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As long as you have full trust, you can launch an EXE from a .NET (or even ASP Classic). Web Connection has built-in support to automatically or manually launch servers, as well as kill them remotely.
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On Arvixe, Winhost, SoftSys, and others you can run a VFP EXE without registration?? This is great news! Are there instructions somewhere?
Actually it doesn't need to be an MTDLL. Servers can also auto-launch as plain EXEs running in file mode... either works as long as full trust is available and performance tends to be much better with the EXEs.
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Arvixe, Winhost, SoftSys, and others. These guys are primarily low cost ASP.NET web hosting companies between $5-$10/month that offer Full-Trust. Most of the ASP.NET centric web hosts that I've seen seem to offer Full Trust (probably because a lot of ASP.NET web apps require it too and it's a royal pain to make some ASP.NET apps Medium Trust). Your app will have to be a VFP mtdll with self-registration to work on these hosts AFAIK.
Dear GloverL,
please do you know some other web host with both low cost and suitability for West Wind Web Connection applications (EXE or COM)?
Sincerely
Yeah, it's one of many that provide Full Trust. DiscountASP.Net has a $5/mo special deal but I think you have to specifically look for it. Their normal deal is like $10.00 a month which is probably too much.
Do you not consider DiscountASP.net like a low cost web host?
Thanks
I think you need to get wwc com self-registration to work. And I think it's a dll instead of the regular exe. There are instructions somewhere on this site. Let us know how smoothly it goes. If it works it means you can use low cost web hosts and not limited to just discountASP.net.
I am enthusiast to have found a host service in order to develop applications for my customers without their own servers.
Usually I have to run CONSOLE.EXE and "Configure Server" to configure a customer's server for a Web Connection application.
Do I have to run the same tool to configure Discount ASP.NET's website, or are there other ways to do it?
Thanky very much again
Yes that should work, but you should ask specifically about support for FULL TRUST.
I've used Discount ASP.NET before to host a Web Connection site... but make sure you check for Full Trust. Plan availability may have changed...
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Dear friends,
please, does this service match all needs to host a West Wind Web Connection application?
http://www.discountasp.net/features.aspx
Is the Base Web Hosting Plan enough to a Web Connection using FoxPro free tables?
Do I have to run CONSOLE.EXE - Configure Server to configure website, or are there other ways?
Thank you very much for support
Luca,
Web Connection requires that Visual FoxPro is installed on the server (unless you use self-registered hosting covered here) and that limits where you can host your Web Connection applications somewhat.
Most folks here either host in-house, or use co-location as Kevin suggested which means you have your own server or virtual machine that hosts a full version of Windows.
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Hi Rick,
in your Web Connection Application Hosting Services webpage you show only 3 ISPs:
1) the third ISP showed (Custom Hosting Solutions by Wi Inc.) has no link
2) are these the only ISPs I can suggest to my customers for hosting applications developed with WC?
Thank you
Dea Rick,
to install a web application I had to run Setup wizard on the customer's server, put the executable, configure the application...
I was able to install the web application because the customer has an own server.
But how to install, configure and deliver a web application to a customer without a server?
Thank you very much
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