4D and Git: From Beginner to Expert
So by now, you know that projects come with a tremendous benefit: the ability to use Git (the revision control system) and GitHub (the hosting service...
June 13, 2022
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Development Mode
Organize project mode development, manage Git workflows, handle concurrent work on 4D Server, control catalog changes, and maintain clean version control practices across environments.
NULL value to blank value? No more default mapping
When you create a new field in your database, 4D allows you to choose to map NULL value to blank values or not. Starting from 4D v19 R4, in new projec...
January 13, 2022
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XML invisible characters on stage!
Default End Of Line character and Byte Order Mark usage in text files have been modified in 4D v19 R2. With 4D v19 R3, 4D extends this behavior to XML...
October 11, 2021
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Simplified navigation between development windows
When writing a new function or method, or when creating a form, the work is never linear. We usually need to: access the explorer to find the form...
October 6, 2021
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An introductory guide to 4D and Version Control Systems
For many years, 4D has allowed you to develop binary databases as part of a team with a 4D Server. This way of developing is straightforward, but many...
October 1, 2021
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How to take advantage of GitHub actions with 4D
Your project is now on a source control system. This means that managing several versions of your software, monitoring changes, and integrating correc...
September 15, 2021
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Invisible Characters on Stage!
Best practices in IT sometimes change, and the management of certain invisible characters in text files is one example. End of Line (EOL) characters h...
July 20, 2021
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gitignore and 4D: a useful feature for Git users
Project mode allows you to easily track changes with Git, the most popular version control system. But often, you don’t want to track all the files of...
July 20, 2021
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More enhancements to the 4D debugger!
4D v18 R6 comes with new features in the code editor to make things easier for you when writing code. The same goes for the debugger. We know debuggi...
January 27, 2021
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Remote debugger: Debug server code on the client
There are many different client/server development scenarios, but in all of them, you need to switch between the client-side and the server-side to lo...
October 26, 2020
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