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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 email application 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,.
SMSRunApp (Function)
Starts the native application for sending SMSs found on the device (Android or iPhone/iPad).
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.
Developing applications for Android
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for the Android operating system...
How to create a patch?
Same source code for 32 and 64-bit applications
The 64-bit operating systems are starting to appear on the PCs and on the servers...
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)...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
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.
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.
Setup in MSI format
You can create MSI installers...
zipSplit (Function)
Splits an archive into several sub-archives of a given size.
Minute (Property)
The Minute property is used to: Retrieve the minutes from a Time or DateTime variable,...
dSaveImageGIF (Function)
Saves an image: in a file in GIF format. in memory....
dSaveImageBMP (Function)
Saves an image: in a file in BMP format. in memory....
TableSave (Function)
Updates or adds the record bound to the current row in the Table or TreeView Table control.
Handling the report blocks through programming
Each report block is associated with different events......
Handling XLS files
WINDEV and WEBDEV propose two methods for handling the Excel files......
FOR EACH/FOR ALL statement (loop through controls)
The statement FOR EACH is used to perform different types of browse on the controls (List Box,...
Creating the Relation windows of a WINDEV RAD pattern
Scheduler control events
The following events associated with Scheduler controls:...
The Table control
The Table control is used to simplify the display and the input of information stored in memory...
Hyper File functions available for backward compatibility
Fixed array (Type of variable)
A fixed array is an "advanced" type of array...
HReadSeekLast (Function)
Sets the position on the last record whose value for a specific item is less than or equal...
HModify (Function)
Modifies the specified record or the record found in memory in the data file (query or view).
Report based on a query
Queries are used to easily select records in one or more data files......
2. Examples and components provided with WEBDEV
Definition (Type of variable)
The Definition type is used to find out the characteristics of a type: simple type, advanced...
Property Description (Type of variable)
The Property Description type is used to get information about a property.
Duration (Type of variable)
The Duration type enables you to easily handle the intervals of dates and times...
Array (Type of variable)
An array is a structured type that is used to group a set of elements of the same type...
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
Hour (Property)
The Hour property is used to: Get the time from a variable of type Time or DateTime,...
ControlAlias (Function)
Gets, modifies or restores the data binding to a control or group of controls.
eInitCurrency (Function)
Adds or changes the characteristics of a currency in the currency exchange table.