Welcome to West Wind Web Connection 8.0
Ready to start building Web Applications with Visual FoxPro? Web Connection is a complete application framework for developing scalable, Web based business solutions using Visual FoxPro. With Web Connection you can create both server and client centric Html based Web applications, REST services or application servers. You can use the familiar FoxPro language and development environment to reuse existing FoxPro business code on the Web, using the environment and tooling you already know.
Web Connection is a proven development platform that has been around since 1995 and is widely used in both small business and large scale applications. If you are a FoxPro developer you can leverage your existing FoxPro skills and development workflow to build Web/Cloud based applications.
Whether you're an existing user looking to upgrade or a new user getting into Web Connection and Web development with FoxPro for the first time, Web Connection is easier than ever to build, deploy and manage your FoxPro based Web applications. Get started today!
FoxPro all the way
Use the tools you already know: Write FoxPro code for your Web application logic and use the Visual FoxPro IDE to edit, run and debug your code. Set breakpoints, break on errors, and use your existing FoxPro business logic code.
HTML5 and Mobile Ready
Web Connection uses HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to create Web Connection uses HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to create responsive and mobile ready Web applications. Default templates use the popular Bootstrap framework to make it easy to create good looking Web applications.
HTML the way you want
Choose from different approaches to create HTML content in your apps. Choose from MVC style coding, pure HTML/Fox scripting, the ASP.NET style Web Control Framework or use raw code to generate HTML and HTTP output.
Create JSON REST Services
Easily create JSON REST services for building REST APIs or AJAX backends. Simply create classes that automatically convert JSON POST data to FoxPro objects and turn FoxPro return values and objects into JSON.
Use any HTML Editor
We ship a number of HTML templates for use with Visual Studio, but you can use any HTML editor that suits your needs. Choose an editor like the ultra-lightweight and free Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, NotePad++ or any text editor to build your Web content.
Deploy with ease
Web Connection 6.0 includes automatically generated and customizable deployment scripts that can configure the Web server for you. One terminal command can configure your new Web site in seconds with a deployed server.
The Source is yours
Web Connection comes with complete source code for all the FoxPro components. There's no blackbox code - you can step through all of the framework and modify it as needed. Fix it, change it, own it - no built-in obsolence in this framework.
Remote Administration
Remotely administer your server: Start and stop running servers, upload and hotswap new binaries, review log files and see server activity in real time. Servers auto-recover from crashes and you can run in single server mode for Admin tasks.
Don't take our Word for it: Try it out
There's so much more to Web Connection and the best way to find out about it all is to try it out for yourself. Web Connection is available in a fully functional shareware version that contains the full Web Connection framework, but doesn't include source code. With it you can build and test your Web applications to check out Web Connection's features and functionality. Get started today!
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Get it
You can download the shareware version and try Web Connection for free. The shareware version is fully functional except you can't create a compiled executable.
- Visual FoxPro 9.0
- .NET Framework 4.5 or later
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What's new
Web Connection 8.1 is a minor update that fixes a few bugs and adds a few enhancements. The keystone updates
of this release are support for greater than 16mb direct output generation, and improved COM server loading
for large server pools. There are also a number of enhancements in wwDotnetBridge related to async operations
and features to help with debugging loaded components.
Read about more new features...
I've posted my White Paper for my 2024 SW Fox session on wwDotnetBridge Revisited.
This is a comprehensive introduction to .NET Interop from FoxPro with a in-depth how
to integrate, and many useful examples that demonstrate .NET functionality from FoxPro
including Markdown parsing, spell checking, string formatting, Two Factor Auth setup and validation,
HTML to PDF printing and various AI related operations. The article also includes a number of
best practices and many useful tips and tricks on how to effectively use wwDotnetBridge and .NET from FoxPro.
Find out more...
I've posted my White Paper for 2021 Virtual FoxFest which is an in depth article on
using and consuming REST APIs from FoxPro using mostly West Wind tools. It's a long
article that goes into great detail and best practices of how to build applications
for both client and server using REST. The FoxFest folks also have graciously made the
session videos available for anyone to watch.
Find out more...
Need to add a full authentication system to your Web Connection application? User Security Manager
for Web Connection is a drop in interface to provide user authentication, profile management,
account validation, password recovery, a user menu widget and an administrative user management
interface. The library is a drop in wwProcess class, along with a set of page templates
that can be customized to your application's UI and feature set.
Find out more...