Creating Database Application Components

Introduction

This tutorial demonstrates how to develop major application component types for Windows and Web applications.

This tutorial consists of the following sections:

• Creating Tables and Data Dictionaries
• Creating Windows Components
• Creating Web Components

As you complete the steps below, check the Workspace Dashboard to see your progress and guide you along. The Dashboard is a great tool for checking what steps you have and have not completed when performing tasks in a workspace.

Workspace Dashboard

The Workspace Dashboard is designed to point new developers in the right direction when learning to use the Studio and to provide experienced developers with a quick way to gain insight into a workspace and its projects. For example, in the screenshot above, you can see that the Dashboard shows that this workspace contains no projects and allows you to click it to create one.

As you carry out work in a workspace and on individual projects, the Dashboard will track your progress, filling in section details like adding pieces to a puzzle. At any point along the way, you can use the Dashboard to guide you. For example, as you add tables, Data Dictionaries, views, and other project components, the Dashboard will automatically track these for you. In addition to this automated tracking, you can take the initiative via To Do items to have the Dashboard guide you towards more personalized goals.

Read more about the Workspace Dashboard here.

Tip

Learn how to properly use the DataFlex help. Doing so will make you more efficient at finding the information you are looking for.