Sig Report October 2007

VDF 12.1, Eddy Kleinjan

Visual DataFlex, the flagship product of Data Access Worldwide, covers many aspects of business and database application development. Eddy gave a comprehensive demonstration of the capabilities of VDF 12.1, particularly the development studio.  ...

Electos and the Electos Web Shop

Electos, Chris Hibbert Electos, the website content management system (CMS) written with Visual DataFlex is also getting a new version - 3.1. Electos has seen a lot of development in the last 12 months, notably now including web shop features....

Dynamic AI - Business Intelligence

Dynamic AI, Eddy Kleinjan Dynamic AI is a powerful Business Intelligence platform that guarantees fast and easy reporting in a Web browser. Eddy presented the new, completely redesigned version of Dynamic AI now released. As we have observed in...

Skinning VDF Applications

 Skinning Visual DataFlex applications, Martin Pincott Having a visually appealing application can be of strategic importance and Visual DataFlex applications can have that 'killer-app' look if you want to. The question is "is there a 'just-add-water'...

Advanced Visual DataFlex

Mike Peat , Unicorn Interglobal Mike Peat is a long-time DataFlex/Visual DataFlex developer and covered some of the areas of Visual DataFlex that are not the most common, but which show the broad spectrum of technical capabilities that the VDF studio...

ETL - Extract, Transform & Load

ETL for Visual DataFlex, Ian Manning, Baycastle Software "Extract, Transform and Load" DataSlave is a powerful new (in it's ability to use DataFlex files) tool to migrate and integrate data. These needs are becoming a more and more a common...

Web Development with AJAX

  Eddy Kleinjan, Data Access Europe "The user-interface of Web-applications needs to have the same snappy response as is provided by Windows applications. It has to be user-friendly, fast, and easy to program".  Currently "You wish"...

Connectivity and the "Express" server editions

 Nick Nikijuluw, MD of Data Access Europe reminded everyone that with the release of the version 5 of the connectivity kits, a new "Express Policy" comes into play.  Most of the SQL databases now offer a free "Express" version. Data...