February 2005 news:
- Electos 2.0 Released
- XML standards published
- Visual DataFlex Structure Viewer – free software
- Diary Dates
Electos 2.0 Released
Electos 2.0 for Visual DataFlex 10.1 is now available and includes many new features. Unicorn has recently developed a corporate intranet for the Ministry of Defence which has been a great success. Users are able to maintain and update pages with the minimum of training. Where required, access can be restricted to certain parts of the website, an image gallery can be created and much more.
An Electos Standard licence comes free of charge with each Visual DataFlex Developer licence and there are Professional and Developer editions. Professional design templates can be purchased to update or integrate with your existing web design at a fraction of the cost of the usual price of a professional design.
XML standards published
Three new web services XML standards have been published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that will make it easier to package and transmit binary data and improve performance.
W3C said the standards are needed as web services applications have to handle an increasingly diverse set of media formats and devices, including large schematics and graphical files.
XML-binary Optimised Packaging (XOP), the SOAP Message Transmission Optimisation Mechanism (MTOM), and the Resource Representation SOAP Header Block (RRSHB) are standards that will provide ways to package and transmit binary data included or referenced in a SOAP 1.2 message. For more information please visit www.w3.org/2005/01/xmlp-pressrelease
Visual DataFlex Structure Viewer 10.1
Hans van de Laar, a software developer working at Micros B.V. in The Netherlands has developed a nifty .exe for developers who need to maintain an up to date graphical representation of their data-model. It can produce a graphical view of your underlying system and the result provides an editable vector-based view. You will need a VDF 10.1 client licence to run the program but VDF Structure Viewer is free software and you can download it from www.dataaccess.nl
Diary Dates
9th April 2005 – Visual DataFlex Special Interest Group (VDF SIG)
26th April 2005 – Seminar on Dynamic AI – the browser-based reporting tool
6th-8th June 2005 – Data Access Worldwide Annual Conference