The company I work for is a Microsoft partner and we are trying to test out Team Foundation Server 2010 to see if it can be an answer to our "NO VERSION CONTROL" problem.
However, we have several designers, all of which use Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver supports WebDAV and so does IIS.
Is there a way to connect (including checkout and checking in of files) to a Project on a TFS Server (and not just the TFS server itself) using the WebDAV protocol?
TFS client-server connection is web services, but these are WS-* style operations.
In theory one could use the TFS client code to create one's own WebDAV based API, but there is nothing out of the box.
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I'm working on Dynamics since about 1 year, and I'm working on "on premise" environments, and I don't know very much about online solutions.
I should now integrate 2 systems through webservice, and one of them involves Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2016.
What I'm trying to accomplish is that the custom systems sends data to the CRM Online through webservice.
I've read I just can't deploy my webservice and my logic as I've always done (separate web application that receives a Json or a XML through web services and works on CRM entities through the SDK).
So, do I need a separate machine to receive the XML and working on the CRM through the SDK?
In some posts I learn a little about Azure, but I don't know if it could be a nice solution. Should I get a virtual machine and then install IIS? Will my web app be visible by the custom system and able to work on the CRM online? Do I need a different service?
Thanks in advance and sorry for the confusion, it's the first time I'm trying to make CRM Online communicate with the outside.
So if I understand correctly your approach is 'custom system <=> your WS <=> CRM Online 2016
I've read I just can't deploy my webservice and my logic as I've always done (separate web application that receives a Json or a XML through web services and works on CRM entities through the SDK).
In CRM Online you don't have access to machine that CRM stands on so no folders, no inetmgr, no deploy.
So, do I need a separate machine to receive the XML and working on the CRM through the SDK?
Yes.
Should I get a virtual machine and then install IIS?
It doesn't have to be new virtual machine. It could be for example machine that custom system stands on ofc. if it can be configured to have access to the internet.
Will my web app be visible by the custom system and able to work on the CRM online?
It is matter of configuration of NAT, firewall etc.
Do I need a different service?
What service do you reffer here?
I need to develope WAS application and should be hosted into Demandware platform. Can i develop the WAS application using tomcat and can host it into the Demandware or should WAS application be developed in the Demandware platform?
I am new to Demanware platform and WAS. Guide me.
You cannot build a web service outside of the UX Studio paradigm like what you described, but you can build a psuedo-service like pipeline in UX Studio that returns JSON, XML, etc. and it will work more or less just like any other REST service.
Demandware is Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, which will not allow you to access the underlying infrastructure (e.g. Tomcat server, Oracle DB, etc.) to make/install your custom extensions.
UPDATE (25.09.2015):
Currently Demandware are making extensions to their controllers, migrating from pipeleine-based controllers to script based ones. Chances are that at some point they may even introduce an API for creating web-services.
Until this happens, your only option is to make some custom pipelines and utilize something like XML/JSON over HTTP for this type of functionality. (Or if you insist on having it as SOAP based service, you would need to parse the SOAP envelopes with explicit code)
Demandware platform is a proprietary technology which allows developing only using their sandboxes and own IDE "UX Studio". All this stuff is available for demandware developers on their xchange portal. Access there could be requested by a merchant you do a development for.
Demandware has the core framework is closed to third parties and is exposed via the Demandware script and REST API's as well as Demandware's own Pipelet system.
Sadly you can't deploy external application in Demandware server, we have to separately create new app in UX studio
You can get the proper help on Demandware Wiki or on Exchange
Good Day Everyone,
Excuse the newbie question, I am new to Microsoft Sync Framework. I've done extensive research on the Internet in order to find my way in this puzzle with the different versions of Sync Framework, of SQL Server, of Sync Services for ADO.NET, of SyncAgent vs SyncOrchestrator, etc. etc. and what should be used in which type of scenario. Unfortunately, after about a week of struggling all day long with how to code my ASP.NET 2.0 C# web application right, I am still lost.
My current situation is this: I am developing applications for a large Department and I cannot expect to get approval for installing new stuff on the server side. I am stuck with SQL Server 2008 and (I believe), the server has Sync Framework 1.0 installed on it. However, I have the freedom to install later versions on the client computers that will connect to the server. These will have SQL Server 2008 Express (NOT Compact) and will each run the web app. in their localhost IIS. The synchronization model is centralized in that the clients will only connect to the server for bidirectional synchronization (in a star-shaped network topology, do we call this the hub-spoke model?) but will not connect to each other (no peer-to-peer collaboration).
I have prepared both sides of the database for synchronization (enabled Change Tracking, put GUID data type for Primary Keys, etc. etc.)
The core of the synchronization, the program that makes the interface between the two nodes to synchronize, seem to be exclusively the web application on the client side. Right?
QUESTION: If I want to use Sync Framework v2.0 or v2.1, can I just ignore what version is installed on the server? In other words, is the Sync Framework on the server side even doing something? The SQL Server does not have the web application installed on it.
Unfortunately I could not find answer to this rather simple question on the web!
Thanks very much for your help! Have a great day!
Kindest Regards,
Zyxy
No, you don't need to install sync framework on the central sever. All you need from the central database is a connection string. As long as you can access the central database with a login that has sufficient rights, then you don't need to install anything on it. The sync application can run from anywhere as long as it is able to connect to the central server.
depends how you build your application.
if all sync code is on your app and you simply point it to connect the central sql server, then no need to have sync framework on the server.
if however you decide to use WCF such that you have a service component of the sync on the server side, then you need sync framework on the server. you client will have a proxy for the server side service and part of the synchronization will be executed server side on the wcf service.
with regards to SQL Express on the client side, SQL Ce is the only supported client database is you use VS Local Database Cache Project item or if you manually code against the SyncAgent/SQLCeClientSyncProvider/DbServerSyncProvider.
if you use SQL Express, you will have to use the newer SyncOrchestrator/SqlSyncProvider combo but that doesnt use the built-in SQL Change tracking.
we're looking to implement TFS 2010 for our teams which are split up at onshore and offshore. we've TFS Proxy in plan for the offshore team, with the TFS setup at onshore.
i know that when the clients at offshore checkout their code, it will be from the proxy whereas the webservices call will be directly on the app tier.
we will also have build machines at offshore & onshore. the onshore build machine can get the latest code version from the app tier, and that is just fine. my question is when the build machine at offshore requests a get latest, will it get the code directly from the app tier at onshore or is there a provision where the files can be got from the tfs proxy?
any help with this is going to be of much help. thanks.
MSDN: Configure Team Foundation Build Service to Use Team Foundation Server Proxy
You can configure Team Foundation Build Service to retrieve files from Team Foundation Server Proxy by modifying a registry entry on the server that is running Team Foundation Build Service. If you modify this entry, Team Foundation Build Service at the remote site can work with version control from the proxy's cache.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716770.aspx
We are working on a client app that should search and download directory information from Microsoft OCS server (OCS old as well as Lync).
Does OCS provide web services type api?
From what I understand, the client needs to do sip handshake before it can do directory related queries.
Having dependency on sip stack is not desirable.
So I am wondering if there is a way (like SOAP web service or something like that) to do it.
The client is a C++ client with access to gSoap or curl type library running on Linux platform.
Thanks for your help.
No, there is no web service out of the box that gives you what you need.
I thin your best bet would be to build a UCMA application that would sit on an application server inside your OCS/Lync infrastructure. You could then build a web service to access this.
For OCS 2007, you'd need to use UCMA 1.0. For OCS 2007 R2, UCMA 2.0 and for Lync, UCMA 3.0