The MBS Xojo Mavericks Plugin
Another great plugin that lets you leverage APIs introduced by Apple in MacOS 10.9 Mavericks Media Library classes.

Reports from MS SQL Server + Xojo
With Valentina Studio Pro, Valentina Reports ADK for Xojo, and Valentina Server, you can generate visually powerful reports from MS SQL Server. All three Valentina products are included in Omegabundle for Xojo 2017.

The MBS Xojo VLC Plugin
Classes for using VLC library to play videos on Mac, Windows and Linux.

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Included in the MBS Complete Plugin, the MBS Xojo VLC Plugin is also included in Omegabundle for Xojo 2017.

Build 64 bit apps in Xojo?
Our friends at Monkeybread Software say that MBS Complete Plugin is ready for 64 bit compilation with Xojo. Included in Omegabundle for Xojo 2017.

Issue 14.4 of xDev Magazine
This back issue of xDev Magazine is included in Omegabundle for Xojo 2017.
Spring in Koblenz, Germany by Richard Duke
Did you miss the 2016 MBS Xojo Conference in Germany this spring? Have no fear: Richard reports on what happened and shares lots of photos.
NSTabula Rasa by Ulrich Bogun
Xojo’s Listbox control is easy to use, but has some limitations. Mac OS X’s NSTableView is more powerful, and with Ulrich’s guiding hand, not so intimidating.
Multiprocessing Part 4 by Markus Winter
In this segment, Markus explains methods on getting the number of cores of a Windows system.
Age of Acceptance by Marc Zeedar
Have you noticed how more average users seem to accept software bugs as “normal?” Marc warns that this attitude is a slippery slope for developers.
Tracking Health Disorders, Part 2 by J.C. Cruz
Jose continues his health tracking project, this time adding the complexity of recording symptom data.
Plus: Craig gets into Big Data, Scott looks at a logging module for Xojo, Marc writes about randomness, Paul explores HiDPI, and more!

The MBS Xojo MountainLion Plugin
Mac OS X 10.8 related classes that let you utilize features Apple added to MacOS with this release of the operating system, including User Notifications, GameKit and Sharing Services.

GuancheMOS 1.8 adds 64 bit support
Included in Omegabundle for Xojo, this update includes 64 bit support on Windows, Linux and MacOS to this serial number creation and validation engine.

Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with REALbasic ebook
Dr Scott Steinman's book was originally written for REALbasic, the predecessor of Xojo, but it is still applicable for learning the concepts of object-oriented programming. Although REALbasic was, from the beginning, quite object-aware (like a cross platform, more advanced Visual Basic), the product became more and more advanced and object-oriented over time.

Property Listbox from Jeremie Leroy Plugin for Xojo
Property Listbox is a dynamic and highly customizable Listbox that displays a list of properties with their respective values. The Property Listbox is very similar to the Xojo properties editor displayed in the Project and Window editor. The theme can be customized and adapted to your App's look and feel.Over 14 different cell types are available, one for each of your needs.

The Property Listbox is used by several IDE's including Xojo. It enables fast and easy access to set of properties.

This Listbox provides many more features than the Property Listbox used in Xojo. This is the first Xojo written listbox to include Auto-complete when typing in a cell. The list of properties can be hierarchical which enables grouping and hiding a set of rows. When a mathematical formula is typed, it is correctly parsed and calculated.

Custom buttons can be added to the Header rows in order to extend the functionality of the Property Listbox.As this Listbox is XML or Database driven, a complete builder program is included. This program will help setting up your own Property Listbox and create the necessary XML code.

FAQ: What serial to which product

V4RB - means Valentina DB for RB/Xojo
VR4RB - means Valentina Reports for RB/Xojo

-M- mac serial
-W- win serial
-L- linux serial

VS - Valentina Studio

Issue 15.3 of xDev Magazine arrives!
If you get Omegabundle for Xojo 2017, you will get this issue which includes:

• Binary Serialization by Sam Rowlands. How to convert data objects into binary files and back again.
  
• To Proxy or Not To Proxy... by Mark Strickland. Mark shares how he used the NGINX web server to solve his Xojo web app problem.
  
• Beginner's Guide to Xojo by Marc Zeedar. New to Xojo? Here's the ultimate guide, a broad overview with the critical details you need to know to start using Xojo like a pro.
  
• Sharing Data for Health, Part 1 by JC Cruz. Once you've got a health app created, you may need to share that data with other applications and services. Here's how you do that.
  
• The Problem With Abandonware by Marc Zeedar. iOS is becoming a field of abandoned apps and Apple's forced move to 64-bit is only going to make the situation worse.
  

Plus: Xojo 2017 Release 1, Best Backup Practices, InnoSetup, and more.

Meet Marc Zeedar at the MBS #Xojo Developer Conference
The publisher of xDev Magazine and owner of xDev Library is a speaker at this year's MBS Xojo Developer Conference in Berlin, Germany.

Email Server Part of Omegabundle 2017
While Valentina Server is promoted as a three in one solution, including Valentina DB Server, Valentina SQLite Server and Valentina Reports server, there is a hidden fourth server, too! By setting the appropriate setting in the Valentina Server ini-file, you can activate the internal SNMP port.

There are two tutorials available for this:

• Generating And Sending Reports By an Email On a Schedule (Valentina Datasource)
  
• Generating And Sending Reports By an Email On a Schedule (Any Datasource)
  

The "Any Datasource" version uses MySQL, but you aren't limited to MySQL. Step through these tutorials, along with the included tutorial projects.

Many who use Valentina Server take advantage of this feature to convert and send data by email, such as PDF based reports generated by Valentina Reports Server.

Meet Jeremie Leroy at MBS Xojo Developer Conference 2017
Jeremie Leroy, creator of the Desktop Bundle in Omegabundle for Xojo 2017 will be at the developer conference May 4-5, 2017 and presenting "Designing and optimising iOS apps"

xDev Library: ebook Networking 101
This book seires beginning with Network 101 written by long time Xojo developer Aaron Ballman is a part of Omegabundle for Xojo 2017.

GuancheMOS News
Meet the maker of GuancheMOS serial generation plugin at MBS Xojo Developer Conference May 4-5 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

Sandbox Kit from Ohanaware
The Sandbox Kit makes it easier to build Sandbox safe applications for sale through the Mac App Store. Understanding Apple's Sandboxing on the level that we at Ohanaware understand it, will take months, possibly even years. Luckily with our Sandbox Kit, you don't need to invest anywhere near as much time (although we do recommend that you read our documentation to become familiar with the concepts that are used).

The Sandbox Kit uses the exact same functions as applications created with Apple's Objective-C & Swift languages. When using these functions, OS X will handle many of the tasks for you.

Sandbox Kit is included with Omegabundle for Xojo 2017.

MBS Computer Control Plugin
The plugin to simulate keyboard and mouse input and do gamma changes in Xojo, on MacOS and Windows. Also includes 242 page PDF documentation.

MBS Compression Plugin
Create, Compress and decompress compressed files compatible with gZip and other formats from within your Xojo based application. Use encryption! Includes a 336 page documentation PDF detailing methods and more.

MBS CURL Class for Xojo
Download and Upload class for ftp, ftps, sftp, http, https, gopher, telnet, dict, ldap and file - send and receive email. Other features:

• HTTP queries to download files from the web.
  
• HTTP POST/PUT operations, useful for sending forms or accessing Web services.
  
• Full SSL support with security, e.g. verify certificate and identity of server.
  
• FTP, FTP via SSL (FTPS) and FTP via SSH (SFTP) fully supported.
  
• Run additional commands for FTP like rename, delete or change permissions.
  
• Send emails via SMTP/SMPTS.
  
• Query emails via POP3/IMAP/POP3S/IMAPS.
  
• Plugin provides functions to run transfer in background on preemptive helper thread.
  
• Upload/Downloads directly with File I/O to minimize memory footprint.
  
• Verbose debug messages to help debugging.
  

Works with Mac OS X, Windows and Linux for Desktop, Console and Web.

This plugin has two set of classes:
CURLMBS without S in name
The plugin loads the curl library from DLL file.
On Windows you need to call LoadLibrary function and pass path to curl.dll, on Mac OS X and Linux we either load the default library in /usr/lib/libcurl.so or you load a specific version you tell the plugin.
CURLSMBS with S in name:
The plugin includes curl library as part of plugin.
On linux still a few libraries must be installed like ldap library.