Visual Foxpro and ASP

[jpower5]

I need some infomation about the above. I've never been in an environment that uses ASP. I about to and need to get some information/books on 1) what is ASp exactly and 2) how does VFP work with asp
Also, where I can look in either VFP 6 or VFP 8 for examples, etc that will help me understand the concept and practice writing code

any information will be greatly appreciated

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Hi jpower5,

coworking of ASP and VFP is mostly done by making a VFP com server and use that within asp via createobject. ASP is mostly Visual Basic, which shouldn't be hard for someone knowing VFP.

If you want to use VFP6 and 8 you need all runtimes and a com server that is both compiled using VFP6 and 8 under a different name. If you have VFP6 databases, a VFP8 com server should be sufficient to access that data, too.

If you just need data acess of foxpro databases the OleDB-Provider for Foxpro should be enough to access the data from ASP through ADO.

Some starters:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/aspobjects/ASPObjects.htm

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/VfpDotNetInterop/aspcominterop.asp

Bye, Olaf.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Jpower5,

Everything I know about using VFP with ASP, I learned from Rick Strahl's excellent book. It's a little out of date now, but it will still give you more than enough to get you started.

You can read my review of this book, and get bibliographic details, at:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/MLCBooks.htm

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My sites:
Visual FoxPro (www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk)
Crystal Reports (www.ml-crystal.com)

 

[jpower5]

Thanks for the information..greatly appreciated..

just ordered that book from amazon.com

again thanks
Jim