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dBASE Plus - Personal Edition is a slimmed down version of dBASE Plus.

It Includes most of the functionality in dBASE Plus Full Version EXCEPT that dBASE Plus - Personal Edition :
- Cannot build .exe's including Windows or Web executables
- Does not support deploying applications or building installers

It is a great choice for when you need to work within the dBASE Plus IDE (Integrated Development Environment) or write, debug, and run dBASE programs within the IDE.

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dBASE Plus - Personal Edition is a rapid application development toolset that includes a modern object oriented programming language (dBL) that runs on 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows. It can be used to build a wide variety of applications, rich client applications, middleware applications, and server based applications.

dBASE Plus - Personal Edition has robust database access support and can access most modern database engines including:

Oracle
SQL Server
Sybase
MySQL
Informix
DB2
InterBase
FireBird
Pervasive SQL
Microsoft Access
ODBC 3.x support

In addition dBASE Plus - Personal Edition supports access to its native dBASE (.dbf) tables (levels 3, 4, 5, and 7) as well as Paradox (.db) tables, FoxPro and Visual FoxPro tables.

dBASE Plus - Personal Edition includes a robust IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with a: Command Window, a Navigator (to access files), a Just-In-Time compiler, a Preprocessor, a Virtual Machine Interpreter and numerous two-way GUI (Graphical User Interface) design tools including a Form Designer, Report Designer, Menu Designer, Label Designer, and Datamodule Designer (dQuery Developer Edition) that allow you to design visually using the mouse to select, position and size objects.

Two-Way Tools refers to the ability to switch back and forth between using a GUI design tool that generates code and the Source Code Editor that allows you to enter and edit code manually.

The Source Code Editor features syntax highlighting, auto-indent capability, and a treeview for quick navigation of classes, objects, methods and functions in a source file.

Other tools include a Project Manager for organizing your projects, an integrated Debugger, the SQL Query Designer, and the Table Designer which supports creating new or modifying existing database tables.

The dBASE Plus - Personal Edition Debugger includes a source code window and supports breakpoints and single stepping, and has windows to view the execution stack, watch expressions, and current variables, objects, and properties.

The dBASE Language (dBL) is an elegant state-of-the-art dynamic object oriented language. It supports subclassing via single inheritance, dynamic subclassing (by adding new properties to a class at runtime), user-defined classes, automatic memory management, dynamically typed variables, structured exception handling via Try...Catch...EndTry statements, standard flow control statements (If...Else...Endif, Do While...Enddo, Do Case...Case...Case...EndCase), a full set of variable scopes (public, private, local, and static), efficient string manipulation and math support, powerful multi-dimensional arrays, support for function pointers and codeblocks, and much more.

dBASE Plus - Personal Edition contains many built-in classes that include visual classes, data access classes, and numerous supporting classes. Visual classes include Form, SubForm, Menu, Toolbar, Notebook, Container, Entryfield, RadioButton, SpinBox, ComboBox, ListBox, PushButton, Image, Grid, ScrollBar, ActiveX, Report, ReportViewer, Text, TextLabel and many others. Data access classes include Session, Database, Query, Rowset, Field, StoredProc and Datamodule classes. Other classes include File, String, Math, Array, Date, Exception, Object and many others.

dBASE Plus - Personal Edition also includes many classic legacy commands and functions from older versions of dBASE allowing for a high degree of backward compatibility. dBASE Plus - Personal Edition ships with instructions and utilities designed to assist with upgrading legacy dBASE programs to modern Windows style programs. The capabilities of dBASE Plus - Personal Edition may be extended to access external or third party programs or libraries via several methods including OLE and COM interfaces (via the OleAutoClient object), by including ActiveX components on dBASE Forms, or by directly calling functions contained in third party dynamic link libraries.

This product is available as a download only.

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Last Updated: May 13, 2008