FoxPro Setup - VFP/Coldfusion questions?

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VFP/Coldfusion questions?

William Fields

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

Hello,

It seems that the Macromedia product suite is a very popular choice for web
site development in my business. I don't know too much about it yet, but
understand that "Coldfusion" requires a live server component, which I know
absolutely nothing about at all.

Any information you might have regarding Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Macromedia
et al... coming from a Visual Foxpro/Visual Studio developer perspective
would be appreciated.

We'll be starting to develop web services with VFP in the near future as
well as building a brand new website for our office (intranet and internet
sides), so I'm interested in how these technologies work together (or
don't).

Thanks for any input you might have.

--
William Fields
MCSD - Microsoft Visual FoxPro
US Bankruptcy Court
Phoenix, AZ

"Beer is proof that God loves us
and wants us to be happy."

- Benjamin Franklin

Claude Fox

2005-04-07, 8:05 pm

I believe Cold Fusion works with COM servers. Alternatively, since you plan
on using vfp web services, you could use the same technology(vfp mtdlls) to
build regular web apps
"William Fields" <Bill_Fields@azb.uscourts.gov> wrote in message
news:ujGVSggNFHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> It seems that the Macromedia product suite is a very popular choice for
> web site development in my business. I don't know too much about it yet,
> but understand that "Coldfusion" requires a live server component, which I
> know absolutely nothing about at all.
>
> Any information you might have regarding Dreamweaver, Coldfusion,
> Macromedia et al... coming from a Visual Foxpro/Visual Studio developer
> perspective would be appreciated.
>
> We'll be starting to develop web services with VFP in the near future as
> well as building a brand new website for our office (intranet and internet
> sides), so I'm interested in how these technologies work together (or
> don't).
>
> Thanks for any input you might have.
>
> --
> William Fields
> MCSD - Microsoft Visual FoxPro
> US Bankruptcy Court
> Phoenix, AZ
>
> "Beer is proof that God loves us
> and wants us to be happy."
>
> - Benjamin Franklin
>
>
>
>

Christopher Jordan

2005-05-05, 8:25 pm

William, I don't know if I can help, and I see that it's been a while since
you asked your original question, but I write ColdFusion applications which
access data in FoxPro tables.

This is actually the reason I'm surfing this particular site now. Using the
ColdFusion Administrator, you set up a data source to which points to an
existing ODBC data source on your CF server.

Then accessing your datasource is as easy as:

<CFQuery name="MyQuery" datasource="MyODBCDataSource">
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE column_name = 'SomePieceOfData'
</CFQuery>

"William Fields" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It seems that the Macromedia product suite is a very popular choice for web
> site development in my business. I don't know too much about it yet, but
> understand that "Coldfusion" requires a live server component, which I know
> absolutely nothing about at all.
>
> Any information you might have regarding Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, Macromedia
> et al... coming from a Visual Foxpro/Visual Studio developer perspective
> would be appreciated.
>
> We'll be starting to develop web services with VFP in the near future as
> well as building a brand new website for our office (intranet and internet
> sides), so I'm interested in how these technologies work together (or
> don't).
>
> Thanks for any input you might have.
>
> --
> William Fields
> MCSD - Microsoft Visual FoxPro
> US Bankruptcy Court
> Phoenix, AZ
>
> "Beer is proof that God loves us
> and wants us to be happy."
>
> - Benjamin Franklin
>
>
>
>
>

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