Cloud Design Patterns now available
Great news for folks looking for guidance on developing apps for the Azure Cloud – take a look at the Cloud Design Patters – it includes the followingTwenty four design patterns that are useful in...
View ArticleCloud Design Patterns now available
Great news for folks looking for guidance on developing apps for the Azure Cloud – take a look at the Cloud Design Patters – it includes the followingTwenty four design patterns that are useful in...
View ArticleWill robotics and home automation help you stay independent as you age
Like many of you reading this story, each and every year I think finally there will be a technology shift or a new product launch and the world will go crazy for robots. Suddenly our lives will be...
View ArticleTop 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Dr. Dobbs: Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, Premium Edition receives Jolt Award for Coding ToolsStacey Mulcahy: A Developers Guide to Marketing - Naming Your AppPengHeProfessor: Concurrent Event Sink...
View ArticleInstallation of Silverlight fails without any specific error message
ISSUE DESCRIPTION: Installation of Silverlight from http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight or http://www.silverlight.net/downloads fails without any specific error messageENVIRONMENT:Windows 7 SP1...
View ArticleNudge Moments: Is the money I spend on my start-up a tax deduction?
Every second month Emma from Nudge Accounting answers a finance question (via Vlog or Blog) asked by a member of Microsoft Bizspark or the startup community. This month, she answers the question of tax...
View ArticleMicrosoft joins the Open Compute Project Foundation
Today we announced that Microsoft is joining the OCPF . Not only are we joining the project but we are be contributing hardware specifications, design collateral (CAD and Gerber files), and system...
View ArticleSementic DB Capability
In SQL Server 2012, Semantic DB has new capabilities. Using these capabilities one can do text mining e.g. documents can be compared with each other to know similarity.By knowing the similarity one...
View ArticleAx 2012 - UnitOfWork - Performance series (Part 5)
Introduction The past posts (post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4) about performance focused on RecordInsertList class. This class is very usefull to boost performance, but there are some situations when...
View ArticleTechNet Guru Awards - From December to January
A few weeks back, XAML Guy posted the December TechNet Guru awards: TechNet Guru Awards - December 2013 To give you a taste, here are the results of the technologies in my product areas (SQL Server,...
View ArticleLinks and Information for Students
Here are some links to resources for students. Microsoft DreamSparkMicrosoft BizSparkMicrosoft Virtual AcademyWindows Phone App StudioNokia DVLUP ProgramMicrosoft Student PartnersThe Microsoft...
View ArticleA light-weight .Net ThreadPool Timer class
By letting the operating system to the heavy lifting! But first, what inspired this article?I was doing some work, and I come across a class called IOThreadPoolTimer or something. It was a fancy timer,...
View ArticleSQL Server Concatenate Row Values using T-SQL
Some time we need to show concatenated row values in the SQL Select Statements. Lets say, if we have Customers, Orders and Order details. Incase, if we have to list out all Products that each customer...
View ArticleDevelop a health app for Windows 8.1 and possibly change the world
I t’s been said that the world is being eaten by apps, applications that is. Whatever your need, it seems “there’s an app for that”. For those of us in healthcare, it is hard to escape the...
View ArticleDave Campbell for CEO
I've been dark for a bit, traveling to Budapest and Seattle, but... I've been thinking a lot about our CEO search.Mostly because that's what everyone asks about second when they find out that I work...
View ArticleProject Round-up – and don’t forget the big football game
I know you are all very excited about the big game leading up to the Project Conference this coming weekend. My money is on Norwich taking all 3 points against bottom of the table Cardiff – but I...
View ArticleBeginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 6: More Control! Customizing the app...
NOTE: This is the Visual Studio 2013 update of the popular Beginning LightSwitch article series. For previous versions see:Visual Studio 2012: Part 6: Go beyond the box. Customizing LightSwitch Apps...
View ArticleCome see us at Tech Conference!
The AX documentation team will be at the Tech Conference in Bellevue next week. Our big day is Wednesday:From 1-2:30, we’ll staffing a content publishing focus room, at which we’ll be happy to take...
View ArticleAnnouncing Imagine Cup Bangladesh 2014
Microsoft’s premier student technology competition, Imagine Cup, returns for its 12th year with three big competitions: Games, Innovation and World Citizenship. This year, you could win a trip to...
View ArticleOnline VHDX Resize with SCVMM 2012 R2
Yesterday I discussed how to expand the size of a virtual hard disk on a running virtual machine. You can also do this with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. To do this you need to:Open...
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