Get started building a .NET Open Client application using Microsoft Visual Studio

This section describes how to build a .NET Open Client application using Microsoft Visual Studio.

To begin building a client application that uses a .NET proxy:

  1. Run Microsoft Visual Studio .
  2. Create a new project.
  3. In your Solution Explorer window, add references to the following:
      • The proxy .dll file (created by ProxyGen)
      • The main OpenEdge .NET Open Client Runtime assembly (Progress.o4glrt.dll) in the ProxyGen output directory

Once you add a reference to the proxy .dll file, your new client application can access application server functionality through methods on the generated proxy objects. To view these proxy classes, bring up the Object Browser in Microsoft Visual Studio. The Object Browser allows you to examine objects (namespaces, classes, and so on) and their members in your project.