design • engineering • coding for sage 100 & other providex applications
developer tools
Note that steezware no longer maintains, enhances, repairs, or supports any of the following tools but they are posted here for your review and examination.
If you are a Sage developer who would like to take over ownership, maintenance, and support of the steezware dev tools please use the Contact page to reach out to us. It would be great to know that the tools live on and are used by Sage 100 developers for many years to come. If desired, we would permit the rebranding/renaming of the tools by another Company.
stzCMD ∙ Command-Line Tools
Graphical tools that enhance the ProvideX and PxPlus command-line environment. Last updated May 2023
stzFM ∙ File Maintenance
Originally engineered as a replacement to the Sage 100 DFDM utility, stzFM has significantly better data search abilities and uses Business Framework rules for validating the modification of data. Last updated May 2023
stzUE ∙ UltraEdit Tool Kit
With the Everest (4.x) release of MAS 90, code development evolved to plain text formatting. Sage chose UltraEdit as its text editor and developed a set of tools to compile source code and provide other utilities for code development ... steezware improved upon those tools and created the stzUE tool kit.
Please note that stzUE has not been updated for several years and may not even be fully compatible with the latest versions of UltraEdit, and we encourage all Sage 100 developers to use Eclipse and its plug-in which are supported by Sage. Here at steezware we use Eclipse and although we love UltraEdit and stzUE, Eclipse is our choice for code editing and compilation. Eclipse may be somewhat weaker as an editor compared to UltraEdit, but as an integrated, project-based environment it is far superior to UltraEdit with stzUE.
To help UE users with the transition to Eclipse we have compiled a set of Power Tips - see below.
Eclipse Plug-In Power Tips
Moving from UltraEdit to Eclipse takes some effort, study, trial-and-error - so as the authors of stzUE who made the same jump to Eclipse, we started a list of tips to assist our fellow coders. Last updated May 2023
If you have not yet examined the Eclipse plug-in you can check it out here: http://eclipse.sagemas.com/
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steezware is happy to provide the developer tools at no cost - to use on as many computers and for as many users as you wish. If, however, you find the tools to be beneficial to your programming efforts and wish to make a donation, that would be very cool.
