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Web Services and Components

To extend a basic Microsoft Visual FoxPro application, you can enable it to work for multiple users, access and distribute XML Web services, use Microsoft ActiveX controls and automation-enabled applications, and add international capabilities.

In This Section

  • XML Web Services in Visual FoxPro
    Describes how to access and distribute XML Web services with your Visual FoxPro applications. XML Web services are classes or objects available on the Web that you can use in your applications programmatically as normal object-oriented calls.

  • Automation and COM Servers
    Describes how to you can extend the functionality of your Visual FoxPro applications without a lot of extra coding time by using Automation and COM Servers.

  • Interoperability and the Internet
    Explains how to use OLE drag-and-drop to develop applications that make it possible for you to move data between Microsoft Windows-based applications and within a Visual FoxPro application. Create documents for use on the Internet, or use one of two different Visual FoxPro run times to create COM components (Automation servers) as normal or multithreaded applications.

Reference

  • XML Data in Visual FoxPro
    Describes XML Schema data types and shows how they map to Visual FoxPro data types and the reverse.