This new version of Alpha Five offers something for users of
every skill level. There are a lot of very exciting new features in
this release that make Alpha Five both easier to use and much more
powerful.
A signature feature of this release is 'active-link' tables,
which now allow you to build enterprise class applications against
SQL databases. This document describes all of the new features in
Version 9.
Many of the descriptions of the new features are accompanied by
video demonstrations. For a quick overview of what's new, we suggest
that you start on the 'Videos of Selected New Features' page. Thank
you for you continued support.
| 1. |
Extremely strong Client
Server (desktop) support for working directly with SQL
databases (stored Procedures are supported). |
| 2. |
Query optimizer for working
with SQL data. |
| 3. |
Ability to build highly
responsive web 2.0/Ajax applications in much less time than
in visual studio, Ruby or PHP. |
| 4. |
Interactive Reporting with
drill down. |
| 5. |
Full event model in Reports,
Browses Forms. |
| 6. |
Major enhancements to
Browses, XBasic, XDialog and Security. |
| 7. |
Major Enhancements to Forms
and Field Rules. |
| 8. |
Super Controls allows you to
place live reports, web content, PDF documents and more
directly in forms. |
| 9. |
Faster Web Performance. |
| 10. |
Virtual tables, XML Parser,
HTML memo fields with hyperlinks. |
| 11. |
Web Cluster for fail-over
and load balancing of large web apps. |
| 12. |
Alpha Five forms can include
HTML forms (with regular HTML tags and special Alpha Five
tags - accordion, tab, conditional, dynamic content, image). |