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Overview

As you may have learned in the overview section, Alpha Five web applications are built using Xbasic code embedded into a5w web pages. There are a few ways to do this. You can hand code the Xbasic yourself, or you can use web components.

Web components are a unqiue and powerful feature in Alpha Five. You can think of them as reusable building blocks from which you build web applications. There are seven types of components, some are used to display and enter data, some are used for entering usernames and passwords, one type is used to perform maintenance on your database over the web.

In all cases, web components exist to make your job easier. They require essentially no programming skills and use simple point and click interfaces.

This section describes each type of component.

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