The two main sources of information for new WinDev users are the Concepts and Tutorial manuals. The provocative graphics are largely absent from the technical documentation. I only bring up the last point because PC Soft's marketing materials are in fact loaded with photographs that some developers have found a bit incongruous, and which sometimes make it more difficult to take the product seriously.

Many images of scantily clad young women.

Multiple configurations for the same project (different target operating systems, web services, etc).

Ability to import windows from other applications (see webinar #2 at ).

Build automation/continuous integration.

Integration with Word, Excel, OpenOffice.

Ability to integrate Java, C++, C#, VB and other languages.

Extensive set of window and report controls.Application testing & quality control (bug tracking and incident management).Reporting (with support for email, PDF, HTML etc.).Documentation management and generation.

Other significant features of WinDev include: NET or Java.Īlthough there are three main products in the PC Soft line, in this review I'll focus on desktop development using the WinDev IDE, which is shared by WinDev, WebDev and WinDev Mobile. The key in all these cases is PC Soft's generalized W Language, with which you can create applications that run on native Windows. Similarly, the WebDev product lets you create applications that run on either Windows or Linux, and the WinDev Mobile product creates applications that run on a wide variety of smartphone and tablet devices (WinDev 17 adds iPhone/iPad support). WinDev is one of three major development products, and provides support for desktop development on Windows with deployment on Windows and on several x86 Linux distros (with some limitations) including, as of March 2012, Debian 5.02 and Ubuntu 10.04. That's very nearly one major version per year, and if recent releases are any indication there are quite a lot of new features added in each release. First released in 1993, winDev is now on version 16 (version 17 in the French language version). WinDev has a rich feature set - this is a product suite with regular upgrades. At the conclusion of that process the installer offered to show me the tutorial, but I opted instead to spend a bit of time familiarizing myself with the WinDev concepts manual, with the idea that this would give me a better grounding in the WinDev Way.īut before I get into the WinDev concepts I think it's worth looking over some of the key features of the WinDev environment. In Installing WinDev I briefly describe the shipping product (WinDev, WinDev Mobile and WebDev) and went through the WinDev install process.

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