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Converting Web Application Projects to Web Site Projects |
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By Paul Rony on
6/27/2007 1:38 AM
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We had a customer that was having trouble with the prerequisites to load and debug the SplendidCRM project. First you start with Visual Studio 2005 Professional, then you add the Web Application Projects add-in, which incidentally requires a patch before it will install. It seems simple enough but this person was still unable to load the project without the pesky Convert dialog appearing. If configured properly, the SplendidCRM project should load with just a warning about being unable to attach to our version control system, so the presence of the Convert dialog suggests that the Web Application Projects add-in was not functioning.
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In the beginning . . . |
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By Paul Rony on
5/1/2007 12:41 AM
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In honor of the SplendidCRM 1.4 release, I’m going to post an email that I sent to John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Rony
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:26 PM
To: john@sugar.com
Subject: Introduction to SplendidCRM
John Roberts,
I'm working on a project that might interest you. As a personal challenge, I've decided to port your SugarCRM application from a LAMP implementation to a Microsoft .NET 2.0 implementation. My original goal was to learn the new features of .NET 2.0 and, in most cases, the only way to learn is to create a real and complete application. It then occurred to me that the results could be a showcase on how to convert a LAMP project to .NET and how much better, in my opinion, the application would be because of it.
I simp ...
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SplendidCRM Open-Source 1.4 Beta release |
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By Paul Rony on
3/19/2007 12:55 AM
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We are finally ready to show version 1.4. We have been taking our time to release it simply to gain confidence in all the technologies we have integrated.
Converting to MasterPages required us to edit every ASPX file. We should be able to duplicate all the existing SugarCRM themes, but we have been more focused on stability.
WebParts required that we write a Personalization Provider. It was surprisingly easy to integrate ASP.NET 2.0 personalization into our existing user and role management.
AJAX was a last-minute inclusion. Microsoft recently released ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and we could not resist taking advantage of the technology. The beauty of ASP.NET AJAX is that it takes very little code in order to implement. Actually, with version 1.4, we are just testing the waters, so we have only sprinkled a little AJAX on the home page and the dashboard. In the ...
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Sneak preview of 1.4 |
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By Paul Rony on
1/21/2007 3:54 PM
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We've been busy the last couple of months integrating SplendidCRM with Great Plains Accounting, but we took some time out to update the Web1.4 tree.
We started the Web1.4 node many months ago to take advantage of some of the major advances in .NET 2.0, such as MasterPages, Themes, WebParts and AJAX. Most of the MasterPages and Themes work was completed a few months ago and needed just a little more work to get the menus to function properly.
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Migration to SourceGear's Vault 3.5 is complete |
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By Paul Rony on
11/10/2006 4:08 AM
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We have been planning this migration for more than a month. In that time we have been upgrading our servers with bigger hard disks and more RAM.
The migration did not go as smoothly as we had hoped, but at least we can breath now that the migration is complete. The main problem we ran into was with one particular node in our project tree that was not accessible from the COM interface that SourceSafe provides. After several failed migration attempts, we finally followed a tip on the SourceGear forum to backup and restore the SourceSafe database using SourceSafe utilities.
Sadly, the import utility was not able to migrate all of the labels.
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SplendidCRM Open-Source 1.3 Beta released |
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By Paul Rony on
11/8/2006 9:11 AM
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The focus on 1.3 has been on Import and Export. You now have the ability to import or export from the core modules using the most popular data formats, including XML Spreadsheet, XML and Comma Delimited. You can also import an entire SugarCRM database, so migration is painless.
We also have added some Team management code in the Admin area, but we do not currently support assigning items to teams or filtering by teams. Team management will be in our next release.
Speaking of our next release, we are expecting to have full support for .NET 2.0 MasterPages and Themes. Ideally we would also support WebParts, but there still are a few unknowns to resolve.
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Notes from Mono Meeting |
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By Paul Rony on
10/27/2006 1:13 AM
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I just got back from the Mono Meeting with a renewed vigor to create a self-contained SplendidCRM distribution on the Linux platform. I must say that it was a great pleasure to be in a room filled with similarly passionate folks. You can check out some of the slides from the meeting at http://www.go-mono.com/monologue/.
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