Object-Oriented 4GL

Visual DataFlex provides the right tools for creating database applications, fast!

What is Visual DataFlex?

With Visual DataFlex, you can.......

• Produce database applications faster with an Integrated Development Environment specifically tuned for database manipulation.

• Extend your application functionality through a mature and proven object-oriented 4GL.

• Connect your application solutions to industry leading database servers.

• Easily web-enable your applications with the DataFlex WebApp Server.

• Plus, Visual DataFlex 12 includes the powerful DataFlex DBMS for royalty-free application distribution.

Visual DataFlex Features

• Integrated source-level debugging facilities help you track down and fix problems quickly and easily.
• Provide world-class reports in your applications with Crystal Reports 7 for DataFlex - with nothing extra to buy.
• The business rules you define in Visual DataFlex can be used with the DataFlex WebApp Server for highly integrated Internet and LAN applications - with no code changes necessary.
• Code Editor and Explorer make navigating, editing and debugging your custom code a snap.
• Advanced IDE provides easy access to an extensive library of data aware controls.
• Enhanced support for sub-classing and external classes provides the simplicity of drag and drop development for all your custom controls.
• High-performance client/server tools supply everything you need for development, testing and support - in the box!
• Intelligent compilation logic detects even the most subtle compile-time errors, with better error notification and "jump to error" editing.

• Fast, easy visual development
  With the advanced Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in Visual DataFlex 12, design and navigation of your application's user interface has never been this simple.

• Data Aware Controls without the need for custom code
  Writing code just to establish the links between a control and your data is a thing of the past.

• No more worrying about data integrity
  Your application's business rules and validations are encapsulated in Data Dictionary Objects and automatically bound to your user interface.

• Eliminate repetitive tasks and improve the consistency of your applications
  Every component of your application, from the database and business rules, to complete views is reusable - and extendable. Stop doing the same work over and over again. Visual DataFlex 6's enhanced support for sub-classing and external classes provides the simplicity of drag and drop development for all your custom controls.

• High-level control when you want it
  When dealing with code is inefficient or unnecessary, the high-level tools in the IDE give you quick and easy access to the visual and database properties of each control.

• Complete Control
  When you have to touch and feel your applications code, the Code Explorer puts it, and the awesome power of Visual DataFlex's object-oriented 4GL, all at your fingertips.

• Time and budget restrictions won't dictate the quality of your applications
  Visual DataFlex's debugging features will help you deliver higher-quality applications in less time, without increasing costs. Unlimited breakpoints are easily added, removed, enabled, disabled, and viewed. You can step into, over, and out of procedures and functions. Local and global variables are displayed in variable windows, or by passing your mouse cursor over any variable in the source window. Local variables only display data when "in scope". The expression evaluator makes it easy to view any piece of data and provides a powerful method for viewing object property values.

• Multi-user applications are automatic
  The applications you create in Visual DataFlex manage multi-user concurrency without the need for any special coding. Plus, if you elect to use on of the many client/server options available for hosting Visual DataFlex applications, your unchanged applications will trigger the transaction capabilities of the host environment.

• Increase the return on your investment
  Visual DataFlexs tiered development system is designed to accommodate the latest trends in distributed, rule-based, client/server database application architecture. The combination of the Visual DataFlex methods and the IDE provides an easy-to-master environment for business process-based application design. Visual DataFlex enables you to quickly take multiple applications to deployment, through well-controlled and structured development processes.

  Applications powered by Visual DataFlex today will continue to deliver value tomorrow with open connectivity to database management systems, efficient life-cycle maintenance, and future access to changing application client and server environments.