Exposing WCF services using Synergy .NET Interop
In this post I will explain how a WCF service can be created using a Synergy .NET Interop project. In my earlier post I explained how to use xfNetLink .NET to create a WCF service, which provided an easy way to create a WCF service for developers who were already using xfNetLink .NET and xfServerPlus. [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, Visual Studio, WCF, Web Development, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
Hosting WCF Services in an ASP.NET Web Application
There are several ways that you can use Synergy/DE tools to expose WCF services, but regardless of which way you decide to create a service, the next decision you have to make is how to host it. By hosting a WCF service you expos the service and make it possible to use it from other [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SPC, Synergy/DE 9.5, Visual Studio, WCF, Web Development, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
Exposing WCF Services using xfNetLink .NET
Following a recent enhancement to the product in Synergy 9.5.1, developers can now use xfNetLink .NET to create and expose Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. In this post I will describe how to do so. This is the second in a series of posts relating to the various ways in which Synergy developers can use [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, SPC, Synergy/DE 9.5, Visual Studio, Web Development, Web Services, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
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
ChronoTrack goes virtual!
Did you attend SPC2009? If you did then you’ll know all about ChronoTrack. If you didn’t, ChronoTrack is an application that the PSG team developed to showcase the latest technologies available to Synergy developers. It’s a UI Toolkit application that’s had a face lift! It’s a cool, slick web site, oh, and a mobile app, [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: ChronoTrack, CodeExchange, UI Toolkit, WinForms, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus
Wave Goodbye to the MDU
If you have ever developed with xfServerPlus and xfNetLink then, like me, you may have a “love-hate” relationship with the Method Definition Utility (MDU). You love it because it is an enabling technology … it is one step in the process of extending your Synergy applications with all types of cool client applications. But at [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Attributes, Doc Comments, MDU, ResourceCenter, Synergy 9.3, Synergy Method Catalog, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus, XML
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





