Alfresco Office Addin Source - alfresco

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!

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How to Debug Classic ASP Using Visual Studio

There is an excellent article available at the following URL (below), but I cannot figure out where I can download a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. I've looked all over the Internet, but the download links are either not working (those that are at Microsoft), or they go to very suspicious looking websites.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28792/Debugging-Classic-ASP-VBScript-in-Visual-Studio-20
Of course the other question that can be asked is, can this process be adapted to work on the most recent version (or at least a version that can actually be downloaded)?
Here's one link for you, straight from the horse's hands.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13276

From where I can download Adobe AEM Quickstart jar file to start practicing on it?

I am a developer. I want to learn Adobe Experience Manager. That's why I need to setup it locally to start learning. But I can't because I have not found any link to download AEM quickstart jar file. Can anyone help me on this?
You can't download AEM like you can download WordPress or Drupal. You can try contacting Adobe on the Marketing Cloud website although I don't know what their response will be. If you attend an Adobe Training Services class for AEM you will walk away with an AEM jar and a developer's license.
In the meantime, AEM is based off a lot of open source technology. You can download and learn Apache Sling, Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Felix.
You will need to get with an Adobe sales person to get a trial/demo version of Adobe Experience Manager. Use phone number on the bottom of the AEM page on the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/request-consultation/marketing-cloud.html?s_osc=70114000002JNwKAAW&s_iid=70114000002JHs3AAG
Please have a look at same kind of Questions on Adobe AEM Forums:
Link:- http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.html/forum__axbl-any_trial_versionof.html
I hope this will help you.
Thanks and Regards
Kautuk Sahni
If you're working for an organisation that has AEM licenses available (a client or a partner of Adobe's), you can find the quickstart JAR, as well as feature packs, hotfixes and service packs on the Software Distribution Portal. See https://experience.adobe.com/#/downloads/content/software-distribution/en/aem.html
You'll need an Adobe login belonging to an organisation that has access to AEM, though.
One thing that may be confusing is that you won't find every individual version available as a quickstart. There's usually a reasonably recent quickstart JAR available, and service packs that need to be installed on top of it. For example, at the time of writing, I could download cq-quickstart-6.5.8.jar. If I wanted SP 11 or SP 12, I had to install aem-service-pkg-6.5.11-1.0.zip or aem-service-pkg-6.5.12.0.zip as CRX package. There's no need to install intermediate versions. You should be fine just getting the zip with the exact SP version you want to use.

Blinq for asp.net

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.

Text to Speech in ASP.NET

I would like to do some japanese text to speech on my dedicated windows 2003 x64 server with .net framework, using c#
I found something on google, but requires to install a lot of files on the server... i don't like, for stability issues: there is another option, like a linked dll or something?
You can use Microsoft Speech SDK. It's a set of COM APIs containing TTS and SR engines. I'm not sure if it contains Japanese TTS though.
What you most likely want is the Microsoft Speech Server especially if your webite is going to encounter any decent load or volume.
From the site:
"A speech platform, MSS contains all
the server components for deploying
telephony (voice-only) and multimodal
(voice/visual) applications. MSS
combines Web technologies,
speech-processing services, and
telephony capabilities into a single
system. "
There is also a dedicated Microsft Speech community which will likely help you get started in this realm. Also, I'm not sure what the latest version is...2004 R2?
This article has a decent diagram outlining the various components. Looks like a good fit for integration with an ASP Web Application.
using SAPI in an ASP.NET website, is impossible: the sound will be reproduced on the server :S
It seems that there is the need of Microsoft Speech Server
...
Or not? With asp.net is possible to run a commandline exe on the server to save an mp3, then stream that mp3, right? (how to do that? i will try to figure it)
I will go this way, i let you know the result :)
edit: this is how i solved:
How to save text-to-speech as a wav with Microsoft SAPI?
I save the generated voice in a wav file, then i embed it on the page, playing it in a flash player
COOL!!
Use Microsoft Speech Library and see this article Text to Speech with the Microsoft Speech Library and SDK version 5.1 in CodeProject. Also see Giving Computers a Voice in Coding4Fun
The System.Speech.Synthesis namespace has been part of the framework since .NET 3.0. However, it has internal dependencies on the Speech SDK COM libraries (it chooses the correct version depending on the host OS), so I would recommend prototyping the work before you jump in.
The class you should probably look at first is System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer (whitepaper and example code)
Warning: I have personally experienced issues using the speech APIs in an ASP.NET environment whereby the request that returned the audio data never returned. Despite heavy debugging I was never able to resolve the issue and the feature was dropped. I have had an unresolved support case with Microsoft for 12 months now.

What is a good method for sharing source code among 3-4 developers that does NOT require it to be Open Source?

I'm a newbie developers and building an application with 3 other remote developers. I've only worked alone until now, and now I need a way to share my source code with the other developers on the project. All of the project sites out there (SourceForge, Codeplex, Google, etc) seem to be aimed at Open Source development I'm not interested in making our code available to the world, I'm just looking for a method of sharing the code among the four of us. What is the best known method...or how is this usually accomplished?
Set up a Subversion repository (can be accessed across http).
There is an excellent online free book detailing pretty much everything you need to know about Version Control with Subversion
Yep, you need a version control repository which is remotely accessible. Subversion is excellent and very widely used; Git is another good option.
You could set up your own repository - you'll need a server which all devs can access via ssh, or via Apache/WebDAV - or use a hosted service, like Beanstalk, Project Locker, Unfuddle, SVNsite, etc.
http://beanstalkapp.com/
Set up a Subvserion repository (http://subversion.tigris.org/). You can control who may view your data through accounts, plus it gives you document versioning. When paired with a Http server, you can even view the source directly in a browser.
Subversion has all sorts of plugins for Eclipse and even Visual Studio, I believe. Tortise SVN is a stand-alone SVN client you may like, although I recommend an IDE-integrated plugin.
Subversion also goes well with a continuous integration server, such as Continuum.
Hosted: http://wush.net is another Subversion hosting platform.
Or, if you can host your own server, check out the VERY easy to use and VERY free VisualSVN Server: http://www.visualsvn.com/server/
You don't say what computing resources you have available, but the easy choice is to use a central server with say SVN to which you all have ssh access using a public key. You can probably rent such a service for around $10 per month.
If you don't like central servers, you can try Mercurial or git and ssh back and forth between your personal development machines.
If ssh is problematic, git actually enables you to send patches to each other by email (probably Mercurial does too). Ben Lynn's Git Magic tutorial explains.
You can use an online source control (like SVN or Git), and share it only with your team members. You should look into Unfuddle, it's a free source control/project hosting, complete with bug tracking system. I use it for my personal projects and it's awesome.
I think the best solution is Subversion. Subversion is a free source control system that is ideal for your requirement.
You can use many other support tools like Tortoise SVN to make the things more easier.
Here is one of the cheat sheets that describes commands of SVN.
Most of the Web hosting providers support easy one click installation of SVN on their servers. ex : Dreamhost So you can get a setup done very easily.
CVS is another Source control system that are used widely but I haven't seen any providers that support easy installation of CVS but there should be. You can have support tools for CVS such as Tortoise CVS as well.
I don't think you are interested in visual source safe (Microsoft Proprietary and not over Web) so I am not going to add information about it here. :)
You need to set up a source control repository. It's a pretty big topic, I'm really not sure where the best place to start reading about it would be. I'm sure the Wikipedia article on Revision Control will at least give you a bit of an overview.
This seems like a decent introductory series as well: Source Control HOWTO
Subversion works just fine over http/https. It is an open source project, but you can use it for whatever purposes you want.
http://subversion.tigris.org/
Most modern source control systems work well. Subversion is a common one. Which operating system will the developers be running?
If you just want to get up and running quickly with something, check out a hosted subversion system like www.beanstalk.com or www.unfuddle.com.
Subversion is open source, and I know you don't need it, but there are a lot of options here. If on Windows, check out Tortoise SVN. If on a Mac and you don't want a command line client, check out Versions.
You can actually setup google code to only allow viewing/editing by registered members. And I don't think they force any licenses either.
We currently use VSS but are in the process of migrating everything over to Source Gear Vault because VSS makes jumping out of our third story windows a common thought...
Here is a free solution with premium options available... https://freepository.com I have not tried this one.
Try github. It will cost you $12/month though.
Just use devunity.com. upload your code via zip or import it from svn and thats it. lets you collaborate around code instantly.

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