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Workin’ It with Workbench 9.3
By Marty Lewis, Software Engineer, Synergy/DE
With Synergy/DE 9.3 right around the corner, it’s time to give you a glimpse of the new features coming in Workbench. We’ve been hard at work building you a better development experience and enhancing your Synergy Language IDE.
SlickEdit 14
We've skipped the unlucky number with the SlickEdit versions and brought you straight from version 12 to SlickEdit 14. For the most part, you won’t notice much difference when you shift to the new editor. But there are a few new features we want to tell you about right away—either because they might trip you up or because we think you’ll really like them.
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Synergy/DE Developer Support Customers
Did you know you can log and track your support cases online?
Have a technical question or issue regarding Synergy/DE products? If you have Synergy/DE Developer Support, you can submit your issue and any relevant attachments online and then track the status of your case to completion. (Or, if you prefer, you may call or email our Support team directly.)
Developer Support provides comprehensive technical resources to help you resolve questions and issues you encounter while using Synergy/DE products. Available from 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM PT, our technical support representatives have extensive experience with Synergy/DE technologies and are ready to help you with any problem or question you have with your Synergy/DE products.
Don’t yet have Developer Support? Visit our Web site for more information, or contact your Synergy/DE account manager to subscribe.
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Read the Latest Blog Post from William Mooney, Synergy/DE GM
Get your ducks in a row for the Next Generation
At the risk of dating myself, I recall several years ago seeing some of our customers (who were there when I started at Synergex) entering retirement and sailing off into the sunset. I got a bit nostalgic, as many of these people really took me under their wings and showed me the ropes when I first entered this field. At the same time, I was excited to begin new relationships with their successors — the Next Generation — who would be working with me as they carried on the legacy of their predecessors.
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Get Started with ChronoTrack
Introduced at the 2009 Synergex Success Partner Conference, ChronoTrack is an excellent resource for developers interested in learning about and using the latest Synergy/DE features. ChronoTrack was created by the Synergex Professional Services Group (PSG) to demonstrate the capabilities of the latest released version of Synergy/DE. It is both an application and the development environment used to build it, and it encompasses many of the modern tools and technologies available to the Synergy/DE developer today.
Give ChronoTrack a try: Watch a short webucation to get started.
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Synergy/DE Tech Tip
Keep an “i” on your unloaded data
With Synergy/DE 9, a host of new variable types have been added to the language. A number of these are (or can contain) binary/integer data. Once you start using these data types, you’re going to want to start storing them in your Synergy DBMS files. This is all well and good, until you need to unload the data, and now you have the possibility of embedded CR, LF, or EOF characters in the middle of your records. Of course this issue has been around since version 5, where support for integer data was added to Synergy Language.
If you need to unload data from a Synergy DBMS ISAM file that contains binary data, use the fconvert utility and unload the ISAM file into a counted file. (Note that isload also supports counted files, but it is a lot slower than fconvert.)
Fortunately, Synergy/DE is a pretty forgiving environment when it comes to dealing with fields containing unexpected data. Read the PSG blog to gain a perspective on some of the issues you may encounter, as you expose your data and application to other development environments. |
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Quiz
Synergy/DE pros, see if you can answer this question!
At the end of the following code snippet, what is the type of the object referenced by the variable x?
record
x ,@*
proc
x = (object)1
a. @*
b. @d
c. @i
d. d
e. i
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Platform News
Read a selection of recent articles
Serious SSL Vulnerability Found
November 5, 2009
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Brings Windows 7 Integration
October 30, 2009
Windows
You Experience Performance Issues in Applications and Services when the System File Cache Consumes Most of the Physical RAM
November 5, 2009
Windows 7 Hits 3% Market Share, Approaches 4%
November 2, 2009
Windows 7 Upgrade Version: The Dos and Don'ts
November 2, 2009
Windows 7 Endless Reboot Answer Evades Microsoft
October 28, 2009
Don't Upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 Until You Read This
October 28, 2009
Linux
Fedora 12 Beta Chock Full of Enhancements
October 20, 2009
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Synergex Events and Education
Workbench
Workbench 01: Introduction to Workbench
2 minutes
Workbench 02: Getting Around Workbench
6 minutes
Workbench 03: Configuring Basic Options
6 minutes
Workbench 04: Customizing the Toolbar
4 minutes
Synergy Language
Synergy Objects Part 1
65 minutes
Synergy Objects Part 2
l25 minutes
Synergy Objects Part 3
30 minutes
.NET assembly API
Synergy .NET assembly API
12 minutes
Hosting a Windows Form in a Synergy Application
33 minutes
Selective Code Generation with GENNET
11 minutes
UI Toolkit
From UI Toolkit to .NET: Updating a Legacy Application (A Customer's Perspective)*
75 minutes
*Note that in order to view this webinar, you must have the most recent version of Windows Media Player installed. To download Windows Media Player, click here.
UI Toolkit Composite Windows
30 minutes
Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET
Data Provider for .NET
9 minutes
Synergy Licensing Toolkit
Synergy Licensing Toolkit
32 minutes
Synergy/DE Highlights
NEW! ChronoTrack: Getting Started
12 minutes
MDU Enhancements in Synergy/DE 9
6 minutes
Synergy/DE 9.1 Highlights
70 minutes |
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Trademarks: Synergex, Synergy, Synergy Development Environment, Synergy/DE, Jodah Veloper, Manny Jurr, Mark Etting, Bigbah Smann, and all other Synergy/DE product names are trademarks of Synergex. All other product and company names in this newsletter are trademarks of their respective holders.
Copyright © 2009 Synergex International Corporation. All rights reserved.
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