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West Wind Web Connection 5.40 released 10/23/2008
West Wind Technologies has released version 5.40 of its Web Development platform for Visual FoxPro. Web Connection provides a rich, scalable and completely FoxPro based framework for building Web and Enterprise applications along with the optional ability to use Visual Studio's designer features for visual design of HTML markup. This release is a major update that provides many new features and enhancements. The big news is a complete refactoring of the AJAX functionality based on the popular jQuery Javascript library which provides much richer client side functionality in a reduced footprint. The client library's been updated with custom jQuery plug-ins and a host of new features to provide drop dead simple AJAX data and UI support. There are also a host of core engine and framework enhancements. This is a free update for registered users and a shareware version is also available to check out.

West Wind Web Connection 5.40 Beta released 10/07/2008
West Wind Technologies has released a beta version of Web Connection 5.40 as a preview to a host of new features. This update many small enhancements to the Web Control Framework as well as the core processing engine. The big change in this release is a complete overhaul of the server AJAX controls and client library which can also be used independently of Web Connection. The new client library is based on jQuery which as a result produced a much richer client library API and richer functionality for the supported features. The beta is available to registered users as well as now available as the standard Web Connection shareware download.