While searching on google, I came acrross through BLinq, all I see is the articles dated on 2006. In one of the article I read that it doesn't have "Go Live" licence.
Does Microsoft still spport Blinq Prototype?
and why it is unsupported?
Blinq is retired, but look at ASP.NET Dynamic Data Scaffolding, this is a more recent tool from Microsoft, that is supported, to achieve the same thing.
No. I see that its retired. Microsoft does not directly support preview releases.
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I am a developer who has no experience working with CRM systems. I want to build a simple system using SuiteCRM. But I can't find a single tutorial for SuiteCRM in the internet. Believe me I spent several days searching for tutorials but I couldn't find. The official Userguides documentation is absolutely useless for development purposes. I found this book SuiteCRM For Developers but it is not suitable for a beginner. And it doesn't cover most of the basic stuff. Please suggest me a good tutorial(document/video) which covers topics such as creating custom entities(operations with custom entities), workflows and REST api.
If you're new to CRM world, as I was a couple of years ago, Id suggest doing the following:
Get a copy of SugarCRM for Dummies. It gives you an overview of the built in modules and functions of SugarCRM.
Watch how-to videos on SugarCRM for more in-depth details on particular modules.
Get a copy of SuiteCRM for Developers by Jim Mackin. This was a game changer for me. it's straight forward but breaks down the essentials of SuiteCRM.
From there, it's all about googling and practice. The more you play with the code, the more it starts making sense.
Welcome to world of CRM !!
First learn the flow of modules which are available in CRM and then go ahead with the development part. So I will suggest you to learn SugarCRM first. As coding standards and execution flow of SuiteCRM and SugarCRM is same.
Download SugarCRM CE
Install the CRM in your machine as described here
Once installed play with modules. Getting_Started SugarCRM
Take an overview on admin features of SugarCRM as described in detail here
Try to create new modules as per described here
I've been digging into some SUiteCRM work also lately, and the SugarCRM info is very helpful. The SuiteCRM forums have been getting some more traction lately.
https://suitecrm.com/forum/developer-help/10338-how-to-create-a-custom-module-from-scratch
I am also going to buy this book, looks like a great resource! https://leanpub.com/suitecrmfordevelopers
This book you mention (https://leanpub.com/suitecrmfordevelopers) is worth investing in. It's the right stuff in one place.
SugarCRM resources and references are ok, however, SuiteCRM and SugarCRM are gradually going in different directions. If you rely on forums and generic blogs, even SOF, the 'Sugar' solution not always maps to a suite-solution. It can be close, but that last 5% of difference can be a headache to work through.
Anyhow, that's my plug/recommendation for that book.
Judging from the described features, the Alfresco Team and Alfresco Share products look very similar.
What are the technical differences?
Here are a few differences I have heard about, but a better list would be welcome:
Video preview
Preview for more Adobe products (Illustrator etc?)
Some kind of link with Google Apps maybe?
There is need for clarification to #Heiko Robert. His answer is not valid anymore. Team has been discontinued, and it didn't replace Alfresco Enterprise.
Team was not the latest Enterprise Edition, but a cheaper license with the restrictions that #Heiko has mentioned (and some more. For example, the number of users is also limited).
Team is being replaced by the Alfresco Cloud, as you can see if you click on the "Team Customizations" link posted by #Tahir Malik.
Alfresco Enterprise is well and very alive, and a new version 4 is available.
Regarding Share: Alfresco has two web user interfaces: one is the original, known as Alfresco Explorer, and the newest one is Alfresco Share. Alfresco Explorer is a faster UI, based on JSF, but it is more difficult to customize, and it is not being developed anymore. On the other hand, Share is the "second generation" UI, which is based on Surf, which is much easier to customize. At this point, Share is actively being developed, but, as far as I know, it is close to provide 100% of the functionality provided by Alfresco Explorer.
Alfresco Explorer will probably be around for several years to come, because a lot of people already developed applications on it, so that should give them time to migrate to share.
It's more or less a question of licensing. Team seems to be the latest Enterprise Edition but with major limitations in
Number of Documents
Customization: No Customizations in any way (no custom doc models, workflows, automation, actions)
Usage: restricted to the Share-Interface only (no Explorer, no webscripts, not integration with other systems)
I found this Blog helpful: Alfresco Team: First Thoughts and Limitations to Consider
Anyway - if you're looking for a out of the box tool to share documents in workgroups/teams this may the tool you should look into.
I don't think there are much technical differences, because both are build on the Surf Platform and are quite equal in functionality.
I think you should see this page of the Team Site: Team Customizations
The main difference is that you can't do whatever you like with Team and you can with Share (Enterprise/Community).
There are a few features in Alfresco Team that are new, and which aren't in Alfresco 3.4 (Enterprise or Community). Video Preview and a few more transformers are in that list. Those new features are available on HEAD though, so if you take a nightly build you'll get them. They'll all be in Swift (likely 4.0), which is due out later this year. See Jeff Pott's blog for some more info on Swift.
The Alfresco Team website has a lot of info on Team on it, which should help you decide if it's a good fit for you, or if you need the full Community/Enterprise version.
Is the source available for the Alfresco MS Office plugin?
Yes, it's right there in SVN. Have a look in projects/extensions/AlfrescoOffice2003 for the C# client-side code (it wraps MSIE and interfaces with Office).
The webscripts are in: projects/remote-api/config/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/office
And finally the client-side web assets are in: projects/web-client/source/web/scripts/office
You'll need the Visual Studio Tools for Office installed (search for "VSTO") and if prompted for a password, it's "alfresco".
Thanks,
Mike
The code for the Office addin now officially lives at http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-ms-office-plugin/
Just a head's up that we're in the process of donating the Office Add-ins to the community, so the source code will be moving somewhere public (probably Google Code) in the coming weeks/months.
If you're interested in becoming a maintainer / committer to that project, please let me know!
I don't do a slew of VB in classic ASP, so I'm looking for an offline reference I can use while I'm well...offline. General syntax and ADO goodies are a plus!
Thanks in advance!
The Windows Script 5.6 documentation includes a reference for both VBScript and JScript, amongst other goodies. You can download the offline version from Microsoft's download center.
ADO docs con't come w/ the scripting reference , but I think you can get offline ADO documentation when you download the MDAC 2.8 SDK. Just do a customized install and only pick the documentation.
In addition to localhost/iisHelp (does that have developer docs in it?) you can find all you need even in an old version of the MSDN library for VS if you have one lying around.
The best time for this was 2001 or so. I can't find a lot of reference websites that I depended on for day to day stuff. Most have moved on to .Net. MSDN might be the best reference.
I'm in the process of researching testing options for .Net development particularly ASP.Net.
What testing tools do you swear by? NUnit, Selenium, RhinoMocks are my current apps in my toolbox but what do others have to offer for a more complete testing coverage?
No budget
I swear by NUnit, Selenium and then a number of other little tools like YSlow, Firebug
I did a talk at Google Test Automation Conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQgDDAan4rM where I show how you can mix Selenium, NUnit and Yslow to get an idea of how the user is experiencing the system.
I have started using JsTestDriver as well and think that is really good for unit testing JavaScript The video from the same conference is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDKGGZv-T4M
All of those are free and most are open source
Kzu and friends have a new pet project called Moq, which may be the coolest derivative open source project name ever. -Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MoqLinqLambdasAndPredicatesAppliedToMockObjects.aspx
Haven't gotten around to trying Moq out yet but I've seen Hanselman talk about it in a couple of his blog posts, probably worth checking it out.
See the answers to ASP.NET Free testing tools