That's OK. Just remember that with WebDev you will be tackling two things; (1) comparing WLanguage with VFP language, and (2) needing to think about a stateless, "split" application running partly on a client and partly on a server. I mention this because obviously VFP does not do the 2nd aspect. iro WLanguage; I am sure you will be surprised at the similarity to VFP. Also, do the tutorial, make the effort to go through it all, take your time, you will learn a lot from it and it will not take a lot of time, maybe a few days.


>Thank you Jos. I'll begin with WebDev.
>Regards.
>>On the one hand, it depends on what target platform you are looking; WinDev is for desktop, WinDev Mobile is for mobile devices (iPhone in WinDev 17 included), and WebDev is for websites. On the other hand, it doesn't matter if you just want to get a feel for it because they all use the same underlying language (they call it WLanguage) and the same (essentially) integrated development environment (IDE). If you know the language and the IDE you can then develop for any platform and the only difference is knowing that some features/commands/functions will work on some platforms but perhaps not others.
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>>WinDev will be a good choice if you like VFP as a desktop development platform. It will be the most familiar for a VFP programmer. A good starting point.
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>>WebDev, for example, is website targeted so it splits almost every event into a server-side-code and client-side-code editor since when you, for example, press a button on a website you can choose whether some code needs to execute in the client browser or whether some code needs to execute on the server. This is made very easy because you put a button on a form (web page), open the code editor for it, and it shows you the two code options for the click event; client or server (or both).
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>>WinDev Mobile is again slightly modified since not all features on a desktop can work on a mobile device. So you get an environment targeted for that.
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>>>Hello Jos, i have a question:
>>>Wich version of windev should I download to evaluate Web, desktop and mobile development? All 3?
>>>>Here are a few things for VFP developers interested in WinDev that we found useful because of how much we use these features or wanted to have them:
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>>>>1) WinDev supports the equivalent of macro substitution. Instead of using &some_string_ref you just use curly brackets around the string to evaluate; { some_string_ref }
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>>>>2) You can allow your users to enter and execute their own WinDev programming code inside your application using User Macro Code (UMC).
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>>>>3) WinDev supports the using of and saving of Excel files in XLS and XLSX formats.
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>>>>4) Built in support for multilingual applications
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>>>>5) Multithreading support. This is great feature for starting processes running in the background and giving user control of the app in the meantime.
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>>>>6) Seamless database encryption chosen at table design time.
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>>>>7) Source code protection for distributed apps.
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>>>>8) 64 bit support
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>>>>9) PDF file creation. In fact, any table (i.e. a grid) can be saved as an XLS, DOC, PDF, XML, HTML file or sent as an email - its an optional feature of the grid in WinDev.
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>>>>Just a few things that appealed to us during the conversion of some apps fwiw.