Are release candidate builds from MSDN Premium time limited like the public release candidate builds? I cannot find any warnings or notices to that effect within the MSDN Premium subscriber download area, or during installs of the software.
Every nonfinal microsoft product is timebombed.
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I would like to install DB2 community edition on my Windows 10 PC. Does this require the Pro Edition of Windows or is the Home Edition sufficient?
For compatibility checks, much depends on exact versions of which products you want to use, and whether or not they are containerized.
Always read the accompanying materials, as much depends on whether you will deploy the Db2 product in a docker container or non-docker. Docker itself will also have pre-requisites that will need checking.
In general the 'Home' edition is not supported by the server component (which is different from 'will not work'), and the 'Pro' editions of MS-Windows are preferred.
For IBM software products, there is a website that tries to help with compatibility reports of different product versions with different operating system versions.
Try running a report yourself, (requires some study of the notes in the result):
https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/osForProduct.html
What I thought would be an easy google turned up no results. I'm trying to find out if Enterprise Library 4.1 is compatible with Windows Server 2008 SP2.
The system requirements say its compatible with Server 2008, but there is no mention of the service pack. Does anyone know definitively if these two are compatible?
Thank you for your time.
Typically compatibilities will list the minimum requirements; compatible with "Windows Server 2008" would include it and subsequent service packs (unless explicitly indicated otherwise). Keep in mind EL 4.1 was released almost a year before 2k8 SP2 was.
Does anyone know definitively if these two are compatible?
I guess it would depend on how you define "definitively" and "compatible". ;)
Do you want to know if Enterprise Library will run under Windows 2008 Server SP2? I don't believe that it was formally tested against that version (typically testing will go back two OS releases and SP2 didn't come out until the year after Enterprise Library was released) but it should work on later OS versions. For example, I have used version 4.1 with Windows 7.
VS 2012 has an excellent support for comparing database projects and databases.
I'm wondering if there is a standalone version for the respective software to use on a deployment machine - or some other way to use it without having to install the whole of visual studio.
You can install just the SSDT for SQL Project bits on a machine. That does not require a full install of either Visual Studio or SQL Server. You can generally keep an eye on the SSDT Blog for the latest release news. You can find that at: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/
At this time, the most recent release is the October 2013 release.
As noted in the various articles, you may need to make an Administrative Install Point if your target machine does not have internet access. Follow the instructions in the article and you should be fine.
I've written some articles about this on my blog at http://schottsql.blogspot.com if you look up the label for SSDT.
I saw that our installation of RTC contains a 60 day trial of a license called "Developer for IBM Enterprise Platforms". Info about the license is;
The Developer for IBM Enterprise Platforms license is designed for professional developers actively participating in the project. In addition to the capabilities provided by the Developer license, this license adds advanced building with dependency management, build impact analysis, promotion support (z/OS), deployment support (z/OS, IBM i, UNIX, and Linux) and advanced context aware search. It is designed for development teams targeting System z and Power Systems platforms.
Question is, does this license add something useful if we do no work at all in IBM plattforms?
Even though the last sentence reference IBM platforms, we (large organization) are using those licenses for Windows and Unix development.
What is interesting is the "advanced building with dependency management, build impact analysis, deployment support (z/OS, IBM i, UNIX, and Linux) and advanced context aware search."
So yes, you can use those licenses outside of IBM platforms.
We also have simple "Developers" licenses, as presented in "Licensing in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 2012".
Does windows 8 supports visual source safe (or the other way around?)
Aka, can you install visual source safe running windows 8?
My advice is, don't go closer to Visual SourceSafe than you can spit a rat. VSS has NEVER worked right. Data corruption is all too common. When I worked as an independent consultant to Microsoft in the late 1990's and spent some of my time in Redmond, I found out MS's little secret. Virtually none of the Microsoft development projects used their own VSS. Their internal source code control in the early '90s was a customized version of the old RCS file-based system. They then bought source code rights to Perforce and created a customized version of Perforce for their own use. Now, at least since Visual Studio 2012, they only officially support their own Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and Git. Support for only those two has been built into VS 2012 and newer IDEs.
Again, even the Microsoft programmers joke about VSS being a "code destruction device." If you already have a honking lot of projects in VSS 6 (which IIRC was built in 1998 and discontinued in 2006), you might want to track down the upgrade to VSS 2005, which is rare, but at least "supported" to whatever degree until sometime in 2017. I also have no idea if either is compatible with Windows 10 (I've installed 6.0 on Windows 7) I'm not sure it's any better, and Microsoft makes it very hard to find full or upgrade downloads of VSS 2005 on their site, but I recall seeing a link for it on one of the MS forums. Search for it.
OTOH, if you are not welded to VSS and don't want to use either TFSC or Git, Subversion (standalone) is a very good alternative (CVS is a dead issue and is not being supported). My current client has development teams using either Git or SVN for their .NET (yuck) projects.
DISCLAIMER: My personal experience (as StackOverflow wants to see for opinion posts) covers 40 years as a top-level software design and development consultant for primarily Fortune 50 companies, during which I have used extensively just about every major COTS and open-source make utility, bug-tracker, and version-control system available. I was a primary beta-tester for the original PVCS (Polytron Version Control System), later bought by Borland. I have also written a proprietary text delta-based version control system for Dow Jones in the early '90s.
We've got it to work.
When it says you'll have to close all running program's it isn't just being nice.
Yes, and in windows 10 too.
Copy and paste VSS from other computer in any folder in new computer.
For register in VB60 ide, execute SSINT.EXE
Find an run .EXE in VSS folder for other opcions
Yes. It can be installed in Windows 10 computers too.