Since SCM Anywhere was launched, there have been many customers asking whether there is a web front for people like external users, test team members to log issues.  In response to the customer requests, we add an issue tracking web client to SCM Anywhere in this version so that users can report and track issues via web browsers conveniently.

Besides the addition of web client, the new version includes better support for Visual Studio 2010 and enhanced SCM Anywhere VSPackage (More info).

I’m putting the download links here. You can have a try if interested.

• SCM Anywhere Standalone Download  Upgrade  

 
During the past months, we received quite a few feedbacks regarding our VSS Import Tool. Knowing how important the history of source code in VSS and easy migration to SourceAnywhere means to our customers, we decided to improve the VSS Import Tool to better serve our users.

After several weeks’ effort, we finally worked out an internal version which impresses one user, “I’m very pleased by great acceleration of importing (from 10 days to 8 hours)” WOW, Great Job! Thanks to our customers and team members.

I’m listing the main improvements of VSS Import Tool here (click here to learn more):

• Greatly improved the performance by introducing multi-threading technology.
• Enabled users work normally while import is in the process. Users are able to access/edit the data once the latest versions of files/projects have been imported.
• Added support of importing the data from the error point if the process fails.
• Optimized the import of Label.
• Optimized the project selection. Refreshing the projects is much faster now.

In addition, MSSCCI Plug-in boosts the performance by up to 30%~50%. According to the data provided by our test team, it now takes less than 20 sec to open a large project from source control through uniPaaS, compared to 1~2 minutes in version 2.3 (build 30656 of hosted edition).

Considering you may be interested in experiencing these exciting improvements by yourselves, I put the download links here:

SourceAnywhere Hosted: Signup
SourceAnywhere Standalone: Download, Upgrade

Happy new year.

Wish you and your family all the best in 2010.

Kevin Gao

We are releasing a new TWAIN component, Dynamsoft .NET TWAIN, which is developed in C# and uses managed code. We are doing the release test of Dynamsoft .NET TWAIN and expecting to release it in the coming months.

Stay tuned.

After more than 1 year hard work, today, I am very pleased to announce that we are releasing SCM Anywhere Hosted, the world’s 1st Hosted SCM solution.

The home page of SCM Anywhere Hosted is:
http://www.scmsoftwareconfigurationmanagement.com/Products/Software-Configuration-Management-SCM-Hosting.aspx

You can check out the 10-minute introduction video:

So why SCM Anywhere is the World’s 1st Hosted SCM solution? Because SCM Anywhere is specifically designed to be a SaaS/hosted application from the beginning and no any other SCM solution is born so. More details:

1. Multi-tenant architecture
As the architect of SCM Anywhere (which is a SaaS application) I am fully aware of the differences between the single-instance architecture and the multi-tenant architecture. SCM Anywhere uses multi-tenant architecture to ensure maximized concurrency and efficient use of computing resources.

2. Separate database
SCM Anywhere uses separate database for each tenant to ensure high data isolation.

3. Scale-Out architecture
SCM Anywhere is designed with hosting hundreds of thousands of users in mind. Scale-out architecture is used to ensure high scalability. The whole deployment of SCM Anywhere consists of dispatch servers and many deployment units. Each deployment unit consists of SCM Anywhere service and SQL Server service. The dispatch server dispatches the client requests to different deployment unit according to business logic. The initial deployment is one single deployment unit. As the workload grows, we can add more deployment units accordingly.

4. Sessionless server
I make the server sessionless so we can easily use load balance to scale the service and achieve high availability.

5. Tight security
SCM Anywhere uses many technologies to achieve highest security possible. For more information, please refer to:
http://www.dynamsoft.com/Documents/Secure_your_source_code_and_digital_assets.pdf

6. Built-in customer sign up and billing system

I know several of my friends are using Adobe Flex to develop RIA. But with Silverlight, developers can use .NET. I am personally familiar with Microsoft technologies and Silverlight looks promising to me.

To see what Silverlight can do, please visit this page: http://silverlight.net/Showcase/

For those who do not know about Silverlight, Silverlight is a Microsoft tool to build a RIA (Rich Internet Application).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application

Much to Microsoft’s dismay, even though Microsoft launched massive marketing campaigns to promote Silverlight, it seems development teams like Adobe AIR and FLEX better.

For what’s new in Silverlight 2, please refer to:
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx

In the coming 2 weeks, our team will continue to work on the cross-platform client to further improve the product quality. 2 weeks later, our testing team will start to do release testing for the client and our coding team will start to work on the Visual Studio IDE integration client.