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DB Server Timeout with Any DB Server

Michael Gonzalez — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:24:10 GMT

I'm evaluation SF for the first time. No matter what DB server I tell it to use, it always results in a connection problem, whether it be a timeout or an login failure, and I've verified I can connect to SSMS v2005, so credentials are not the problem. The installation fails, too:

"Failed to connect to server [hostname]
...
Timeout expired. ...

Source: Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo
..."

Any Canadian users out there

Doug Zapp — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:13:43 GMT

Hey everyone. I've been using this product for a few months now, and have no regrets.

I was just wondering how many users are from Canada though. It would be interesting to see how many of us use StrataFrame. And just to be more inclusive, those neighbors to the south of us, if you are in close proximity to the Canadian border, let me know as well.

This could be a way to start a StrataFrame user group in your area.

Thanks,
Doug.

FillMultipleDataTables sure works !

Charles R Hankey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:13:20 GMT

In my first big .NET app I have inherited the need to load at least 35 business objects with data that will be used for lookups, calculations etc.

In the appmain I have one call to one stored proc that fills all 35 business objects on one server trip (very fast) which are available as shared properties of a Lookupmanager class. Works just as advertised ! :D

Now from anywhere in the app it is Lookupmanager.Lookups.BO.column to get a piece of data.

Very cool.

WPF

Ajit Abraham — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:39:58 GMT

I hear from many people that WinForm is dead-ended and that Microsoft is pushing WPF forward.

How does Strataframe work with WPF

Thanks.

_Ajit

trial license key needed

swguy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:52:47 GMT

Hi ,

After registering via the website for a trial version, i did not receive a licence key. It's not on the Account page.

Am I supposed to receive it by email? I'm planning the add SF to our IT department.

A quick answer will be greatly appreciated.

Training in Amarillo, my experience....

Edhy Rijo — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:19:12 GMT

Hi all,

It has been a while since I have gone to a worthy training session. I have to admit that at the beginning looking at the SF training info on the web I did not quite understand why they would need 5 days of training.

Well to my surprise, the last week (July 14-19) has been so far the most productive training session I have take in a while. It was worth every penny and effort to get to Amarillo, I though I would have time to get to know Amarillo, but nope, I ended up getting tire at the end of the day due to all the information provided during each session.

The SF Team is just great, Steve, Ben, Justin and Trent participated all day, every day of the training taking care of not only SF related question. They answered every question asked by us, and with great detail in most cases, they provided us with a huge, nice colored and professionally binded training curriculum book, printed with sample code for all 23 chapters.

During the class, a new project was created to explain all chapters and the source code was provided immediately via an FTP server for the class and of course a very solid and fast wireless Internet access all the time.

The food was pretty good, with a different menu everyday and of course, plenty of soda, water, ice tea, coffee and pastries to keep us busy during the long day of training.

They even went the extra mile and show us what they have been able to do with SF in their Medical Application which is filled with tons of great features for the end user. And the initial version of the new SF Sample application called StrataFlix which show us a new way to design front end applications with a clean and fully commented code.

Button line is that a couple of developers here have mentioned how good the training was, and I honestly did not have that expectation, but after taking the training class in Amarillo I can proudly say that it was WORTHY EVERY PENNY! and I fully recommend it to any SF developer.

There si much more to say but I will leave that to other members of the class.

Who's going to Amarillo in July ?

Charles R Hankey — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:52:46 GMT

Starting to get very psyched up for the training class in July and just wondered who all is going? (Ivan needs to kow how much beer to bring)

Would just be curious about other attendees, level of experience, kind of work you do, what you will be particularly looking for in the class, that kind of stuff.

I have a feeling I'm going to find out there is a whole lot more to the framework and what it can do than I have so far imagined (and I have a pretty good imagination :) )

Anyway, I'm Charles Hankey. I am an independant business consultant in Cleveland, OH. An old guy who had a number of other careers in the US and abroad before I started designing software applications 25 years ago. I do most of my work right now in VFP using the Visual FoXExpress framework with a SQL Server back end and besides my own client work I teach VFE for F1 Technologies and mentor VFE developers on their projects.

I am a real beginner in .NET but convinced I've made a good choice in using Strataframe to both flatten the learning curve and get me productive quickly.

I have a major client right now with whom I am spec'ing out a very big project - in Strataframe and SQL Server - so I'm very motivated :)

Would always be glad to hear from other here or at charleshankey@f1tech.com

See you in Texas!

StrataFrame Evaluation Question

Carlos Izquierdo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:23:54 GMT

We are evaluating StrataFrame for a workflow enable web development scenario, in which we need that every web page be inherited from a third party base class (which support the workflow management), we are wondering how this could be implemented in StrataFrame if every page need to be inherited from the ApplicationBasePage.

Thanks in advance

Two minutes to add database upgrading to my application!

Aaron Young — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:16:05 GMT

Two minutes ago my application wasn't able to upgrade it's own database to the latest version.

Two minutes later, a new menu option and 8 lines of code and it now can upgrade the database from any version.

How cool is that! It takes me longer to make a cup of tea! Life is so hard! :)

Evaluating strataframe and have some questions

Brian Bakkebo — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:30:21 GMT

Hello, I am evaulating strataframework and have some questions.

We have been doing a lot with dynamic building of forms and building of field generation based on database and I came across strataframe. But I wanted to know if anyone had experience with doing this in Strataframe and perhaps if they could also provide how they did it.

The areas that we are looking at are these.
1) support automatically generated forms for editing an object. So basically here if we add a field to the table we want the form to automatically pick it up. It appears with strataframe today we have to update the bo and then update the form. We would like to update the bo and then in the form interface we are painting the screen with the fields. it should be no need for the developer to create an edit/new form at all. Basically, it should be all done in the base class. if it's just a couple of clicks to create the edit/new form then it's not a big deal
2) support for dynamic attributes. Meaning creating dynamic fields in forms which will be added to a db table automatically and then these fields will be able to be implemented into the forms.
3) support of our existing datalayer created with mygeneration.

#3 is more of an issue with how will we deal with our existing data structures if we moved to strataframe.
Thanks

Another Successful Strataframe Based Application

Richard Keller — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:12:40 GMT

We built a Shipping SDK using SF in both the UI layer and in the Business Layer to perform all of the functions necessary to add UPS,DHL, Fedex, USPS into any .Net enabled Application. It can print labels, get rates, rate shop, and adjust for internal freight rules using one object model instead of customizing for each API from each carrier.

This application has already been used to insert plugins to 3rd party products, Add Freight Shopping to Websites and we have yet to encounter a single problem with SF and it has made our data layer very very stable which I believe is the core of any Database related product.

Take a look at a sample video to see what we were able to do with SF. [url]http://www.kellersystems.com/ISSI/ISSI%20Plugin.html[/url]

While we have been using ASP.Net for our E-Commerce for a long time, we've been making a transition for own Winform and Middle-Tier development from Powerbuilder to SF and I can state unequivocably that it has increased our capabilites and shortened our development time drastically. We reviewed Ideablade and Devexpress ExpressApp extensively before standardizing. All 3 are great products but SF eats their own dog food and builds their own enterprise medical product this real-world filter made me believe that the product will mature with our needs as we also build enterprise products. That combined with the fast response from these forums makes SF a great decision for your development needs.

Richard

StrataFrame vs other products and its success/failure

Doug Zapp — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:17:32 GMT

We are currently in the process of evaluating application frameworks for our development environment. The choices have been narrowed down to StrataFrame, DevForce (by IdeaBlade) and eXpressApp Framework (by DevExpress). There is some give and take between the products, but the underlying concepts are similar.

What I would like to know is if anybody has experience in their search for an application framework, similar to what we are looking at, and why you chose StrataFrame (or conversely why you didn't choose another product) over any other tool?

This doesn't have to be specific to the products I mentioned. I would also like feedback as to how successful the product has made your development process.

Thank you for any advice you can provide.
Doug.

Instalação do Strataframe

Sergio MElo Figueiredo — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:41:04 GMT

Minha Instalação não conclui. Fica parada na tela registrando asemblies e não termina nunca.

Soon to be a customer

Trent L. Taylor — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:58:26 GMT

We just created this new forum so that you can see how much the contributions that you have made to StrataFrame and this forum community has impacted other developers. Below is an email from a trial user that is about to become a full user. Many of you have interacted with Bill on the site and we all (including Bill) wanted to share this with you. Thanks for all of your contributions!

[quote]Good afternoon!

I have been working with the trial software for about three weeks. I asked for an extension from the 2nd to the 18th of January because of the holidays. You graciously granted my request. This has allowed me to put together a very comprehensive presentation to my manager. Yesterday, I sat down with him and walked him through the new application that we are developing. We had been working on the app for about six months and had stalled out because of various technical and support isses. I did with your software in less than 10 business days what had taken me months in the other environment. I also showed him how to create a maintenance window from scratch (he is not a developer). In less than 15 minutes, I had a new project, business object, maintenance window completed and integrated into the application. It all worked beautifully! I think we are all sold on your product.

Personally, I am sold on the outstanding support through the forums. It has been wonderful to discuss issues with fellow users and know that I will get answers to every question that I put out there. It is a breath of fresh air!! Thank you so much. Whatever it is that you are doing, please continue. Our plans are to obtain the licensing by the end of next week which will officially make us a customer. I am looking forward to a long and profitable relationship.

Regards,
Bill Cunnien[/quote]