Internet Applications with Visual FoxPro 6.0

By Rick Strahl

Learn how to build large, mission critical Internet database applications using VFP as the foundation. Covers server side web applications, including ASP (ODBC and ActiveX automation servers),... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965509397
• ISBN13: 9780965509398
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Hentzenwerke Pub Inc
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Finally the pain of migrating to Visual FoxPro pays off!

This book makes the pain of migrating to Visual FoxPro pay off! I've finally found something that Visual FoxPro is better for than good old 2.x. Thank you Rick Strahl! If you are a FoxPro programmer and have a need to display your data on the web this book describes the mechanics to do it. While other internet development books only mention Visual FoxPro in passing, this book fills in the Fox hole! It's a must read for anyone looking for a Fox solution!

VFPers now have the tool as reference WEB development

If we (VFPers) wanted to stay competitive in the arena of Software Development, we should be thinking of migrating apps into the Internet. This book is a perfect guide for us to build dynamic WEB Applications. Now, I am little bit at ease because VFP really is a powerful tool and I don't have anymore pressure to look for another just for WEB building.

Wow!

This book is a real eye opener. I've been doing Web development for a long time, but this book is full of new and different ideas of how to use the Web that I could put to work immediately. This is definitely not your average Web development book. The standard fare of ASP and FoxISAPI are covered but there are also great sections on client side integration, which points out many not-so-obvious methods for integrating the Web into existing applications. The scalability and Large Web development chapters also offer a number of interesting ideas. Even if you're not a VFP developer this book will be well worth a read. And if you are a VFP developer you'll really appreciate all the tools Rick provides with the book and in the code snippets in the text.

The required WinDNA handbook for VFP developers

Rick's book takes a Visual FoxPro developer though all of the required technologies involved in building remote and distributed applications over HTTP using Visual FoxPro. The book clearly shows how these core descriptions, tutuorials, and examples are then glued together to allow a Visual FoxPro developer design and develop high powered internet/intranet applications.

Concise text explains the art, shows solid rules & examples

The clarity in which this book describes emerging technologies is astounding. It seems to be right on the pulse of internet development and shows in clear examples how things work. But it does not stop there; all the little tricks that make the various products and tools sing in harmony are detailed and the author gives work-arounds and offers best practice rules for us to apply. (I have already tried many of them and they all work just as described!)It is too bad that the section on XML was written prior to the release of IE5. I could have really used the author to elaborate his keen insight and vision into generating XML/XSL -- but, hey, if I knew yesterday what I know today...Limited time prevents me from reading too many books, but I highly recommend this one to anyone who is or wants to build really great web applications in Visual Studio.