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
Taking .NET to the cleaners
Ding dong, “Laundry service”! Now you could be mistaken for thinking that I’m staying in a rather nice hotel, being called upon by the maid for my dirty laundry. Not so, I’m afraid, I’ll be taking my dirty ‘smalls’ home with me. But for one of our customers, this is their calling card. The customer [...]
In: Success Stories · Tagged with: .NET, Linux, SPC, xfServerPlus
Starting Services on Linux
For a while now I’ve been wondering about what the correct way is to start boot time services such as the Synergy License Manager, xfServer and xfServerPlus on Linux systems. A few years ago I managed to “cobble something together” that seemed to work OK, but I had a suspicion that I only had part [...]
In: Software · Tagged with: License Manager, Linux, OpenNET Server, xfServer, xfServerPlus
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
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





