Here is a longer video (about 10 mins) showing how to create a Navigator control visually with PPL 2.

By popular demand here is a list of everything included in the separate PPL 2 packages:

PPL 2 Base Edition:

1. Create executable from the IDE.
2. Realtime code profiling and memory leaks detection.
3. Visual Programming, drag & drop.
4. Visual project manager allow simple object creation.
5. Visual Form Builder.
6. Auto-update installed components and packages.
7. Code-completion (Intellisense).
8. Tag search. Type english like phrase to find anything you want.
9. Smart moves (intelligent drag and drop of objects).
10. Integrated programmable Shell.
11. Intelligent help system and tooltips.
12. Open IDE API to create your own plugins.
13. Auto code templates.
14. Build components visually.
15. Advanced Help File Editor.
16. Syntax formatter.
17. Batch processor to create multiple objects at a time.
18. Find Wizard, search for anything, anywhere.
19. Visual Matrix data type editor.
20. Image list editor.

Orion Database Package:

1. Visual Query Editor.
2. Visual Report Builder.
3. Table Editor.
4. Database visual creation.
5. Table visual creation.
6. PDatabase, PTable, PGrid, PDBControl, PDBEdit, PDBCheckBox, PDBNavigator, PReport, PBand, PRText, PRDBText.
7. Database Project Templates.

Swirl Game Package:

1. Visual Map editor.
2. Surface Editor.
3. PGame, PMap, PSprite, PPhysicSprite, PWorldSprite, PLayer, PSoundEngine, PMusic, PSound
4. Game Project Templates.

Windows Mobile SDK:

1. Can create executables for Windows Mobile platforms.
2. Can compile and debug using Windows Mobile platforms.

Hey all, it has been quite a while since I’ve posted some updates. Don’t worry we are hard at work and we are getting somewhere.

We now have a Batch Operation dialog that allows you to set properties on multiple objects in one click. Same goes for creating a series of objects in one click.

Work on the Orion database engine started again this week. Yes, we’ve worked on it long ago and didn’t have time to retouch it. Now, we are putting polishing and we’ve came up with really cool stuff.

For example, creating a database with multiple tables, is a matter of dragging components to the project manager and select the database object and click ‘Create Database’, this will create the database file and create all the tables according to the fields specification you’ve specified.

Next is our visual query builder module and the report editor. The report editor module has not been worked on at all, so we are not sure yet what we will do, we would really like it to run on the Windows Mobile devices (in preview mode) but if it is too complicated we are going to go with an already made report builder.

So, in to sum up, the database support in PPL 2.0 will be very advanced (still SQLite based for portability and very small) fully object-oriented, create tables visually, create queries visually and create reports visually.

Our goal with PPL 2.0, is to offer a tool that is easy to use but also very powerful.

Work on promotion videos has started and we will be releasing small clips of the cool features you will be able to use in PPL 2.0.

Until next time, enjoy life!

There are a few new features I would like to include into PPL 2.0 before its official release:

• Real time memory analyzer with report, graph and chart.
• Real time profiler with report, graph and chart.
• Visual programming (icon based and all object-oriented).
• Visual SQL query builder and visual table builder.
• Report designer.
• SSL encryption.

The real time analyzers won’t be a huge job and will provide real time information about memory consumption and speed issues in your program.

The visual programming tool is pretty much all on paper right now, it should not be too hard and will provide PPL 2.0 with almost no coding application development.

The Enterprise components (SQL builders, table builders, Report designer and SSL encryption) will most probably use third party components integrated into the development environment.

Most of the higher level tools will probably be part of the Pro or Enterprise version. I am thinking about including three versions: Trial, Pro and Enterprise.

Chances are, we will start selling the versions with less features first and release the higher end versions later, nothing is set in stone just yet but it is a possibility.

As you may noticed from the way PPL 2.0 is shaping up, it is a HUGE step forward in the right direction (hopefully) and is going to target business developers and will focus less on Windows Mobile development. The platform is really going downhill, we hope it will have a second life if Microsoft wants it to.