Deploying Progress application on azur

Posted by lucooms on 21-Jun-2016 09:49

The ActiveX component pstimer.ocx and a library prox.dll provided by Progress in version 11.6.2 is still dependent of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.30319 or Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.40219 (2010 sp1).

We would like to bring our Progress application to the Azur cloud.

 

On  Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10 only Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x86) - 11.0.61030, Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) - 12.0.30501 or Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86) - 14.0.23026 are officially supported by Microsoft.

How can we obtain these ActiveX and library files compiled for these C++ versions ?

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Posted by Rob Debbage on 23-Jun-2016 02:11

Hello,

Per the support case that you raised for this, no versions of OpenEdge are currently certified for use on Microsoft Azure. Additionally, we cannot currently avoid the dependency on Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributables due to the use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 as our compiler.

As discussed, support for Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable on Microsoft Azure should be clarified with Microsoft,  given the discrepancies in their online articles where www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx does not list Windows 2012 / Windows 10 as a supported platforms but support.microsoft.com/.../2661358 states that they are supported.

I would suggest that the second article is correct and supersedes the first article, with the first not having been updated since the release of the package in / around 2010/2011. Note that the first article completely omits platforms released after this date (Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 2012 / 2012 R2, Windows 10).  The second article was reviewed last year (08/10/2015) so I would suggest that it contains the correct details.

Given that we do certify Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 2012 / 2012 R2, Windows 10 for use with OpenEdge, I would suggest that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributables are supported on these platforms.

Regards,

Rob

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