If you are building web or intranet applications

Alpha Five v10 with its patent pending CodeLess Ajax™ is the only product that lets you RAPIDLY build web apps that deliver the speed, richness and smoothness of a desktop application without having to learn to program using AJAX techniques (unless you want to!) - For more information about AJAX click here & here.

Until now building rich user experiences in web applications without the annoying "click and wait" of so many web apps has been very difficult, expensive time consuming and has required a deep understanding of AJAX. Alpha Five v10 with its patent pending Codeless AJAX (TM) breaks the mold and empowers you to build fast rich user interface web/intranet applications easily and quickly.

In fact, Version 10 Beta Testers have been telling us that with Alpha Five v10 they can build fast rich user interface web applications in 5-10x less time compared to using current tools like PHP, Visual Studio.net, Ruby, Java and JBuilder.

Key aspects of v10 in terms of building web applications.

V10 applications can easily include rich "desktop like" user interfaces because of AJAX powered elements such as javascript windows, conditional show/hide display of regions, a tightly integrated and enhanced security framework and a powerful built in and enhanced report writer with pdf reports that can be displayed in modal or modeless javascript windows.

V10 has an extremely comprehensive server side and client side event model which means that any 3rd party javascript library (such as DOJO and Jquery ) can be used to easily extend the product completely. Similarly on the server side, Alpha Five's xBasic code can be mixed with SQL code from any underlying SQL database you choose to use such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2 etc.

An important aspect of v10 is the strength of its data binding which means that connecting to any SQL database is fast and easy and it also makes it easy to set up master detail/parent child relationships for web applications.

Layout controls, which now include a page layout builder and a user interface builder, are very powerful in v10 and allow a web application developer to quickly create user interfaces with tabs, accordions, liquid forms, radio buttons etc that are reminiscent to what can be done on a desktop platform.

Alpha Five v10's mission is to save the developer the time normally spent on programming so that they can focus on the design and functionality of the application that they are developing. However, v10 does include an extremely powerful high level development language - xBasic, which ensures ultimate flexibility for developers.

If you are building desktop applications

In Alpha Five v10, All Web components can now be embedded onto desktop forms so that desktop applications can moved to a new level of usability, control and power!

And Alpha Five v10 has vital improvements in multiple other areas of desktop development such as:

• An improved Report Writer,
• Brand new state-of-the-art debugger
• Powerful new Supercontrols
• Major Form enhancements
• Automatic Backup and Version Tracking has been added,
• Dynamic Properties (with modeless editing) in all Layouts such as forms and reports
• Enhanced Action Scripting and xBasic

See videos of new desktop application features.