I am doing this in SharePoint next month as another visual display of data.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
I guess it is going to be a little like the web services that were the rage some time ago .... I stayed away from them.
Well, it *is* a web service, and web services are increasingly fundamental to how the web operates. JSON is essentially just objects in Javascript notation so you need some way of getting that into a format you can work with in VFP, and almost all web services communicate in either JSON or XML.
You need to at the very least be able to send a HTTP request to the Google endpoint, receive a JSON response (and handle any errors), and decode the JSON into a format you can work with. If you want to stay in VFP-land I'd be looking at Rick Strahl's web tools for all that. Otherwise .NET can do all that natively, you could for example create a COM-callable DLL to do it, or just an assembly called with Rick's WWDotNetBridge tool.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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