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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>See below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Charlie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 1 September 2009 10:51 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> delphi@delphi.org.nz<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DUG] BDS2006 or Rad 2007 & the web<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>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 3<sup>rd</sup> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>I need
suggestions/recommendations with the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Not those! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>It depends on how
well you wrote the original app </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>.
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5)<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Thank you so much,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Charlie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Consolas;color:#365F91'>Charlie Kerscher<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Consolas;color:#365F91'>'A Magisterium Faithful Catholic'<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Consolas;color:#365F91'>Williamson GA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Consolas;color:#365F91'>Cell: 770.468.1757<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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