Defensive programming is a set of techniques for writing more comprehensible, less error-prone code, and gracefully handling unexpected input or rare runtime conditions. Using these tec ...

Recently, a support ticket came in with the following problem: Executing "Adam.Core.DatabaseManager.exe UpdateSchema" failed with the e ...

What's the absolutely quickest way to set up a new adam environment? The way that is described in the installation manual is the one that gives ...

Adobe Flash movies are a popular file format. The ADAM engine has no issues in storing those file formats, but there is no out-of-the-box preview player. However, creating such a previe ...

Every Field Definition in ADAM has a 'Scope' property. The scope determines when and to which objects the Field will be added. E.g. Field on a record (global, floating, ..), F ...

One thing that regularly comes up when responding to Workflow-related issues is that there seems to be some confusion about where to find the information for troubleshooting the problem ...

The maintenance framework has several mechanismes built-in that enable you to limit the execution of a maintenance job to specific servers.This is useful if only a few servers have the necessary ...

Adam 4.5 includes a new feature that isn't all that striking, but very useful nonetheless. One of the things that were a bit too difficult to accomplish with any version before 4.5, was to s ...

When downloading the new ADAM 4.5 release, you'll notice that there are no 4.5-specific studios listed. In the compatibility matrix -which contains an overview of which versio ...

This article explains what's going on if you see an ADAM logon failing and you find the following error message in the event log: SocketException: An operation on a socket could not be performed bec ...