Using WCF Services in Synergy .NET Applications
Apparently there are some people actually reading this BLOG!!! And … it turns out that quite a few of them have been working through my earlier series of posts related to using WCF. Excellent! It occurred to me that since I wrote the last of those articles we have had a release of a new [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Synergy.NET, Synergy/DE 9.5.3, WCF
De-Serializing Classes containing Synergy Types
A customer recently reported a strange problem that they were seeing when attempting to use WCF. The problem seemed to occur when they attempted to call a method in their WCF service, where that method had a parameter used to send a class TO the service, and where that class included the use of Synergy [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Synergy.NET, WCF
Exposing WCF Services using Synergy .NET
In this post I will explain how you can use Synergy .NET to expose a WCF service. I’ll be showing you how to create WCF service and data contracts totally from scratch, using Synergy .NET. We’ll be defining new classes, not working with existing routines and records. That’s not to say that you can’t work [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, OO Programming, Synergy.NET, WCF, Web Services
Building Distributed Apps with Synergy/DE and WCF
At the recent SPC’s in Chicago and Oxford several of the sessions that I presented were focused on networking, and in particular on the various tools and technologies that are available to Synergy developers to allow them to build and deploy distributed software applications. In particular I spent quite a bit of time talking about [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, SPC, Synergy.NET, WCF, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
Lights, Camera, Action!
Now, thinking that once the Synergex Success Partner Conference (http://spc.synergex.com) is over, and we are all sat basking in the glory of the survey results (thanks to everyone who filled them in – the cheques are in the post!), sipping alcohol-free Pina Colada’s, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Once the conference is over, [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET Assembly API, OO Programming, Silverlight, SPC, Synergy.NET, Visual Studio
The .NET Rollercoaster
Sometimes my job feels like I’m on a rollercoaster with some great highs and some scary lows, and the adrenaline rushes between the two. Version 9.5, complete with the Visual Studio integration with Synergy, was officially released yesterday. I’m sure I was not the first one, but I was straight to the resource centre at [...]
In: Development Tools · Tagged with: Synergy 9.5, Synergy.NET
Challenges Facing Synergy Developers
I was recently involved in a discussion concerning Synergy tools and technologies, and how our customers can best position themselves to take advantage of them. Somewhere along the way, I was asked for (or I volunteered – I don’t exactly remember) my opinion about the current software development landscape, and the challenges that face so [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, GUI, SQL Connection, Synergy.NET, xfODBC, xfServer, xfServerPlus
Testing Times
Today, I am a Net Ninja! Well that’s what my freebie t-shirt, procured from TechEd, says I am . To be honest I’m not sure what a Net Ninja is, but my understanding of a “Ninja” is a warrior, a fighter. Someone who battles against adversity is pursuit of perfection. Well, I feel a little [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: ChronoTrack, CodeExchange, Encryption, Synergy 9.3, Synergy.NET, TechEd, xfServer, xfServerPlus
It’s a good time to clean up your old Synergy DBMS data
Synergy/DE is a pretty forgiving environment when it comes to dealing with fields containing unexpected data. For example, you can have a d field that is either all spaces, all numbers, or some combination, and Synergy/DE will treat the spaces as zeros. (For those of you old enough to remember DBL version 2, back then [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: DBMS, DIBOL, SQL, Synergy.NET, xfNetLink





