Consultingwerk Blog

Cutting-edge tailored Docker-based solution

Progress Software recently approached us for assistance with a customer request to set up an interesting development environment.

PUG Challenge Quiz 2022

We would like to thank all participants in this year's PUG Challenge Quiz and hope everyone enjoyed it.

OpenEdge DevOps Framework

Unit Testing Angular Web Applications

How many times have you feared deploying your work because even though you’ve tested, re-tested then finally re-re-tested, clicked all the buttons, navigated to every screen, you just couldn’t ever be one hundred percent sure that everything works in every case?

UltraControls, .NET Assemblies and deployment, a follow up

Traditionally Progress R-code is compatible a few minor versions up and down. So it would be expected that 10.2A R-code should work on 10.2B and 10.2B R-code works on 10.2A as long as you do not use any of the new features of 10.2B in the ABL source code.

A few words on OpenEdge UltraControls and deployment…

Very often we are faced with questions about deployment of OpenEdge GUI for .NET based applications and references to .NET Assemblies.

No restriction on where you can use the Openedge UltraControls for .NET product

Since the release of the GUI for .NET with OpenEdge 10.2A there has been a lot on uncertainity or even rumors about the license conditions for the OpenEdge UltraControls. The biggest – and very important – unanswered point so far was whether the .NET Controls obtained as the OpenEdge UltraControls can only be used in OpenEdge development tools or anywhere the product can technically be used.

Using object oriented language features with procedural Progress code

In our projects where we support customers introducing the GUI for .NET into existing Progress / OpenEdge applications as well as while building our tools WinKit and Dynamics4.NET the integration between existing procedural and new object oriented code has always been a fundamental requirement.

Progress relaxes usage restrictions of GUI for .NET Bridge with 10.2B Service Pack

Among technical modifications Progress has changed the OpenEdge license agreement (EULA) with Service Pack 2. Prior to the service pack the usage of the AVM / .NET Bridge was restricted to the use for building .NET UIs as part of the Progress runtime. As a result of the successful “Help us test the bridge” initiative, Progress decided to remove the restrictions from the EULA.

OpenEdge Architect Hotkeys

I know that beginners may not want to believe this – but for me personally the OpenEdge Architect or Eclipse is the favorite editor for every text based file format, including ini files, batch files, xml and html – and of course ABL source code. One key to this productivity are keyboard shortcuts.

4GL Query concepts (FOR EACH, FIND, GET, INDEX)

The Progress knowledge base contains an article that was formerly published under the engine crew monographs. This article uncovers the strategies of query execution on the ABL.