[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: OpenEdge 11.5 App Development Question

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If you have legacy ABL in the CHUI app, wouldn't you want to reuse any of that code? Rebuilding it all on ODBC (SQL92) will involve some effort. There is nothing wrong with WCF. It is still a pretty solid technology and has tons of flexibility. There is a learning curve that may be more significant than, say, REST/Web-API. It sounds like you are settled on winforms. That is a selection that you may want to be careful about. Winforms is a pretty easy technology to start with, especially if your requirements are simple. However it becomes very challenging to work with in the long run (as your requirements get more complex and the size of the application grows or changes over time).

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