
TMS Web Core: Form Inheritance for RAD
In my last blog post, I stepped on the toes of OOP-purists. I will try to make up for it… Without getting into the discussion of software architecture, class inheritance is one of the pillars of building object-oriented applications. It is still a mystery to me how one of the most popular programming languages of the 1990s called itself ‘object oriented’ and lacked inheritance. I am talking about Visual Basic 6.0, of course.
So far, it was impossible to inherit forms in TMS Web Core applications. Now, the visual designer and the IDE integration have been upgraded to offer a premium RAD user-experience to build applications that make use of form inheritance.
Have a look at this tutorial how to facilitate form inheritance in your web applications: