http://www.razorleaf.com Innovative Process Solutions. Bottom-Line Results. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:36:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/32-64-asp-net/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/32-64-asp-net/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:54:14 +0000 Paul Luc http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7915 Many developers struggle with the use of 32-bit and 64-bit address spaces.  In a nutshell, 32-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 64-bit address spaces and 64-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 32-bit address spaces.  Web applications are no different.  As a result, special attention needs to be paid to the requirements of web applications running [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/32-64-asp-net/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/enhanced-aras-cmii-wizard/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/enhanced-aras-cmii-wizard/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:39:03 +0000 Dennis Lindinger http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7864 As you may know, Aras offers standard Project Management, Quality Planning, and Configuration Management solutions for their Innovator product.  What you might not know is that there is also a whole community of other open source solutions and projects that are available to download and add to your Innovator environment.  These solutions range from integrations [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/07/enhanced-aras-cmii-wizard/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/06/smarteam-scripting-character-limit/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/06/smarteam-scripting-character-limit/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:16:39 +0000 Jonathan Scott http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7820 For those ENOVIA SmarTeam customers with scripts in their environment (just about everyone out there), there is a limitation on naming scripts that is worth noting.  This probably doesn’t impact customers using out-of-the-box scripts, but it is nonetheless worth checking.  It appears that somewhere in the evolution of V5R19 (it is not clear at what [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/06/smarteam-scripting-character-limit/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/05/visual-studio-item-templates/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/05/visual-studio-item-templates/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 21:00:12 +0000 Paul Luc http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=5955 The Visual Studio Integrated Design Environment (IDE) is highly customizable and can be extended.  In fact, it’s possible to automate repetitive and tedious item creation tasks through the use of Item Templates.  Consider the insertion of a copyright as the first line in all new class files.  Under normal circumstances, this would be a manual [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/05/visual-studio-item-templates/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/04/timezones-in-global-plm/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/04/timezones-in-global-plm/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:58:14 +0000 Steve Dunn http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7325 Global collaboration can be tricky for a number of reasons.  For instance, when developing an application that is shared between users in two or more time zones, an important item to consider is the accuracy of time and date calculations.  When making decisions based on dates and times, differences in time zones can substantially affect [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/04/timezones-in-global-plm/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/04/solidworks-api-event-wrapper/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/04/solidworks-api-event-wrapper/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:00:44 +0000 Paul Luc http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7266 The SolidWorks API (Application Programming Interface) is immensely powerful.  In fact, if something is doable within SolidWorks, the chances are good that there is a corresponding API.  As a result, automation possibilities are endless.  The SolidWorks API documentation is outstanding and, in most cases, provides exceptional detail.  However, one area that is somewhat tricky to [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/04/solidworks-api-event-wrapper/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/reasons-to-develop-using-vms/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/reasons-to-develop-using-vms/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:00:28 +0000 Steve Dunn http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=7189 When planning any software development project, whether it is a point or enterprise solution, there are several key questions to answer before a line of code is written.  How will you know it’ll work on the required operating systems?  How can you give the developers a standard development environment without buying or configuring hardware?  Once [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/03/reasons-to-develop-using-vms/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aml-nash/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aml-nash/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:00:36 +0000 Dennis Lindinger http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6715 Aras Innovator has an underlying mark-up language it uses for all of its database transactions. The language is referred to as Aras Mark-up Language, or AML. Aras also provides a sandbox interface for developing and running AML, called NASH. Here’s a short primer for getting familiar with AML and NASH.  Aras Mark-up Language is written in [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/aml-nash/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/smarteam-vault-data-xfer/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/smarteam-vault-data-xfer/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:59 +0000 Steve Dunn http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=6657 With every upgrade to ENOVIA SmarTeam (not to mention upgrades to CAD, Office and database platforms) there’s no question about the benefits of building a test environment for validation prior to a production roll-out.  An important piece of building a test environment is a properly configured test vault.  Quite often, a successful test doesn’t require [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/02/smarteam-vault-data-xfer/feed/ 0 http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/help-us-help-you/ http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/help-us-help-you/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:27:33 +0000 Sean Kuner http://www.razorleaf.com/?p=5689 We regularly have clients ask us what information they should gather concerning a support issue, prior to calling the Razorleaf helpdesk.  So we thought it made sense to answer that question publicly.  Here’s how you can “help us, help you.”  There are a couple of key pieces of data we need for almost every helpdesk [...]]]> http://www.razorleaf.com/2010/01/help-us-help-you/feed/ 0