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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.
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...
Libraries (.WDL file)
A library is a WDL file that contains all WINDEV or WEBDEV resources ......
HSetTrigger (Function)
Enables or disables the management of triggers.
J2EERun (Function)
Runs a procedure on a server of J2EE XML Web services.
Anchoring applied to window controls
The windows of a WINDEV application can be resized at runtime......
AFTER
Runs a process only after a given procedure has been executed, and continues to execute the current...
Custom title bar with menus and controls
There is a new trend in UI design: application menus in the title bar!...
Automatic menu of tables (AAF)
Each Table control found in a window proposes a menu to the user......
CameraGenerateThumbnail (Function)
Generates a thumbnail of the specified photo or video.
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Managing contacts (mobile devices)
In your mobile applications, you have the ability to directly manage the contacts of your mobile...
Report based on an Organizer control
A report based on an Organizer control is used to directly print the information displayed...
The UAC mechanism in Windows Vista (and later)
To increase security against worms and viruses, Windows Vista/7 implemented the UAC (User Account...
How to create a menu?
4. Managing SMSs
With the WLanguage functions, WINDEV Mobile allows you to......
WDInst: configuring the directory of the data files and the directory of the files of user groupware
The setup editor WDInst ("Tools......
HCS.Timeout (Variable)
The HCS.Timeout variable is used to modify the connection timeout: for the connections...
Using the Salesforce service
Salesforce is a very popular CRM software......
Functions for managing menus (prefix syntax)
List of functions for managing menus...
Custom context menu
Custom context menus are created in the window editor and can be handled programmatically......
Importing a non-WINDEV window
You are interested by a window found in a non-WINDEV application?......
I was using Visual Basic with WINDEV 5.5. How to proceed in WINDEV 2024?
You have the ability to use external languages with WINDEV......
WDInst : generating the setup program
Generating the setup program is used to create the setup program according to the characteristics...
Transparency of windows
WINDEV allows you to apply a transparency coefficient to the windows......
Refreshing a page
Refreshing a page consists in re-displaying a page that is already open in the browser......