TFS 2010 will NOT support SQL 2012
With every release – of our product or a dependency, we think hard about the test/support matrix. As we developed Team Foundation Server 2012, we decided to support both SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 – due...
View ArticleSilverlight 5 Business Application Project loosing intellisense in Visual...
In the recent weeks, I have encountered two of my customers who were hitting the same stumbling block: Loosing coding intellisense in Visual Studio 2012 in their Silverlight 5 Business Application...
View ArticleEnabling Great Customer Experiences with Big Data
Once again, this year, I will be presenting in the Big !deas Session at NRF. This time around, I will be co-presenting with Patrick Carter, (CEO of Digital Folio) and David Waters (Sr, Director of...
View ArticleProject Server 2013: Project Sites and Alternate Access Mappings
If you have started working with Project Server 2013 and have run into issues with Project Sites not being provisioned as you expect, and are using Alternate Access Mappings (AAM), then take a look...
View Article@wearehunted. What makes Spotify great for me are the apps and this one is...
@wearehunted. What makes Spotify great for me are the apps and this one is my favorite - http://bit.ly/WXqY6F We Are Hunted wearehunted.com We are Hunted is a great way to discover new music. We listen...
View ArticleBetter business insight with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2
Many organizations struggle with providing business insight in a timely manner as resource-constrained IT departments can’t keep up with the requests from business users. Far too often users are...
View ArticleWant to pimp your Windows Phone 8 emulator – well here you go...
If you want to change the look of your Windows Phone 8 emulator You can now do this using the WP8 Emulator Skin Switcher to make it look like a Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X or Samsung Ativ S. Which is...
View ArticleMicrosoft Brews Up a Solution for Costa Coffee
Posted By Barb EdsonGeneral Manager, Marketing and Business DevelopmentWith the holiday shopping season behind us and my upcoming travel to next week’s National Retail Federation (NRF) Annual...
View ArticleAppUniversity–Curso #3: Desarrollo de Apps en Windows Phone 8
¡Inscríbete al primer curso totalmente en español para desarrollo de aplicaciones en Windows Phone 8 a través del programa AppUniversity! ¡Haz clic en la imagen para más información!Este curso...
View ArticleChannel 9 Content for Beginners
Check out these video series for beginners on Channel 9:Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with C#Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute BeginnersC# Fundamentals: Development for...
View ArticleDeploying OpenLogic CentOS images on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to us by Eric Weidner, OpenLogic Co-founder and Director of Engineering, describing how the company provides support and services for CentOS customers, including...
View ArticleHow to resolve “Not Found” Error in Silverlight for WCF RIA Services Calls
If you are trying to figure out why your WCF RIA Service's method calls(or just the regular WCF Service for that matter) throwing the infamous “NotFound” error, you are at the right place. This is...
View ArticleSharePoint Managed Navigation, Part 2
Last time we looked at the why Navigation Node Type was a key local property for terms in a term set used for navigation. That enables us to now talk about details of other managed navigation related...
View ArticleWelcome to the Sales & Marketing IT Test Engineering Blog!!!
Hello, my name is Irfan Chaudhry and I am the Director of Test Engineering for Microsoft IT’s Sales & Marketing (SMIT) organization. SMIT provides IT solutions that support Microsoft’s Sales &...
View ArticleSQL Data Compression Test Methodology on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011
My name is Eddie Lau and I am a Principal SDET with Microsoft’s Sales and Marketing IT (SMIT) organization. As part of my role, I serve as the performance engineering lead to help ensure our...
View ArticleAccount Rename issues - 1/11/2013 - Investigating
We are currently investigating issues preventing a small sub-set of our accounts from preforming a DNS rename, please note all other aspects of the service are available and no other issues are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Open Technologies Announces VM Depot
If you’ve been wanting to use Windows Azure but couldn’t because a particular open source virtual machine (VM) wasn’t available or you didn’t have the time to configure one, well you’re in luck. The...
View ArticleWalkthrough: Dynamically Skinning your Windows 8 App
One powerful feature of XAML is the ability to make any control look however the developer or designer wants without having to change the control itself. Similar to, but far more powerful than CSS,...
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