Business Value Generation is the New Bottleneck
“Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.” -- Barry J. NalebuffI remember back in the day when prototyping solutions was the biggest bottleneck....
View ArticleExpectedExceptionBaseAttribute and "Object reference not set to an instance...
You're writing unit tests with Visual Studio and you want to verify that you're throwing the correct Exception. You could use ExpectedExceptionAttribute class but it only allows you to verify the type...
View ArticleSoft Drink Cans and a Man Named Norman
So I finally got round to reading Bill Bryson's book "A Short History of Nearly Everything". OK, so it's not quite as entertaining as some of his travel guides, but it is amazingly full of things that...
View ArticleTransactional replication 的Snapshot 文件在什么情况下会被清除
Snapshotagent负责收集publicationdatabase的信息,将article的内容存储在snapshot文件中。而distributioncleanupjob(后文简称清除作业)则负责删除这些文件。清除作业默认每15分钟运行一次,但并不是每一次都会去删除这些文件。那么其中有什么规律吗?...
View ArticleAcceptance Test Driven Development
Starting with a quote ( quote (verb ). "Master Code used by humans who use their right side of the brain more than their left side )In the spacecraft business no design can survive the review process,...
View Articletry f sharp
Came across a wonderful site for f 'sharp' . It was really close to home when it comes to learning something such wonderful. http://www.tryfsharp.org/Learn/advanced-programming# Wrox.com has a...
View ArticleProblem Solving
Cam across a wonder ful site where problem solving is the www.Projecteuler.net Sample problem from the site. [ Level: Easy - problem number 48]The series, 11 + 22 + 33 + ... + 1010 = 10405071317.Find...
View ArticleSERVER PLATFORM COMPETENCY – August Readiness Update
Upcoming competency changesMicrosoft Partner Network is merging the Management and Virtualization, Server Platform, and Identity and Access competencies into one single competency named the Datacentre...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics Training August, September, October 2013
CRM 2013 Getting Ready GuideMode : MaterialsThe Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Getting Ready Guide is now available, and provides an overview of the partner readiness program that is developed to support...
View ArticleTFS Planning Guide updated with new style and content fixes
We have just updated the TFS Planning Guide as part of the re-styling initiative. See Gearing up for the new crisper ALM Ranger guides, which will evolve into eBooks in future for details.Errata:New...
View Article[Sample Of Aug 11st] Create a custom asynchronous code activity
Sample Download : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Create-a-custom-asynchronou-1598437b This sample is created for two purposes. 1. Demonstrate how to create an asynchronous WF4 activity and use it in...
View ArticleStart MBAM encryption on Bitlocker pre-provisioned and Windows To Go drives.
Dave Hornbaker from Deployment Guys wrote a script some time ago, that kicks off MBAM encryption of the hard drive. It can be found...
View ArticleRemoving a VHD From A VM Using The Hyper-V WMI V2 Namespace
What good would Attaching a VHD To A VM Using The Hyper-V WMI V2 Namespace be if you couldn’t remove one two… Here’s how you do it. Removing a virtual hard...
View ArticleWindows Dev Center: New for Windows 8.1
Hi. John Osborne here. I work on content for the Windows Dev Center.Windows 8.1 Preview is here! And it’s got lots of new tools and features for developers that I’d like to share with you. I’ll only...
View ArticleMiami-Dade Gamemaker Workshop
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this past week, I had the pleasure of teaching a workshop at Florida International University for 25 Miami-Dade high school students. The workshop was focused on...
View ArticleSupport of 3-Component Textures
In Visual Studio 2012, C++ AMP introduced concurrency::graphics::texture data container and the support for three component texture formats was not provided in that release. In Visual Studio 2013, the...
View ArticleIE 11 won’t open in the Windows 8.1 Start Screen
Odd, suddenly IE 11 won’t open when clicked in the Windows 8.1 Start Screen. I don’t recall making any changes, but somehow a setting in the Internet Explorer 11 got modified so that only the client...
View ArticleReason of the Day to attend GP Technical Airlift #6
Want to know why you should get signed up to attend the GP Technical Airlift today? At this year's Dynamics GP Technical Airlift, one of the sessions you can attend is the GP Engineering Team Unplugged...
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