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Important New Synergy Releases

Synergy/DE 12.3 LTS Update

An update to our Synergy/DE 12.3 LTS release is now available to download in the Synergex Resource Center. This release delivers important fixes across the product set and includes an update to xfODBC Client, xfNetLink .NET, and the REV11 Licensing Upgrade Package. See the Release Notes for the complete list of changes. 

SDI Update

Our latest SDI release, version 2025.08.2277, is now available for download in the Synergex Resource Center. We are happy to announce that this release includes significant performance improvements when editing large files, along with Go To Definition fixes for structures and arrays. Additionally, this release includes updating our minimum supported version of Visual Studio 2022 to 17.10. We recommend that you update to the minimum version to ensure full feature support. Read more here.

Registration is now open for the 2025 virtual Synergy DevPartner conference, October 27–30.

This year’s ​agenda features a keynote from Redpanda’s CTO, Tyler Akidau, on event-driven architectures, plus sessions on retrofitting legacy applications for AI, real-time integration with our streaming platform, modernizing with web services, static code analysis, and of course the latest updates on our products. You’ll learn what’s new and what’s next from the experts.

We hope you can join us—and the DBL community—for this informative and inspiring week!

Whether you’re modernizing your legacy application, adding new features, or migrating to a new platform, .NET offers a compelling route forward. It’s more than just keeping up with tech trends—it’s a strategic move toward greater scalability, maintainability, and future-readiness, not to mention cost savings. And Synergex offers a straightforward path to .NET that enables you to move forward at your own pace so you can modernize with confidence.

Does your software feel dated? Do users complain about its look or performance? If your application needs a UI refresh, upgrading it with Synergex products and services can be an uncomplicated, high-impact improvement.

A modern UI/UX delivers clear benefits: 
•    Boosts productivity and efficiency
•    Reduces hiring and training costs
•    Appeals to workers, customers, and partners

The first step is unlocking your valuable business logic and data. Our open-source Harmony Core framework lets you easily build RESTful web services that expose data and logic as APIs—standard interfaces that any modern UI technology can consume and every UI developer can understand. So, you can create a new modern interface with frameworks like Angular or other industry-standard tools. And you can implement Harmony Core as an add-on to your existing software, enabling a gradual transition. Users can continue with the current interface for some components while you drop in the new UI for other components.

An updated UI/UX is a high-value, low-risk way to modernize your legacy system. Learn more on our Improve Your User Experience solutions page. And if you need a little help getting started, contact Synergex today!

In the constantly evolving world of software engineering, a codebase eventually runs into maintainability issues over time. This can be due to various reasons, such as new programming paradigms, new language features, deprecated libraries and APIs, etc. Keeping up with these issues manually is a nigh impossible task. Luckily, there is a tool specifically designed to keep your codebase shipshape: static code analysis. This article outlines some of the benefits of using static code analysis in your software development lifecycle.

Recently a customer reported an issue where they noticed that their builds were 30 percent slower after installing a security scanner on their build server. We’ve seen issues in the past where virus scanners have gotten in the way of an assembly build, even causing errors during the build.

Typically, virus scanners have a mechanism to whitelist or exclude a path or process from scanning. These exclusions can be helpful when you know certain applications are indeed safe.

In our documentation, we recommend a way to improve Synergy application performance by configuring antivirus software to exclude certain files at runtime. During development, very aggressive scanners can sometimes scan the assemblies or executables being generated by the Synergy compilers. If you find that’s the case, you can exclude those project directories to pick up a performance gain.
 

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