Uday - Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:51 AM:
I am new to aras and hv to setup an environment for the aras business logic customization. Please tell me the best IDE to use for the customization..thnx.
eric_h - Friday, July 29, 2011 6:15 PM:
Uday,
You probably want to use something that does a good job of syntax highlighting VB.NET, C# and JavaScript. VB.NET and C# are used for server side methods and code, JavaScript is used for stuff that happens on the client (IE).
There is quite a bit of code that is installed on the server itself, but there is also quite a bit of code that resides in the 'METHOD' table in the database. I have a feeling these are the methods that get tied to events as defined via configuring Aras.
Some of the business logic is simply done inside Aras itself through configuration, but a lot of things depends on the associated code to work as intended. I am not an expert in this area, but I would use whatever IDE / code editor you were comfortable with as long as it did good highlighting for VB.NET, C# and JavaScript.
Eric
Uday - Saturday, July 30, 2011 2:08 AM:
thanks Eric..:)
aponceot - Saturday, July 30, 2011 6:19 AM:
Hi,
By my side, I use 2 different tools to write and debug code when working with aras.
First, I use Notepad++ for javascript customization when dealing with external html, js and css files. It comes with good syntax highlight and provides basic auto completion. I'm debugging the client side javascript with Visual Studio 2010
For Methods, I use the internal Aras code editor. But I think it could be improved, mainly for code indentation. for example, I really like the "online" code editors such as jsFiddle. I also wrote a Visual Studio add in which allow to bring a Innovator method within the VS code editor and provides good feature (including intellisense). I debug .net server side methods with Visual Studio as well with the remote debugger.
Just my practices !
Ronan - Monday, August 1, 2011 12:11 PM:
I'll add to Anthony's good wrap-up the excellent AMLStudio (discovered through Yoann's blogpost) ; way more convenient and efficient than Nash when you need to fiddle with AML queries.
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Ronan Jouchet - PLM Consultant, Processia Solutions
aponceot - Monday, August 1, 2011 1:03 PM:
And yes of course, AML Studio ! Excellent tool.
By the way I added some features if you are interested... > http://amlstudio.codeplex.com/discussions/266348
