| Who should use Prescient Author? |
| Prescient Author is ideal for anyone developing database driven dot Net Applicatons. |
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| Why should I use Prescient Author? |
Prescient Author is a true Rapid Application Develeopment (RAD) tool that drastically reduces development time, effort and cost.
Prescient Author captures your entire design intent (database, forms, menus, reports, dashboards) and works with throughout the project cycle.
One of the most important feature of Prescient Author is its ability to work with changing requirements |
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| Do I have to be an expert .NET developer to use Prescient Author? |
No, you don't. Prescient Author generates many components of your application like logins, forms, menus, reports along with the application architecture.
You may have to code your complex business logic manually. So some understanding of coding is required. |
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| What setup is needed to use Prescient Author? |
| Prescient Author is compatible with different editions of Windows XP and Vista. You would need Visual Studio 2005 or later to build and run the generated application. Finally you'd need MS SQL server 2000 or later on your machine or on your network. |
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| Can Prescient Author take care of changing requirements of my client? |
Yes, of course. Prescient Author captures your complete design intent (database tables, forms, menus, reports etc) and works very well with changing requirements.
You can always go back and add a couple of fields to your database tables, change couple of reports, change the role based reports/dashboards all with just a few clicks!! |
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| Can Prescient Author allow my team to simultaneously work on different modules? |
Prescient Author supports modularised development. Your team can simultaneously work on same or different module.
With Prescient Author's "Module Merge", merging all the work is just a few clicks away. |
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| Can I provide user authentication using Prescient Author? |
| Applications you create with Prescient Author have built in support for user authentication. You don't have to write any code to support this. |
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| Can Prescient Author help me build complex applications? |
| Yes. Prescient Author can be used very effectively to build complex applications. Its features like Module support, Module merge, Database synch greatly simplifies collaborative development of a complex system. |
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| Is the auto generated code readable? |
| Yes. It is certainly readable, well structured and appropriately commented. |
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| Can I change the auto generated code? |
| Yes, you can. |
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| How is manually written/edited code handled by Prescient Author? |
Prescient Author uses "partial" file mechanism to offer you flexibility in changing implementations of .cs files, for example customer.cs is split into customer.cs and customer_partial.cs, you are free to add your code in the partial file.
In some cases, you may need to change the author generated .cs file itself. Even that is possible by copying these files to a special folder and everytime you regenearte code using Prescient Author, it copies your modified files on top of generated code. |
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When I upgrade from Prescient Author Standard to Professional can I use my legacy "ath" files? |
| Yes, all the "ath" files created by Prescient Author Standard version are readable in Prescient Author Premium version. |
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