Limitations of the Express version
This help page presents some limitations of WinDev 15 Express in relation to "WinDev 15 commercial version".

Reminder: WinDev 15 Express is a "limited" version of WinDev 15. This version enables you to discover the main features of WinDev 15.

To check all the features of WinDev 15, some examples of "WinDev 15 commercial version" are supplied with this trial version.

Main limitations of the Express version

  • The performance of the applications developed with the Express version as well as some processes of the editors may be slowed down.
  • Some objects handled by WinDev 15 Express are prefixed by "EXPRESS".
  • A project created with "WinDev 15 commercial version" cannot be opened by WinDev 15 Express.
  • A project or an element created with WinDev 15 Express can be opened by "WinDev 15 commercial version". To use the project (or the elements) of the Express version without inopportune messages, the project (or the elements) must be saved in "WinDev 15 commercial version". For the project, an upgrade of the project may also be required ("Project .. Other .. Upgrade the project").
  • WinDev 15 Express does not allow you to import the projects developed with the earlier versions.
  • The Source Code Manager (SCM), used to share and manage the resources (source code, windows, reports, ... ) is not available.
  • WinDev 15 Express cannot be used in network by several developers. Only a single-computer use is allowed.
Note: A project created with an earlier Express version (WinDev 12 Express for example) can be opened and handled by WinDev 15 Express.

Limitations specific to each editor

Express VersionCommercial Version
Project editor
Windows per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Windows per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Reports per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Classes per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version8,000
Sets of procedures per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Procedures per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version5,000 for each project element
Global or locale variables per project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version65,500
Processes of a project: Maximum number of linesLimited in the Express version65,500
Number of components imported into a projectLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Elements in a project: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Application RAD: Number of files taken into accountLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Languages of a projectLimited in the Express version20
Renaming the frameworkNot allowed in the Express versionAllowed
Common renamed frameworkNot allowed in the Express versionAllowed
Importing a Visual Basic or Access projectNot allowed in the Express versionAvailable
User groupwareThe user groupware cannot be customized in the Express version.Fully customizable
Component
  • A component created with the Express version cannot be imported into a project created with WinDev commercial version.
  • The components used by a project cannot be translated in the Express version.
Internal component: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Miscellaneous
  • No RAD pattern can be created in the Express version.
  • The stand-alone messaging is not available in the Express version.
Window editor
Controls per window: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version5,000
Procedures per window: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version5,000
Process: Maximum number of linesLimited in the Express version65,500
Languages selected for a window: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version20
Internal windows: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Window templates: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Control templates: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Miscellaneous
  • At run time, "Express Version" is displayed in the windows created with the Express version.
  • The Feedback component (used to manage the user feedback for the applications) is not available in the Express version.
Report editor
Controls per report: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version5,000
Procedures per report: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version5,000
Process: Maximum number of linesLimited in the Express version65,500
Languages selected for a report: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version20
Miscellaneous
  • "Express Version" is displayed in the "Start of document" block of the reports created with the Express version.
  • The PDF format cannot be used as report background in the Express version.
  • The print preview cannot be customized in the Express version.
  • Reports and Queries is not available in the Express version.
Data model editor
Files: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version65,535
Items per file: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version65,535
Keys per file: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version65,535
Items per analysis: Maximum numberLimited in the Express version65,535
Miscellaneous
  • Each file created with the Express version contains an item named "EXPRESS VERSION".
  • The translation of the names of items and files for Reports and Queries is not available.
Query editor
Files per query: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Help editor
Not available in the Express versionAvailable
Modeling editor
Templates: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Objects per template: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
UML editor
Objects per diagramLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Engine of HyperFileSQL database
Files, aliases, views or queries opened simultaneously: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Files that can be described dynamically by HDescribeFile, HDeclare, HDeclareExternal, HAliasExternal, HDBOpen, HDBCreation: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Files that can be opened in transaction: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Assisted universal replication (ReplicEdit, ReplicAdmin and ReplicSynchro)Not available in the Express versionAvailable
Logged replication:
  • Per network: Maximum number of files that can be used:
  • Per movable support: Maximum number of files that can be used:
Limited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Generated executables
Miscellaneous
  • A warning message is regularly displayed when using the applications created with the Express version.
  • The applications created with the Express version are automatically closed once they have been used during 1 hour.
  • The lifetime of the applications created with the Express version is limited (a few weeks).
  • No 64-bit executable can be created in the Express version.
  • The Java generation is not available in the Express version.
Setup editor
Files that can be installed: Maximum numberLimited in the Express versionUnlimited (depending on the resources of the current computer)
Miscellaneous
  • The use of a custom installer is not allowed in the Express version.
  • The Express version does not allow you to create setup programs on diskettes (or on simulation of diskettes).
  • The Express version does not allow you to create setup programs via MSI.
  • The Express version does not allow you to install the Hyper File Client/Server server.
  • The Express version does not allow you to download the framework.
  • The setup modes in network and in Push are not available with the Express version
Various limitations
  • The ODBC driver on HyperFileSQL is not supplied with the Express version.
  • The tools are also supplied in Express version.
  • WDTEST ("Regression test" center) is not available in the Express version.
  • "WDClip" (tool for clipping windows) is not available in the Express version.
  • "WDConver" (tool for importing the external databases) is not available in the Express version.
  • "WDModFic" (tool for applying the modifications made to the data files in the data model editor to the end-user computers) is not available in the Express version.
  • The native accesses are not available in the Express version.
  • The RTF text editor is not available in the Express version.
  • The link with the external languages (C++, C#, Java, Basic, Cobol, Fortran, and so on) is not available in the Express version.
  • No SOAP application can be deployed.
Free Technical Support
Not available for the Express version.

See the official newsgroups for more details.

15 free queries (phone and email).

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