Our Contract with You, The Reader -- List of Chapters -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- How to Download the Files -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Who should be reading this book? -- Chapter 2: What is Web Connection? -- What Web Connection is not -- Updates -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Installing, Configuring, and Testing Web Connection -- Installation -- How it all works -- Setting up Windows -- Installing a Web server -- Installing Visual FoxPro -- Installing Web Connection -- Testing your Web Connection installation -- Running Web Connection.
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Chapter 6: Complete Web Development Environment -- Development machine -- IIS on Windows 2000 Professional -- WS-FTP -- WinZip -- HTML authoring tools -- Conclusion -- Chapter resources -- Chapter 7: Server Hardware and Hosting -- Memory -- Processors -- Hard drives -- RAID drives -- NIC cards -- Hosting options -- Do-it-yourself hosting -- Shared, co-location, managed co-location, or dedicated? -- Physical facilities -- Racks -- Power -- Connectivity -- Redundancy -- Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) -- IP addresses -- Other services -- Conclusion -- Chapter resources.
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EXE shortcut -- Running your Web Connection server inside VFP -- HTML page shortcut -- Help file shortcuts -- Opening up and adding code to the project -- Accessing static (non-Web Connection) files -- Referencing static files -- Setting up static files -- Running your app -- Accessing data -- Setting up your database -- Opening your database -- Presenting parameter selections to the user -- Digging data out of your database -- Updating your database -- Using script maps instead of calls to WC. DLL -- Script map syntax -- Benefits to script maps -- Deploying your application to a live Web server.
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Setting up your live Web server directory structure -- Getting your application's files to the server -- Administering your live Web server -- When something goes wrong -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: How the Internet Works -- IP addressing-how Internet servers find each other -- What makes up a domain name? (How humans talk to the Internet) -- Protocol -- Host name -- Second-level domain -- Top-level domain -- How to register your domain name -- How does the world know where my site is located? -- Routers -- When something goes wrong -- PING -- Trace routes -- Conclusion -- Chapter resources.
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What's installed, and where -- \wconnect -- \inetpub\wwwroot\wconnect -- Drive C -- How Web Connection works inside -- When something goes wrong -- Authentication dialog appears -- Nothing happens when clicking on a WC. DLL link -- Web Connection error message displays -- Save As/Download dialog -- Cannot update the server -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Your First Web Connection Application -- This chapter's sample application -- A review of your directory structure -- Creating your project -- Moving your project -- Testing your project -- Optimizing your development environment-just a bit.
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Annotation Web Connection is an incredible product, enabling you to build high performance, feature-rich, database-enabled websites using the language you know and love - Visual FoxPro. But, as more than one developer has said, "it's a bitch to learn." This book is your personal tutor, walking you through the plumbing of the Internet and the World Wide Web, showing you how to build your first VFP- based web site step by step, and then how to add features and improve your productivity by exploiting the multitude of built-in classes that Web Connection offers. A must- read for every Web Connection developer!
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WebRAD.
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Web RAD
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Visual FoxPro for Windows.
Visual FoxPro for Windows.
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Application software-- Development.
Database management.
Web site development.
Application software-- Development.
COMPUTERS-- Software Development & Engineering-- Tools.