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I got some emails asking me CompsDBs is not define or CSSimpleCrypto is not define… and the build seems to fail, the fact is they are using the Visual Basic 2005 Express edition!

Cynics Accounting full source CAN be compile on Visual Basic 2008 Express edition with / without modification depending on your settings, but NOT COMPILABLE in VB2005 Express!

We officially support Visual Studio 2005 Pro With SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 Pro, express edition is not included and not recommended for serious commercial environment! Although I tested it on VB2008 Express Edition…

So if you are having trouble compiling, upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Pro! More interesting stuff on RAD in VS2008. Enjoy your programming…!

I am getting some concern about online purchase scam, let me clarify here:

I purchase online all the time, but I am skeptic and careful about it! Few sources I am comfortable:

1. Paypal – Because they own by eBay and I have been using it for years!

2. 2CO – They are a reputable merchant, I am comfortable buying from them.

3. WorldPay

4. Digital River

and much more.

The key to avoid scam is “only buy from reputable website or merchant”. If people spend so much time to build a website and software, and they are using well known payment collector, the chances of being scam will be greatly reduced!

I find that most people asking such a question are from 3rd world country, even Malaysian have such a question as well.

There are many good product selling online, especially software and information product, if you have no confidence, try to apply a “use and throw” credit card, top up to certain value then throw away after using it!

Good luck to online shopping!

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I have been using Delphi for the pass 10 years, recently about 2 years ago I switch to Visual Studio 2005. Yesterday I downloaded Delphi for PHP, though give a try…

You know what, it really sucks… excuse me. The reasons are:

1. It still remains the old Windows based programming mindset when designing the tools, nothing like PHP or ASP.NET style, where you can easily align controls and forms with or without tables…

2. Borland abandoned it, and the resources are not there to develop a killer application like Delphi 10 years ago.

3. No reasons for ASP.NET developer to use Delphi for PHP.

4. No reasons for PHP developer to use it too, simply because it doesn’t feel like PHP coding…

I love both ASP.NET and PHP for different applications but Delphi seems to be dead, at least now I declare it dead!

If you thought Delphi for PHP is RAD tools and give you the power of PHP, think again! Your skill and market will be limited. I am still looking for good Realtime IDE and designer for PHP, it seems like only ASP.NET can provide such convenient. I still prefer to write business software with ASP.NET.

I hope one day PHP has something similar to ASP.NET, but it is still a long way to go…

M… I can’t answer that for you, it depends on your requirement, and what you really want for your company. If your company does not have an IT support team, software development team, most probably you do not need one! Unless you are commited to customize software, and you have a good outsource team or company to create the software for you!

Source code based software is good for customization, and customization is only good if you know how to design it. When I said “design”, I mean you need to design you the company process, from start of purchasing, process documents to strategic reports generation, all must integrate into whole company marketing strategy to create “competitive advantages”.

Think about your trading company, how efficient can you plan your cash flow to generate maximum income? May be in the pass it takes you 100,000 cost to generate 1 million sales, what if the system can help you achieve 1 million sales with 50,000 cost? That means you can double your sales with the same 100,000 cost, isn’t that great?

If you can use your resources efficiently, that means more bullets for your company to dominate the market, that gives you the competitive advantages over your competitor!

Conventional standard software is sufficient for most company, especially small to medium size company. When a company grow from medium size to the large size, they need good strategy to overcome the bottleneck, that is when they really need to think seriously for the customization system.

Look at your company position, think about it, especially when you already have a team of experts…Get the source code accounting, don’t go for standard packages anymore…

Do you know you can connect Cynics Accounting client and POS remotely from a dial-up connection? Let me show you the scenario…

The Cynics Server can be configure with SQL server on the same machine or differently, if differently, you just need to setup the proper connection string in the CSAccountSvr.exe.config

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<connectionStrings>
  <!–connectionString=”Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=CSAccountDB;Integrated Security=True”–>
  <add name=”CSAccountDatabaseIntf.My.MySettings.CSAccountDBConnectionString”
       connectionString=”Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=CSAccountDB;Integrated Security=True” <== This is the line
    providerName=”System.Data.SqlClient” />
</connectionStrings>

Notice the line, connectionString, just change it to any standard connection string that connect SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2005 Express.

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On the client site, locate CynicsAccounting.exe.config file and find the line below:

<client displayName=”CSSystemManager”>
  <wellknown displayName=”CSSystemManager” type=”CSAccountDatabaseIntf.ICSAccountDatabaseIntf, CSAccountDatabaseIntf” url=”tcp://localhost:5000/CSSystemManager.rem”/>
</client>

Notice the url=”tcp://localhost:5000…”, change the localhost to your address in the remote server machine.

For example your server IP address is 192.168.1.100 then the line will be:

<wellknown displayName=”CSSystemManager” type=”CSAccountDatabaseIntf.ICSAccountDatabaseIntf, CSAccountDatabaseIntf” url=”tcp://192.168.1.100:5000/CSSystemManager.rem”/>

If you cannot connect after changing the address, please check your server firewall settings, remember to open port 5000.

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Now on the POS client site, locate CSPOSClient.exe.config file, and find the line below:

<client displayName=”CSSystemManager”>
  <wellknown displayName=”CSSystemManager” type=”CSAccountDatabaseIntf.ICSAccountDatabaseIntf, CSAccountDatabaseIntf” url=”tcp://localhost:5000/CSSystemManager.rem”/>
</client>
Change the url=”tcp://localhost:5000…” to the IP address where the server located.

If you cannot connect after changing the address, please check your server firewall settings, remember to open port 5000.

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To change the settings at design time, locate app.config in CSAccountSvr project, CynicsAccounting Project and CSPOSClient Project. Normally you don’t need to modify these files, because you need default settings to run on the same machine.

The best way to test the setup is download the demo from DEMO TRIAL, try the settings and if everything successful, then try your modified and compiled source code.

If you have further question, please do not hesitate to contact us.