Kinect “Where to start?”
Let’s get directly Into the Core of this Blog post,1st Get a Kinect For windows unit.2nd Download the SDK and the Toolkit which you will find here.3rd Play Around with the toolkit where you will find a...
View ArticleQuick news: Surface Getting Started Guide now available
Greetings, gang. Just wanted to let you know about this guide to the Microsoft Surface, which was published yesterday. You can download the 68-page PDF (1.35 MB) here: Surface_Getting_Started_guide.pdf
View ArticleHappy Birthday XML!
XML was first published as a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 1998.I would have never dreamt, 15 years ago, that we would be so successful in our dream of exchanging information freely between...
View ArticleQuality Gets Rewarded
So you've been toiling around until the whee hours of the night every day to ensure there are no bugs in your app. You've listened to your users and updated your apps accordingly. You made your app...
View ArticleFebruary 2013 SharePoint 2010 Hotfix
We are offering a critical on demand hotfix for an issue a couple of customers are reporting to us. · Identifying the issue· Preparation to install the hotfix· Download the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013. How to force whole list or library to be re-crawled by search
It is a new feature which was presented in SharePoint 2013 which allows to force search service to re-crawl whole list or library regardless if items where changed or not. Items will be picked up by...
View ArticleHow to replace event.returnValue after installing UR12 for Dynamics CRM 2011
If you are using the event.returnValue function in a custom script, after upgrading to UR12, this method could throw a script error.Cause:From the article...
View ArticleDynamics CRM 2011 Missing privileges for Security Role triggering errors in...
Issue:You cannot view Sales Entities within the organization – following error message is displayed: “An error occurred. Please wait a few moments and try again. If the problem persists, contact a...
View ArticleTechnical Interview/screen questions...
This topic has come up in my circles lately. Actually I've found myself more than once in discussions on the best way to interview technical people and it seems that many many people are of the opinion...
View ArticleHow to handle Fault Message in BizTalk server
In this article I will explain how to use Fault Message in BizTalk. When a web service is called, the service might encounter exception (System exception or User defined exception). The service then...
View ArticleAccelerated Sales Webcasts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partners
We’ve recently released training and sales tools to help Microsoft Dynamics CRM partners improve their sales results. Changing prospect buying behaviors, competitive sales tactics and increasing SaaS...
View ArticleBuilding a home server rack
Hello,Few months ago, I started a project I wanted to build for years: getting my hands dirty designing and building the necessary equipment to push IT automation and Industrial Engineering cross...
View ArticleGetting Busy at Script Junkie
Back in March of 2012, MSDN Magazine welcomed under its wing the Script Junkie Web development site. Script Junkie had gone all but fallow in the months after editor Rey Bango had moved on to other...
View ArticleWhat's the story of the onestop.mid file in the Media directory?
If you look in your C:\Windows\Media folder, you'll find a MIDI file called onestop. What's the story behind this odd little MIDI file? Aaron Margosis considers this file a security risk because "if...
View ArticleShellExecute/ShellExecuteEx can't be bothered to get all supplementary....
The other day, colleague David noticed:Hi all,Does anybody know off-hand if launching Explorer programmatically (using either ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx) should fail to open a directory containing...
View ArticleScaling Tasks Horizontally Across multiple nodes using the Task Parallel...
Super computers and parallel processing have long been a complex topic to address in Computer Science. Practical applications of these algorithms typically involve massive datasets that can be easily...
View ArticleRoanoke Code Camp Coming March 9th!
From my friends at the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group: Roanoke Code Camp 2013 - Save The Date! Saturday, March 9th - 8:00am to 5:30pm (Welcome time 7:30am) Register now! Visit www.RoanokeCodeCamp.org...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s TJ DiCaprio Talks About Progress on Carbon Pricing
Last week I sat down with my colleague TJ DiCaprio, a senior director of environmental sustainability at Microsoft and the chief architect of our internal carbon fee. Over the last six months, we’ve...
View ArticleKanban for Process Improvement
A Kanban is a great tool for improving your process. The real power of the Kanban is that you can start from where you are. Rather than fit you into a process, you can use a Kanban to mirror or...
View ArticleQuick news: Registration for TechEd North America 2013 now open
TechEd is Microsoft’s premiere event for IT professionals & enterprise developers: http://northamerica.msteched.com/ You can examine the conference’s general agenda and ten tracks here. And you can...
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