Project Server 2003 SP2 PDS

[Denis in Brisbane]

Does SP2 have any impact on external apps written using the PDS interface?
Are there new modules or changes and is there any recompilation or anything
required?

My customer has reported an app that worked with SP1 now gets a problem with
an authentication cookie in an SP2 test environment.

Denis

 

[Stephan Steiner]

I can't speak for everyone and all the functions, but I'm using ProjectData,
ProjectStatus, Checkin/Checkout, Update Project EFs, create assignments, and
we upgraded from SP1 to SP2 a couple month back and my app kept running
without making as much as a single line change.

So as far as I'm concerned, the upgrade has had no effect. I used to have a
PDS extender to offer access to task EFs but since I had to learn how to
handle the SQL tables writing the extender, I eventually abandoned the
extender and settled for direct SQL access (my connector sits on the SQL
server anyway, so it's much more efficient to directly access the DB).

As far as the authentication goes, I've stuck to the C# samples I've found
in the SDK and have not had a problem with it (there's one thing the SDK
didn't take care off: the cookie does expire, and the sample code does not
take care of that.. so for a while I was getting weird errors after a while
of inactivity, until I finally stepped through the code once and finally saw
the "cannot create security context" error that got me thinking about
logins).

Regards
Stephan