WebRAD: Building Database Applications on the Web with Visual FoxPro and Web Connection - Softcover

Chattaway, Harold; Pearson, Randy; Hentzen, Whil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930919077 ISBN 13: 9781930919075

Publisher: Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

A tutorial for novices and a reference for experienced users, featuring step-by-step guidelines for using Web Connection in a day-to-day manner as a developer, this book offers several development alternatives based on the user's style. Demonstrated are the building of two different applications, one easy and one more complex, and nearly two dozen trouble-shooting steps in case of problems. Also explained is the infrastructure of the Internet and, specifically, web applications. Once developers are comfortable building and deploying an application they are then shown how to take advantage of more complex framework features such as file-based versus COM configuration, extending the framework, data entry using object-oriented techniques, and asynchronous applications.

About this title

From the Publisher

Web Connection is the top selling framework for developing database applications on the Web with Visual FoxPro, with over 5000 paid customers and untold thousands of shareware users. The help file, though, well, could use a bit of help, as it was written by the guy who developed Web Connection. Harold, Randy and Whil have developed over 50 Web Connection applications in a wide variety of industries, and have the in-depth knowledge of not just how it works, but how to use it in a day-to-day manner as a developer.

WebRAD starts the reader at the beginning, showing them how to install and configure Web Connection, offering several alternatives based on the developer's style and needs. Then it builds and deploys two different applications, one easy, one more complex, offers nearly two dozen trouble-shooting steps in case of problems, and finally explains the infrastructure of the Internet and, specifically, Web applications.

Once the reader is comfortable building and deploying an application, WebRAD covers how to take advantage of more complex framework features, such as File-based vs COM configuration, extending the framework, data entry using object oriented techniques, and asynchronous applications.

The book wraps up with two more trouble-shooting chapters and a 20 page primer on marketing your website. Available for download to purchasers of the book are a half dozen appendices that cover topics like configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with Web Connection, setting up multiple domains on a single Web Server, and the West Wind Web Monitor.

About the Author

Harold Chattaway is site architect for Bugcentral.com and Softwarelifecycle.com, subsidiaries of USDatacenters, Inc., a managed Internet data center. He also runs Web Connection training seminars and produced a training CD with narrated videos covering IIS, FTP, application development, and server configuration. He lives in Ashby, Massachusetts. Randy Pearson is a West Wind Web Connection application developer and a partner with Cycla Corporation, a company that provides management consulting, computer systems development, and technical support to government and industry clients. He is also the author of the public domain CodeBlock program. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Whil Hentzen is the president of Hentzenwerke Corporation, a software development firm specializing in strategic FoxPro-based applications. He is the author of several books including Rapid Application Development with FoxPro 2.6, and Programming Visual FoxPro 3.0. He is the editor of FoxTalk and has contributed articles to FoxPro Advisor, Cobb’s FoxPro Developer Journal, and DBMS. He has spoken at numerous conferences including Microsoft’s DevCon. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hentzenwerke Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1930919077
• ISBN 13: 9781930919075
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 502
• Editor: Peisch Barbara