Xbasic is Alpha Anywheres built-in programming language. Out of the box, Alpha Anywhere is a powerful database and application development software package. You can use Alpha Anywhere for lots of different information management needs without doing any programming by using the Alpha Anywhere menus, commands, and Genies.

A dialog, or dialog box, is used throughout Windows programs to interact with the user. A dialog can be used to gather information from the user, or to present information to users. Xdialog is an extremely powerful and flexible language for describing a standard Windows dialog box. In fact, testament to the power and flexibility of Xdialog is the fact that much of what's new in Alpha Anywhere is written using Xdialog.

Covers a range of topics including selecting a database, creating a grid component, selecting data to use and display in the component, and how to view the component in a browser.

Selwyn Rabins explains how to use the major features of the Xbasic debugger.

Below is a very basic server that you could expand to use multiple sockets and threads as required. It should give you a good starting point on how to use sockets in Xbasic. It does not implement any specific protocol on top of the sockets: that is left to you.

Learn how to use Xbasic in Desktop applications.

Learn how to call Xbasic in a UX or Grid component from working preview or opened in a window in a Desktop application.

The .a5tut extension is used for defining an interactive tutorial.

Operators are used to write logical, arithmetic, character, date, time, and comparison expressions in Xbasic.

How to filter the records that an application displays