Welcome to Rick Strahl's West Wind Technologies Web Site. This site is a resource for .NET and FoxPro developers building Web and Enterprise applications. Here you can find a large white paper archive, an active message board and Rick's WebLog. We are also developers of a host of tools designed to make Software Developers more productive which are listed below. West Wind Web Connection
Version 5.64 October 3rd, 2012
Create Web applications with Visual FoxPro and take advantage of a
powerful and proven framework. Version 5 adds a new
Web Control Framework on top of the core Web Connection engine,
adding a rich, visual and control based approach to FoxPro Web development.
Optionally use Visual Studio to layout your controls and HTML with full
layout support and Intellisense, but create and debug code using
pure FoxPro code in the FoxPro IDE.
While the Web Control Framework is new, Web Connection still works
and improves upon the classic MVC style mode with new HtmlHelpers and templating of
earlier versions. So what are you waiting for? FoxPro Web Development was never easier than this.
West Wind Web & Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET
Version 1.23 Sept.
14th, 2012
The West Wind Web
& Ajax Toolkit provides a host of essential utility
functionality for your ASP.NET Web applications. From easy
to use AJAX
and REST services and jQuery client access, to a powerful DataBinding control, to
Globalization, to core ASP.NET utility functionality like
logging, error handling and configuration and script management, to a large set
of utility functions useful in just about any .NET and/or
ASP.NET Web project. This toolkit comprises a set of
functionality that is not flashy, but covers many core, day to
day tasks required in almost every .NET and Web application. Get
productive today.
West Wind Application Configuration for .NET
Version 1.23
Sept. 12th, 2012
Create easy to use, strongly typed configuration classes in .NET and store configuration data
in a variety of common storage formats. Store config data in .config files, different sections
or external files, or use plain XML files, strings, or SQL tables to store configuration data.
Never have missing configuration values again as defaults are always present and can optionally
be written to the configuration store if they don't exist yet. Encrypt individual configuration
keys selectively and write configuration any time. Lots of features and easy to use - it's never
been so easy to create easily managed configuration data into your apps.
West Wind Html Help Builder
Version 4.66
September 4th, 2012
Help Builder is here to help you create profession documentation for
end user applications, developer components or even documentation or
online knowledgebases for a project, product or service. Focus on creating documentation content quickly
with an interactive editor and design templates that let you
concentrate on content creation. Create Html Help
(CHM), Web Html and Word or PDF output all from a single source.
If you're a software developer you can also import and document
.NET, FoxPro and COM objects, Web
Services, Sql Server and FoxPro databases and work with Help Builder
directly in Visual Studio. Help Builder is your one stop documentation
solution.
Web Service Proxy Generator for Visual FoxPro
Version 1.22 Aug
1st, 2012
Need to call Web Services with Visual FoxPro? Then check out our Web Service Proxy Generator
that can easily create FoxPro SOAP 1.x Web Service clients using the
reliable .NET service client as the connector interface. This tool automates the .NET service client
generation and creates a FoxPro front end class. It's easy and you can
call complex SOAP 1.x services in minutes using simple FoxPro
classes.
West Wind Web &
Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET
Version 1.23 Sept.
14th, 2012
The West Wind Web
& Ajax Toolkit provides a host of essential utility
functionality for your ASP.NET Web applications. From easy
to use AJAX
and REST services and jQuery client access, to a powerful DataBinding control, to
Globalization, to core ASP.NET utility functionality like
logging, error handling and configuration and script management, to a large set
of utility functions useful in just about any .NET and/or
ASP.NET Web project. This toolkit comprises a set of
functionality that is not flashy, but covers many core, day to
day tasks required in almost every .NET and Web application. Get
productive today.
West Wind Client Tools for Visual FoxPro
Version 5.62 Feb. 7, 2012
West Wind Client Tools is a rich suite of utility
classes that provide Internet functionality including SMTP & POP3 Email,
full featured HTTP Web access, FTP and low level TCP/IP access. Utility classes include object
based data access to SQL Server and Web Data, a light-weight business
object framework, a .NET Interop helper component, XML conversion features, basic graphing for both
desktop and Web applications, several configuration management classes
and a rich library of utility and API functions useful in everyday Visual FoxPro
development.
wwDotnetBridge - .NET Access made easy for FoxPro
September 25th, 2012
Need to access .NET code from FoxPro? wwDotnetBridge is a free and open source
.NET Runtime hosting engine and .NET access helper for Visual FoxPro. It allows hosting
of the .NET runtime in your FoxPro applications, and can access .NET components without
having to register those components for COM first. This opens up most of the .NET framework
and .NET 3rd party libraries to your code.
West Wind Web Monitor
Version 3.43 Feb.
20, 2011
Keep
an eye on your Web sites with West Wind Web Monitor and make sure your
sites are up and running and returning results that you expect. Web
Monitor can notify you via email or pager when your site is not
responding to requests. Get notified when sites go down and when they
come back up. Fire URLs and/or applications in response to failures to
take automated corrective action. Version 3.0 is built using Microsoft
.Net technology and adds support for Windows Service operation, Web
based remote administration, improved logging and is available as an
optional source code
version. Version 3.41 provides allows RegEx searches of content,
notification tresholds and many small user interface enhancements.
West Wind Web Store .NET
Version 2.50
10/30/2009
The Web Store provides a source code based, .NET e-commerce base implementation and business and Web framework.
Get a store a store setup and running in minutes with quick Web based setup, a full online administration interface,
flexible user interface design, support for several Credit Card Gateways including Authorize.NET, PayFlowPro and PayPal,
and easily extensible business logic based using a provided business framework. The Web Store is more than just an
application - it's also a full featured Web application framework that can be used for any type of application,
plus it includes a full featured offline WinForms offline client application.
Free West
Wind Web Configuration UtilityVersion 1.0 8/1/2005 Ever need to quickly install a Web application on a different server? You copy files and then you start fiddling with IIS to create a virtual directory, set directory permissions, possibly configure your Visual Studio.NET solution file to run in the different application path or configure MSDE/SQL Server to create a accounts? If you do this a lot this utility is for you. This utility performs these tasks through either an easy to use Windows Forms interface or through a command line interface that uses an XML configuration file that can 'just do it'.
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