Building Web Applications with Visual FoxPro

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With Visual FoxPro support for building Web applications, you can create Visual FoxPro Active Document applications, create automation servers, use GIF and JPEG graphics file formats, and use a Web Publishing wizard.

Visual FoxPro Active Document Applications

An Active Document is a Windows-based, non-HTML application embedded in a browser. With Active Documents, you can access all the functions of the application from your desktop browser, instead of having to install the application itself. A Visual FoxPro Active Document application is just like any other Visual FoxPro application: you can work with forms, reports, and labels, instantiate classes, execute code, and manipulate data. However, Visual FoxPro Active Document applications offer the significant advantage of being hosted in an Active Document container, such as Internet Explorer.

For More Information   See Active Documents, online in MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0.

Automation Servers

With Visual FoxPro, you can create automation servers (formerly called OLE servers) that package code to perform tasks common to many applications, or that implement complex business rules. These tasks and rules are then available to other programmers in your company, and to users of tools that support automation. These automation servers work with products and technologies such as the Microsoft® Transaction Server (MTS), Microsoft Visual Basic, and Active Server Pages.

For More Information   See FoxISAPI: An OLE Server Sample, online in MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0.

Support for GIF and JPEG Graphics File Formats

To support Internet interoperability, Visual FoxPro has been enhanced to support GIF and JPEG graphics file formats. Generally, any item in Visual FoxPro that previously supported the bitmap format now supports GIF and JPEG as well.

For More Information   See GIF and JPEG Graphics Support, online in MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0.

Web Publishing Wizard

The Visual FoxPro Web Publishing wizard generates an HTML file from records in a data source that you specify. This is a quick way for you to provide Web access to data stored in a Visual FoxPro database.

For More Information   See Web Publishing Wizard, online in MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0.