.NET Client Development with OpenEdge Applications and VB.NET

Web-Based Training

.NET Client Development with OpenEdge Applications and VB.NET

Description

.NET Client Development with OpenEdge Applications and VB.NET covers the steps required to develop VB. NET applications that access OpenEdge business logic and data.

OpenEdge Release 10 provides developers with the tools and technologies to access application business logic from a variety of interfaces. One development environment that can be used to develop a user interface is the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft VB.NET. With the VB.NET programming language, developers can access business logic and data written using the Progress 4GL.

Version compatibility

This course is compatible with OpenEdge 10 only.

Software requirements

Exercise files are provided for the OpenEdge 10.0A release. Throughout this training course, you will run hands-on exercises using your live versions of OpenEdge 10.0A, and Microsoft VisualStudio.net.

In order to run the sample application for this course and/or test application logic developed in exercises, you will need to be able to access an OpenEdge Application Server that is connected to a specific database. If you are unfamiliar with the setup and configuration of a database in multi-user mode or the configuration of an OpenEdge Application Server, consult with a person within your organization who can assist you with the steps that follow.

What you will learn

After taking this training, you should be able to:

Describe the overall architecture of a distributed OpenEdge application.
Set up a VB.NET project to use the required OpenEdge .NET assemblies.
Instantiate an OpenEdge App Object and connect to an OpenEdge AppServer.
Execute OpenEdge business logic from a VB.NET application.
Use ADO.NET DataSets and DataTables in conjunction with an OpenEdge application.
Create reusable .NET user interface logic.
Trap and process errors passed from an OpenEdge application.

Prerequisites

Learners should already be able to:

Show a working knowledge of the VB.NET programming language.
Use the Visual Studio.NET development environment.
Develop VB.NET Windows Forms applications.
Utilize ADO.NET objects, including DataSets and DataTables.

System requirements

System requirements for this browser-based training include the following:

Requirement	Specification
Machine	100 MHZ Intel Pentium II processor or better (recommend better than 200 MHZ)
Memory	32 MB of RAM is required (64 MB or RAM is recommended)
Supported Platform	Windows 98/2000/NT/XP
Internet browser	The recommended Internet browser for this course is Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 5.0 or higher.
Plug-ins	Flash 7.0 player
Screen resolution	The recommended display setting is at least 1024 x 768 for the display of multiple windows. 800 x 600 is the minimum size. A screen resolution of 640 X 480 will not display the course windows properly.
Color palette setting	A minimum of 65536 colors is needed, but "true color" is best. Using 256 colors will work, but some of the graphical elements may not appear as originally intended.
Installed audio card	A sound card and speakers or headphones are required to hear the audio incorporated within the course.

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Progress Software Corporation supplies business application platform, soa infrastructure and data infrastructure software that simplifies and accelerates the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Our superior business application platforms include Progress OpenEdge for high performance SOA integration and software as a service (SaaS), and Progress Apama for complex event processing. Our innovative event-driven SOA infrastructure solutions include Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Progress DataXtend semantic data integration, Progress Actional SOA management and SOA governance, and DataDirect data connectivity for mainframe SOA and web services. Our data infrastructure products include DataDirect Connect for database driver and data provider connections to relational databases and XML data integration, EasyAsk for enterprise search and e-commerce, and ObjectStore object data management.

Progress OpenEdge® is a business application platform for the rapid development, deployment and management of business applications that are standards-based and service-oriented. Our state of art business applications provides maximum architectural flexibility, easiest development of SOA enabled applications and SaaS optimized applications. With OpenEdge there is platform independence and future proof and backward compatibility. OpenEdge partners with vertical application partners for the best logistics, retail, ERP, manufacturing and healthcare business applications. Develop quickly with OpenEdge Reference Architecture. Deploy empowering and high performance transactional applications. The all in one development environment makes OpenEdge the platform of choice. Select OpenEdge for large scale data management of critical business applications. OpenEdge is the leading embedded database.