The ORM Foundation

 The only Visual Studio Community edition I could find was VS2017, which is installed and runs. I hoped that would work because "...or above". However both PLiX for Visual Studio.msi and Natural ORM Architect for Visual Studio 2015.msi fail to install with the dialog box requesting VS2015.

I have  been unable to find a VS2015 install file. Is there a workaround for VS207? Or would someone have a URL for VS2015?

Thanks,

 Thomas

 Hi Thomas,

NORMA has not yet been updated to run with Visual Studio 2017.
Matt has said that he will do it but has not given a date.

In the meantime, I found this link for the VS2015 download. 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48146

Ken 

 Thank you Ken,

The key seems to  be to become a subscriber to the Visual Studio group, then download. I've done that, and VS15 is now installing itself.  Thank you for your very quick reply.

Thomas 

 I second the urgent need for VS 2017 support!

 Hi Steve, 
Microsoft has de-activated the link that I posted earlier.
Getting NORMA upgraded to run with Visual Studio 2017 is now a top priority.

Would you like to help with this?

Ken 

 Hi Ken,

Are you implying there is something I can manually tweak to get it to work?

Thanks,

Steve 

 Hi Steve,

I have set up a development environment for NORMA.

Would you like to participate?
Ken.

 Steve,
The email server that you are using is rejecting emails with the message "Account temporarily unavailable."

Ken 

 Hi Ken,

Yes, I'd like to participate.  My steve@cimframe.com email address is currently having some server issues.  If you'd reply to me at smiller@scayl.com, that'd reach me...

 Cheers, Steve 

 Hi Steve,

Thanks for agreeing to contribute.

You will shortly receive two emails - one from me and one from the JIRA environment.

Cheers

Ken 

 Hi Ken

 I would like to help with upgrading NORMA to run with VS2017. Please send me more details so that I can contribute.

 Regards,

Wayne 

 Hi Wayne,

Thanks for your offer to contribute. I just sent a private email to you. 

Ken 

 Hi Wayne,

It's been a long time.
Did you get my email?  

Ken 

 Hi All, 

We are now testing NORMA for VS2017.

If you would like to test a pre-release version of NORMA for Visual Studio 2017, please send an email to vs2017@ormfoundation.org  with a summary of your interest in ORM and howthe VS2017 version will help you.

 Thanks

Ken 

 As of October 2018 only the 2017 version of VS Community edition appears to be available.

And I cannot get NORMA to install in VS2008 which I ran a few years ago.

 Is there another ORM platform that will accept my old .ORM files?  NORMA was so easy to use....