This session cannot give an answer, but can give you some oversights over the choices you have and gives you a sample application for every type shown.

Starting from a simple VO application based on DBF tables you will see possibile developments from a simple migration to a WPF application.

Furthermore, we'll learn what's behind the word MAUI and whether we can use X# to build apps for Android, iOS, Windows and Mac Catalyst operating systems.  We will build a simple application that will be installed on a smartphone and that will allow to edit data from a MySQL database on a remote server. We will also learn how to create web services and how to do CRUD operations on data so retrieved.

Wolfgang Riedman

Wolfgang Riedmann is the founder of the small software house Riedmann GmbH in Meran, South Tyrol , Italy, specialized in individual software development.

After working in Cobol on a mainframe, he started to work in Clipper, and then in VO starting with the long awaited prerelease. When X# was presented, he put in production the first small applications written in this language, and today more than the half of ist work time is done in X# using XIDE.

Wolfgang wrote also some articles in the Software Development Techniques journal, and spoke also on some VO and X# conferences.

Living in Italy, but with German mother language, he also has connection in both the German and the Italian X# and VO community.

Andrej Terkaj

Andrej Terkaj, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering , born and living in Slovenia..

I started my professional career in 1980 as a software project manager in Iskra Delta, the largest Slovenian computer company to date.

In 1987 I founded private company Task Ltd, where I was not only the owner, but mainly a software developer.

After more than 30 active years in the development of software for the logistics and maintenance sector (Computer Maintenance Management System Radix ) I closed Task Ltd. in 2018 as my retirement was approaching.

I am a long-time VO developer, since the very beginning of Visual Objects, and before that I used other programming languages: Nantucket Clipper, Ashton Tate dBase, Borland Turbo Pascal and Fortran.

Within the Visual Objects programming language I also used bBrowser and VO2Ado to be able to successfully manage data for different relational databases, most of them MS SQL Server

I've taken programming as part of my life, so now I'm even more immersed in modern programming tools.

Nikos Kokkalis

Nikos Kokkalis studied Computer Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace, and there also earned his doctorate. He has worked as an independent software developer since 1996 for Anadelta Software and Intracom Telecom. Since 2016 he is an employee of Intracom Telecom. During 2011 - 2015 he was a member of the GrafX development team. Since Sept. 2015 he has been a member of the XSharp development team.

Often programmers think that SQL is SQL and that there are no big differences. Unfortunately this is not correct, and since I have programming experience with several big SQL database engines, I will first present an quick overview of some of the most used products and their strengths and licenses (open source and commercial).

Then I will show some differences than affect the programming with these and that need to be respected when working with them.

As last part, I will show an approach how to build libraries with a simple common interface that is able to mask some of the differences between the different engines.

Of course, the sources of these libraries will be shown and will be available for download after the conference.

I am very happy with the opportunities I have to acquire the latest knowledge in software development. I have finally found the environment I have been looking for more than 10 years, so that I could at least partially use my "old Visual Objects" - tested code and move it to a web applications.

The main purpose of my talk will be to introduce you to the possibilities of web development with the X# programming language. Yes it is written correctly. X# in a web environment. It might be better to write X# and Blazor together. The Blazor environment is the one that will show us that this is also possible. There is nothing written in the literature or in the media about this. Personally, I came up with the idea of trying X# in the Blazor environment, because Blazor is based on C# and C# is based on the .NET (code name Roslyn) compiler platform. And Roslyn is a set of open source compilers and APIs not only for C# but also for X#.

I'll show a concrete example that will demonstrate a simple working application using X# Core dialect and migrate it to the Azure Service Cloud. We will show how different programming languages (from X#, C#, HTML, CSS, javascript) can interact with each other and how a small application is visible on different operating systems and devices (including Android and iOS). In this example, we will perform simple CRUD operations using different methods of accessing the SQLite database. Last but not least, we will finally demonstrate the correctness of our choice of Blazor framework in the latest MAUI environment.

My last goal for this talk is to say: it's never too late to learn new technologies. My topic will offer you the possibility or the way to use X# in apps that will look much fresher to the younger generations than the established windows forms GUI.

Now you have the chance to put on your the .Net Core big boots and try to jump as many high steps as possible.

Showing VFPXPorter application; How it can move Forms & Projects of a VFP Application to XSharp, WinForms and Visual Studio projects. What changes it implies, some common troubles we may have and how to solve them.

Working with scripts in X#: taking advantage of the compiler and macro compiler.
How to script and why. Interacting with scripts. Exposing APIs and security concerns.
Analyzing code and finding problems. Code generation.
All these and more in a session about programmatically working with source code.

So far the most of us have created applications for the .Net Framework.
Parallel to the .Net Framework there are several other versions of .Net, for example .Net Standard, .Net Core, .Net 5, .Net 6 and .Net 7. There were also .Net versions for other platforms, such as Mono and Xamarin.

This session tries to put these various implementations of .Net in perspective and will show you how you can use X# for these various targets.
We will also look at the X# build system and how you can create applications for these different target platforms.

During this session various customers will demonstrate the programs that they created with X# and explain some of the decisions that they have made during the migration process.