{"id":638,"date":"2006-08-07T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/08\/07\/e2o-revisited\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T20:19:56","slug":"e2o-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2006\/08\/e2o-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"E2O revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2005 I wrote a utility that could synchronize the ERP application I was working with at that time with Outlook. The users wanted the appointment data offline on their PDA&#8217;s (PocketPC&#8217;s), so I figured: if I download the data to Outlook, ActiveSync will automatically synchronize that to the PDA. And so it did.<br \/>\nThe utility, far from finished but still very functional, was written in a trial edition of VS.NET 2003 and when the beta was there, I managed to get the code working in VS 2005 beta. Because I used the &#8220;full&#8221; version of VS, I assumed that the code would not work in the now free version of <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/express\/\">Visual Studio: VS Express<\/a>. To my surpise, after converting from the 2003 to the 2005 version (conversion of the .sln file) I can compile and run the program. And when I define the proper ODBC-dsn on my system, it comes back with an error that the table or view I try to access does not exists. Which is correct, since I don&#8217;t have the ERP-data(base) at my disposal.<\/p>\n<p>VS Express editions are not supposed to support remote databases, nor development for Office. What I now know is that things can be done, albeit it not via some wizardy-click-a-the-click approach. Hey, real programmers don&#8217;t use wizards \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this utility has some future after all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2005 I wrote a utility that could synchronize the ERP application I was working with at that time with Outlook. The users wanted the appointment data offline on their PDA&#8217;s (PocketPC&#8217;s), so I figured: if I download the data to Outlook, ActiveSync will automatically synchronize that to the PDA. And <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2006\/08\/e2o-revisited\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}