| In this session you will learn how to bring your FoxPro applications into the Internet world. Several approaches will be discussed and illustrated, including accessing FoxPro tables through OLE-DB from a web page, calling Visual FoxPro DLLs from a web page, and using any of several web frameworks to run your FoxPro code and generate HTML, including doing it yourself with VFP’s fabulous string-handling and textmerge commands. Special attention will be paid to issues of state and statelessness as they apply to web and distributed applications. You will leave this session with a better understanding of why you can’t just “make this app run on the web” and will see several proven techniques to come close to that dream. Most VFP developers today are faced with putting a web face on their apps or otherwise web-enabling them. This session particularly addresses what to do with an existing application when the order comes to “put it on the web.”
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