. Calling XML Web services from VFP is about as easy as calling a COM object. For a fair amount of resources on these and other related topics...
VFP with web development via ASP.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen7/html/usingaspnetwithvfp7.asp
VFP with mobile applications
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen8/html/VFP8_CreatingMobileSolutions.asp
VFP COM, XML, and XML Web services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/msdnmag/issues/01/10/vfp7/toc.asp
Resources on VFP with .NET
http://gotdotnet.com/team/vfp/
Resources on COM/.NET interop with a VFP perspective
http://west-wind.com/Articles.asp
