On December 13 and 14th,  Microsoft and the Big Nerd Ranch team are having a two day training on building Windows Store apps.

The event will be in Microsoft’s Mountain View (CA) campus.
To attend in person, register at http://aka.ms/iostoWindowscamp
Both days will also be streamed live at http://channel9.msdn.com

You can find a detailed agenda in the registration site.

My no-fluff description for the event follows:

• The training is aimed at iOS developers who want to start building Windows Store apps.  
• It starts from the beginning with intros to the programming languages, the platform and the tools. 
• We will try to build a bridge from iOS concepts to Windows concepts so that you can reuse your existing iOS knowledge as much as possible.  
• Event will focus on building apps with XAML/C#, but devs looking to build on apps with HTML or DirectX will also get a useful overview of the platform.   

If you are an iOS developer, we hope you can join us, it will be a beginning of a fun journey.. Bring your Mac Book (with enough space to install Windows using parallels or any other virtualization technology).  

To learn more about Windows Store app development, check out the resources for iOS developers page on the Windows Dev Center and check out Aaron’s Hillegass’ Build 2012 session: “Top 10 things iOS developers need to know about Windows Store apps”.

Happy Windows coding!

We've posted preliminary Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012R2 content on TechNet and MSDN.

The New, Changed, and Deprecated Features guide has been updated to include R2 features. The guide contains new features for 2012, the 2012 Feature Pack, and 2012 R2, so to find the latest information, you need to search for R2.

At general availability of R2, we will post additional content to TechNet and MSDN, and will also make installable help updates with translated Help content available.

The following list provides links to a description of each group of topics that we have added for R2.

Audience

• System Administrator topics
• Developer topics
• Application User topics
• White Papers and Guides

For more information about documentation for all versions of the product, see the following resources:

• Help and Resources Datasheet for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
• Official Dynamics AX 2012 Content

System Administrator topics

The Installation and Upgrade content on TechNet has been updated to apply to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2.

• Install Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
• Upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Topics that support the following 2012 R2 features have been published on TechNet.

Data partitioning

• What's New: Data partitioning
• Plan for data partitioning
• Data partitioning architecture
• Configure clients to access data in a partition

Virtual company scenarios: Project management and accounting

The following topics have also been published or updated, but are not specific to R2.

• Data Migration Framework User Guide, updated for Beta 2 release
• Change the account used by AOS
• Troubleshoot common AOS problems
• Services and AIF Walkthroughs
• Install and configure Search prerequisites
• SQL Server topology, describes support for Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability groups.
• Enterprise Portal administration with Windows PowerShell and AXUpdatePortal
• Workflow with a conditional decision

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Developer topics

The reference topics for X++ and .NET have been updated for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2. This update includes changes to thousands of topics. In particular, the .NET Framework Classes for Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail section has changed. In this section, we added the Microsoft.Dynamics.Commerce.Runtime Namespace, and significantly updated the Microsoft.Dynamics.Retail.Pos.Contracts Namespace.

Documentation for over 1900 Data upgrade scripts has also been updated for R2.

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Application User topics

Topics that support the following feature areas, regions and countries have been published or updated on TechNet.

Budgeting

Manage KPIs

Brazil

China

Czech Republic

Eastern Europe

Estonia

Hungary

India

Japan

Latvia

Lithuania

Poland

Russia

US Payroll

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White Papers and Guides

The following white papers and guides have been published or updated to support R2.

• Installation Guide
• System Requirements
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Service tax reverse charge mechanism
• Enhancements to inventory close performance
• Preparing for Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
• An Introduction to Client Surrogate Keys in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

The following white papers and guides have been published or updated, but are not specific to R2.

• Deploying customizations across Microsoft Dynamics AX environments
• Retail Benchmark for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
• Connector for Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Electronic Correction Letter white paper (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009)
• System Requirements for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

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1. Herb Sutter Live: VC++ C++11 Conformance, isocpp.org, Standard C++ Foundation
2. MSDN Flash: Windows Phone 8 Free Dev Tools and SDK
3. Windows 8 Team: User experience integration testing for Windows 8 apps
4. J. Healy: Are you SLAT Compatible? WP8 SDK Tip 01
5. Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager
6. MSDN Flash: MSDN Subscribers Worldwide Get Pluralsight Starter Subscription
7. The Visual Studio Blog: Productivity Power Tools 2012
8. Bytes by MSDN: User Experience Design
9. Hui_Zhu: Additional Information about Silverlight Client Timeout Value when calling a WCF WebService
10. Rob Chambers: How many lines of code does it take to build a complete WP8 speech app?

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To view the session, visit: https://new.livestream.com/wowzapp2012/bindingxaml

The slides, and project files are attached below.

Enjoy!

New Survival guide for things related to Enterprise Search and SharePoint 2013 

Survival Guide: SharePoint 2013 and Enterprise Search

PowerShell scripts on TechNet Gallery

• Import-QueryRules
• Maintain-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataProperties
• Migrate SharePoint 2010 Search Thesaurus to SharePoint 2013

Quickly find SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Search resources!!      

Bing SP2013ES        http://www.bing.com/search?q=sp2013es

Sample Download :

CS Version: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSSL4DataGridBindingInMVVM-a5ad2cc5

VB Version: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VBSL4DataGridBindingInMVVM-3ffdfd5b

The project illustrates how to bind data source with using two way mode with frequent changed data, the clients can be notified when properties has been changed. The sample designed by MVVM pattern, the lightly pattern provides a flexible way for improving code re-use, simply maintenance and testing.

You can find more code samples that demonstrate the most typical programming scenarios by using Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser or Sample Browser Visual Studio extension. They give you the flexibility to search samples, download samples on demand, manage the downloaded samples in a centralized place, and automatically be notified about sample updates. If it is the first time that you hear about Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework, please watch the introduction video on Microsoft Showcase, or read the introduction on our homepage http://1code.codeplex.com/.

We had an interesting brownbag discussion at the Vancouver Development Centre yesterday. Here are three of the slides and the nuggets that emerged from the discussions.

We are in essence bridge builders, connecting the product groups, marketing and leadership, with up to 200 ALM Rangers scattered across the globe, time zones and infrastructure topologies. Our recommended ALM Rangers project team consists of: One product owner (PO)  from the product group, who owns the backlog and who makes the tough decisions on scope and engages other stakeholders as needed. One project lead who enables the team, loves transparency, dislikes information hiding and is focused on tine tuning the team and collaboration. Up to five team contributors. One Ruck Master who guides, mentors and coaches the project leads and teams as needed. Continuous ALM Ranger process improvement is a primary objective of the Ruck Masters. The PO is typically located on the left-hand side of the bridge and the rest on the right hand-side. Remote team and managers are therefore part of every ALM Ranger team ecosystem, even before the team engages reviewers and early adopters.
Isolation is a problem and while some thrive in isolation, others need constant buzz and activity around them. If the latter applies, ensure that you engage with your colleagues using video conferencing technologies, such as Lync, and limit “working from home” :) Personally I work best sitting in the middle of Semiahmoo Bay at low tide, but I need to collaborate with my teams and I value the precious face to face time in Redmond, or sitting with phenomenal colleagues like Charles Sterling “Chuck” over a “real” beer and burger. Eye to eye collaboration is definitely the best, because you can perceive not just audio, but facial expressions and feedback … not to mention being able to walk up to a whiteboard, scribble and discuss. Plan regular team visits, meet face to face and get to know the humanoid behind the virtual online names. For those travelling between the Redmond and Vancouver development centre (FAQ – How can I travel from the Vancouver Development Centre to the Redmond Campus?) it is worth talking to your manager and HR to organize an intermediate L1 visa. Border crossings are easier and you are actually allowed to be productive while you are in the US and do work :) Be careful with visa waivers and B* visas, which have restrictions in terms of “doing work”, often forcing you to sit on your hands while visiting the Redmond teams. Going to the US be ready to answer question related to “why are you entering the US” and going to Canada “what are you bringing with you”. If you travel to the US every second week, as I do, you get used to explaining why you have an intermediate L1 yet live in Canada, why you take the bus instead of driving yourself, why you need to visit your remote teams and why you would work through the night instead of booking a hotel.
When collaborating / communicating with remote teams around the world it is important to remember the different cultures, characters and time zones. While some people take to online meetings like a Duck to water, others battle with the virtual world. Make sure you engage everyone on the online call, draw in the more conservative attendees and throttle the more enthusiastic and tenacious attendees where needed. Be aware that some attendees may be attending at odd hours due to their time zone, respect their time. Rangers like to start on time and finish ahead of time :) Use video! It is amazing how the interaction changes when you can see your virtual attendees and vice versa. In the past it was often the case that the team in Redmond would literally walk out of the meeting, forgetting that they had a remote team member wondering what happened. With video this unintentional gremlin has disappeared from the virtual room … if they see you, they remember you! Discuss the challenges and options of online meetings with your remote colleagues. If they understand the challenges and see the value of video, for example, they will make every effort to bring a laptop to their meetings and talk to you vFace to vFace :)
To summarize, three points of advice: Make video conferencing tools, i.e. Lync, your friend, using all the available technology, such as video, to bring you closer to the remote team. Remember and respect different cultures and times zones. Make an effort to visit your remote teams and to meet the humanoid behind the virtual avatars face to face.

Do we believe it is a feasible scenario? We, the ALM Rangers, have and are living in this scenario every day of our exciting days … our response is therefore a definite yes!

The Search Query Tool is a project I have been working on for a while now. And finally, I have reached the phase where it goes out to the world.

This tool helps you understand and learn how the available parameters on the Search REST service should be formatted.

What does this tool offer:

• Issue HTTP GET or POST search queries.
• See how the different Query parameters are formatted.
• Authenticate using different users to debug security trimming issues.
• Use against your tenant on SharePoint Online and authenticate using your SPO User ID.

Go get it from:

http://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/

Big thanks go to my colleagues Dan Gøran Lunde and Murad Sæter for all the cool ideas and support.

As always, Enjoy! 

Con relación al uso de la factura electrónica en México, si el SAT ha otorgado al cliente rangos de Folios Fiscales iguales para series diferentes pero con el mismo Número de Aprobación, al intentar configurar los Números de autorización en AX 2012, se obtiene el siguiente mensaje de error:

“No se puede crear un registro en Números de Autorización (SATAuthorizationNumber_MX). Number sequence code: XXX, X.
El registro ya existe.”


En ese caso, se puede utilizar la siguiente recomendación en Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.


Modificar los índices de la tabla SATAuthorizationNumber_MX de acuerdo al siguiente procedimiento:

1. AOT > Data dictionary > Tables > SATAuthorizationNumber_MX.
a. Nota: Abrir dos ventanas de AOT para modificar el índice.

2. En la ventana del lado izquierdo expandir el nodo de los campos.

3. En la ventana del lado derecho expandir el nodo del índice NumSeqSeriesYearNumberIdx.
a. Nota. En esta ventana, marcar el campo NumberSeqTable en el índice para que el campo AuthorizationCode quede abajo del NumberSeqTable al momento de arrastrarlo entre ventanas.

4. Arrastrar el campo AuthorizationCode al índice NumSeqSeriesYearNumberIdx. (Figura 1).



Figura 1


5. Borrar el campo AuthorizationCode del índice AuthorizationCode (usa el botón derecho > “Eliminar”) (Figura 2).



Figura 2

6. Guardar los cambios (Ctrl+S).
Nota. Sincronizar si es solicitado por AX.


Como resultado se podrá configurar diferentes Series para el mismo Número de Autorización. (Figura 3).



Figura 3




DISCLAIMER:
"Esto es una recomendación, la cual no ha sido publicada a través del sitio Web de Microsoft ya que no ha sido sometida a un ciclo de pruebas de regresión. Por favor tenga en cuenta que esto tiene que ser probado en un ambiente de prueba por usted como si se tratara de una personalización. Microsoft no puede garantizar este código".


Para P

Encontré un artículo en el blog del equipo de producto de Microsoft Dynamics AX que me llamó la atención. En este blog la jefe del equipo de documentación de Microsoft Dynamics AX, Margo Crandall, nos presenta tanto las fuentes oficiales para obtener información de Microsoft Dynamics AX, así como los diferentes tipos de documentación que se genera para Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. 

Espero que lo disfruten tanto como yo lo hice.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dax/archive/2012/03/15/official-dynamics-ax-2012-content-where-is-it-and-how-can-you-find-out-about-updates.aspx



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Hola a todos, les dejo aquí una lista de los principales hotfixes relativos al cierre de inventarios y que deben contemplar para evitar cualquier contratiempo. Cada uno de ellos corrige distintos comportamientos, algunos de performance y otros del cálculo mismo, los   que considero más importantes por el impacto que tienen están marcados en amarillo. Mi recomendación es que los instalen desde ya y muy importante, verificar que los objetos que actualiza no se encuentren personalizados pues los hotfixes perderían el efecto para el cual fueron diseñados:

next week I will be speaking at the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas (http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx).

I will be talking about the work my team has done to reimagine IRM services in SharePoint and SharePoint online. We did a lot of re-plumbing to ensure this unique service is available in the Office 365 cloud and also made some significant progress in improving the management of the feature, adding new capabilities (such as group protection), adding PDF to the list of file types we can protect and finally made the whole thing programmable. Read about this more at he official blog post: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1048 and let me know what you think. Obviously, you are welcome to attend my session in the conference to learn more: Deep Dive on Information Rights Management and SharePoint (Breakout Session 12: Wed 3:15pm – 4:30pm , SPC073)

Como much@s de ustedes saben, en ocasiones conciliar los módulos de Inventarios y Contabilidad suele ser una tarea que puede llegar a requerir un buen tiempo de análisis de cifras y saldos contables. En AX 2012 se incluye ya una serie de reportes que ayudan a mitigar esta tarea y ofrecen la flexibilidad de crear los propios con base en la misma lógica. Estos reportes identifican las causas más comunes de "descuadre" entre ambos módulos: diarios contables del tipo inventario que se registraron directamente en GL, parámetros de contablización no activados en Inventarios, modificación de las cuentas de un gurpo de artículos o posting profile cuando uno o varios artículos ya contaban con transacciones, etc. Estos reportes los encuentran disponibles en AX 2012 en la ruta Inventory management >Reports >Status>Inventory value >Potential conflict - inventory and general ledger. En Ax 2009 estos mismos reportes también están disponibles a partir del RU5 en la misma ruta.

Espero les sea útil.

Saludos

Nokia Lumia 920 available through AT&T only comes with Visual Voicemail, a feature that allows you to view, play, and or delete voicemail messages on your device. In order to use the visual voicemail feature, you must create a voicemail password and turn the security on. Visual voicemail uses the same password as the one for voicemail.

If you have a password but the security is turned off, the visual voicemail feature will not work: it is not visible to you; you will not see a list of messages as you would with phone call history, and you’ll not be prompted for password.

You can set or reset your voicemail password by calling 611, and follow the instructions. you will get text message with a four-digit pin. Or, you can call your voicemail and use the administrative option to reset password and turn on the password setting. With this option, you will get a 7-dig pin, which by default is your phone number without the area code. You should change the temporary pin/password to something you remember.

For more information, read AT&T Visual Voicemail: An introduction

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Professor Chris Bishop is well known round here for giving entertaining science talks aimed at young people - a few years ago he presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Every so often Chris pops into my office to talk about a bit of software for a particular demo he wants to show - these are normally very simple bits of software, intended to illustrate some particular idea in a very clean and clear way, and one such application is the "doppler demonstrator" I'll describe here.

The basic idea is to have a small blob traverse the screen, emitting circular growing "waves" as it goes. When the blob is stationary, the screen looks a bit like ripples spreading from a stone dropped in a pond; when the blob moves, the wavefronts in the direction in which it's travelling are compressed and the wavefronts behind are spaced out further, indicating how, for example, sound frequency of an approaching car is higher than when it's moving away. (As the blob gets faster, it catches up with the leading wavefronts and breaks the "sound barrier.") Below is a picture of the program in action:

(Actually, the version used in the talk had no title bar nor visible slider, but this'll do for the time being.)

There are many ways this could have been written but, being fairly lazy, I chose WPF. The main window Xaml definition is very short:

<Window x:Class="Doppler.MainWindow"        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Waves"        WindowState="Normal"        Title="Doppler" Width="1024" Height="768">    <Grid Background="Black" KeyUp="Grid_KeyUp">        <Viewbox Stretch="UniformToFill" VerticalAlignment="Center" HorizontalAlignment="Center">            <Canvas x:Name="Surface" Height="600" Width="800">                <Path Fill="Red">                    <Path.Data>                        <EllipseGeometry x:Name="Source" Center="400,300" RadiusX="10" RadiusY="10" />                    </Path.Data>                </Path>            </Canvas>        </Viewbox>        <Slider x:Name="SliderSpeed" Grid.Row="0" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Margin="10" Orientation="Horizontal"                Minimum="0" Maximum="3" LargeChange="1" SmallChange="0.5"                IsMoveToPointEnabled="True" Opacity="0.5" />    </Grid></Window>

The blob (the ellipse called "Source") moves across the containing canvas, which is squeezed into a view box such that it easily scales to any size of screen, and the slider at the bottom controls the speed. Movement is triggered by a timer, which executes the following every 100th of a second:

        private void Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)        {            var x = this.Source.Center.X;            x += this.SliderSpeed.Value;            if (x > this.Surface.Width)                x = 0;            else if (x < 0)                x = this.Surface.Width - 1;            this.Source.Center = new Point(x, this.Source.Center.Y);            if (++period > 12)            {                period = 0;                CreateWave(this.Source.Center);                CreateWave(new Point((this.Source.Center.X - this.Surface.Width), this.Source.Center.Y));            }        }

Move the blob right some amount taken from the slider, wrapping at the right edge. Every so often, emit a new ripple via CreateWave. Why two waves? I want the display to look as if everything's wrapped, not just the red blob, so I pretend there's another wave emitting source a screen width behind this one; as wavefronts expand off the right, wavefronts from this extra phantom blob come is at exactly the right place on the left.

CreateWave is fairly straightforward, but a bit fiddly. I set up some WPF animations to take care of the wavefront expanding without me having to control them step by step. (I did wonder if I could do the same for the blob motion, but couldn't come up with a clean solution in the few hours I gave myself to write this app.)

        private void CreateWave(Point c)        {            var wave = new Path            {                Stroke = Brushes.White,                Data = new EllipseGeometry { Center = c }            };            this.Surface.Children.Insert(0, wave);            waves.Add(wave);            var d = new Duration(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));            var sb = new Storyboard { Duration = d };            const double max = 200;            var sizeAnimX = new DoubleAnimation(11, max, d);            sb.Children.Add(sizeAnimX);            Storyboard.SetTarget(sizeAnimX, wave);            Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(sizeAnimX, new PropertyPath("(Path.Data).(EllipseGeometry.RadiusX)"));            var sizeAnimY = new DoubleAnimation(11, max, d);            sb.Children.Add(sizeAnimY);            Storyboard.SetTarget(sizeAnimY, wave);            Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(sizeAnimY, new PropertyPath("(Path.Data).(EllipseGeometry.RadiusY)"));            var strokeAnim = new DoubleAnimation(5, 9, d);            sb.Children.Add(strokeAnim);            Storyboard.SetTarget(strokeAnim, wave);            Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(strokeAnim, new PropertyPath("StrokeThickness"));            var opacityAnim = new DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames();            opacityAnim.KeyFrames.Add(new LinearDoubleKeyFrame(0.7, KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0))));            opacityAnim.KeyFrames.Add(new LinearDoubleKeyFrame(0.6, KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1.8))));            opacityAnim.KeyFrames.Add(new LinearDoubleKeyFrame(0.0, KeyTime.FromTimeSpan(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2))));            sb.Children.Add(opacityAnim);            Storyboard.SetTarget(opacityAnim, wave);            Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(opacityAnim, new PropertyPath("Opacity"));            sb.Completed += (sender, e) =>            {                var w = this.waves[0];                this.waves.RemoveAt(0);                this.Surface.Children.Remove(w);            };            sb.Begin();        }

The important features here are the first couple of animations, growing the wave horizontally and vertically. The other critical parts of the routine are adding the wave to the canvas (note, inserted at the beginning, so that the red blob stays on top) and the storyboard completion handler to remove the no longer required wave. I couldn't figure out an easy way to identify the wave from the event arguments, so have a separate list of waves - I know that the expiring one is the first on this list, since they're appended in the order in which they're created.

The rest of the animations here (wave thickness, opacity and, in earlier versions, colour) are the result of Chris and I trying various ideas to see what looked good on a projector screen. The result of the application is shown below.

If you look carefully, you'll notice that this is quite different to the first picture: the lines are all much sharper. We did want something smoother, and adding a blur effect to the canvas almost did the right thing. However, we also really wanted to exaggerate the sound barrier breaking brightness, so I wrote a custom effect which did a little blurring and then increased the contrast a lot. The canvas Xaml fragment was modified to:

            <Canvas x:Name="Surface" Height="600" Width="800">                <Path Fill="Red">                    <Path.Data>                        <EllipseGeometry x:Name="Source" Center="400,300" RadiusX="10" RadiusY="10" />                    </Path.Data>                </Path>                <Canvas.Effect>
                    <local:ContrastEffect />
                </Canvas.Effect>            </Canvas>

The new bit (in bold) refers to the custom effect. There are numerous shader tutorials on the internet, such as this particularly good one so I won't waste time talking about how to define a customshader to use in WPF. However, below is the short fragment of HLSL which I used:

sampler2D implicitInput : register(s0);float4 main(float2 uv : TEXCOORD) : COLOR 
{float2 sampleOffsets[9] =
	{   0,0, -1,0, 1,0, 0,-1, 0,1, -1,-1, -1,1, 1,-1, 1, 1
	};float scales[9] =
	{  1, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.7
	};// Very crude and simplistic blurfloat4 c = 0;for(int i = 0; i < 9; ++i)
		c += scales[i] * tex2D(implicitInput, uv + 0.001 * sampleOffsets[i]);
	c /= 7;
	c = saturate(c);// Increase the contrast greatlyfloat4 c0 = c * c * c;
	c0.a = c.a;return c0;
}

The first part is a simple blur: add fractions of pixels neighbouring the target one, and average - smooths the texture a little. The last few lines really boost the contrast, such that bright colours (as with overlapping waves) really stand out, as you can see in the top image.

And that's it. Now, one question is: why am I bothering to describe this quite old and really very simple application? Well, it's been a month since I last posed and I needed to show that I was still alive! Nonono - the reason is that I'm starting to write some modern Windows apps, and thought that something like this would be interesting to port, to be covered in the next post or two...