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| Synergy/DE 9.3.1b Patch is Now Available Includes new Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET release An Ounce of Encryption Is Worth a Pound of Cure — Part 3 Spotlight on Synergy/DE 9.3: Data Encryption By John Brunett, Senior Software Engineer, & Mark Cooper, Lead Systems Programmer Are You Wasting Time with Record Lock Conflicts? If so, you will love our new Global RFA feature Learn more in a short video Synergy/DE Tech Tip Visual Studio Data Source wizard error "Failed to add relation(s) Unexpected error" Quiz Synergy/DE pros, see if you can answer this question! Platform News Read a selection of recent articles |
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Synergy/DE 9.3.1b Patch is Now Available
Includes new Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET release
The Synergy/DE 9.3.1b patch is now available for Windows. It includes a number of important fixes, and we recommend that all Synergy/DE 9.3 customers update to it. 9.3.1b also includes an update to the Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET, which supports Microsoft’s recent Visual Studio 2010 release.
See a list of the changes in 9.3.1b. Customers with ALM and Developer Support can visit the Synergy/DE Resource Center to download the patch. If you do not have ALM or Developer Support, please contact your Synergy/DE account manager.
An Ounce of Encryption Is Worth a Pound of Cure — Part 3
Spotlight on Synergy/DE 9.3: Data Encryption
By John Brunett, Senior Software Engineer, and Mark Cooper, Lead Systems Programmer
This is the third article in a three-part series about the new encryption features in Synergy/DE 9.3. Part 1 and part 2 discussed network encryption; in this final article, we’ll turn to data encryption.
While network encryption encrypts data transferred across a network, data encryption encrypts data at the application level. When you implement data encryption in your application, you can encrypt a record or field using a passphrase. The two main Synergy/DE encryption routines are DATA_ENCRYPT and DATA_DECRYPT. Once encrypted, this data can be written to a file or even transferred across a network. How is this different than the network encryption we’ve been discussing? The primary difference is that with data encryption, the application and ultimately the user maintain complete control of the encrypted data, which means the data is still protected once it reaches the other side. With network encryption, the data is only encrypted while it’s being transferred.
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Are You Wasting Time with Record Lock Conflicts?
If so, you will love our new Global RFA feature
Learn more in a short video...
Synergy/DE Tech Tip
Visual Studio Data Source wizard error "Failed to add relation(s) Unexpected error"
Question
When I try to use the Data Source Configuration wizard to create an entity data model, I get the following error:
"Failed to add relation(s) Unexpected error"
What could be causing this?
Answer
This could be caused by the problem documented in Microsoft KB 954740. Visual Studio fails to generate entity data model relationships for primary-key-to-foreign-key database relationships if the primary key in the first table is not referenced. If you encounter this error, we recommend that you install the hotfix described in Microsoft KB 954740.
Quiz
Synergy/DE pros, see if you can answer this question!
What does the message "Signal 11 re-signaled" mean?
a) A "Channel not open" error was caught, but then thrown again.
b) An illegal memory access occurred multiple times.
c) A STOP was unable to execute successfully.
d) Congratulations, you're a dead man.
Click here for the answer and explanation.
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