… and falls back to VFP7. It seems that the Web Service support in VFP is not only accessed differently, it also works differently than its VFP7 counterpart. Plan on re-coding your Web Service calls: ffc\\_webservices.vcx is no more, and the new VFP 8 IntelliSense script uses ffc\\_ws3client.vcx. The good news is that you can use TRY… CATCH, the bad news is that you’ll have to, while you iron out the bugs. While alpha tests on a development workstation worked fine, deploying to the production machine failed, presumably because of a dependency with new Web Service DLLs. Out of time for testing tonight; hope to get back to this over the weekend.
Archive | March 13, 2003
Ahhh! The sound of silence….
Part of the process of rearranging the home office is moving a mini-tower system out to the server room (aka cellar) so that there are no more noisy machines in the office. Here’s a machine I’ll gladly check out: Hush ushers in silent PC [CNET News.com]
Kling respond’s to Doc’s World of Ends – good points
Klings’s Korollaries.
Suits and Geeks is Arnold Kling’s latest, and a complement to World of Ends.
Arnold lists Five Clues for Geeks:
- Intermediaries add value
- Property is not evil
- Computer animation is not a killer application
- Bashing Microsoft does not make you smart
- Markets are not exploitative
Lots to talk about there.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]