I wanted to integrate hp quality centre to a rails app which is developed and deployed on a linux system.
I found that it uses the OTA (Open Test Architecture API). However it been specified that it uses a OTAclient dll for doing the activities of the api.
I would like to know if there is any documentation of such an integration been done (hpqc+rails on a linux system) ?
Is it possible to attain this integration.. Any gems or plugins...?
Unfortunately the OTAclient.dll requires a number of Windows only dll's. We eventually created a web service on a Windows machine in C# to provide an access point for our Ruby services.
The newer version of HPQC (ALM 11) has a REST-like service that you can use but upgrading to ALM 11 may be a bit much for what you are trying to do.
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Our company would like to upload an electron desktop application to Microsoft Store, so 3rd party contractors can use it for their work. It would be publicly available.
The applications is signed and it can be built to either msi or exe format.
Is it possible to distribute our app like this?
When a new version becomes released how much time would take for Microsoft to validate our app before it can be publicly available?
The application is under development. An auto update feature is planned to be implemented. Does Windows Store provide an API to check the available versions?
Please note that we don't have any C# developers or any licenced Visual Studio instances. We would like to use Javascript/TypeScript/Angular and shell script technologies. The executable is built on linux CI server using electron.js and mono with wine. The CI pipeline is already implemented, only publishing is missing.
Thanks.
MSI and EXE installers are not supported by the Windows Store. You need to package your app as an MSIX, as explained here:
How to build an MSIX package for an Electron application
The following article talks about the steps you need to go through for publishing an app in the store. Usually. an update should be validated by Microsoft in maximum 3 days, from our experience.
How to publish your MSIX package to the Microsoft Store?
Regarding updates, the store provides it's own auto-updates service, to ensure a consistent update experience for all the apps on the machine (instead of having each up launch it's own custom updater...). You don't need to write any special code for this.
If you want to enforce some update patterns, you can use the following API to check for an update in the MS store.
Disclaimer: I work on the team building Advanced Installer.
I plan to develop website in ASP. NET core. In past i wrote few ASP. NET website but as far as i remember it requures to buy special hosting which needs to have. NET installed. I would like to know whether nowdays is it enough to have cheap hosting without. NET support to pubslih my ASP. NET core website or i still need to buy hosting which has. NET support?
ASP.NET Core can be published to either use an installed .NET Core runtime or self-contained, in which the required parts of the framework are actually published along with the app. In .NET Core 3.0, you can actually publish a .NET Core app as an entirely self-contained single executable file.
In either to publish self-contained (whether in a single executable or not), though, you must target a particular runtime environment when you publish (i.e. Win x64, Linux x64, etc.) You can then only put the app in that actual environment, i.e. if you publish for Windows, you can't deploy that to a Linux box. However, you could simply re-publish for Linux instead.
If you target an installed runtime, similar to how .NET Framework works, then you can publish once and deploy anywhere, assuming the destination has the .NET Core runtime installed.
Long and short, you are not locked into any one particular way of deploying. If you want a framework installation, you can do that. If you want self-contained, you can do that as well.
That said, you should still avoid shared hosting. They usually do not support .NET Core at all or don't keep up with deploying new versions. Additionally, deploying self-contained is generally going to be disallowed to prevent users uploading rogue things. You can get a VPS all to yourself for like $5/mo, so there's really no value proposition to shared hosting nowadays, anyhow.
I am reading a way to setup iphone application development environment on my windows. It states that “A network-accessible Mac set up with Apple's build tool” is required. My confusion is that, if i need to buy a mac machine and need to setup an envionment then why i will use windows and visual studio?
I am exploring why it is advantageous for me to build ios app in xamarin when i need to buy mac machine and install xcode. Why i will use xamarin when i am new to both C# and swift?
Please ignore my limited knowledge and flaw in question.
Using Xamarin to build apps
enables C# developers (there are millions of them) to leverage the language and framework they already know instead of learning a completely new one
allows them to share code between existing C# apps written for the web or desktop (very important in an Enterprise environment)
using Xamarin Forms, allows you to create a single codebase that targets multiple platforms (iOS, Android, UWP, etc)
if all you care about is iOS and you don't already know C#, then Xamarin may be of limited benefit to you
I am a beginner currently writing a web application using ASP.NET MVC in Visual Studio. This application will be accessed by users on their personal laptops or tablets- which will either be running a Mac or Windows OS.
I need this application to therefore be cross-platform (in its accessibility, not development) for OS.
I have done considerable research, but it's not clear to me how to best host the web app in a way that can be used by both Windows and Mac users. Microsoft Azure provides a seamless hosting opportunity especially for ASP.NET web apps, but the website on this page (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/web/) says it only supports Windows and Linux (Preview).
What are other ways to host the web app that will satisfy the above criteria? Does the ASP.NET framework version make a difference?
I will also need hosting for the back-end SQL server database, but that obviously doesn't have the same limitation.
You can create a web app on azure to host your asp.net MVC application. This application will run properly on Windows, MAC and Linux. It doesnt matter what the OS you are using here, what matters is the browser you are using whether Safari, Chrome, Mozilla. These browsers are available for install on all OS.
I am currently using Delphi 5 and planning to migrate application to latest version(XE3) or to other technology. Main purpose of migration is dont want thick client. In currrent scenario application(exe) gets downloaded to the users local folder and then it runs rom local. Main purpose is dont want to download the application to users machine. .
Wanted to stick with Delphi if that downloading limitation resolved. Is there web solution? or way to access the application from common point without downloading to users machine.
Thanks for the help and suggestions.
Note: There are lots of users who uses these application.
Depending on the type of application you could add web layer around the core functionality of your application.
If you create something like a SOAP or REST interface, you can write a web client in any language that suits. Could be Delphi, or some more web-oriented language like PHP or ASP.Net.
By having a web interface your users can access from any platform.
On the other hand, if your current application is not layered properly, and you've got a lot of code mixed between the GUI and your model, this could be difficult. It would mean rewriting a lot of code, or just accept the fact that your users need Windows, and an .exe file.
At least by using Delphi, your users don't need to download a huge framework that requires administrator privileges to install.
Anyway, you should provide some more information about what you already have, and what type of application it is, how complicated it is, etc.
If you are planning a move to Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE), accessing existing Delphi logic can be achieved using two communication models, using existing commercial and open source solutions:
for synchronous (request/response) style communication between Delphi and Java, there are lightweight web frameworks for Delphi (I wrote this one recently) and open source JSON/XML libraries which can be used for data exchange. This allows the Java application server to access Delphi logic over HTTP
for asynchronous communication, I wrote (commercial) message broker client libraries for Delphi and Free Pascal, they can be used with the Java Message Service (JMS) servers in the JBoss and the GlassFish application server - JBoss and GlassFish already include a messaging solution (HornetQ and Open MQ), as a mandatory part of the full Java EE profile
I also have written some step by step tutorials for JBoss and GlassFish Delphi integration:
Delphi Integration with JBoss Application Server 5
Delphi Integration with the GlassFish v3 Application Server Part 1 - Sending Messages
Delphi Integration with the GlassFish v3 Application Server Part 2 - Receiving Messages