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Version: 2025

Activating an application or a site
When distributing an application or a site, you may want to offer both a full version and a limited version...
.NET application
To create a.NET application from a project...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Operating mode of HFSQL application
An HFSQL application can operate in network mode or in Client/Server mode...
Deploying an application that uses an external component
An application that uses one or more external components is deployed in the same way as a standard application...
Application patch
Once an application was installed, the application library had to be reinstalled whenever a modification was performed (WDL file)...
Application installation: single-user or network?
WINDEV proposes several types of setup for a WINDEV application...
Performance profiler
The performance profiler is a tool for checking and optimizing the execution time of your application...
Custom tooltips
Tooltips are very useful for application users...
EmailRunApp (Function)
Starts the native application for sending emails found on the current computer:
  • Computer running Windows,
  • Mobile device (Android, iPhone, iPad).
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Keyboard shortcuts
The main keyboard shortcuts in the editors are as follows...
Local network (LAN) setup
Deploying a setup on a local area network (LAN) involves installing and updating a WINDEV application via a reference server,.
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Creating and deploying the installation program: How do you do it?
Creating the setup program allows you to deploy a WINDEV application on the end-user computers...
ListDLL (Function)
Returns:
  • runtime List of libraries (".DLL" files) used by the current WINDEV application, WINDEV Mobile or WEBDEV site. Only the libraries loaded in memory are listed.
  • in test mode: all libraries installed on the current workstation.
SMSRunApp (Function)
Starts the native application for sending SMSs found on the device (Android or iPhone/iPad).
How to create a patch?
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
MSIX installation packages
Setup by HTTP (Network setup via IP)
The network setup via HTTP consists in installing and updating a WINDEV application via an HTTP server (Live update)...
Developing applications for Android
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for the Android operating system...
Generating and deploying 64-bit applications
WINDEV allows you to automatically generate and install a 64-bit application.
AppDetectUPDAvailable (Function)
Disables or customizes the automatic check for available updates.
Setup in MSI format
You can create MSI installers...
geoRunApp (Function)
Starts the device's native maps application to display:
  • a specific geographical location,
  • a route between two locations.
REP files
REP files contain the list of data files handled by the application.
Country (Type of variable)
The Country type is used to find out the characteristics of a country.
NumToString (Function)
Converts a numeric value (integer, real or currency) to a string according to a specified format.
WEBDEV 2024: New WLanguage features
In version 27, new functions, properties and data types have been introduced...
HTMLToRTF (Function)
Converts an HTML string or an HTML buffer to an RTF string.
HFilter (Function)
Defines and enables a filter on a data file, view or query.
Native MySQL Connector - License Agreement
SensorDetectBeginShake (Function)
Notifies when the device is shaken in any direction.
SensorDetectEndShake (Function)
Notifies when the device has been shaken in any direction.
Handling Rating controls programmatically
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to handle Rating controls programmatically....
GesturePosX (Function)
Returns the horizontal position of the pointer (finger or stylus).
GesturePosY (Function)
Returns the vertical position of the pointer (finger or stylus).
InstantMessaging (Type of variable)
The InstantMessaging type is used to define the advanced characteristics of the instant messaging...
SEO-ready page in session mode
In WEBDEV, there are two methods to develop a site......
Animation (Property)
The Animation property animates an image.
Native Sybase Connector for WINDEV and WEBDEV
WINDEV and WEBDEV propose an optional Native Connector to Sybase (also called Native Access...
MemoryFormat (Property)
The MemoryFormat property is used to get and change the format of the value returned for: Date...
Selected (Property)
The Selected property is used to: Select, or determine if a row is selected in a List, ListView...
gAlignment (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters containing an aligned text or an aligned image.
The OLE control
The OLE control is used to handle an OLE object......
FOR EACH/FOR ALL statement (browse of arrays)
The FOR EACH statement is used to perform different types of browse on the arrays...
Managing connections
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose different methods for describing a connection......
Native PostgreSQL Connector: Programming with HFSQL functions
To use a PostgreSQL database with Native Connector (also called Native Access), the structure...
Prototype overload/Overload
The procedures and the methods of classes can have several syntaxes....
Notifications of an HFSQL server
A server may encounter problems without any user (or developer) noticing anything. For example:...
Native MariaDB Connector: Programming with HFSQL functions
To use a MariaDB database with Native Connector, the structure of MariaDB tables must be imported...