Prerequisites

There are a few things you'll need before getting underway with a version of DataLab of your very own.

Operating System and Applications (development environment)

• Windows 7 (Home Premium or Greater); or Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or Greater)
• Powershell 2.0
• Visual Studio 2010 (Express or Greater)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Windows Azure SDK -- For Visual Studio 2010 (!)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Express or Greater)

Windows Azure Services (production / deployment location)

OGDI DataLab requires Windows Azure services for both Compute Instance (hosted service) and Storage (Windows Azure Storage). For more info see the OGDI DataLab Services page

For more context on the Service Topology of the OGDI Framework refer to the OGDI Windows Azure Service Topology.

Third Party Assemblies

Some of the utilities used by OGDI must be downloaded and installed manually. This helps minimize the size of the framework and allows for bug fixes in the third party tools to be incorporated at the time of an OGDI deployment.

Adding Assemblies to a project could potentially cause a break in functionality. Only upgrade to a newer version of the component if the release notes state that there are to be no breaking changes.

• Newtonsoft.Json _{[version 3.5]}
• AjaxControlToolkit _{[version 3.0]}
• CSharpFormat _{[version 2.5]}
• CSSFriendly _{[version 1.0]}
• Fluent Ribbon Control Suite _{[version 1.3]}
• LumenWorks.Framework.IO _{[version 3.7]}

These components are installed separately and will require some instruction, consult the Installing Third Party Components (Manually) and the Installing Third Party Components (Automatically) pages for more information.