First congratulations on a first class job with the extensive class libraries with this project. While I would encourage you to put all the source code on Codeplex at the earliest opportunity that's not the most pressing issue at the moment.
I would like to be able to customise the existing WebGUI for Zentity. To make this a whole lot easier I would appreciate being able to download the original Visual Studio project/solution files as I have tried unsucessfully to fully reverse engineer the correct folder structure of the existing deployed site as a Visual Studio project. I am sure this will help spread adoption.
Secondly if I radically reengineer the WebGUI, what obligations might I have to identity that it is Zentity working behind the scenes. Is there any notion of a "powered by Zentity" logo or any need for branding of a site to acknowledge that it is based on the Zentity Engine.?
Dear Steve,
Apologies for the delay in replying and thank you for your kind words!
I am going to work with the engineers to see whether we can indeed release the Visual Studio project/solution files. This is not because of any policy restrictions but I want to make sure that they will actually help you.
You'll notice that there are many components already there that you can simply reuse in your own web site. If you have any problems, do post on this forum or send us an email (my work email is Savas.Parastatidis@microsoft.com or you can use scholar@microsoft.com).
The WebUI web site is a simple ASP.NET web site so you shouldn't have to reverse engineer anything. You can just start customizing. If you have any specific problems, please do let us know.
You are more than welcome to create brand new Web UI experiences on top of Zentity. In fact, the Zentity platform was designed and implemented for exactly that reason, to enable such scenarios. We even build demos of Silverlight-based UIs on top of Zentity. Once you build one, we'd be very interested in seeing it, so do send us a link :-)
You are not oblidged by the license to include a "powered by Zentity" logo but we wouldn't object to it ;-) I think it'd be a nice gesture :-))) Let us know if you are planning to do it and we can supply you with a logo button.
Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions. Next time our response will be much faster.
Regards,
.savas.
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Hi ! i am new in this forum and i want to learn from here.so i wish you guys will help me.Thanks.
Here we are all friend and we have help each other. Personally I will try to help you.
Hi,
You could start by reading the Zentity project information in the Microsoft Research site:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/zentity/
We'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have.
Cheers,Oscar.
thanks for the link man.........nice job.