> 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.

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Alan Bourke

alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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