[DUG] BDS2006 or Rad 2007 & the web

[Sean Cross]

See below.

Sean

From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Charlie
Sent: Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:51 a.m.
To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Subject: [DUG] BDS2006 or Rad 2007 & the web

I have both the BDS2006 & RAD 2007 versions of Delphi. I'm currently using the BDS2006 version as I could never get the help feature to work with RAD 2007 for my windows order entry application. This application uses dBase files. I'm also using the following 3rd party components: Infopower 2007, AceReporter, JEDI, & SMImport. The customer is a small manufacturing company which has a WinXP Pro peer-to-peer network, the workstations are mostly WinXP with perhaps 1 or 2 Vista machines.
I need suggestions/recommendations with the following:

1)    I essentially have no database experience except for dBase, Paradox and Access. If I eventually want to have this application so that customers could enter orders on the web what do you recommend I consider for a database
Not those!
Sql Server Express (free for the db size you are likely to need, use the dbGo components that come with Delphi) or Firebird.  I use SQL server for nearly everything.


2)    My customer would like for his customers to be able to access the application to determine the status of their orders. What have you found that enables concurrent users to do this?
Not quite sure what you mean here.  Web apps are concurrent by nature.  Desktop apps on different computers can both access the db at the same time providing you have a suitable database.


3)    Has anyone been able to take a Win32 application and make in work as a web application? Where do I start? What version of Delphi do I use? What database? Was the conversion process very time consuming and costly?
It depends on how well you wrote the original  app :).  If all the data access is done on datamodules, then it is much easier than if the data access components are on forms.  Either way, you are starting a new application and trying to reuse as much as possible rather than converting the original app.


4)    I have tried viewing and studying the demos/examples that came with my versions of Delphi to learn how to create a web application. I guess I'm dense but I'm having a difficult time with these. A few months ago I had the opportunity to work some with Visual Studio. I found tons of tutorial videos and examples that help tremendously with the learning curve. I haven't found that with the Delphi examples that I have. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Look at Intraweb aka VCL for the web.  It is the easiest for what you want to do.  You will still need to recreate the ui, but you may be able to keep the data modules.  Use the latest version of Delphi that you can.


5)    All I am is a guy that always wanted to be a programmer but never really had the opportunity to program day in and day out. So I'm always in these huge learning curves. I sincerely appreciate any suggestions you can give me.
Thank you so much,
Charlie


Charlie Kerscher
'A Magisterium Faithful Catholic'
Williamson GA
Cell: 770.468.1757

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