Running Foxpro on Sharepoint

[ontsjc]

Hello,

I've recently been tasked with running some code against files that will be located on a Sharepoint server. I thought I'd check in for some basic advice before I started this project. My main questions are, is it possible to host the application on and run it from Sharepoint, and how are file paths dealt with. This will be complied as an exe for general staff use. Thanks for any help that can be provided.

 

[GriffMG]

I wouldn't recommend it.

Performance will be dire and it is a recipe for corruption.

Regards

Griff
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[GriffMG]

I did find this:

https://answers.uchicago.edu/page.php?id=32514

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Griff
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[ontsjc]

Great Thanks! That was a concern too that performance would be a killer. Especially since the main users will be at one of our field sites. I have no idea what their connection speeds are.

 

[GriffMG]

Use some kind of RDP connection, they ate rubbish, but better than trying to access a database via a share across the internet.

Unless everyone has amazingly fast connections

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Griff
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[Nigel Gomm]

i use this

http://www.nsoftware.com/ibiz/sharepoint/

for reading and updating sharepoint lists.

hth

n

 

[Olaf Doschke]

>running some code against files that will be located on a Sharepoint server
Could you specify that further?

Sharepoint is some service like IIS, can be Intranet or Internet/Cloud.

If you put files in an IIS webapp folder it can be available via

http://server/wwwroot/...

But at the same time - in an intranet - the files can be made available via the classical net share, it's still just some file on a drive on some LAN server and you don't need to go through sharepoint to access it, this is just what non IT people tend to think would be the way to go, as they don't know better.

Anyway VFP can work on files, eg use a dot or dotx in OLE automation of word, VFP just needs a local or UNC path, which works.

If it's about DBFs I'd say forget that.

Bye, Olaf.