The NTK Team members

Jn Dechereux: Senior software engineer. NTK's author, and website fonder.

Sylvain Pasquet: External contributor: Senior software developer, IT and web technologies.

Marco Selli: External contributor: Graphical design, and software developement.

William David: External contributor: Graphical design, and communication.

Brief history:

At start, late 2001, The NTK Project was initiated as an ambitious idea to migrate our numerous and huge commercial applications from Clip4Win 16 bit to Win32/xHarbour. Gradually, the idea that it could be useful for other people grew up in our minds. Thus, now, NTK is released as a professional package that provides a set of tools designed to help developers to be really productive in making of Win32 applications.

Detailed history:

In 1991, having developed NTK++, an MS-Dos graphical language and visual IDE for Clipper 5.01, Jn Dechereux and Marco Selli started to develop business applications.

In 1996, Jn Dechereux began to port and adapt NTK++ for Clip-4-Win 16 bit library. At that time, we needed to migrate quickly most of our MS-Dos GUI commercial programs under MS-Windows environment. We gave up the DOS IDE tool, but kept and adapted a little part of NTK++. So, NTK++ has been transformed into a pseudo RAD layer invoking Clip4Win lo-level functions. However, we were able to migrate any NTK++ DOS-GUI application into Windows environment, just a simple recompilation was necessary! Only few graphical adaptations were needed...

In 2001, Jn Dechereux decided to develop (on its own) NTKCore for xHarbour. The main goal of this project was to make a totally new library, capable to substitute and to perfectly mimic Clip-4-Win core orders, and also to give us extended possibilities for a better exploitation of xHarbour and Win32 modern features. (At that time, XP was already out, our applications had still got the old 16 bit look'n'feel, and over all, we had to satisfy our customers...)

Late 2003, after we achieved NTKCore and NTKDll development, we started to migrate (one more time!) our Clipper/C4W applications to 32 bit world of xHarbour/NTK.. So, we were able to give them a modern look'n'feel!

After that, we decided, three things:

1- Make all needed enhancements to allow NTK Project to become a real professional product.

2- Create a RAD layer (NTKRad), essentially in order to hide the Win32 SDK complexity, and give each xBase developer, an easy way to call and manipulate Windows objects.

3- Rename the whole project as: NTK (New Technology Kit) Project.

From 2003 until now, we've never stopped improving, debugging, adding new features and technologies, and so on...

So, we're ready and proud to introduce you our NTK Project for xHarbour language.

Please enjoy and have fun working with it !