Synergy-e-News

Synergy-e-News: September 25, 2018

• Announcing Synergy/DE 10.3.3f
• Last chance to register for the 2018 Synergy DevPartner Conference
• Installation Authoring and Testing Techniques
• Development projects piling up? Let us help!
• Performance Troubleshooting
• Tech Tip: $ERR_FILFUL when file is less than maximum size allowed

Synergy-e-News: June 27, 2018

• See where Synergy’s headed with our 2018 product roadmap
• Synergy product ordering made easy(er)
• Taking Aim at the Credit Card Security Target
• The 2018 Synergy DevPartner Conference will be here soon
• Big Code: Dealing with SEGBIG issues
• Tech Tip: “Invalid operation join (on)” error after updating
• Your input makes Synergy/DE better!

Synergy-e-News: March 26, 2018

• Synergy/DE 10.3.3e provides SDI enhancements and quality improvements
• Manage your licenses online
• Join us in New Orleans for the 2018 DevPartner Conference
• What a cracking Idea – How participating in the Resource Center Community can improve your Synergy tools
• Synergex Professional Services at your service
• Select performance AND optimization OR optimization
• Our training videos are now at your fingertips

Synergy-e-News: November 16, 2017

• Synergy/DE 10.3.3d Delivers Important Features and Fixes
• A New Interface for Synergy/DE Online Documentation
• “D” Is for Developer
• Our History Summed Up…So Far
• Conference Videos Live on YouTube!
• Tech Tip: Issue in isutl 10.3.1b – 10.3.3c.

Synergy-e-News: July 21, 2017

• Synergy/DE 10.3.3c delivers valuable features and fixes
• How much memory does your sort really want?
• Don’t pass the buck to the runtime!
• Jodah’s trip to Atlanta
• The Synergy DevPartner Conference: “Go. Learn. Stay current”
• See what you missed!
• Tech Tip: Writing to an ISAM file hangs, but reading the file works

Synergy-e-News: January 18, 2017

• Synergy/DE 10.3.3b provides full support for traditional Synergy development in Visual Studio
• Is the conference on your radar?
• Check out our new logo!
• Tech Tip: “Unsupported server version/Feature not available” errors occuring in an xfServer upgrade

Synergy-e-News: October 31, 2016

• Don’t miss out! Mark your calendar for the 2017 Synergy DevPartner Conference: May 8-12
• Has anyone ever asked you “What is Synergy DBMS and how does it compare to Relational Database Management Systems”?
• Do you ever wonder why Ace answers his own questions?

Synergy-e-News: September 29, 2016

• Join us for a day, reap the benefits for years to come
• Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3
• DO examine and modify your Synergy data
• Do you want to know what issues have been reported or fixed in your version of Synergy/DE?
• Tech Tip: Debugging Visual Studio crashes

Synergy-e-News: August 31, 2016

• Calling Synergy DBL users in Europe
• Pick a version, any version
• Tech Tip: Unexpected “Login Failed or MaxUser” error on xfServerPlus system
• Replicating data to SQL Server
• CodeGen 5.1.4 released

Synergy-e-News: July 28, 2016

• Announcing Synergy/DE 10.3.3a patch for Windows and Linux
• The reports are in: Jack Henry saves memory, time with new PDF reporting
• Join the Select who Select using Join
• Tech Tip: Fixing TOKUDF errors (“Symbol already uniquely defined”)
• Are you hiring new programmers? Need to train existing programmers on the latest features in Synergy DBL?

Synergy-e-News: June 23, 2016

• The 2016 Synergy DevPartner Conference: “Synergy rocks!”
• Your developer tools just got even better
• Introducing the Synergex Resource Center Community
• For security compliance, update to current Synergy/DE version
• Important information if you are upgrading to Xamarin 4.1
• Deadline is looming for free Windows 10 upgrade
• Windows Update automatically downloads Windows 10 – what this means to Synergy/DE users
• Paving the way to Visual Studio
• WebDocs updated and expanded
• Get your new employees up to speed quickly on Synergy/DE

Synergy-e-News: May 19, 2016

• Synergy/DE 10.3.3 to debut at Synergy DevPartner Conference next week
• Get ready to interact with your Synergy community
• Keynote: Cyber security expert to speak at Synergy DevPartner Conference
• One IDE to rule them all
• The ‘types they are a-changin’

Synergy-e-News: April 7, 2016

• Announcing new SDI developer build—required for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
• Got a UI Toolkit application you’d like to modernize?
• IPv6 is coming! IPv6 is coming!
• The stars have aligned—Microsoft’s plans now synchronize with Synergex’s founding principle of portability

Synergy-e-News: February 25, 2016

• A Sneak Peek at the Synergy DevPartner Conference!
• The Writing Is on the Wall! Join Our 2016 Calendar Game!
• Sign of the Times: Improved Ordering with DocuSign

Synergy-e-News: January 29, 2016

• Registration is now open for the 2016 Synergy DevPartner Conference!
• Dream it and Reap: How Turn-Key Benefited Immediately while Transitioning Gradually from OpenVMS to Windows
• Tech Tip: Did you know you can use the latest and greatest DBMS utilities even when using an older version of Synergy?

Synergy-e-News: December 2, 2015

• Back-end to the future: Jackson Lumber migrates their back-end solution from an OpenVMS-hosted xfServerPlus solution to a Windows-hosted WCF solution with native Synergy .NET
• Synergy supports newly released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
• The mystical world of client/server applications in TCP/IP

Synergy-e-News: October 13, 2015

• Save the date for the 30th annual Synergy DevPartner Conference!
• Turn-Key turns to Synergy/DE License Manager to protect their software
• Need to debug on another machine? Sit back and use the remote
• Introducing the new Synergex Blog
• Tech Tip: License Manager generates 10061 System error

Synergy-e-News: August 27, 2015

• Synergy/DE 10.3.1b is available for download
• Free Mai Tais. Security can’t afford to take a vacation: Strengthen your application’s security with Synergy/DE 10.3.1b
• OpenVMS customers: Join us at the upcoming OpenVMS Boot Camp
• Synergy ventures into Universal Windows apps
• 2015 DevPartner Conference tutorials now available online

Synergy-e-News: July 31, 2015

• Get started today with Visual Studio 2015!
• What’s in it for you when Synergy/DE sim-ships with Visual Studio?
• Use Synergy/DE 10.3.1b for Windows 10
• Synergy/DE 10.3.1b stays vigilant with heightened security compliance
• Why is that first WCF operation SO slow?

Synergy-e-News: June 10, 2015

• Synergy/DE 10.3.1a is available on all platforms for download
• The DevPartner Conference results are in
• DBL’s long-standing Synergy with Visual Studio
• Source control becomes source of pride: Fleet Factors improves processes, productivity after PSG engagement
• Where.In is where it’s at: Using Select Where.In to optimize your code

Synergy-e-News: May 4, 2015

• Where else can you find so many Synergy/DE developers and experts under one roof?
• Windows xfServer goes mobile
• Scanners offer American Dryer a cleaner way to update inventory

Synergy-e-News: March 27, 2015

• What’s hot in Synergy? Find out at the Synergy DevPartner Conference
• Internationally renowned UX authority Billy Hollis to speak at the 2015 Synergy DevPartner Conference
• Synergy now supported on more devices. Announcing full support for iOS, plus PCL support for Windows Phone and Windows Store
• Introducing SDI developer builds. New Synergy “developer builds” support the latest updates of Xamarin tools and Visual Studio
• Developing for Android and iOS. Here’s how to deliver your existing Synergy .NET application to Android or iOS
• End of life coming for older versions of OpenSSL

Synergy-e-News: February 13, 2015

• Calling all Synergy developers! Register today for the 2015 Synergy DevPartner Conference May 11-15 in Philadelphia, PA
• Licensed to roam. Discover how Synergy device licensing differs from traditional licensing
• TECH TIP: Ensuring data integrity with binary data

Synergy-e-News: December 12, 2014

• Put the power of Synergy into the palm of your hand. Synergy/DE 10.3 brings native Android, iOS support plus a ton of new features and enhancements!
• On the road with Synergy-enabled devices. Learn from Rural Computer Consultants’ success with devices and find out how they’re saving customers thousands.
• The changing world of agile product releases. Read the latest blog post from Synergex CTO Roger Andrews
• Reasons to be cheerful. Read the latest blog post from Richard Morris, Synergex Technology Evangelist
• Synergex’s 2015 Synergy DevPartner Conference will take place May 11-15 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Synergy-e-News: October 31, 2014

• Automated Systems, Inc’s SynergyDE-based Insite app helps Currie State Bank compete with the big guys!
• A Spooktacular eQuiz for the Halloween Whiz. Can you figure it out?
• TECH TIP: An addition operation involving decimal variables and literals sometimes shows the ^A results with leading zeros. Why?

Synergy-e-News: September 11, 2014

• Get a sneak-peek at our new Synergex Resource Center. Give us your input!
• Synergy Interop migration offers Jack Henry huge gains in productivity and code quality
• TECH TIP: Applications in Workbench are unable to find System32 DLLs or EXEs. Why?

Synergy-e-News: August 1, 2014

• Synergy/DE 10.3 Beta – Develop for Mono, Android, Plus Synergy DBL Integration for Visual Studio enhancements and More!
• Warning: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC causes Synergy Projects to crash Visual Studio
• TECH TIP: Make xfServer environment variables available to a web application hosted on IIS

Synergy-e-News: June 20, 2014

• Synergy DevPartner Conference 2014 in Birmingham, UK
• Worth the Wait: Version 10’s Multi-user Repository
• TECH TIP: Getting a “Cannot access network license server” error when Windows Firewall is enabled

Synergy-e-News: April 24, 2014

• Synergy DevPartner Conference Customer Demo
• The DevPartner Conference: There’s No “One-Way” About It
• Synergex Achieves Microsoft Gold Application Development Competency for 9th Year
• Out of Scope, but Not Out of Mind
• TECH TIP: Worbench no longer appears on Start screen

Synergy-e-News: March 20, 2014

• Announcing Synergy/DE 10.1.1c
• Google It!
• What Have Synergy/DE Customers Been Asking about This Year?
• Steering Your Application Toward the Future
• Overcoming Performance Problems Associated with Upgrading to Windows Server 2012
• TECH TIP: %SYSERR returns error even though last Synergy I/O call returned successfully

Synergy-e-News: February 14, 2014

• Bit Shifting Operators Come to Synergy .NET
• Quiz – Is Love in the Air? – Test your knowledge of enumerations as bit fields thus creating a collection of flags

Synergy-e-News: January 13, 2014

• Leading Australian corporate management software company launches 100% Synergy.NET-based Dashboard
• TECH TIP: Determining which source code version created a binary file

Synergy-e-News: November 22, 2013

• Microsoft launches VS 2013; Synergy Developers can benefit immediately
• Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
• Get your solution “Connected” with Synergy/DE v10
• TECH TIP: ISUTL error “Duplicates detected – records moved to exception file”

Synergy-e-News: October 31, 2013

• Announcing Synergy/DE 10.1.1b
• PSG Blog: Synergy and XAML in Harmony
• PSG Blog: UI Consistency 101 – Put some “Style” into your application
• PSG Blog: Become Master of your AppDomain – Thread your way through Synergy.NET
• Why we’re partial to Partial Methods
• Quiz – Are you up for the Challenge? – Do you pass a Property as the argument to an “out” or “in” parameter?

Synergy-e-News:  September 30, 2013

• Snapshots in a snap – Recover previous data states with ISAM Change Tracking
• TECH TIP: Ranging errors with string variables will cause “Unhandled Exception” errors at runtime in Synergy.NET code
• Quiz – Synergy/DE Pros, can you answer this one? – Using the unit testing capabilities built into Visual Studio for testing code and returning proper results

Synergy-e-News: August 29, 2013

• C# to Synergy DBL conversion tools now convert solutions
• Are you ready for the demise of Windows XP? – See what Synergex CTO Roger Andrews has to say
• TECH TIP: Error message: “List’s load method not found”
• Quiz – Can you figure out the results of this Code example? – Tests proper handing of Optional Parameters in your code and consider using Synergy Objects instead

Synergy-e-News: July 25, 2013

• Synergy/DE supports preview release of Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1
• Improving software quality and QA productivity through Automated Testing
• TECH TIP: How to get Intellisense to recognize files as Synergy source files

Synergy-e-News: June 14, 2013

• New Synergy/DE 10.1.1a patch delivers more than fixes – See the new features that improve code optimization
• Introducing the power and flexibility of ISAM REV 6
• TECH TIP: Which libraries do you need when running Synergy/DE on Linux?
• Quiz – Synergy/DE Pros, can you figure out this one? – Learn more about Micro Substitutions and how it can keep your code “clean” for reading the flow of a function

Synergy-e-News: May 20, 2013

• To infinity and beyond – How a Synergy/DE customer changed app to Multi-Tier application
• I support incremental loading – Windows 8 support for infinite scrolling!
• TECH TIP: Unable to set Width property of a .NET form to less than 132 pixels
• Quiz – What’s wrong with this code? – Things to remember when working with the XML parser – instantiate it!

Synergy-e-News: April 12, 2013

• Asynchronous programming: What you’ve been Awaiting for to improve responsiveness of your application
• Paradise by the dashboard light – A fully functional interactive dashboard written in Synergy.NET!
• “One of the best European airports” selects Synergy/DE-based ALDIS airport software
• TECH TIP: Printing a PDF file in Synergy/DE
• Quiz – Can you guess which code implementation gets accessed for an instance of Spring? – Learn how Synergy.NET supports classes that provides a mechanism for a form of multiple Inheritance

Synergy-e-News: March 11, 2013

• IP-based licensing makes its debut in Synergy/DE version 10
• TECH TIP: Unable to create VTX14.so database driver for MySQL on Linux
• Quiz – For St. Patty’s day, review the code to choose odds of getting Murphy’s Irish libation! – A function that derives its initial random seed from the current date and time to determine the odds

Synergy-e-News: February 14, 2013

• Greater productivity with Visual Studio 2012
• William Mooney Blog: Windows 8 – If I can do it, so can you!
• TECH TIP: Removing a product generates the error: “Error opening installation log file. Verify that the location specified ‘log.file’ exists and is writable”
• Quiz – Can you figure out the output of this program? – Learn what happens when you cast an alphanumeric value as a string and as an object and then compare them for equality

Synergy-e-News: January 18, 2013

• Synergy/DE 10.1 has been released! – It will take you wherever you want to go
• Nullable ain’t nothin’! – How to use nullable types
• The changing face of data – PSG Blog from Richard Morris
• HTTP API enhancements in version 10 – PSG Blog from Steve Ives
• TECH TIP: Building using a .NET DLL
• Quiz – If a DLL routine is opened but fails to close what happens on a second call to it? – Test your knowledge of opening and closing DLL routines multiple times using the %DLL_ calls

Synergy-e-News: November 2, 2012

• Synergex International Corporation has new leadership
• Synergex announces KitaroDB – A free NoSQL database for the next generation of applications!
• Pinning Synergy/DE application in Windows 8 – Utility giving quick access from single Windows tile
• Synergy/DE 10: The version too big for a byte – Ensuring your development won’t be affected
• Quiz – What is the output of our latest challenging code?
  – Learn to keep functions with the same name in different namespaces straight

Synergy-e-News: October 8, 2012

• Synergy/DE supports newly-released Visual Studio 2012 – Develop modern apps across Microsoft’s platforms
• Yeild better code in Version 10 – Using Synergy .NET v10
• Sendig us data so we can help you troubleshoot an issue? STOP!
• Welcome back, DBL! – Blog from the General Manager
• TECH TIP: Print preview displays incorrectly in Synergy Windows printing API
• Quiz – Can you figure out the output of our Code?
  – Highlights the new Lamdba statement in Synergy.NET & shows the compiler’s improved type resolution using .NET Framework

Synergy-e-News: August 17, 2012

• TECH TIP: Seemingly valid code fails to compile with an “Invalid initializer” error
• Quiz – Can you pick the code line that will correctly display a Euro symbol?
• Test your knowledge of displaying a Euro symbol to an open terminal channel

Synergy-e-News: July 13, 2012

• The dreaded Record Lock: It appears without warning, leaves no trace, and instills rage in the innocent users who encounter it!
• TECH TIP: Invaluable tools to help you troubleshoot Synergy .NET assemblies
• Quiz – Can you figure out this Code question?
  – Test your knowledge of the Dblproto utility and Prototyping your code

Synergy-e-News: June 22, 2012

• Introducing Synergy/DE WebDocs – Access specific Synergy info via traditional Web search
• A Fond (and Overdue) Farewell – To UI Toolkit’s gblctl.def & lstprv.def
• PSG Blog – Updates on CodeGen, Windows 8, and more!
• TECH TIP: Error: “Shared library located outside of SYS$SHARE not found”
• Quiz – How well do you know your UI Toolkit routines?
  – How to prevent losing data in an input field if you exit without hitting Enter

Synergy-e-News: June 5, 2012

• Generic methods and delegates
• TECH TIP: Prompted for a reboot when installing Synergy/DE 9.5.3a – Why?
• Quiz – Can you determine the output of our sample code?
  – Learn the Powers and Dangers of using Override Properties in Synergex

Synergy-e-News: May 10, 2012

• Deploy your Synergy applications faster and easier with ClickOnce
• Free Code for Synergy developers – Parse XML files with over 65,534 characters on a line
• TECH TIP: Errors when installing Synergy/DE – “Unidentified Publisher” or “The certificate in the signature cannot be verified”
• Quiz – Figure out our Printing code results?
  – You need to know your “For Loops” and the true value of a “^b operator” value

Synergy-e-News: April 20, 2012

• Liberated development – Synergy Language Integration (SLI) for Visual Studio
• CodeExchange – Calling C routines from Synergy and vice versa on OpenVMS
• TECH TIP: Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) can prevent access to libraries used by Synergy/DE
• Quiz – Solve our code question and learn something?
  – Challenge your knowledge of basic Low-level Windows calls

Synergy-e-News: March 29, 2012

• CodeExchange – Add PDF capabilities to your Synergy apps
• Spotlight on Synergy/DE: Extending the Unextendable
• TECH TIP: “psect $DBL_FXD4CTL” warnings on OpenVMS
• Quiz – Test your skills with Classes!
  – Learn how Synergy/DE’s strong rules about private members enable full encapsulating of the inner workings of classes

Synergy-e-News: March 8, 2012

• Keeping up with industry security standards – UI Toolkit making PCI compliance easier
• CodeExchange – Demystifying ArrayLists
• TECH TIP: ILASM errors when trying to run dblnet
• Quiz – In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, Is our sample Windows application wearing any Green?
  – Refresh your knowledge of Low-level Windows routines to solve this quiz

Synergy-e-News: February 17, 2012

• Now that’s a good cup of Joe – Synergy/DE 9.5.3 includes hot Java features for xfNetLink deployments
• Google It
• CodeExchange – You can use Google Maps APIs in Synergy applications
• TECH TIP: Unexpected xfServerPlus connection error
• Quiz – Can you figure out what our Sample Program’s output?
  – Be prepared with your skillset of ‘Bit Sets’ and ‘For Loops’ to solve this Valentine’s Day quiz

Synergy-e-News: January 26, 2012

• OpenVMS Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
• Are “Lamdbas” just Greek to you? – An introduction to Lamdbas for Synergy Developers
• Bit CodeExchange – Get a head start on Synergy .NET development
• TECH TIP: ILASM error when trying to run dblnet
• Quiz – Find the answer to this sample program
  – Working with complex data structures, are you ready?

Synergy-e-News: January 6, 2012

• Synergy/DE 9.5.3 Enhancements – DBMS files, U_Edit, Lambda functions, Synergy Language Integration, and More
• Hooked on Synergy DBMS – Possibilities abound with the new IOHooks class
• TECH TIP: Limitations on using XCALL COPY on OpenVMS
• Quiz – How efficient are you with your calculation code?
  – Test your ability with the use of a d28 field for greatest accuracy

Synergy-e-News: December 9, 2011

• Bit CodeExchange – RemoteServer enables you to compile remotely on Unix & OpenVMS systems with Workbench
• TECH TIP: Data corruption using xfServer over a VPN
• Quiz – How well do you know the RANDM subroutine?
  – When using an integer field, just what do you get back from the RANDM subroutine, find out

Synergy-e-News: November 17, 2011

• Synergy/DE based application first in its industry to provide one-step remote electronic check deposit
• Support for multiple Synergy/DE versions on one machine has come to an end with v9.5.1
• CodeExchange – Chose the best client/server architecture for your application
• TECH TIP: xfServerPlus service is not restarting after a reboot
• Quiz – Don’t get Boxed up with this Quiz?
  – How well do you know your primitive data types and their boxed equivalents?

Synergy-e-News: October 28, 2011

• CodeExchange – Get information on calls from and to a routine
• TECH TIP: Getting an ActiveX list in UI Toolkit composite window to load completely
• Quiz – Is your coding too clever, to excess? Find out with our sample code
  – Learn how excessively clever code can get you into trouble!

Synergy-e-News: September 30, 2011

• Powerful, home-grown Synergy app gets a new Infragistic’s front end
• CodeExchange – Have you ever wanted to code a Synergy program to transfer files via FTP?
• TECH TIP: VSLICKCONFIG error in Workbench
• Quiz – Watch your Math parameters in your code
  – Know your parameters and how they are declared when using them for math calculation in your code

Synergy-e-News: September 9, 2011

• Synergy/DE 9.5.1b patch released
• TECH TIP: Workspace in Workbench not restored
• Quiz – Learn some good programming tips from this quiz
  – Three good lessons to learn from this programmer’s quiz, learn what they are!

Synergy-e-News: August 18, 2011

• Picture Perfect – Major UK photo developing company migrates Synergy OpenVMS to new platform
• CodeExchange – Access United States Postal Service information from your Synergy application
• TECH TIP: Internal runtime failure: HATFNC when using DD_ routines
• Quiz – Do you know your ASCII character codes?
  – Find out what the Synergy/DE call %CHAR(2764) returns to you!

Synergy-e-News: July 28, 2011

• xfNetLink Java and Encription
• PSG Blog – Exposing WCF Services using xfNetLink .NET
• PSG Blog – All Hooked up(Circa 1957, Elvis Presley)
• CodeExchange – Generate xfMethod and xfParam sttribute statements from existing Synergy source code or your current SMC data
• TECH TIP: Too many column returned by query
• Quiz: Do you really know what the routine %NUMARGS tells you?
  – Find our how it can fail you and your code if not used correctly

Synergy-e-News: June 30, 2011

• Extending your Synergy applications with MEF
• PSG Blog – Building distributed apps with Synergy/DE and WCF
• CodeExchange – Send an email from a Synergy program
• TECH TIP: Licensing error on a Windows machine with both 32 and 64-bit Synergy/DE installed
• Quiz: How well do you know Repository Schemas?
  – Be careful when referencing a field from within Repository that is not unique, problems can occur

Synergy-e-News: June 9, 2011

• Constraints on generic types
• And the Winner is – Rural Computer Consultants, awarded Minnesota Small Business Persons of the Year
• CodeExchange – ISAMUtils routine provides a handy GUI wrapper to several ISAM utilities
• TECH TIP: xfServerPlus environment variable confusion on UNIX
• Quiz: How well do you know your UI Toolkit window coloring calls?
– See the difference between color numbers and pallete entries in a Synergy.ini or Synuser.ini file

Synergy-e-News: May 19, 2011

• Introduction to Generic Types in Synergy .NET
• CodeExchange – Compare xfServer with mapped drive performance
• TECH TIP: “Signal Trap/Segmentation violation” error at runtime – On a 64-bit Windows Synergy/DE app
• Quiz: Can you write a method that returns three different strings?
  – Try using a Custom Class – Synergy/DE provides several options for solving any problem

Synergy-e-News: April 29, 2011

• FOREACH with a twist – Spotlight on Synergy/DE
• CodeExchange – Display a splash screen in a Synergy .NET Windows Presentation Foundation application
• TECH TIP: Exceeding buffer size for command string argument in SPAWN routine
• Quiz: Why does our code snippet fail? Opps, gave you the answer or did I?
  – Learn the differences between boxed primitives and their unboxed equivalents

Synergy-e-News: March 29, 2011

• Unraveling the Mystery behind installation issues
• TECH TIP: Application hangs when using a custom destructor. Why?
• Quiz: Do you fully understand the Synergy/DE USING statement?
  – The USING statement is not only linguistically expressive, it performs as well as the CASE statement

Synergy-e-News:  March 3, 2011

• Referencing Synergy .NET Assemblies
• TECH TIP: Calling a destructor from outside a shared image on OpenVMS
• Quiz: Why does Case-sensitivity affect the outcome of this code snippet?
  – Synergy/DE has the ability to port your code to Microsoft’s .NET Framework and thus new issues can result

Synergy-e-News: February 11, 2011

• Synergy .NET new language feature: Delegates
• Synergy/DE in the World – Supplying the foodservice industry with fine refrigerated food products
• CTO Blog – Mapped drives and Synergy
• TECH TIP: “Rountine not found in ELB” error on 64-bit system when routine is there
• Quiz: Can you create a wrapper with the S_BLD for your own routines passing the same arguments?
  – It may depend on your knowledge of Synergy Call-back routines or .NET Framework to make it possible

Synergy-e-News: January 6, 2011

• Keeping to Code Standards: Code formatting in Synergy Language Integration for Visual Studio
• That prototyping Thingamajig: Understanding & Using a Quality Assurance tool that you can bank on
• TECH TIP: Debugging segmentation violations or signal trap errors on UNIX with core files
• Quiz: Can you have a Class and a Namespace both with the same name in Synergy/DE?
  – Learn how to deal with Classes, and Namespaces and not create confusing code for others to have to figure out later

Synergy-e-News: December 9, 2010

• Getting started with Synergy .NET – Itching to kick the tires of Synergy .NET, but not sure where to start?
• TECH TIP: Passing arguments by ^DESC, ^REF, and ^VAL
• Quiz: Can you figure out what our Mangled text says without running the sample app?
  – Test your skill with this sample code for a secure encryption algorithm, or at least half of one.

Synergy-e-News: November 12, 2010

• TECH TIP: Viewing build output when working with .NET and Java component projects in Workbench
• Quiz: Can you take the Static out of our sample code and improve it?
  – Changing a Static method to an Instance methods, what issues does this cause?

Synergy-e-News: October 19, 2010

• Where in the World is Synergy/DE? – Selling heaters with the help of TV personalities Bob Vila & Richard Karn
• TECH TIP: xfODBC error: INTERNAL:ZEXMAIN:Multi RID overflow
• Quiz: In Synergy/DE, do you know what the operator “//” means?
  – Learn that this operator is more than just a division operator in Synergy/DE calculation codes

Synergy-e-News: September 16, 2010

• It’s easy to give your Synergy/DE-based application a Modern UI
• Ready for the Rush – How a company’s proactive practices paid off BIG
• TECH TIP: Error returned when building the SQL Connection server shared library for Oracle 10g on Solaris
• Quiz: Does a Class of Strings have anything to do with a Music class?
  – Learn how Synergy/DE code converts Objects to strings – explicitly!

Synergy-e-News: August 26, 2010

• New Security updates for SSL on HP OpenVMS
• If you use mapped drives or NAS drives, be aware of possible issues
• TECH TIP: Using Visual Studio to create a ClickOnce deployment
• Quiz: Why is RAD50 called RAD50?
  – Learn more about Synergy/DE’s ASCR5 & R5ASC routines for conversion between ASCII string & RAD50 integer equivalent

Synergy-e-News: August 5, 2010

• Synergy/DE customer migrates 14,000+ data tables from Oracle to SQL Server – with ease
• TECH TIP: Use xfODBC to enable Crystal Reports to access Synergy data
• Quiz: What type of field can store a numeric value between 0 and 255, inclusive, in a single byte?
  – Learn how values are stored in Alpha, Integer and Byte types to solve this question

Synergy-e-News: July 8, 2010

• If data security is of any importance to your business, Synergy/DE can help you
• TECH TIP: Configuring xfODBC access to multiple databases on a single OpenVMS machine
• Quiz: Why can’t I use GOTO’s in my code anymore? – See why in our sample code
  – Even though Synergy/DE has limited support for GOTO statements, it’s no longer recommended! There are better ways to get there

Synergy-e-News: June 17, 2010

• PSG Blog – Are you keeping up with all of the Tips & Tricks of the PSG Blog?
• Crisis averted with Version Control Software
• TECH TIP: Consuming keyboard input in a .NET form within a UI Toolkit application
• Quiz: How do you look at your IF conditional code? – There are two ways to do so
  – Learn the options you have with the IF conditional code in Synergy/DE

Synergy-e-News: May 27, 2010

• AgTrax’s TraxView – Instantly displays Synergy DMBS data vis xfServerPlus in Map form
• TECH TIP: Creating a form letter with Microsoft Word and xfODBC
• Quiz: Can Strings and Alphanumeric values be used interchangeably? – Find out how.
  – See how to get the results you want when combining Strings and Alphanumeric values

Synergy-e-News: May 6, 2010

• An ounce of Encryption is worth a pound of cure – Part 3 – Data Encryption
• TECH TIP: Visual Studio Data Source wizard error: “Failed to add relation(s) Unexpected error”
• Quiz: What does the message “Signal 11 re-signaled” mean?
  – Have you ever seen this error and wondered what’s wrong? Learn now what causes it within Synergy/DE code

Synergy-e-News: April 15, 2010

• An Ounce of Encryption Is Worth a Pound of Cure — Part 2 – Network encryption with xfServerPlus
• Where in the World Is Synergy/DE? – Awarding over $1M to independent tire dealers in need of a bailout
• TECH TIP: Debugging performance issues on Windows
• Quiz: How can you create a “lazy list” in Synergy/DE?
  – Find out what a “lazy list” is and how you can use one to your advantage

Synergy-e-News: March 18, 2010

• An Ounce of Encryption is Worth a Pound of Cure – Network Encryption with xfServer
• TECH TIP: Error when defining TRUE and FALSE
• Quiz: Can you make your Sequential file sorting more efficient?
  – Learn the way to efficiently sort a sequential file containing 12,000 records of 1024 bytes each

Synergy-e-News: February 25, 2010

• Synergy/DE is Now “Compatible with Windows 7” – “But didn’t Synergy/DE already support Windows 7?”
• Spotlight on Synergy/DE – Developing xfServerPlus Applications Just Got Easier
• TECH TIP: XSUBR call causes untrappable segmentation violation error
• Quiz: Do you use good Design Principles in your code?
  – Get some suggestions on how you can create better and less confusing code in the future

Synergy-e-News: February 4, 2010

• Spotlight on Synergy/DE – Controlling the User Installation Experience for Synergy/DE Products
• TECH TIP: Why is the .NET assembly loading so slowly?
• Quiz: Did you know you can control the background color of a field when focusing it in UI Toolkit?
  – From this quiz. learn how to use Arrive, Leave, IEDTFMT_METHOD, & IDISPLAY_METHOD methods in UI Toolkit to do this

Synergy-e-News: January 12, 2010

• Binary Prototypes – Speed up compiles and reduce dependencies
• Implementing Interoperability Between Embedded .NET WinForms and your Existing Synergy/DE UI Toolkit Logic
• TECH TIP: Consuming keyboard input in a .NET form in a UI Toolkit application
• Quiz: How do you get the current Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)?
  – Learn the Synergy/DE functions %timezone and %datetime in ways you may never of thought of