Thursday, November 17, 2011

Comindware Software Development Solution

Create the Environment You Want to Work In
Comindware Software Development Solution comes with a number of pre-defined processes that are intended to save your time for setting-up process. You can adapt the process to your own needs with a flexible workflow builder and powerful WYSIWYG form designer.


You can create a model of subject area with specific items that are not included into the workflow. It’s possible to make convenient links between different items to make the navigation simple. For example you can model such objects as Customer, Implementation Project, Release, Test Case and Department and so on, and link them logically between each other. Use the object you have created in the workflow, assign them to different Item States, manage all of the subject area Items and Objects in a single application.


Be Truly Agile
Agile development requires from you to quickly adapt the processes to the changing environment. It has been painful to use business automation software for agile development while any automation was built manually, without the possibility to change the running process or even clone it to bring changes into it. Using programming skills for bringing changes into the process model is taking time. With the Comindware Solution you can change your processes in seconds without programming: workflow steps and the form elements are added by Drag-and-Drop in a visual Workflow builder. You do not need to stop/start or backup/restore or pause/publish your process: it starts working right after you’ve pressed the “Save” button. This possibility of immediate process change powered by Semantic Data Storage™ technology is indispensable for agile processes modeling.


Easily Involve Management into Important Decisions
It’s crucial for success of many development projects to involve stakeholders into process. Unfortunately it’s not always simple to coordinate the necessary time with the top executives. With the Comindware Solution intuitive interface you can invite managers to collaborate within the system. Comindware User Interface is familiar for almost every computer user since it’s similar to Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, Outlook interface. With the help of a plug-in, the solution can be integrated into your Outlook interface so that you will be able to use single application for all your project-related communication.


Collaborate with any Department within the Company
It usually happens that different departments of a software development company use different automation systems. Thus they cannot collaborate efficiently and share data within a single application. In this case, the Customer Support, Sales, Marketing departments stand aside from the Development because of data interconnection problems. With the Comindware Software Development Solution you can automate all processes within one system and bring collaboration to a new level: common data will be used among all departments and processes can become really cross-functional.


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Friday, August 12, 2011

How to make ASP.NET Application Offline with a message

Once the application goes live into production environment and if you want implement a change i.e. code/database/configuration, we wish no user to visit/use the application. We try to stop the website but stopping the website at IIS level will not give the end user a proper message that the site is under maintenance. To display a proper message to user and to avoid usage of the application during the change, follow the below steps:

1. Create a file called App_Offline.htm (a html file with an appropriate message to the end user i.e. for example "Currently site is under maintenance". You can create this file with the same theme/style sheets/header of the actual site).
2. Place the file App_Offline.htm in the virtual directory folder of the application.
3. IIS detects this file and send the contents as response to the request to any page under the virtual directory.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Alternatives to Microsoft Products

This is for people who are looking for freeware.

Checkout alternative software to the Microsoft products.

http://alternatives.rzero.com/