Object oriented programming has a tendency to frighten... This course is trying to change the way you are looking at OOP. Through both some theory and lots of practical examples, we'll see in details how you can start incorporating OOP in your development without any pain starting with the most basic use.

From there, we'll see how using some more advanced techniques will allow you to open the door to some very powerful coding.

One important point to consider is that we'll do that through the study of a set of PRACTICAL classes, set that I use all the time in my own WinDev projects, and NOT as is traditional through some strange concept of circle/square/triangle or car/motorbike/truck. Everything that you'll study here will have DIRECT, PRACTICAL use in your everyday coding.

(2007, 2009, revised 2013)

To do that, this 2:23 hours long video course comes with an example project in WinDev 18 incorporating the following functionalities, as a set of classes ready to use:

- Project management

- DataBase management

- Parameters management

- Log/Trace management

- Error management

- Email management

- Form management. This class demonstrates the advanced possibilities of objects, with, as a result, the possibility to open at the same time as many forms on any file as you or your user may want, checks and controls, saving, and many other functions. This is directly the basis of your OWN RAD.

- On top of the classes, you'll also find a fully functioning wizard to let your user set up his options at the first startup and many more useful tricks.

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One of the  way to extend the functionalities of your preferred tool is to use activeX/OLE automation. 

In this 50 mns long course, I'll show you how to use this methodology, step by step, and without problems. 

This course will use Excel as example, with a slightly modified WinDev 18 standard example. As a bonus, it will show you how to embed an excel page INSIDE a windev application, even though Microsoft is now trying to prevent this practice.

(2009, revised 2013)

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.Net allows you both to use a huge library of functions, both free and not, but also lets you open up your applications to the outside world and offer as much or as little access to your applications' functions and/or data.

In this 50 mns long course, I'll show you how to use this methodology, step by step, and without problems.

It is highly recommended that you follow the Object Oriented Programming course BEFORE this one, as anything and everything in .net is object. You will need at least a basic comprehension on how to use classes to follow this course.

This course does NOT come with any special project/source, and is using 2 separates standard WinDev 18 examples to demonstrate the .net concepts. 

(2013)

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Using the integrated mechanism or building your own? In any case, you WILL need an automatic upgrade system at some point! Learn how to make the right decision...

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So many options are available in those two controls that everybody's lost... At first... After this course, you will know when to use what!

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Choosing between all the Data Access options available in WinDev has always been a problem. This course explains the differences and gives you information about the consequences of each choice.

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