 VDF SIG Report April 2009
Held at Asckey Data Services Ltd’s premises, a very full day, including a late addition to the agenda from Nils Mattiesen, who flew over from Switzerland provided a lot of insight into future directions for Visual DataFlex development.
The overall impression is
- The VDF Development Studio is now “mature”, being complete as Data Access envisaged when embarking on the enhancement from pre V12.
- VDF support now covers the full range of windows related environments, including Windows Vista, Windows Terminal Services and Citrix. These are all of major importance, but being able to tick the “works on Vista” box is a huge plus. Plenty of applications don’t!
- Web applications continue to grow in importance. We are now starting to see web applications built with Visual DataFlex coming into use, and looking ahead to version 15 this is where the emphasis will lie.
Visual Report Writer
Meantime, Data Access have embarked on a “back to basics” Windows report writer, recognising that Crystal has now grown far from its roots as a user friendly report writing tool, and has become so difficult support for the DataFlex data file format that a gap has opened up here. Between this Visual Report Writer, and the next version of Dynamic AI gaining close integration with VDF applications, from both a cost and functional point of view, we will, later this year, have a completely new set of possibilities in place for creating both paper and Web report output. First test release is expected very soon - before end April.
VDF 14 and beyond
Nick Nikijuluw kicked off with a reprise of the V 14 development. This covered the now in place Vista, TS and Citrix support mentioned above, and re-emphasised that while previous versions were known to work, now Data Access formally supports these environments....
Dynamic AI - New version due
Dynamic AI
With V 6.3 now in Beta, DAI is now shaping up to be one half of the means of providing “reporting” from the data your applications manage.
July 2009 - DAI V6.3 now released. Our download page is here
DAI...
Search Engine Explorer
Simon Coyne, Suresoft presented his Search Engine Explorer VDF written application.
For anyone not well aware of the whole Search Engine Explorer scene, this was an intriguing introduction to a whole new world. After all, we all use Google, and...
Electos V3.2
Electos
With Electos v3.2 nearing release, Chris Hibbert ran through the new features that will be available.
The full list is as below. The “Headline Changes” are mainly in the web shop, with the abiity to handle multiple colours,...
Electos In Use – a Student Accommodation Renting Site
Martin Kelley, DM Software, has had a very good looking Visual Dataflex application for managing the specialist needs of Student Accomodation rental management for some time. Student rentals are different – they all come and go at once!...
Application Components as a Development Platform
Data Access are in the process of developing a suite off “basic, core business application components” that will be available in source code, and which are ready to run as supplied.
The intention is to reduce the need to create core...
The UK VDF SIG Codejock Framework
Anyone who has followed these VDF SIG meetings will know that we in the UK have been major contributors to extending VDF’s capabilities to cover more Codejock Components and therefore extend the capability to really enhance VDF windows applications...
Clivax – a Clinical Trials Statistics Capturing Web Application
Somewhat proving the point that Web Applications are taking off, and that the VDF AJAX Framework is a powerful development tool, Niels Matthiesen flew over from Switzerland to demonstrate this (Matthiesen & Matthiesen is a long standing DF/VDF Development...
Visual Report Writer
VDF Visual Report Writer
Crystal Reports has become the de-facto tool for building reports for any application, not just Dataflex/Visual Dataflex. And a very capable reporting system it is. However, Crystal has moved very far from its roots, with,...
VDF – Reporting Options
With Dynamic AI being available as a runtime licence, now to be joined by the new Visual Report Writer, our reporting options are changing significantly.
Currently, you have
Crystal Reports, usually seen as the answer to “paper aware”...
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