Bonnie,
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>How do you access your VFP data from your current ASP.NET app that is on your intranet? Do you call BizObjects and/or DataAccess objects (separate DLLs)? Hopefully, that's the way you've been handling it, because it will be exactly the same from a Web Service. Your Web Service will call the same objects. Now, depending on what you were returning from those objects, you may or may not have to tweak what your Web Service returns (and what your ASP.NET app expects to receive). I recommend passing serialized DataSets (MyDataSet.GetXML()).
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In one aspect of my ASP.NET app, it calls BizObj in a DLL installed on the Web Server. And the BizObj returns XML (everything in my app is done via XML). In some other instances, the ASP.NET pages call VFP DB directly and get Data Readers (this is mostly when the page needs to get the Read-Only data for display).
At this point I am not concerned about the mechanism of passing the data (although on the personal side, I am interested). I am trying to create a mental picture of what hardware/software technologies this project would take, present it to the customer (knowing that if they say Yes, it could be done), and see if they can afford this.
Thank you for your help.
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