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WinDev-US, Cowboy Computing Systems, Next Age Consulting, Fabrice Harari, and SoftDesign Consulting/WxTraining.net are organizing a training conference to be held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee at the Edgewater Hotel and Convention Center August 28-31, 2013 with an optional two-day Fundamentals Bootcamp beginning on August 26 http://www.windev-us.com/WXUS_WEB/us/wxdc2013.awp
DevRoadmaps publisher Dave Harms explains the reason for the current publishing hiatus.
The 2012 WxDevCon is now under way in Nashville, TN. Andy Stapleton has posted some pics.
I thought I'd be back on track with the closing instalments of WinDev in an Hour a Day but Hurricane Sandy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy has caused headaches, not for DevRoadmaps but for a consulting client. I hope to resume WDIAHAD next week.
Dave Harms takes a look at WinDev's ability to create components for multiple platforms, and comes across a few configuration options that hint at build automation and customized code generation.
Dave Harms explores component creation and discovers a tools collection he didn't know existed.
There's something fitting about covering time management and business rules in the same post...
WinDev's integrated source code management makes it easier for teams to collaborate on projects. And not just teams - if you're a lone developer you have a lot to gain by using SCM.
The project dashboard provides a lot of different ways to track the health of your project; you can change how WinDev evaluates the patient's vital signs. And then there's SCM, which also plays into project status tracking.
There's lots of useful stuff in the project dashboard, not least of which is the option to enable source code management.
Dave Harms solves his object-passing problem with help from Peter Holemans and offers up a short argument for why passing "self" to another object should be a rare occurrence. He also touches on constants, reference assignments, interfaces and multiple inheritance.
Our WinDev In An Hour A Day series is taking a break so we can get caught up on other content and hopefully get the site software updated (there are lots of cool new features in the update, so stay tuned!)
WinDev lets you return whatever you like from a procedure or method; you don't have to declare the return type ahead of time. In fact you can return varying data types from the same method.
Dave Harms makes some headway testing method overloading (and discovers an unexpected bonus) but gets stalled by two tests that, for no apparent reason, won't run.
What do you do when a unit test can't give you all the information you need? You write to the system log and view the results with DbgView. Dave Harms muddles his way through to calling the Windows API in WinDev.
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