The purpose of this manual is to provide an introduction to the functionality and features of the OpenEdge® Visual Designer. The OpenEdge Visual Designer is a plug-in for Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge that allows you to build user interfaces for OpenEdge applications. You create user interfaces with OpenEdge Visual Designer by dragging and dropping .NET controls on a Design Canvas.
In addition to providing a general description of the Visual Designer, this manual includes a tutorial that describes how to use several of the .NET controls that are installed with the Visual Designer. You will see how to set some of the common properties associated with a control, how to associate a control with a data source, and how to implement event handling.
The tutorial is not meant as a guide for the application architecture or the coding practices that you would use to implement a real-world application. Rather, it is meant to show the power and flexibility of the Visual Designer to create a GUI using .NET objects to implement forms and controls.
