Clarion 'Net

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Clarion .Net

• Robert Zaunere
• CEO

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Technology Roadmap

Future Products
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Technology Roadmap - Core Products

• A unified IDE for
• Clarion win32
• (versions 4, 5, 6 and 7!)
• Clarion.Net
• C
• VB.Net

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Technology Roadmap - Core Products

• Focus on business and data.
• Clarion is a tool focused on building business
  applications. All of the new products build on
  that foundation.

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Technology Roadmap

• Migration
• Moving Clarion 6 applications to version 7 will
  be painless. (we promise!) But a because of a
  very nice feature in the new IDE you wont have
  to migrate your applications just to use the new
  IDE!

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Technology Roadmap

• Migration
• What to expect when moving to .Net
• Moving Clarion 6 applications to .Net will
  require some changes, but they are very small
  changes, and well make it easy as possible.

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Technology Roadmap

• Win32 is not dead, and it will be with us for a
  very long time. Clarion 7 is the next release
  for Win32, but there will be a new releases for
  Win32 in the future Clarion 8, and so on, for as
  long as Clarion developers need them.

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Platforms and operating systems

• Today
• Microsoft Windows
• Tomorrow with .Net
• Windows
• Linux, Solaris, Macintosh ?

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Platforms Supported with Clarion

• Clarion 7
• MS Win32 OSs
• Clarion.Net
• Desktop Applications
• Web Applications
• Mobile Devices

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Platforms Supported with Clarion

• .Net
• .NET is not tied to just the Windows operating
  system
• .Net version 2.0 includes support for managed
  code running on the x64 and Itanium 64-bit
  platforms
• 64-bit managed code support
• Windows Server 2003 SP1
• Future Windows 64 bit client releases ?
• You cannot install the .NET Framework version 2.0
  on Windows 2000. Programs produced using the .NET
  Framework versions 1.0 and 1.1 will run under
  WOW64 on a 64-bit operating system.

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Platforms Supported with Clarion

• Since .Net will be supported on future MS
  operating systems such as Longhorn, Clarion will
  have that same support.
• .Net is also supported on Linux and Mac OS using
  Mono with C or VB.Net
• DotGNU Portable.NET
• Supported operating systems GNU/Linux (on PCs,
  Sparc, iPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, PlayStation 2,
  Xbox,...), BSD, Cygwin/Mingw32, Mac OS X,
  Solaris, AIX.

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What well show today

• At the conference we'll be showing the first live
  look at the new IDE
• Well be compiling with Clarion 7 (Win32),
  Clarion.Net, and if time also with C and
  VB.Net. 
• We'll show Clarion.Net live applications running
  Winforms and Webforms.

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What we wont be showing

• Two components have been re-implemented but have
  not been completed
• AppGen
• Dictionary Editor

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About the IDE

• Its written in C, Clarion.Net, Clarion Win32 and
  C
• It comes with all the features you would expect
  in a modern IDE, and more..

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Platforms and operating systems

• Today
• Microsoft Windows
• Tomorrow with .Net
• Windows
• Linux, Solaris, Macintosh ?

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IDE - Features

• Project system
• Clarion Solution file
• The Clarion solution file is a collection of
  project files (.pr/prj and .appfiles). With a
  Clarion Solution you will be able to build
  multiple projects or .Apps from a single
  solution.

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IDE - Features

• Code Snippet Templates
• supported for Clarion.Net, C and VB.NET.

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IDE - Features

• Code Folding
• folding code regions is supported for Clarion, C
  and VB.Net. The folding state is remembered for
  you across development sessions.

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IDE - Features

• VS.NET Solution Import / Export
• You can import Visual Studio .NET solutions and
  project files. Export is also supported

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IDE - Features

• And much more
• a few of the other features that are supported
• syntax highlighting
• intelligent END braces
• User-defined bookmarks
• code snippet templates
• New Class wizard
• Class browser

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Clarion and .Net

• Why choose the Clarion language?

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.NET Framework Support on Windows

• Supports all of the .NET Framework except
  Microsoft ASP.NET
• Windows 98
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows ME
• Windows NT 4.0 (all versions - Service Pack 6a
  required)
• Windows XP Home Edition

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.NET Framework Support on Windows

• Supports the entire .NET Framework
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows 2003

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.Net Data Access 3 approaches

• Clarion Driver Technology
• Interop to Clarion7 drivers (unmanaged code)
• No change in Clarion File I/O syntax
• Possible port of some drivers to managed code
• ADO.NET(standard ADO using .Net Data
  Providers)
• Clarion Data Access Layer (DAL)
• Syntax looks like Clarion but uses .Net Data
  Providers

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.NET Framework data providers

• In the box from MS
• Data Provider for SQL Server
• SQL Server 7 and up
• Data Provider for OLE DB
• data sources exposed using OLE DB
• Data Provider for ODBC
• data sources exposed using ODBC
• Data Provider for Oracle

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.NET Framework data providers

• But there are many more providers, such as
• Sybase, MySQL, FireBird, Pervasive, Mimer and .

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Technology Roadmap

• What to expect in Clarion 7 and beyond
• Better Windows Themes Support
• As Theme support in the OS changes and improves
  so will the theme support in Clarion 7
• Some possible additions to the language
• Structured Exception handling
• New templates and classes
• And improvements to the existing ones
• The new IDE and all the productivity that it
  delivers

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• Demonstration of the IDE