Appware Programming Primer: A Guide to Constructing Applications [Paperback]

Eric Weidl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

AppWare (tm) Programming Primer is the easiest way for you to get started developing with this new tool from Novell. Far from being "just another network product," AppWare is a graphical development environment which allows you to create custom, network-aware applications for Macintosh(R) or Windows (tm), without having to write miles of tedious code. Your applications can include the latest technology from Apple, Microsoft, and Novell, such as Apple Events, QuickTime, DDE, DLL's, Microsoft Help, MHS, and NetWare Directory Services, among many others.This clear, step-by-step guide provides beginning programmers with explanations of programming techniques and concepts, allowing you to create sample applications quickly. For the advanced programmer, this book shows you how to map your programming experience to Novell's new environment. To help you apply these concepts, the book includes a disk with several example applications, including multimedia, client-server, and telecommunications applications, concentrating on real issues faced by real programmers. You'll also learn: * tricks for customizing installation * tips on how to efficiently design your AppWare projects and subjects * important debugging tips. AppWare Programming Primer is an indispensable resource to anyone using or considering using AppWare to write applications! 0201409801B04062001

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started developing with this new tool from Novell. Far from being "just another network product," AppWare is a graphical development environment which allows you to create custom, network-aware applications for Macintosh® or Windows (tm), without having to write miles of tedious code. Your applications can include the latest technology from Apple, Microsoft, and Novell, such as Apple Events, QuickTime, DDE, DLL's, Microsoft Help, MHS, and NetWare Directory Services, among many others.

This clear, step-by-step guide provides beginning programmers with explanations of programming techniques and concepts, allowing you to create sample applications quickly. For the advanced programmer, this book shows you how to map your programming experience to Novell's new environment. To help you apply these concepts, the book includes a disk with several example applications, including multimedia, client-server, and telecommunications applications, concentrating on real issues faced by real programmers. You'll also learn: tricks for customizing installation tips on how to efficiently design your AppWare projects and subjects important debugging tips. AppWare Programming Primer is an indispensable resource to anyone using or considering using AppWare to write applications!

About the Author

Eric Weidl is Vice President of Digital Prairie, Inc., a software consulting and development firm in Chicago, specializing in component software. He is also President of AppWare Developers Association, the official user group for AppWare programmers. 0201409801AB04062001

Product Details

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company; Pap/Dskt edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201409801
• ISBN-13: 978-0201409802
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,812,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Appware Programming Primer: A Guide to Constructing Applications (Paperback)

This is one of the books in the history of computing section of my library. AppWare was similar to Visual Basic in that it was based on a graphical language and was laid out so that applications could be assembled quickly by people who had a minimal knowledge of programming. In fact, unsuccessful competition with Visual Basic and with Microsoft in general is a great part of what killed it off. As Novell began to lose market share in the communications software industry, it decided that Appware was one of those products it could afford to throw overboard. It was sold for a time by a different company under the name "Micro Brew", but it was never adequately supported or expanded for the changing market and ultimately ceased to exist.

For programmers, this book is a guide for using AppWare's Visual AppBuilder to develop network applications. AppBuilder allowed pre-made, network-aware objects to be linked together, eliminating the need to code. This book showed programmers how to use AppWare's Visual AppBuilder to develop network applications. The disk provides preassembled applications which can be used alone or in other projects. It also contains files that complement the building of the application described in the book.

I still keep the book around as a computing history book because it recalls a brief time when Novell owned the network computing business until they were eclipsed in that business by Microsoft in the mid 90's - an event from which they never recovered and which greatly degraded the value of the Novell CNE certifications which in 1995 were passports to tech employment.