Microsoft LightSwitch: Impressive, but not a tool for building big apps

By David Harms

Posted August 26 2010

Summary: Microsoft's LightSwitch product is now in public beta. It's is an impressive achievement, but at present, says Dave Harms, it's better suited to small .NET apps than to the kind of large-scale apps many Clarion developers create.

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A Callback Technique for Capesoft's FileManager2

12/21/2006 12:00:00 AM

CapeSoft's FileManager2, and its more recent incarnation FileManager3, are amazing products: they completely automate the process of upgrading client databases, whether local or across a network, and make it easy to do file maintenance. Randy Rogers shows how to add a callback procedure to FM2 to provide user feedback during startup.