Free? That's right: Free! (well, almost - the $1 is so you comit with a credit card charge).

A special one day Double Impact Web Event taught by Markus Egger, held at the Milwaukee Hilton in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Voodoo Web Controls are a comprehensive set of classes for building Web applications. The main idea (which is inspired by ASP.NET), is to provide a set of classes for use in Web applications that behave very similar to the Visual FoxPro (VFP) base classes used to build Windows® applications.

In other words, rather than creating one Web page that displays a button and another that contains code that fires in response to the click of a button, we provide a WebButton class that has a click event. The user does not have to worry about state, does not have to know any HTML, and does not have to worry about reading back information from the previous web page, and so forth.

One of the major problems with Web pages is that it is very hard to provide standard controls. It wouldn't be very hard to use advanced HTML to create a fancy button class that looks just like a Windows XP button. However, this is not practical because each button would have to be coded individually. Voodoo on the other hand uses classes just like VFP's forms. This means that you can easily create a new button class that behaves and looks different from typical web buttons (check out our WebFlatButton class).

Voodoo also provides advanced data handling. Voodoo controls can be bound to XML data as well as cursor and ADO based data. Voodoo features true bi-directional databinding, unlike ASP.NET, which can render data for display, but can not automatically bind updated data back into a database.

This event is preceeded by a two day Web Connection training seminar taught by Rick Strahl. SIGN UP

This three day Double Impact event preceeds Whil Hentzen's Great Lakes Database Workshop FoxPro conference which starts on the 28th.

A special two day Double Impact Web Event taught by Rick Strahl, held at the Milwaukee Hilton in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This event preceeds Whil Hentzen's Great Lakes Database Workshop FoxPro conference which starts on the 28th. SIGN UP

The two day Web Connection seminar is taught by the author of Web Connection, Rick Strahl. It provides a walk through and hands on examples which take developers from installation and getting started, through advanced topics in using this powerful product. Both new and experienced developers will benefit.

This 2 day Web Training Seminar covers a wide range of West Wind Web Connection topics from getting started and building your first requests to advanced topics of working efficiently with business objects templates, tuning and scaling your applications, and how to manage and adminster a Web Connection application. Time will be left at the end for extensive Q&A, so bring your Web Development questions and problems.

This seminar is geared to Web Connection developers of all skill levels - beginning developers will get a great overview and can see the product in action while experienced developers can pick up tips and tricks even from the beginning topics. The format follows from basic topics to advanced so developers of any level should be able to follow along through the advanced topics. It is recommended though that have a good understanding of the Visual FoxPro language and the basics of Object Oriented programming.

West Wind Web seminars are held classroom lecture style, but we provide a relaxed environment and strongly encourage attendee interaction both by sparking open discussions of topics at hand as well as related issues and direction in which the samples are taken.