I had a client ask a question this week, and I thought the question and answer deserved a blog post. The client is getting ready to start a new WebDev project and was asking me about "style templates" and how to view the available ones and chose one for his new project. That turns out, … Continue reading Skins, Palette, WebDev Styles, CSS styles, Templates – What are they?
Upload Controls Doesn’t send the value of controls to the server…
In a recent project, I found an "issue" with the upload control. When you press the button to upload, it does not send the value of controls to the server. Let's look at the General Tab of the direction for a normal button. See the option for Send the value of controls to the server. … Continue reading Upload Controls Doesn’t send the value of controls to the server…
Changing the IDE User and Setting up SCM
A question about the IDE User comes up occasionally, usually when someone has been using the IDE for a while and now wants to setup an SCM, especially if that is a remote SCM managed by someone else. We get this question a lot when we setup a Remote hosted SCM for someone as well. … Continue reading Changing the IDE User and Setting up SCM
Special WinDev/WebDev upgrade offer good until December 31st
If you haven't upgraded to v22 yet, and now you are waiting for v23 to be released, have we got a deal for you! Between now and December 31st, you can order your upgrade at a special price, and it will include v23 when it is released! You can go to our price list to see … Continue reading Special WinDev/WebDev upgrade offer good until December 31st
Designing the Database
As I said earlier I hope to commercialise this application, therefore I need to make it multi-tenanted. That's pretty easy. Firstly I created an organisations table - simple for now - just an ID and a name. The record IDs are automatically created and are given a sub-type of "automatic identifier" - this means every … Continue reading Designing the Database
Choosing the Database
I plan to host the application on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I had some experience in setting up a WebDev application on AWS a few years ago and I thought the servers and all the other utilities and services offered by AWS were fantastic. Also a basic server was free for a year - so … Continue reading Choosing the Database
Why WebDev
Firstly the choice of using WebDev - well that was pretty easy - the main reason is it's the only platform I know! Well, apart from Clarion, but I want to build a web application and I don't think using Nettalk is an ideal solution. The reasons I like WebDev: The modern IDE and all … Continue reading Why WebDev
