Jason Williams (Progress Software) asked a question.
Several books in the OpenEdge documentation set contain example procedures that illustrate syntax and concepts. Some of these examples are available online, in the attached ZIP file. Note that these are the same examples that are installed by the OpenEdge Documentation and Samples (doc_samples) installation directory. If you have access to this directory, you can install the examples from it. If you do not have access to this directory, you can download the attached ZIP file and manually copy the files to openedge_install_dir\src\prodoc, which is typically c:\Progress\Openedge\src\prodoc.
The attached OpenEdge_11.0_Documentation_Examples.zip file contains the following directories and files:
Directory Listing -> Contains the documentation examples for...
prodoc\docnetobjects ->OpenEdge Development: GUI for .NET Programming
prodoc\dynamics -> The Progress Dynamics documentation
prodoc\getsartoop -> OpenEdge Development: Object-oriented Programming
prodoc\handbook -> OpenEdge Getting Started: ABL Essentials
prodoc\json -> OpenEdge Development: Working with JSON
prodoc\interfaces -> OpenEdge Development: Programming Interfaces
prodoc\langref -> OpenEdge Development: ABL Reference
prodoc\prodatasets -> OpenEdge Development: ProDataSets
prodoc\tranman -> OpenEdge Development: Translation Manager
prodoc\visualdesigner -> OpenEdge Getting Started: Introducing the Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge Visual Designer
prodoc\xml -> OpenEdge Development: Working with XML
In addition to the examples listed previously, the Documentation and Samples directory contains numerous sample files that support various OpenEdge tools. If you do not have access to this directory, you can download the attached ZIP file and manually copy the files to openedge_install_dir, which is typically c:\Progress\Openedge\.
The attached OpenEdge_11.0_Samples.zip file includes the following directories and files:
src\samples - Source files for OpenEdge tools and sample applications
src\sports2000 - The Sports 2000 database
tutorial - Progress Dynamics tutorial files
webinstall - WebSpeed-related files, including samples, scripts, and help files