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WinPrint
WinPrint is Visual DataFlex's built in report generator. It cannot produce output with the same visual sophistication as Crystal Reports but, alternatively, it offers powerful capabilities to process data and create printed output concurrently. The combination of WinPrint and Crystal Reports offers developers an unusual scope of capability to create reports in Viaual DataFlex.

V D F

Visual DataFlex ("VDF") is a suite of software design tools, a development methodology, application deployment components, a transaction processing DBMS and scaleable client server options built around a mature object-oriented 4GL.

Professional developers worldwide use Visual DataFlex to develop high-performance, database independent applications for manufacturing, financial services, accounting, distribution, health care, insurance, agriculture, food service, transportation, hospitality and government industry sectors.

With Visual DataFlex, you can:

Produce database applications faster with Visual DataFlex Studio - an IDE and other tools specifically tuned for developing database applications.

Extend application functionality through a mature and proven object-oriented 4GL.

Deploy Windows applications using the Visual DataFlex Client Engine

Deploy web applications using the scalable, secure Visual DataFlex Web Application Server

Connect applications to industry leading database servers - including Pervasive.SQL, MS-SQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, or any ODBC compliant database.

Report on application data using the world's #1 reporting tool - Crystal Reports or VisualDataFlex's built-in report writer, WinPrint

Applications built with Visual DataFlex Studio are database independent. They can be easily deployed on the DBMS of your choice without needing code-changes using "Connectivity Kits". These kits provide application transparent database connections and they also will convert your data from one DBMS to another. Connectivity Kits are available for Microsoft SQL-Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Pervasive.SQL (Btrieve), Oracle and MySQL. An ODBC Connectivity Kit provides access to any ODBC-compliant connection...

Visual DataFlex Client Engines include an embedded DBMS, providing developers with a powerful, high performance workgroup database solution "in the box".

Supported Environments

*Web Development requires a Web Deployment Environment

Electos

There are two main components of Electos:

Electos Studio is the system's content authoring and site management component. It runs in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. By running entirely in the browser, people can work on site content or administration anytime, anywhere without the need to install any special software. Using Electos Studio, authors develop and maintain content in a word processing-like environment. Then, with a click of the mouse, their content is stored in a database on a web server, ready to publish.

Electos Publisher works in conjunction with the Microsoft's IIS to serve richly formatted pages to web site visitors. The Publisher component generates the site's web pages using pre-defined formatting and the information stored in the Electos content databases.

Electos offers...

Structured, multi-level design capability

Complete abstraction of content from design and structure

User "roles" that provide different rights to content authors, designers and administrators

Page creation and editing independent of publication to allow for review, approval and reuse

A powerful, yet easy to use time-based activation and expiration mechanism for pages

Electos itself is built with Visual DataFlex - an advanced system designed for developing database applications for Windows and the web. Click the logo for more information...

Report Generator

Crystal Reports for DataFlex
Crystal Reports is the market-leading desktop query and report writer. When you need to create reports and other forms of output from your data sources or include reporting directly in Visual DataFlex applications, then Crystal is the single best product you can buy and use. Learn more about Crystal Reports

DataFlex Connectivity Kit for Crystal Reports
Enables Crystal Reports to access embedded database files through a native, 32-bit database driver. With this "CK", developers can utilize the full scope of Crystal Reports' capabilites. The connectivity Kit is included with Crystal Reports for DataFlex and can be purchased separately if you already have a copy of Crystal Reports.