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DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI

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DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI

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    1. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge® Advanced GUI

    2. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Agenda What is the New UI Advanced GUI Overview Architectural Overview Visual Designer Demo Q & A

    3. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Under Development This talk includes information about potential future products and/or product enhancements. What I am going to say reflects our current thinking, but the information contained herein is preliminary and subject to change. Any future products we ultimately deliver may be materially different from what is described here.

    4. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI A Microsoft® .NET™ based Windows graphical user interface that can replace or be integrated into an existing OpenEdge GUI Client What is the New UI?

    5. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Why an OpenEdge GUI for .NET? Microsoft Windows is the market leader for desktop applications De-facto standard Competitive Start-of-the-art user interfaces Microsoft .NET Windows Forms is purposed for line of business applications Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern Data-centric UI controls ADO.NET maps well to a ProDataSet™

    6. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI .NET UI Components Wealth of .NET controls Microsoft and Infragistics® Other 3rd party controls .NET Extender providers Cross-control functionality (Tooltips, Errors) .NET User Controls User-defined custom controls

    7. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI What is it Called? New UI Project name: “OpenEdge Advanced GUI” Not a product… A feature of OpenEdge Develop using OpenEdge Architect or ABL development products New control set Project name: “OpenEdge Advanced UI Controls” Will be a product… optional add-on Add-on to OpenEdge development products Bundle of controls from Infragistics that extends the .NET UI development capability

    8. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Who is the target audience? ABL Developers using OpenEdge Architect… Seeking to build extremely modern and appealing .NET graphical user interface… Through the ease of ABL

    9. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Target audience characteristics Customers using OpenEdge Architect… For customers on OpenEdge Comfortable with Object Oriented concepts Seeking to build extremely modern and appealing .NET graphical user interface… Windows oriented for development and user client Through the ease of ABL Desires an OpenEdge-centric development environment

    10. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Development Methodology Early POC and Usability input from customers Structured “Technology Preview” approach; Beta; GA Expected dates Technology Previews released during 2007 Beta test target Q3 2008 General Availability target 2H 2008 Interested? Beta signup will be open at Exchange! www.progress.com/openedge/beta

    11. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI What reviewers are saying…

    12. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Leverages the ABL Single language; No need to learn C#, VB.NET Data binding between ABL data sources and UI controls Event binding between ABL methods and UI events Single design center: OpenEdge Architect No need to purchase, learn or use non-OpenEdge products (Visual Studio®) Benefits: Shorter ramp-up ? Higher productivity Built-in data binding ? Purposed for business applications Built on OpenEdge: Deployment and data source flexibility Primary Features and Benefits

    13. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Integrates with existing GUI (at container level) Independent of deployment topology (C/S or n-tier) Extensible with 3rd party controls and custom controls Adaptable to future UI enhancements or other emerging UIs Benefits: Adopt at your own pace Contemporary Windows look and feel without compromise Architected for investment protection Primary Features and Benefits

    14. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI How does it compare to other OpenEdge UI Technologies?

    15. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI

    16. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI OpenEdge GUI Architecture (“Classic”)

    17. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Advanced GUI Architecture (“New”)

    18. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI ABL Extensions Progress.Windows.Form ABL forms inherit from this class InitializeComponent method (generated) Progress.Data.BindingSource New ABL object to access Progress data sources Extends .NET BindingSource class Binds .NET control to ABL data source (query) Event Subscription Subscribe method added to every .NET event Takes an ABL method / procedure name

    19. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI A Closer Look into the Advanced GUI Presentation Layer

    20. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI A Closer Look into the Advanced GUI Presentation Layer

    21. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Advanced GUI ABL Language

    22. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Advanced GUI Tools Architecture

    23. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI WYSIWYG Form creation and editing Define Form Add .NET controls Set properties of controls and components Define data binding objects Add event subscriptions Class Browser Displays class member information about ABL and .NET classes Visual Designer

    24. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Visual Designer Perspective

    25. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Generated code for a form

    26. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Advanced GUI Demo

    27. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Visual Designer Perspective

    28. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Advanced GUI Prerequisites ABL Programming Object-oriented ABL .NET Windows Form Framework Classes .NET Infragistics Windows Form Classes OpenEdge Architect WYSIWYG Visual Designer Properties view and Control Toolbox Object-oriented Class Browser

    29. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Preparing for Advanced GUI Move to OpenEdge 10… Ideally 10.1C Move UI logic to methods Consider UI Design Get familiar with OOABL constructs and syntax Create and access UI objects Call methods, access properties Subscribe to UI events Beta signup

    30. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Exchange Content OpenEdge Advanced GUI DEV-16 Leveraging the Power of the Advanced GUI Tony Vertenten, Intris Erwin in ‘t Veld, CCS Roland de Pijper, Eric Debeij, Progress DEV-29 Deep Dive into Developing with Advanced GUI Shelley Chase, Product Architect, Progress DEV-32 Using the Advanced GUI, Structured Error Handling and SonicMQ to build a Semi-Disconnected Point of Sale Brian Preece and Romin Sanai, BCP Software DEV-40 Using SmartObjects with Advanced GUI Mike Fechner, ConsultingWerk DEV-43 OpenEdge Tools and User Interface Info Exchange Jim Lundy, Principal Product Manager, Progress

    31. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI What are your questions?What are your questions?

    32. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI Thank you for your time.Thank you for your time.

    33. DEV-6: Introduction to the OpenEdge Advanced GUI

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