QuickBooks Release Number - quickbooks

Is there any way to get the release number of the QuickBooks software using SDK 12.0? If not, does the major/minor versions retrieved by a Host Query have any relationship to the release number?
PS I'm NOT talking about the release number of the QBXML.
Thanks,
Larry

The Host query does return the "Product Name" which has the release number. Here is an example of a host Query result
<HostQueryRs statusCode="0" statusSeverity="Info" statusMessage="Status OK">
<HostRet>
<ProductName>Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions: Accountant 12.0</ProductName>
<MajorVersion>22</MajorVersion>
<MinorVersion>0</MinorVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>1.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>1.1</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>2.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>2.1</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>3.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>4.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>4.1</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>5.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>6.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>7.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>8.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>9.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>10.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
<SupportedQBXMLVersion>11.0</SupportedQBXMLVersion>
</HostRet>
</HostQueryRs>

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How to get data from a SAP system using IDOC

I have currently install sap_netweaver_as_abap_751_sp02_ase_dev_edition and all works fine.
My final goal is to create some tables in SAP (I have SAP ASE installed as DB) and to be able to access them using java (of course with sapidoc3.jar and sapjco3.jar).
Until this moment I manage to create a connection to SAP and I get this output:
executing
Attributes:
DEST: mySAPSystem
OWN_HOST: HS-SW-05
PARTNER_HOST: vhcalnplci
SYSTNR: 00
SYSID: NPL
CLIENT: 001
USER: DEVELOPER
LANGUAGE: E
ISO_LANGUAGE: EN
OWN_CODEPAGE: 4102
OWN_CHARSET: UTF16
OWN_ENCODING: utf-16
OWN_BYTES_PER_CHAR: 2
PARTNER_CODEPAGE: 4103
PARTNER_CHARSET: UTF16
PARTNER_ENCODING: utf-16
PARTNER_BYTES_PER_CHAR: 2
OWN_REL: 721
PARTNER_REL: 751
PARTNER_TYPE: 3
KERNEL_REL: 749
TRACE:
RFC_ROLE: C
OWN_TYPE: E
CPIC_CONVID: 00000000
STFC_CONNECTION finished:
Echo: Hello SAP
Response: SAP R/3 Rel. 751 Sysid: NPL Date: 20180905 Time: 132841
Logon_Data: 001/DEVELOPER/E
I also manage to create a simple table in SAP, but right now I don't understand how can I receive info from that table using java and my jars(is not possible to make any selects or things like this).
From what I found on the internet I have understood that these tables are stored in an IDOC file and I should get somehow this IDOC.
If someone has done this before maybe can give me some clues about how can I get some date from a SAP database.
Thank you.
For now, I can only give a general answer, because I feel you'll have to search detailed guides through other posts, how IDOC works.
An IDOC is neither a table, nor a file. It's a format for exchanging data with SAP (SAP also stores them in IDOC tables, for logging and recovery purposes).
You can either send an IDOC to SAP, or get one from SAP. For instance, one IDOC could contain the data of a purchasing order.
To get data from SAP, you must push it from SAP, by defining:
some data in SAP (purchase order, customer, etc.),
when to send it (immediately or scheduled),
how to send the data via IDOCs to your "java program", by configuring partners and ports (file, HTTP, RFC...)
There are transaction codes like WE20, WE21, BD64.
On a trial system, there is almost no real application except the flight demo database. You may try filling it with the program SAPBC_DATA_GENERATOR, then use the program SAPBC_FILL_FLCUST_IDOC to send IDocs of type FLCUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA01.

Are TFS Build Agent User Capabilities' Values Obtainable Within Build Steps?

I'm trying to write a build step within TFS that relies on knowing where the Build agent has nuget.exe stored (the standard nuget-install step mucks around with the order of arguments in a way that breaks build execution, so I want to run the exe myself using one of the batch/shell/ps steps).
It would seem that setting up a capability on the Build Agent with that path would make sense, but I cannot seem to reference the value in any of my build steps, and I cannot find anything helpful on MSDN.
I'm expecting it to be something like $(Env.MyUserCapability), but it never resolves to the value.
Is it possible to retrieve a capability value within a build step? And if so, how do you do it? And if not, what is a viable alternative?
The user-defined capabilities are metadata only. But you can set a global environment variable (e.g. NUGET) and set that to a path to a nuget.exe, when you restart the agent, the machine-wide environment is then discovered as capability and you can then use it.
If you are writing a custom task, you can also add a nuget.exe to the task that will be downloaded to the executing agent.
UPDATE: I made a public extension out of this.
UPDATE: this works in Azure DevOps 2019.
In TFS 2018u1, the following works:
Import-Module "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.Task.Common"
Import-Module "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.Task.Internal"
Add-Type -Assembly "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.WebApi"
$VSS = Get-VssConnection -TaskContext $distributedTaskContext
$AgentCli = $VSS.GetClient([Microsoft.TeamFoundation.DistributedTask.WebApi.TaskAgentHttpClient])
$AgentConfig = Get-Content "$Env:AGENT_HOMEDIRECTORY\.agent" -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json
$Agent = $AgentCli.GetAgentAsync($AgentConfig.PoolId, $Env:AGENT_ID, $TRUE, $FALSE, $NULL, $NULL, [System.Threading.CancellationToken]::None).GetAwaiter().GetResult()
if($Agent.UserCapabilities.MyCapability)
{
Write-Host "Got the capability!";
}
The long string of default arguments ending with CancellationToken::None is for compatibility with Powershell 4. PS4 doesn't support default values for value-typed method parameters, PS5 does.
This snippet does something very questionable - it relies on the location and the structure of the agent configuration file. This is fragile. The problem is that the GetAgentAsync method requires both pool ID and the agent ID, and the former is not exposed in the environment variables. A slightly less hackish approach would check all pools and find the right one by the agent ID:
$Pools = $AgentCli.GetAgentPoolsAsync($NULL, $NULL, $NULL, $NULL, $NULL, [System.Threading.CancellationToken]::None).GetAwaiter().GetResult()
$Demands = New-Object 'System.Collections.Generic.List[string]'
foreach($Pool in $Pools)
{
$Agent = $AgentCli.GetAgentsAsync($Pool.ID, $Env:AGENT_NAME, $TRUE, $FALSE, $NULL, $Demands, $NULL, [System.Threading.CancellationToken]::None).Result
if($Agent -and $Agent.Id -eq $Env:AGENT_ID)
{
Break
}
}
This relies on another undocumented implementation detail, specifically that agent IDs are globally unique. This seems to hold as late as TFS 2018, but who knows.
When you employ the $distributedTaskContext, the task is connecting back to TFS with an artificial user identity, "Project Collection Build Service" (not with the agent service account). There's one user like that in each collection, they're distinct. In order to allow tasks running in releases in a collection to query the agent for user capabilities, you need to grant the Reader role to the relevant pool(s) (or all pools) to the user account called "Project Collection Build Service (TheCollectionName)" from that collection.
It also looks like some actions also grant an implicit Reader role on a pool to the task identity.
Alternatively, you can construct a VssConnection from scratch with Windows credentials, and grant the agent account(s) Reader role on the pool(s).

Isolating cause of Erlang and RabbitMQ crashes

We have been trying to make use of the RabbitMQ Service Bus (v3.3.4) but the central bus keeps crashing. At the moment we are not using any clustering and its hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2. We'd like to isolate the root cause but the below error is the only one we can find. Can anyone shed some light on what; if anything; we can do to find the root cause of this?
Note: There are roughly 20 consumers with roughly the same number of Topic subscriptions. Also, all the clients are .NET 4.5 using the 3.3.4 Rabbit client libraries.
Version=1
EventType=APPCRASH
EventTime=130658038736577295
ReportType=2
Consent=1
ReportIdentifier=7f93ccd8-9cbe-11e4-ae00-000c29c08139
IntegratorReportIdentifier=7f93ccd7-9cbe-11e4-ae00-000c29c08139
Response.type=4
Sig[0].Name=Application Name
Sig[0].Value=erl.exe
Sig[1].Name=Application Version
Sig[1].Value=0.0.0.0
Sig[2].Name=Application Timestamp
Sig[2].Value=5343035d
Sig[3].Name=Fault Module Name
Sig[3].Value=MSVCR100.dll
Sig[4].Name=Fault Module Version
Sig[4].Value=10.0.30319.1
Sig[5].Name=Fault Module Timestamp
Sig[5].Value=4ba220dc
Sig[6].Name=Exception Code
Sig[6].Value=40000015
Sig[7].Name=Exception Offset
Sig[7].Value=00000000000760d9
DynamicSig[1].Name=OS Version
DynamicSig[1].Value=6.1.7600.2.0.0.272.7
DynamicSig[2].Name=Locale ID
DynamicSig[2].Value=1033
DynamicSig[22].Name=Additional Information 1
DynamicSig[22].Value=8d79
DynamicSig[23].Name=Additional Information 2
DynamicSig[23].Value=8d79a00078e92d9c3d5d79d4324254fe
DynamicSig[24].Name=Additional Information 3
DynamicSig[24].Value=9af5
DynamicSig[25].Name=Additional Information 4
DynamicSig[25].Value=9af5b20633c279dbf44b04a614c6a1f6
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UI[5]=Check online for a solution (recommended)
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UI[9]=A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server Express 2012 - How to clean up in tbl_TestResult (old test results)

I have installed a Microsoft Team Foundation Server Express 2012.
The table tbl_TestResult is using up 7000 MB of my Database space.
I tried to find information on how to clean up this Table but found no way to do so.
When I want to check in new files into TFS I get the Error TF30042: The database is full...
Over the Visul Studio I deleted all visible Tests but still the size of tbl_TestResult just decreased very little.
Can anyone explain to me how I can cleanup all test results in a proper way?
I am using the TFS client API to delete old test runs. Here's some sample code:
TfsTeamProjectCollection tpc = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri("http://tfs2012:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/"));
TestManagementService testManagementService = tpc.GetService<TestManagementService>();
ITestManagementTeamProject teamProject = testManagementService.GetTeamProject("MyProject");
int totalRuns = teamProject.TestRuns.Count("SELECT * FROM TestRun");
// Limit by date, so the query doesn't take too long.
string query = "SELECT * FROM TestRun WHERE CreationDate < '2013/07/01'";
int numTotalToDelete = teamProject.TestRuns.Count(query);
if (numTotalToDelete == 0) { return; }
// Only delete 500 at a time, to give SQL Server time to breathe (don't ask).
var runsToDelete = teamProject.TestRuns.Query(query, false)
.Take(500);
teamProject.TestRuns.Delete(runsToDelete);
Query syntax comes from here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/duat_le/archive/2010/02/25/wiql-for-test.aspx
We had the same issue for our on prem TFS. This is how we did it for TFS 2015 up to TFS 2017.
Install Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Power Tools to get access to Test Attachment Cleaner(TAC), tcmpt.exe.
It installs to c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Power Tools
Sample settings for TAC is located in the installation folder, at <INSTALL_DIR>\TestAttachmentCleaner_samples_settingsfile
Create your own settings file, for example, all-100mb.xml file:
<DeletionCriteria>
<TestRun>
<Created Before="2016-01-01" />
</TestRun>
<Attachment>
<Extensions>
<Include value="wmv" />
<Include value="xesc" />
<Include value="trmx" />
</Extensions>
<!-- size in MB -->
<SizeInMB GreaterThan="100" />
</Attachment>
<LinkedBugs>
<Exclude state="Active" />
</LinkedBugs>
</DeletionCriteria>
The above config file removes test attachments of inactive test runs which are larger than 100MB with extensions: wmv, xesc, trmx.
Perform a test attempt to find out the outcome with this command: tcmpt.exe AttachmentCleanup /settingsfile:"all-100mb.xml" /mode:preview /collection:"https://tfs.contoso.com/DefaultCollection" /teamproject:"TeamProjectName" /outputfile:all-100mb.log"
This produces a very detailed log file that includes key information you needed, like:
------------ Summary ------------
Number of attachments affected: 339
Total size of attachments: 39646,7 MB
Elapsed time was 247,94 seconds
When you are satisfied with the result, do this:
Turn off transaction logs for your TFS database, if you use MSSQL server.
If you don't, you may grow your transaction logs faster than you can remove the test attachments.
Run tcmpt.exe command above without the /mode:preview parameter to delete test attachments.
When done, run these 2 stored procedures from the TFS database:
EXEC dbo.prc_DeleteUnusedContent 1
EXEC dbo.prc_DeleteUnusedFiles 1, 0, 1000
The stored procedures removes emptied rows from the database.
If the stored procedures last less than 1 second each, wait some time and re-run them again.
Then you can choose to shrink your database.
Good luck with it.
if you delete unwanted builds then you will be presented with the option to delete test results associated with the build when you delete it.
You may find that the test attachments are consuming a lot of space as well, you can use the test attachment cleaner provided with TFS power tools to remove these.
TFPT can be found here

How to get Excel version and macro security level

Microsoft has recently broken our longtime (and officially recommended by them) code to read the version of Excel and its current omacro security level.
What used to work:
// Get the program associated with workbooks, e.g. "C:\Program Files\...\Excel.exe"
SHELLAPI.FindExecutable( 'OurWorkbook.xls', ...)
// Get the version of the .exe (from it's Properties...)
WINDOWS.GetFileVersionInfo()
// Use the version number to access the registry to determine the security level
// '...\software\microsoft\Office\' + VersionNumber + '.0\Excel\Security'
(I was always amused that the security level was for years in an insecure registry entry...)
In Office 2010, .xls files are now associated with "“Microsoft Application Virtualization DDE Launcher," or sftdde.exe. The version number of this exe is obviously not the version of Excel.
My question:
Other than actually launching Excel and querying it for version and security level (using OLE CreateOLEObject('Excel.Application')), is there a cleaner, faster, or more reliable way to do this that would work with all versions starting with Excel 2003?
Use
function GetExcelPath: string;
begin
result := '';
with TRegistry.Create do
try
RootKey := HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
if OpenKey('SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe', false) then
result := ReadString('Path') + 'excel.exe';
finally
Free;
end;
end;
to get the full file name of the excel.exe file. Then use GetFileVersionInfo as usual.
As far as I know, this approach will always work.
using OLE CreateOLEObject('Excel.Application'))
you can get installed Excel versions by using the same registry place, that this function uses.
Basically you have to clone a large part of that function registry code.
You can spy on that function call by tools like Microsoft Process Monitor too see exactly how does Windows look for installed Excel - and then to do it exactly the same way.
You have to open registry at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ and enumerate all the branches, whose name starts with "Excel.Application."
For example at this my workstation I only have Excel 2013 installed, and that corresponds to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application.15
But on my another workstation I have Excel 2003 and Excel 2010 installed, testing different XLSX implementations in those two, so I have two registry keys.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application.12
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application.14
So, you have to enumerate all those branches with that name, dot, and number.
Note: the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application\CurVer would have name of "default" Excel, but what "default" means is ambiguous when several Excels are installed. You may take that default value, if you do not care, or you may decide upon your own idea what to choose, like if you want the maximum Excel version or minimum or something.
Then when for every specific excel branch you should read the default key of its CLSID sub-branch.
Like HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Application.15\CLSID has nil-named key equal to
{00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} - fetch that index to string variable.
Then do a second search - go into a branch named like HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\LocalServer ( use the fetched index )
If that branch exists - fetch the nil-named "default key" value to get something like C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\Office15\EXCEL.EXE /automation
The last result is the command line. It starts with a filename (non-quoted in this example, but may be in-quotes) and is followed by optional command line.
You do not need command line, so you have to extract initial commanlind, quoted or not.
Then you have to check if such an exe file exists. If it does - you may launch it, if not - check the registry for other Excel versions.

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