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    #1

    Desktop or Web?

    What is the recommended way to develop applications in alpha five v11? Could it be possible to develop a web app that runs without an internet connection on a local area network?
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    Re: Desktop or Web?

    What is the recommended way to develop applications in alpha five v11?
    I don't know anything about web apps so I would recommend desktop.

    Could it be possible to develop a web app that runs without an internet connection on a local area network?
    Yes, it is possible.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Desktop or Web?

      Originally posted by JetLi View Post
      Could it be possible to develop a web app that runs without an internet connection on a local area network?
      You need internet connection to activate server.

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        #4
        Re: Desktop or Web?

        Check out Alpha IIS Jet.
        See our Hybrid Option here;
        https://hybridapps.example-software.com/

        Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
        You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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          #5
          Re: Desktop or Web?

          You need internet connection to activate server.
          I would bet there is a way around that, but even so, it only has to be done one time.

          Both are recomended, it just depends who you ask. Were I building and lan app, it would be desktop. If you asked someone like Steve Wood, he would probably go was.

          I think I can have a deskto[ up faster with less hassle and it would go faster. The two apps could do the same exact job, but would look almost nothing alike(I think).
          Dave Mason
          [email protected]
          Skype is dave.mason46

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            #6
            Re: Desktop or Web?

            Thank you for the replies,appreciate it.

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              #7
              Re: Desktop or Web?

              I started desktop, thinking I'd run both. Doing the web is a whole separate learning curve and some things don't transfer. For instance, if you are dbf, on the desktop you use "sets" that are developed in the same space as tables, but cannot use those in your web application - you have to recreate any of that in Views for use on the web. So, if there's the slightest chance you will ever deploy to the web, even if it's an internal web site, I'd either go web right from the start, or be very conscious of that and learn/develop things in tandem. If I had it to do over again, I would have gone straight to web.

              I would also recommend you make a very conscious decision between DBF and SQL right from the start. I started DBF and am just now learning SQL so I can switch. I may not have been able to pull off going SQL from the start (I knew what a "database" is, but not much more!), but if I could have, I'd be farther ahead now. There are a lot of great folks here who can advise you on that if you need guidance.
              Last edited by WendyWelton; 01-12-2012, 07:35 PM. Reason: spelling icks
              Wendy Welton
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              past & future Alphaholic - deliberately falling off the wagon!

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                #8
                Re: Desktop or Web?

                Thanks Wendy, hope that others will give advice,

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