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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By : Ricardo Pereira
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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By: Ricardo Pereira

Overview of this book

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates. The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case. By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: OutSystems 101
5
Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
10
Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
16
Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform

Creating your own C#/.NET code and using it inside the OutSystems platform

Tip

To get the most out of this section, you should have some knowledge of C#/ .NET development, as the intention is to adapt our custom code to be available in OutSystems.

Sometimes, we can come across situations where the external systems we want to connect with only have services that cannot be integrated in OutSystems natively, or we need to integrate a feature of our custom code.

In order for us to create our custom code in C#/.NET, Integration Studio integrates with Visual Studio (Microsoft's IDE). With this, we define our Actions, inputs, and outputs in Integration Studio, before moving on to editing it (developing its content) in Visual Studio.

With this, we can abstract our code into Actions that can be used according to the Service Studio visual model.

This feature allows us to do the following:

  • Write our own C# code.
  • Reuse all .NET frameworks.
  • Reuse all existing...