Support for NC Versions

Although there is no official support from Cincom for the non-commercial version there are a number of documents in the product information section that may guide you if you have a problem.

VisualWorks Non-Commercial

VisualWorks Non-Commercial is provided "as is," without any technical support from Cincom. There are, however, on-line sources of help available on VisualWorks and its add-on components. Be assured, you are not alone. Many of these resources are valuable to commercial licensees as well.

A large variety of technical information on Cincom Smalltalk may be found on the various Smalltalk blogs hosted by Cincom. You can subscribe to all of them using BottomFeeder, a news aggregator built in Cincom Smalltalk.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign very kindly provides several resources on VisualWorks and Smalltalk:

  • A mailing list for users of VisualWorks Non-Commercial, which serves a growing community of VisualWorks Non-Commercial users. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: vwnc-request@cs.uiuc.edu with the SUBJECT of "subscribe" or "unsubscribe".
  • An excellent Smalltalk archive is maintained by faculty and students at UIUC, who are long-time Smalltalk users and leading lights in the Smalltalk community, at: http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/
  • A Wiki (a user-editable web site) for discussing any and all things Cincom Smalltalk related at: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/CincomSmalltalkWiki
  • A variety of tutorials and other materials specifically on Cincom Smalltalk on our tutorials page.

The Usenet Smalltalk news group, comp.lang.smalltalk, carries on active discussions about Smalltalk and VisualWorks, and is a good source for advice.  There is also an active community using the Nabble Smalltalk list and the Nabble VisualWorks list.

ObjectStudio Non-Commercial

To submit comments or report potential product problems with ObjectStudio Non-Commercial, please send an email to objectstudio_noncommercial@cincom.com

ObjectStudio Beta and EVOL support is available through a community of users subscribing to a user group monitored by Cincom engineers. If reporting a problem, please include your configuration information, ObjectStudio version and build information in your email. Your feedback is extremely important to us.

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However, there is a thriving Smalltalk community who are always willing to help with problems and who can be accessed via the comp.lang.smalltalk user group (Cincom personel are frequent contributors to this newsgroup). There is also an ObjectStudio specific newsgroup comp.lang.smalltalk.objectstudio. Both newsgroups are hosted by news.newcastle.ca and can be easily set up via your browser or email software.