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I'm currently looking for good (and free if possible) Web RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool or Visual Ajax IDE, something like Morfik or Delphi for PHP with more usual deployment method (both create standalone application or web server modules). What i mean was IDE that support drag-n-drop component for building web application and the result was standard .(x)html & .js (and maybe .php) files so i can upload it to my favorite web host right away.
I already inspecting VisualWebGui, Visual Ajax Studio, Visual Ajax Builder but all have same method as above for deployment (some using Java platform).
I then take a look Sigma Visual, checked the demo, but it was too slow...
Maybe better to wait Delphi for PHP with EXTJS as their GUI package
I have found this : VisualJS.NET (very interesting and promising)
Why you dont just use Visual Studio Web Developer ?
or Eclipse
Have a good look at ChrisSoftEng.co.uk. Quite a lot of free stuff - RAD for the Web - Delphi PHP, Delphi VCL for Web, GO-Global for Windows on EC2. And Xajax and SVG as well as Silverlight and Java Web Start. This is a site for co-working projects without fees.
I use AlphaFive, check their website for support and services.
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Depends on your experience what are best free installation tools available for windows deployment for both managed and unmanaged deployment ?
Visual studio setup project only works for simple deployment scenario's and it doesnt allow too much customization.
WiX is your best bet if you want to build MSI packages. It can be customized to various degrees, from simple modifications to the dialogs to full control over every step of the setup process, it integrates fully with Visual Studio, and it's free and open source.
Be wary that, although the documentation is good and the learning curve (in my opinion) is pretty fast for simple projects, full-fledged personalization requires a moderate to deep understanding of the inner workings of Windows Installer. The excellent WiX Tutorial should, however, give you an idea of the possibilities offered by this tool (as well as sample code) without going into too much detail. (Of course, if you want to have an extremely fine-grade control over the setup program, you'll have to resort to MSDN in the end).
Another bonus is that the latest version of WiX offers an integrated bootstrapper as well, so, if you need - for example - to install or upgrade the .NET Framework on the user's machine, you can do it using this single tool (minimal examples are provided in the WiX documentation).
Please have a look at
InnoSetup
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I do most of my development for the Android platform, and have developed applications for Windows in the past too. However, when I have developed windows applications, I've always used the .NET framework. This requires the end user to have the .NET framework installed on their machine.
What programming languages and associated tools can I use to create an application that will run on a windows PC (XP and greater) (other operating systems are welcome) with no need to have frameworks such as .NET and Java installed first?
Many thanks, Todd
Most Ms Windows apps are developped with C++ (or C), accessing to Win32 API for GUI for example. You may also use some other languages that compile to x86 code and are able to access to regular Win32 DLLs if you need them (for input, GUI, etc., see Win 32 API), like Pascal.
The second most used tool to build MS Windows applications with some forms must be VB up to VB 6 (that is, before VB.net), then probably Delphi.
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I need to implement a remote management system that does the following tasks on remote devices-
1) Install Software,Firmware.
2) Install Upgrades of the Software,Firmware.
3) Monitor the state of the installed software,Firmware.
OSGi can be one of the framework to achieve this, but it only supports bundles written in Java(implementations for C/C++ are available but they are not matured). I was wondering if there are any other alternatives that can manage software written in any language.
I've seen this question come up from time to time, but I don't think there is, and I doubt there will be,especially on mobile devices. Getting an API that 'feels good' regardless of language is pretty much impossible, and you need to interface with how a particular platform handles its updates. Provisioning OSGi components is just fundamentally different than updating an iOS app.
Then again, I'd love to be proven wrong on this one;-)
maybe you could have a look on MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework). Its for dotNet development and similar to OSGi. But I am more familar to OSGi as to MEF so I cannot tell the differences. I only heard from a C# pro that they have MEF instead of OSGi ^^
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One of my clients have asked me to give UI mockups of all pages of my web application...
I found Balsamiq which seems to be a good one... Any other tools....
What would you use for drawing UI mockups?
Check out Pencil. It can run as a Firefox addon or standalone application.
From its homepage:
The Pencil Project's unique mission is
to build a free and opensource tool
for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
SketchFlow?
Pencil and paper, scanned if digital is needed.
Online tool http://gomockingbird.com/
WireframeSketcher is a tool that helps quickly create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications. It comes both as a standalone version and as a plug-in for Eclipse IDEs. It has some distinctive features like storyboards, components, linking and vector PDF export. Among supported IDEs are are Aptana, Flash Builder, Zend Studio and Rational Application Developer.
(source: wireframesketcher.com)
ForeUI is awesome.
Denim is interesting and can even run the prototyped webapp with the "hand-drawn" UIs.
(Though I'd also really suggest Balsimiq as the one you should use.)
Edraw MAX 5 is also a good candidate. Checkout few mockups i made with it.
http://www.mixedwaves.com/2010/03/wireframe-samples-for-poll
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I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++?
I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me.
DevExpress has a free plug-in called DXCore which provides some nice abstractions upon which to then build other plug-ins...you might look into that.
Do you really want to do it in unmanaged code? DevExpress has a nice free library to develop visual studio plugins but it's managed. This is what they use to develop Refactor and coderush
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/DXCore/
It seems the underlying API is kind of messy. As far as I know this is the easiest way.
I've never tried, so I don't know about doing it in C++, but this website has loads of information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/default.aspx
A good place to start would be this tutorial:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/AddIns11292005015631AM/AddIns.aspx
The DXCore from DevExpress is a wonderful library for basing all sorts of plugins. Feel free to drop by the IDE Tools Forums and more specifically the DXCore plugin forum and ask for any help you might need. :)
I'm not so sure about unmanaged C++ but I know for certain that the DXCore supports Plugin creation in any managed language.
Found this MSDN tutorial: Creating Add-ins Using Visual C++. Thanks Matt.