Basic Info Regarding Progress Usage in .Net

[parthivkansara]

Hi All,

I am a .Net developer having 3+ experience. I have been given a system which has been developed using MS-Access and Progress for Requirement Analysis. The client needs the MS-Access portion of the application to be migrated to .Net and the Progress part to be kept intact.

I am totally new to this Progress (4GL) Programming and doesn't have any knowledge abt it. As such the source code is provided by the client which consist of some Progress Files consisting of .f, .p, .i and several other extensions. I have got to know from internet that these are Form, Procedure and Information Files. But exactly am not able to understand how or by which tool this files are generated and how can i utilise them to know the exact functionality and working of the Application developed in Progress.

Can anyone provide me some basic knowledge regarding this.

Thanx in advance.

Regards,
Parthiv

 

[joey.jeremiah]

most likely, theres an export to access or basic sync with access for some type of integration

progress 4gl, again, in most cases works solely against a progress database/s

try taking out access and see what happens


theres a test drive version and docs @psdn.com you can install on your pc and start hacking

basic stuff is pretty simple, i think. but you might want to think about out sourcing that part of the job

another thing is if its not a very old version, v9 and up, you can also use odbc and jdbc for database access. hth

 

[Casper]

Allright,

Maybe a stupid remark, but if you only need the MS-access part of the application to be transformed to .NET (front end?), why would you bother to find out what the Progress part does?

You only need to find out what the part of ms-access is in the application. I assume that the MS-Access is used to make some kind of reports from the Progress database or is it also used as some kind of second database?.

I say this because if you have .f, .p and .i files (I quess there include files and not information files), I assume that there is also some kind of Progress interface which probably has to remain intact.


Regards,

Casper.