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New Programmer Series: Setting up your IDE
Today’s blog post comes from Jaison Antoniazzi, a 20+ year OpenEdge expert from Brazil and author of two books in Portuguese on OpenEdge.
Jaison has embarked on an ambitious project for 2022: 365 days of Progress OpenEdge development tips, which he is sharing on LinkedIn!
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New Programmer Series: Adding a Test Database
Today’s blog post comes from Jaison Antoniazzi, a 20+ year OpenEdge expert from Brazil and author of two books in Portuguese on OpenEdge.
Jaison has embarked on an ambitious project for 2022: 365 days of Progress OpenEdge development tips, which he is sharing on LinkedIn!
Tip #2 - Creating a test database
Now that we have a shortcut opening the Desktop or the GUI Procedure Editor and the AppBuilder ready to develop (see Jaison's tip #1), I am throwing cold water... Calm down! We must create and set up the test database for what we are going to do!
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New Programmer Series: Getting Started with the OpenEdge ABL
Today’s blog post comes from Jaison Antoniazzi, a 20+ year OpenEdge expert from Brazil and author of two books in Portuguese on OpenEdge.
Jaison has embarked on an ambitious project for 2022: 365 days of Progress OpenEdge development tips, which he is sharing on LinkedIn!
Tip #1: Setting up a development env
This first tip is to create a development shortcut for building programs. First step is to collect three files that we will use in this shortcut, these are: