Venelina Jordanova, Uwe Habermann Visual Extend 9.0 Rapid Application Development

Who is talking?  Venelina Jordanova  Working with FoxPro since 12 years  MCP  J.E.I.-Varna Custom development  Visual Extend Software Development Leader  Uwe Habermann  Working with FoxPro since 12 years  MCP for VFP  Freelancer since 1986  Consultant of ProLib, ISYS and other companies  Visual Extend Product Manager  Venelina Jordanova  Working with FoxPro since 12 years  MCP  J.E.I.-Varna Custom development  Visual Extend Software Development Leader  Uwe Habermann  Working with FoxPro since 12 years  MCP for VFP  Freelancer since 1986  Consultant of ProLib, ISYS and other companies  Visual Extend Product Manager

VFX What is this?  Rapid Application Development Framework for VFP 9  VFX 9.0 comes with Template Application Many Builders and Wizards Task Pane

Let´s create a Sample Application enelina´s antastic izzas V F P

VFX - Application Wizard  Create new Projects Enter the folder and database Enter texts for the about dialog Make settings for the application object Enter project information Compile all files Let´s go!  Czech available!

At Runtime Splash-Screen Login dialog Menu and Toolbar XP style open dialog User management Database Maintenance and much more features...

What to do now?  Create a database Using the VFP database designer Or using xCase Or using SDT

Our Data Model

Our first Form VFX – Form Wizard  Create forms based on VFX form classes: cDataFormPage cTreeViewForm cTableForm cOneToMany cTreeViewOneToMany cAskViewArg cWizard Based on own form classes Example: Products.scx

The Form at Runtime  Autoedit  New  Delete  Incremental search in the grid Multi-Column-Sort

Goal: Work on DBC or SQL  Use CursorAdapters  Switch data source at runtime  Store data source information in an encoded file

VFX – CursorAdapter Wizard  Create CursorAdapter Classes for all Tables of a database for VFP database for SQL Server

VFX – cDataFormPage Builder  Reentrant Builder Controls on pages of a pageframe Search grid includes many features Setting of form properties  Usage of own classes for controls Corresponding to the DBC settings Corresponding to the VFX project properties Example: Customers.scx

The Form at Runtime  Saving settings per user Size and Position of the form on the desktop Column width, column order and sort order of grids

Printing, PDF Export,  Printing possible in all forms without creating any report  Save as PDF,HTML, XML, TIFF, BMP  PDF generation Postscript printer driver Ghostscript  Send all file types by MAPI

VFX - cOneToMany Builder  cOneToMany Edit and search of parent data similar to cDataFormPage Edit child data in a grid Edit child data in edit page Support of multiple children Example: Orders.scx

Pickfields  Select a customer for an order VFX – CPickAlternate Builder Example: pick Customer  Select a product for an order detail VFX – CPickTextbox Builder Example: pick Product

VFX – Parent/Child Builder  Call a Child Form  Support of multiple Children  Hierarchical linking possible  Properties for control lCloseChildformOnExit lAutoSyncChildform Example: Customers.scx – Orders.scx

VFX – Manage Config.vfx  Manage Data Access  Dialog available for end-customers  Switch between DBC and SQL Usage of connection strings recommended  Password protected file

Goal reached!  Generated application  Generated forms  No coding  Works on DBC and SQL

VFX – AFP Wizard  Create web forms with a mouse click!  Requirements: VFX 9.0 und VFP 9.0 AFP - Active FoxPro Pages  Similar to ASP but based on VFP IIS  For now: works on DBC only

VFX - LangSetup Builder  Localization At design time At runtime

More Examples in Sample Apps  VFX90Test  VFX90Traders  VFPizza

Much more Features  Search Dialog Many conditions possible Save search settings per user  Many Classes Date picker Send s Calculator  OLE Drag & Drop

Product Activation  Integrated Product Activation For up to 32 rights or modules Define activation rules The developer can decide about the activation rules  Create Activation Key Create activation keys for customers Support of time limited keys

Product Update  Update customers application via the Internet  Automatic download and installation at the customer

Links  Download and Information about VFX:  More information about VFX: portal.dfpug.de/dokumente/visualextend  Free Support for VFX in English and German: OR news://news.dfpug.de

Thank you very much and Have fun with VFX!  Venelina Jordanova & Uwe Habermann