Has anyone else had issues with VB6 calls to ASIUTIL.DLL?

We are experiencing a problem on a specific machine that fails to call the ASIUTIL.DLL

Here is the code snipit

We need to access data in custom tables--not built-in tables that come with iMIS or user-defined tables (UDT’s), but plain old tables that we write in SQL and place into the iMIS database.  Although the iMIS application itself will leave these tables alone, they are used for custom development that involves integrating with iMIS.  Otherwise, they are plain old sql database tables.

We’ve ruled out using Business Object Designer to create Business Objects to access these.  Is better to access these custom tables with stored procedures or with an ORM tool such as NHibernate or Entity Framework?  Will the fact that these tables are in the iMIS database and the fact that these are used for custom development to integrate with iMIS cause one or the other to not work, or otherwise have any problems?

Agile Austin has put together a nice collection of resources for learning agile development practices: http://www.agileaustin.org/agile-resources/

It recommends books, websites, listservs, blogs, videos, and podcasts, to support many learning styles. It also links to tools that members have recommended for use with agile.

Is there an easy way to retrieve the tags associated with a piece of Content in WCM? I need to identify the tags from an item to determine whether to display a paticular panel

ASI serves a base of 3000+ non-profits through its core iMIS software products. However, there are numerous specialized functionality areas that our core offerings do not and cannot provide quickly enough to meet all needs. Fortunately, ASI has a large community of partners (80+ AiSPs and Authorized Consultants) that are knowledgeable about these diverse needs, and over 30 have already developed proven iMIS add-on applications that are sold separately, either as standalone applications or true extensions. ASI now invites this community of partners to co-develop the next generation of iMIS add-on applications, and it extends this invitation to new developers, be they third-party companies, individuals, or customers.

Looking for input regarding an online member directory for version 15.0.3 (client licensed for Public Views, but not CM). We are trying to utilize IQA & existing public views functionality for a product-based solution. In the default Committee Rosters area of Public Views, there is a page that utilizes an IQA query to display a list of committees in the database. Each of the committees has an orange arrow "link" beside it.

The other day I tried to do a history comparison in VS 2008, but got no dialog, and VS was not responsive. After I stopped it in Task Manager, VS restarted without problems, but with the same issue with the compare dialog. The problem was that the dialog location was set in UISettings.config to a location off the screen. I found details here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1138647&SiteID...

I noticed that the web.config of iMIS 15 has the Membership and Profile providers setup along with the corresponding tables in the database. How much are these providers used in native iMIS? Are these providers that we, as developers, can use? If so, what features are supported and what are not.

Thanks,

Neil

Mike Wethington posted Martin Fowler's article on lessons learned in doing agile with overseas teams. Many of the points struck me as relevant for the problem of telecommuting teams as well:

• Bring distributed developers onsite for critical first iterations of new projects, to get going
• Expect to need more documents than with a collocated team: it's the price of being virtual 
• Extend conference calls with video, especially for project background lectures 
• Extend instant messaging to group-based messaging, such as with Campfire

Our family made a road trip to west Texas for the Open Source Symposium, held on Saturday April 26 at Angelo State University, in San Angelo. Its mission is to introduce open source to those working in college environments, which was why UT Austin was pleased to have my husband, Adam attend and report back to them. STC Austin's own Janet Swisher presented on how to participate in OS projects.