WebRAD: Building Database Applications on the Web with Visual Foxpro and Web Connection

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 users 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 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 president of Hentzenwerke Corporation, a software development firm specializing in strategic FoxPro-based applications. He is the author 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.