What is Clarion?
Clarion is a software development tool to help you get your business applications completed up to 10 times faster. Clarion features a Template driven Code Generator that automates the creation of complete Database Applications. Clarion features roundtrip Code Generation, which means that it preserves all of your hand-written code while still allowing you to make changes and re-generate your application, or any part of your application, as often as needed.
At the core of the Clarion IDE is the Data Dictionary -- a metadata repository which stores Table definitions, business rules, attributes for defaults on how columns should be displayed on Windows and Reports, and user defined options.
In Clarion, developer productivity doesn’t mean just a code editor and some wizards. Clarion extends your productivity with its focus on application Templates and underlying business class framework. Clarion enables you to tackle new business problems while decreasing the total cost of building applications.
The Clarion IDE provides a unified toolset for developing native code Win32 applications and pure .Net managed code applications for the desktop, web and mobile platforms, taking advantage of a common set of tools including rich Template sets, Visual Designers, Drag and Drop controls, and Code Completion. Templates enable developers to solve complex business problems while reducing the total cost of development.
Highlights
- Template-based roundtrip code Code Generation that preserves all of your own hand-written code while allowing you to re-generate your application as often as needed.
- Comprehensive Template set crafted by master programmers, hardened by years of use in the the real world
- Data Dictionary featuring reusable metadata to quickly create consistent "corporate quality" data-centric applications.
- Visual Data Modeller (Entity Relationship Diagrams - ERD).
- The Clarion IDE can be used to maintain and enhance applications built on previous versions of Clarion.
Code Completion is enabled for Clarion, including the following features:
Statement completion
Method parameter info
Quick info on item data type
List of available members
Syntax error marking