100% DataEase
LegEasy4DOS Professional is a "pioneer" that showcase the future of DataEase.
No! The future is not retro, and the bit about it that is pioneering is not the fact that you can fun DataEase for DOS applications.
That feature is basically just how it should always have been and a catch-up with our history.
Take a closer look - The entire product is made IN DataEase following up on a "slogan" we had when we sat out to refurbish DataEase.
DataEase need to be made in DataEase!
LegEasy4DOS - How it works?
The interest in LegEasy4DOS has been "overwhelming" since we released it at the end of last week.
A lot of eagerly awaiting Professional clients jumped at it and the feedback was not late to come.
Most of you are overjoyed and excited by this opportunity to run DataEase for DOS in a modern environment, and more than happy to scrap your old XP computers and Novell servers that has kept you up at night with worry - when will it draw its last breath and what will I do then?
However not all feedback is good and some of you have been "disappointed" too.
Some of this disappointment is down to us having problem with our server park after the release due to an unexpected heavy load - don't they always say that - but some of you have been running bench mark tests and compared it to "Native" DfD on Native XP, WIndows 7 x32 etc. and the results has baffled you.
Why is it sometimes much slower and then sometimes much faster than the comparison?
In the article below we will try to explain this and how LegEasy4DOS is designed and how it works.
LegEasy4DOS Professional Release 05.08.16
The response to our Personal version of L4D has been fantastic and it has given us great motivation in the work leading up to the release of our long awaited Professional version of L4D.
We won't spend too much time extrapolating its virtues here but limit ourselves to announcing it's release and showcase its beauty ;-)
Further down the article you will find the FREE FOR ALL Trial Key you can use to get the first "spin" in this brand new interpretation of DataEase (for DOS).
New Support Manager and new Support Products introduced
For a long time we have been focusing on improving our software products, but we have now entered a new phase where we will focus more and more on the entire customer experience.
One issue that has been raised more often than others is the lack of a dedicated support service so this is one of the areas were we will now focus.
Last month we hired Fatma Adel as our new Support Manager. She has now had some time to settle in and are more than eager to start helping you resolve your issues.
100% DataEase
LegEasy4DOS Professional is a "pioneer" that showcase the future of DataEase.
No! The future is not retro, and the bit about it that is pioneering is not the fact that you can fun DataEase for DOS applications.
That feature is basically just how it should always have been and a catch-up with our history.
Take a closer look - The entire product is made IN DataEase following up on a "slogan" we had when we sat out to refurbish DataEase.
DataEase need to be made in DataEase!
LegEasy4DOS - How it works?
The interest in LegEasy4DOS has been "overwhelming" since we released it at the end of last week.
A lot of eagerly awaiting Professional clients jumped at it and the feedback was not late to come.
Most of you are overjoyed and excited by this opportunity to run DataEase for DOS in a modern environment, and more than happy to scrap your old XP computers and Novell servers that has kept you up at night with worry - when will it draw its last breath and what will I do then?
However not all feedback is good and some of you have been "disappointed" too.
Some of this disappointment is down to us having problem with our server park after the release due to an unexpected heavy load - don't they always say that - but some of you have been running bench mark tests and compared it to "Native" DfD on Native XP, WIndows 7 x32 etc. and the results has baffled you.
Why is it sometimes much slower and then sometimes much faster than the comparison?
In the article below we will try to explain this and how LegEasy4DOS is designed and how it works.
LegEasy4DOS Professional Release 05.08.16
The response to our Personal version of L4D has been fantastic and it has given us great motivation in the work leading up to the release of our long awaited Professional version of L4D.
We won't spend too much time extrapolating its virtues here but limit ourselves to announcing it's release and showcase its beauty ;-)
Further down the article you will find the FREE FOR ALL Trial Key you can use to get the first "spin" in this brand new interpretation of DataEase (for DOS).
New Support Manager and new Support Products introduced
For a long time we have been focusing on improving our software products, but we have now entered a new phase where we will focus more and more on the entire customer experience.
One issue that has been raised more often than others is the lack of a dedicated support service so this is one of the areas were we will now focus.
Last month we hired Fatma Adel as our new Support Manager. She has now had some time to settle in and are more than eager to start helping you resolve your issues.
LegEasy 4DOS - Update!
We are and should be very happy when an upcoming release of a DataEase product cause this much of a stir, but it is also a sobering moment.
We obviously still have some catching up to do with our new products before they reach the same popularity as the early versions of DataEase.
Luckily the "re-launch" of DataEase for DOS is part of our DataEase infrastructure strategy so you will now be able to run your legacy apps well into this century when at the same time integrate them with the latest DataEase technology.
Locking Strategies for dummies!
Ever wondered why you have so much trouble with inconsistency and being locked out of your DataEase database? If the answer is YES, read one and discover how you can easily remedy it.
Full, Basic, Opportunistic - What does this really mean? We get a lot of questions about which locking to choose in DataEase, and the answers we have give - are giving, have changed over the years. I guess that if this was a simple as it "should be", there wouldn't even be three options in DataEase, and we wouldn't leave this is in your hands.
I have spent quite a lot of times over the years debating and exploring this myself, and the problem is that it is more of a philosophical problem, than a technical one. Pictures this as going into a Chinese restaurant and ordering. You get a many with 500 items, and you are vaguely familiar with 3 of them, so what do you do. Choose what you know, or go for the set menu...
[{8}]five Release and Release program.
Finally...
DataEase {[8}]five went into production today and from now on it will be all about 8.5 and beyond.
We have now concluded the longest Beta program in DataEase history - 427 days or over 1 year and 2 months.
So why so little fanfare on this watershed day?
Warning! Price increase on DataEase 8 from January 1st
We are changing how we license DataEase from Januar 1st 2016.
In short we will stop dividing licenses (and executables) in Developer (Full) and GROUP (Runtime) and introduce a simple User License and one executable that will be either a development environment or a Application Launcher based on the users privileges.
The change might seem dramatic at first, but you will get much more functionality and flexibility.
This is just an early warning to those of you that plan to buy DataEase 8 in the near future, more information on the change in product and licensing strategy will follow.
Dynamic Design - A New paradigm in DataEase development
ExecDQLClass(), CreateTable(), AddColumn()* signify a complete breach with previous DataEase thinking.
From its infancy in the early 80ies and throughout its life until DE8 there was a clear divide in DataEase between Design and Runtime. (At least in the head of the designers, but the fact that most people used it interactively and added and changed to it in real time was not taken into account)
Tables, Scripts, Forms, Reports was froozen in runtime and there was few if any way you could make your application dynamic.
How this has changed in 8....
How to create CDFs for use in DE8/DG3
This is how you create your own CDFs using Visual Studio 2013. I selected to use this version because any one can get a full version for free as long as you register with MicroSoft. You should be able to recreate this in any version of Visual Studio in almost the same way as described here. Not much has changed in creating Windows DLLs in the last 20 years. You probably can do the same using other compilers as MinWin GCC and Embarcadero, but that is outside the scope of this document.
Migrating from DFW 5.x and 6.x to DE8.5 including National Versions
If you want to encompass DataEase problems in one word it must be Migration. It is fascinating that a company that has had so little success with this concept, has sworn to it for such a long time.
It is a badly hidden secret that DataEase lost most of it users in the flawed and bodged migration of DFD application to early DFW, what is maybe not so well know is all the other "unsuccessful" migration events.
In this article we will explain what/why and how it went wrong and what you can do to work around it.
We reached our 1.000.000 visitor today 23rd of February 2015
At the beginning of the year we had estimated that we would get our 1.000.000 visitor at the 6th June this year, but with the Beta of 8.5 and the great feedback we have seen both visits on our website and sales sky-rocket and we reached the 1.000.000 threshold more than a Quarter ahead of schedule!
We just have to thank you all for your patience with us, and for your contributions and support throughout the last couple of years since we took charge.
We both hope and feel that our efforts and enthusiasm for DataEase has been well received and are reciprocated by you all!
A wholehearted thank you to your all from "The DataEase Team".
NEW! Functions in DataEase 8.0 to 8.5 (Page 1)
Some of you might be aware of it but it seems a lot isn't so it might be time to advertise a little the vast number of new functions and functionalities that has been added to DataEase 8.0 through 8.5.
For a long time the only way new functions found their way to DataEase was through active and ingenious users which developed CDF's. As much as the CDF's alleviated the obvious short-comings in DataEase 5.x to 7.2 it was cumbersome, undocumented and "secretive" i.e. not everyone was in the know.
With 8.x we decided that the focus needed to be on moving DataEase forward, rather than the constant dance around the "bug fixing" fire.
Have a look and a try for yourself.
Due to the number of new functions we had to publish the short description in two articles, of which this is the last.
Also have a look on the blog synopsis found in the list to the right.
NEW! ?Functions in DataEase 8.0 to 8.5 (Page 2)
Some of you might be aware of it but it seems a lot isn't so it might be time to advertise a little the vast number of new functions and functionalities that has been added to DataEase 8.0 through 8.5.
For a long time the only way new functions found their way to DataEase was through active and ingenious users which developed CDF's. As much as the CDF's alleviated the obvious short-comings in DataEase 5.x to 7.2 it was cumbersome, undocumented and "secretive" i.e. not everyone was in the know.
With 8.x we decided that the focus needed to be on moving DataEase forward, rather than the constant dance around the "bug fixing" fire.
Have a look and a try for yourself.
Due to the number of new functions we had to publish the short description in two articles, of which this is the first.
Also have a look on the blog synopsis found in the list to the right.
14/04/26 04:31:48 
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
u r welcome nevertheless . yup... The first and the only language on the planet before Babylon tower development is money. I need 7.2 legacy download working ;) Thank You very much!
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
13/04/26 17:41:07
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
Thank you for your message. I appreciate that English may not be your first language. However, I am sorry but I don't understand your last two messages.
To confirm: my DataEase 7.2 has been working normally since I updated the error-prone update to Windows 11, without any changes to the DataEase software for the last 14 years.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Anthony Kravitz
13/04/26 17:14:38
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
It is hard to hack old apps … so You have evmove.com , Evdat* even …
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
11/04/26 16:20:29
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Anthony Kravitz
11/04/26 16:02:14
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
thx for Your reply . For sure we need “something” unknown … here due to the war … hard to unlock to be short …
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
11/04/26 10:53:15
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
This is just a version available for people that bought it back in the day and its not retailed anymore. There is nothing this version do better than LE9 or DE8.5.
Dataease 7 was mostly a disappointment to users even though 7.2 rounded off that version quite well with a much more stable and usable version that the catatrophical versions 7.0 and 7.1 that led to the split up of the development team and the now defunct FFenics which in everything but the name was a 7.1.5.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: DataEase
10/04/26 09:29:38
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
“01/04/26 15:09:11 
Re:Re:DataEase access
There is no trial or testing serial for 7.2. Its just a legacy download.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: DataEase “ IÂ’ve downloaded that 7.2 legacy download nevertheless and … for sure the absence of the license key stopped me … may be is a bit little chance to continue this very important task here in Ukraine. Thank You sincerely for You reply …
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
09/04/26 19:04:21
Re:Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
"...........................................But 7.2 …how did you manage it without license key?"
I have always had license keys, each time I upgraded from the first DataMaster, through the first Windows versions up to 7.2.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Anthony Kravitz
09/04/26 17:52:01
Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
Thank You very much too! To be short weÂ’ve lived in Golden Epoch. Now it is stagnation everywhere! But I am confident that next DataEase will give us a pleasure we had from the very beginning … Glory to DataEase ! ps. But 7.2 …how did you manage it without license key nevertheless .. or that was anybody else in the case
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
07/04/26 15:03:42
Re:Re:DataEase access
Thanks. You wrote: "......................and take that story about CP/M and IBM and OS for the first IBM PC".
I remember those days well. I had a PC built for my business around 1998, and limited database software was written for me in CP/M. My brother worked for IBM at the time and, among his duties, he had to install prototype PCs running IBM DOS in small businesses for testing. I received one around 2000 and wrote a subsequent report about how I found it, given the still-limited software. That's around the time I purchased DataMaster. Later on, I gave an illustrated talk to around 30 small business owners at Datamaster's HQ in Ilfordabout my experience and demonstrated how to use a database.
Around 1981, I also purchased a program from Salt Lake City that was unknown here, called a spreadsheet. It was sold to me by the writer/owner Jim Button, who named it "PC-Calc". He was bought out by a company that developed it as "Lotus-123", and later on (I believe) it formed the basis for MS's Excel.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Anthony Kravitz
07/04/26 12:54:50
Re:DataEase access
Don't worry about us, you can't really waist the time here as all information about problem and possible problems is good to know.
We are handling a big old codebase ourselves and sometimes you can wonder how it can work at all with so many possibilities of things going wrong.
The current team has been in charge now for well over a decade and now we are very comfortable with the code, it quirks etc. but we can also see how different teams have had the same ideas without knowing the code base well enough to know what they want to "solve" has already been "solved" by another team in the past.
There is also a lot of examples where "improvements" has turned out to be the opposite because the developers didn't know enuogh about the history and why things were the way they were.
WIth that in mind we can imagine how it works over at Microsoft too and that new teams come in with "great" ideas and then end up messing with legacy functionality and introducing "hypes" that is not really improvements at all.
We have done all of that ourselves ;-)
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: DataEase
03/04/26 19:41:58
Re:DataEase access
donÂ’t worry … simply keep in mind and take that story about CP/M and IBM and OS for the first IBM PC into account… Glory to DataEase team nevertheless !
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
03/04/26 15:27:29
DataEase access
Thank you for your suggestions. I tried all of them, except trialling DataEase 9x, without success. At this stage of my later years of age, I did not want to move to a new platform.
However, I did learn that MS had fouled up their updates yet again last Friday. My problem only started after I accessed DE7 following that update, and it continued after the first "emergency update" released by MS on Tuesday, which I had installed. When I learnt of another "emergency update" on Thursday, I waited until I could install this and then once that was completed, I tried to open my DE program again - and it worked the first time".
Since then, during the following 36 hours, I have rebooted my PC a couple of times and opened my DE7 files again, without a problem.
The sloppiness of Microsoft has yet again wasted a lot of my time - and, of course, those of you on this Forum also. Sorry.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Anthony Kravitz
03/04/26 12:26:32 
Re:Application\Status log file?
Hi All! It seems to me that log files or even dumPs are looking like coding directly in 0 and 1 via engineering panel as it was in ancient times ;) New DataEase approach gives me the way to make forms tables dqlS printing outputs and etc. to get info needed from data … as it was in DFD Golden Age . Web or AI or something unknown now … it means nothing to user. Client needs info from Data and wants to get it Ease .. wish great success to DataEase this way!
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Product: Dataease [{8}]FIVE
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
02/04/26 15:34:35
Application\Status log file?
With a very old, many versions app, orphan code & forms tend to occur.
Application\Status is good to use to sort out and clean this up but some error messages do not give much info on where the error is.
Can it be set to write these errors to a log file which hopefully has detail of what form/table/action etc. was being processed when the error occurred?
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Product: Dataease [{8}]FIVE
Written by: Sam
02/04/26 09:43:37
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DE Player not loading successfully since LE9 7342 update
Curiosity killed the cat and all that. ;-) Most of our install packages never see the light of day i.e. is never published for the general public. We use and test them internally so we can get the best result in the end.
At the moment one of our projects is to make a DataEase portal where one can run DataEase in the cloud "native". We already have dataease.cloud which run a RemoteApp (RDP) solution via HTTPS but its a little "cumbersome" to use RDP so we are looking into better ways to run a Windows App like LE9/DE9/L4D in the cloud.
RemoteEase.exe is built in paralell with DataEase.exe and is basically the same if you don't have the RemoteEase einvironment that will run it via a browser rather than on your computer.
Our main goal for all LegEasy products is to allow existing users with big legacy application of which there is much, much more than one would think to continue using their legacy investments while opening up the applications/databases to web/apps and integration with just about anything via REST API.
Anyone that has set up a Micorosoft SQL server, a Web Server, a Mail Server or anything else know how complicated it all is and how unlikely you are to get it working unless being heavily committed and invested.
The point of DataEase is in the name, to make hard stuff easy (whcih argueably hasn't been true for a long part of the DFW era) but this is where the future for DataEase lay - making hard stuff easy again.
The time where self hosting big applications yourself is behind us. Now you just want to buy the service and be able to expand/add to it at will without having to buy the hardware/software and try to glue it all together.
RemoteEase will not be sold as an installable solution but just as a cloud service where you can then immediately open up your app via REST and build web/apps etc. on top while all your users will get access to the legacy application to via a web interface they can use on thei iPad, PC, Telefon etc.
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Product: Dataease 9 Developer
Written by: DataEase
01/04/26 19:39:20
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DE Player not loading successfully since LE9 7342 update
remoteease.exe behaves the same as dataease.exe.
If you logon with a startup doc as required for user access, then on logout there is prompt if want to logout.
If "OK" is chosen then it logs out.
If "CANCEL" is chosen then it opens the the app in developer mode and the user has full designer catalogue access.
This implies it is the similar to dataease.exe that can only be used for Developer access.
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Product: Dataease 9 Developer
Written by: Sam
01/04/26 16:45:48
Re:Re:Re:DataEase access
Thx a lot for Your reply!
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: Ihor Zakharchenko
01/04/26 15:09:11
Re:Re:DataEase access
There is no trial or testing serial for 7.2. Its just a legacy download.
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Product: DataEase for Windows 7.x
Written by: DataEase
01/04/26 14:03:52
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:DE Player not loading successfully since LE9 7342 update
If the users are set up in the application with login that will allow the Developer access you need to install the DEPLAYER distribution and use that instead.
LE9 can be installed/copied to server and used like DFD without the need for installation on each device. There are no dependencies to be installed on each device.
From 9.0.7354 we have changed how DataEase read the license number as well so the license number to be used on an app can be inserted into the RDRRxAAA.INI or in DATAEASE.INI etc
DE: extend initLicense to check ini files for licenses. This is the new order of how it is done:
1. RDRRxAAA.INI or RDRRxAAP.INI if player and it exists are checked for [LICENSE] Key=the licensekey for this application and if it exists, a key file is created in app directory
2. programappdata (ex. C:\ProgramData\DataEase\LegEasy 9 Developer) is checked for a file and if that exists it is copied to userappdata (Ex. C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\DataEase\LegEasy 9 Developer) if there not already are a key file
3. App directory
4. Dataease.ini or deplayer.ini if player is checked for [LICENSE]Key=the global license key and if it exists, it is written to userappdata
5. userappdata
6. programappdata
7. the exe that started this programs file path
8. if none of the above, license path is set to programappdata and a license dialog is shown
This means that there will be no need for setup or copying of files and DataEase can be updated in one location.
RemoteEase.exe will allow LE9/DE9 to be run "natively" on a server and accessed via Web browser with the correct distribution.
It is only included in the distribution for internal testing and will make no difference if used without the correct setup/distribution.
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Product: Dataease 9 Developer
Written by: DataEase
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