Star Development: Visual Dataflex the way to go?
Linked by Jaapjan Tinbergen on Tue 20th Apr 2004 06:54 UTC
Databases Visual Dataflex is a programming language of sorts which may be best described as belonging in the category of Visual Basic for Applications, the older style of Visual Basic and maybe even a very little bit of .Net. It's simple and good in what it does. Simple? Why! I hear you cry. Fear not, I will explain why I think this. First though, I'd like to touch on what it can do for you?
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A developer that knows what VDF is.
by Huwaert Filip on Tue 27th Apr 2004 08:16 UTC

I'm developing VDF for 8 years now. The language has much more functionalities which are bescribed in the article. Like the datadictionaries. Datadictionaries are like a shell around the database. Here you can define that the datafield is capslock, required, validation procedures, ect. When you make then a Form, you just have to drag the database zones on the Form, and they all have the functionality as bescribed in the datadictionaries. Another advantage, is the web part of VDF. Webapp is a very strong tool for developing web applications, and makes also use of the datadictionaries as bescribed. No validation in the asp code is needed, it's all done in the datadictionaries.

Finally, I want to say this. I' am also an C#.net developer, so I can compare. For database applications you can't compare the two, VDF is just build for it. Who can make an application for Pervasive.SQL and without recompiling it runs on SQL Server ? Yes, VDF. And at last, when you start learning a new language, you have always difficulties to pass.

P.S. I (and my team 6 developers) have more than 500 users in about 40 different companies, with different applications (all vdf).