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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Chapter 8: Configuring Server Software -- Installing Windows 2000 Server -- Connecting the development and server machines for testing -- Installing the Visual FoxPro Runtime -- Setting up Internet Information Server (IIS) -- Binding IP addresses to the server -- Creating a new Web site -- Setting Web site permissions -- Setting directory-level permissions -- Setting up FTP access -- FTP permissions -- Virtual FTP directories -- Securing your Web server -- Some important things to be aware of -- Auto-restart of IIS -- Custom error messages -- Performance Monitor -- Visual FoxPro utilities -- Conclusion -- Chapter resources -- Chapter 9: How a Web Page Works -- A brief history of HTML -- The editor interface -- The example "TODO" application.

Different techniques for generating a page -- The TODO sample application -- How is this Web page rendered? -- What makes up a Web page? -- The header section of an HTML page -- The section of an HTML page -- Give your page some -- Scripting the Web page -- Why use client-side scripting? -- Okay, so how do I do simple form validations? -- JavaScript caution -- JavaScript libraries -- Style sheets: Why you need them -- How style sheets are structured -- So how do style sheets "cascade"? -- Finally… -- Conclusion -- Chapter resources -- Chapter 10: Getting in Tune: Overcoming Conceptual Hurdles -- Concept 1: How the machine works-just the basics -- File-based messaging-the complete sequence -- COM messaging-what's the difference? -- Concept 2: Why is there a C++ DLL and where does my VFP EXE fit in? -- Concept 3: The stateless nature of the Web -- Concept 4: Passing "parameters" between Web pages -- URL parameters -- Form variables -- Session variables -- Concept 5: Request, Response, Session… Oh, my! -- Concept 6: One Visual FoxPro instance-multiple users served -- Concept 7: Multiple Visual FoxPro instances-one user served -- Concept 8: Web forms are not Windows forms! -- Basic attributes of desktop forms -- Basics of a Web form -- Structure of a Web form -- Two or more forms on one Web page -- Ensuring forms get submitted -- Relating form elements to data-single record case -- Relating form elements to data-multiple record case -- Check box and radio button differences -- Concept 9: Validating user input -- Validation tips on certain Visual FoxPro data types -- Concept 10: Templates vs. scripts-huh? -- Visual FoxPro 7 gives us another option -- For the curious: How templates and scripts work -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Managing Your Configuration -- Configuration file overview -- Why not just one configuration file?.

Inside the WC.INI file -- Inside your application INI file -- Introducing the configuration object -- Built-in application INI file settings -- Adding a main INI setting -- Typical process INI settings -- Adding a process INI setting -- How the INI files are initially created -- How and when the INI files settings are read -- How to read and use INI settings in your application -- Reading settings from WC.INI -- How to change INI settings on production applications -- When things go wrong -- Chapter 12: A Web Connection Application from Start to Finish -- The "TODO" sample application -- Setting up the Visual FoxPro work space -- WebRadX -- WebRadInsert (WRI) -- WebRadUpdate (WRU) -- WebRadRequest (WRR) -- GENHTMLFORM -- HEADER -- Macro to reset environment -- TODO application feature set -- Class hierarchy -- Ya wanna know a secret? -- Class management -- Configuring the TODO project -- Directory structure -- Setting up script mapping -- How TODO's first method is created -- Using the CONFIG object -- Keeping track of the users -- Table structures -- The first data request -- Login routine -- Reestablishing state -- The need for a "Query Engine" -- Using an HTML page template -- Displaying the task list using a script page -- When is an extension just an extension? -- Pros and cons of scripts and templates -- Single instance, single-user. Multiple instances, multi-user! -- Seeing it for yourself! -- Adding a TODO item -- Saving a TODO item -- Cleaning up after yourself -- Extending the framework with a DEBUG class -- DEBUGCLASS admin page -- Administration Web page -- The Web Connection administration page -- Running as a COM server -- Transferring the TODO application to the server -- Configuring the server for "autostart" -- Overcoming the "Access Denied" error when running as a COM server -- Additional TODO features -- Conclusion.

Don't forget the RADWizard! -- Chapter resources -- Chapter 13: Identifying Users and Managing Session Data -- The basics -- What is user tracking? -- What is user identification? -- The four basic methods -- Authentication -- Authentication and the end-user experience -- Pros and cons of authentication -- Temporary cookies -- Ensuring your cookie gets delivered -- Temporary cookies and the end-user experience -- Pros and cons of temporary cookies -- Persistent cookies -- Persistent cookies and the end-user experience -- License plates -- Pros and cons of license plates -- Implementing a license plate strategy -- Managing session state -- Deploying the Session object -- Putting the Session object to work -- Implementing user logins -- When things go wrong -- Advanced topics -- Using Microsoft SQL Server to store session data -- Combining methods in a single application -- Chapter 14: COM vs. File-Based Messaging -- Overview of COM and file-based messaging -- Why move to COM? -- COM principles -- Converting to COM: Step-by-step -- A staging server -- Testing on the development system -- Deploying COM on the production server -- Troubleshooting COM -- "Access Denied" errors under COM -- Trouble releasing COM servers -- The wcErrors.TXT file -- Switching from COM back to file-based messaging -- Sticking with file-based messaging -- Improving file-based performance -- Scaling with COM and file-based messaging -- Adding instances on the Web server -- Sharing the load with additional network machines -- Moving data to a different back end -- Scaling to a Web farm -- Additional physical separation of tiers -- A final word: Know your enemy -- Resources -- Chapter 15: Data Entry on the Web -- Motivation -- Design alternatives -- Design attributes -- Exploring the alternatives -- Hand-coded forms -- Hand-coding plus scripts -- Use the wwShowCursor class.

Render Visual FoxPro forms via DHTML.