Warewolf connects to a number of Databases, like Oracle databases, which simplifies your integration processes. We noticed that some of these databases are pretty straight forward and easy to set up, while others take much more time and effort. The Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition took 3 hours to download […]
Setting up a PostgreSQL database
Warewolf has a number of built-in Database Connectors. In this blog we will walk you through downloading and installing the PostgreSQL database and getting it set up and ready for integration with Warewolf. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source database system, which runs on all major operating systems. Follow this […]
A step-by-step guide to setting up ODBC drivers for Warewolf
Warewolf has a range of pre-built connectors, but in this post we’ll focus on the ODBC Connector which allows you to connect to ODBC drivers and execute against any ODBC data source. It allows you to map the data into, execute and then map the data out of the source. […]
Setting up MySQL for easy integration with Warewolf
Warewolf has many database connectors, which makes integrating with Warewolf effortless and efficient. In this blog we are going to bring you step by step instructions on how to download and setup MySQL for Warewolf. To Download and Install MySQL for Windows, the simplest and recommended method is to download […]
Setting up Microsoft SQL Server Express for Warewolf using stored procedures
Warewolf is exceptionally good at integration and system orchestration, with many pre-built database connectors at your fingertips. Connecting to these sources in just a few clicks improves your efficiency and speeds up your development processes. To understand how efficient Warewolf is with connecting to these sources, we first need to […]
The 7 key concepts of using Warewolf
In a recent round of user experience testing, we uncovered some foundational concepts that made our users so much more successful. There are 7 key concepts you need to grasp to lay the foundation of being an expert Warewolf developer. Let’s take a look: Key concept 1: Toolbox search From […]
How to publish a VM in Azure
Publishing a VM in Azure is not as easy or simple as we had hoped. After much back and forth between marketing people, DevOps and a couple of our developers we finally got it right! The biggest component we never factored in was just how long it would take from […]
Implementing custom Windows Performance Counters in C#
Custom Windows performance counters enable us to capture, publish and analyse the performance data related to one or more applications or services running in the system or the system as a whole. This gives you real time statistics for the resource consumption in your system or application. The obvious benefit […]
Binding SSL certificates to Warewolf Server for HTTPS communication
Warewolf currently supports HTTPS communication via a self-signed certificate that is created when Warewolf is installed. Obviously this is not ideal and hitting a HTTPS Warewolf endpoint, it will have browsers shouting and complaining about the certificate being invalid. So I decided it was a good idea to put together […]
Lookless control in Warewolf – Part 1
Creating a Lookless control can be beneficial to your application and saves time on having to create multiple controls over and over again. In this series we will look at what a Lookless control is and how we can use it in our application. Part 1 will start with basic […]