A nuts-and-bolts guide to building sophisticated client/server GUI applications using state-of-the-art 4GL Workbenches… GUI-Based Design and Development for Client/Server Applications If you’re a software developer or mainframe applications programmer who works in the corporate environment and you’d like to update your skills and enhance your marketability, you’ve come to the right place. With the expert, step-by-step guidance this book offers, taking the big leap from character-based mainframe systems to object-oriented GUI technology is just a walk in the park. Using the top 4GL Workbench products on the market to illustrate the development of a large-scale client/server application example, this book gets you quickly on-line with all the knowledge and skills you need to build sophisticated, customized GUIs that run on a wide range of operating systems and most standard PC/LAN hardware platforms.
- Examples based on PowerBuilder 3.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0, SQLWindows, and Digitalk Parts Workbench
- Guides you past common errors and offers practical solutions to most problems that occur during the development cycle
- Step-by-step guidance for rapid design, development, and deployment of sophisticated customized applications
