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March 07, 2006
Ensemble's Designer Plugin for Visual Studio .NET Now Free
If you're working in a .NET environment and building applicaitons using Adobe LiveCycle, then today is your lucky day. Go out and buy a lottery ticket*. Seriously. And don't worry about the time off, because you'll save that time in development now that Ensemble Systems has made their .NET plugin for LiveCycle Designer available for free. No more switching between Designer and Visual Studio. One application can now be used to develop the forms and the services around your forms.
If you're just getting started with LiveCycle, you'd probably want to check out Ensemble's samples page as well, where they show you how to store comments to PDF documents using web services, as well as a .NET sample DVD store.
Finally, if you're developing LiveCycle solutions using J2EE and you haven't checked out Ensemble's Glider product, then you should. From their page, "With Glider you can now code, compile and debug J2EE applications like a regular Java program. This means that you can incrementally edit, build and test your enterprise applications, in a matter of seconds." No more deploying to an app server, reloading and waiting. Its a pretty amazing product, and a huge time saver for Java developers.
* Playing the lottery is a game of random chance. Getting Ensemble's plugin will not increase your chances of winning, but it will cut down the time for software development.
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Great news. Btw, is there any chance that the LiveCycle plugin for Eclipse will also be available freely? AFAIK, you still need to be a member of the Adobe Enterprise Program at the moment ...
[That's a good idea. I'm currently working with the web team to get this done. I'll blog about it when its done. - Mike]
While we're talking about free LiveCycle components, I thought I'd throw in a shameless plug for Cardinal Solutions' free GuidGen QPAC for LiveCycle Workflow. It can be used for generating a GUID within a Workflow process. You can download it from here.
[Anyone else for more shameless plugs? :) - Mike]
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