Dreaming up strange inventions: The combination urinal/bidet/washing machine
I dreamed that a friend of mine was showing me her new appliance: A combination urinal/bidet/washing machine. As we loaded clothes into it, she said, "You okay in there, Stephanie?" A muffled voice...
View ArticleDeveloping for a jailbroken Surface RT -- dare I disturb the universe?
T.S Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock once asked "Dare I disturb the universe?"I may have started thinking along those same lines.Perhaps I should explain why I'm asking Do I dare? Do I dare? for those...
View ArticleWindows Azure ist „Leader in Cloud Storage“
In einer Untersuchung der Nasuni Corporation wurden verschiedene Anbieter von Cloud Storage wie Microsoft, Amazon, HP, Rackspace, Google verglichen. Das Ergebnis: Windows Azure konnte in nahezu allen...
View ArticlePreviewing the March Issue of MSDN Magazine
It’s been busy around here ever since we published the Windows 8 Special Edition of MSDN Magazine back in October. We’ve invited two new columns into the fold—Modern Apps and Windows Azure Insider—and...
View ArticleUpdate Rollup 12 and Polaris Favorites
By now there is a lot of good information available for CRM 2011 UR12 and the December 2012 Service Update. Here are links to some of my favorites:10 things I love about Dynamics CRM December 2012...
View ArticleThe Art of the Agile Retrospective
I’ve been asked to do a lot of Agile retrospectives around Microsoft over the years. I don’t know how it started, but it started several years ago when somebody recommended that I lead a retrospective...
View ArticleHave a question about developing on the Microsoft platform?
Have a question about developing on the Microsoft platform?Need help with your Windows 8 application? Looking for your Technical Evangelist? Look no further!We have a crew of Technical Evangelists with...
View ArticleIcons for an app bar in a Windows 8 application
As you may have noticed before, you can tweak the application bar of your Windows 8 application and put your “specially designed” icons inside that section of the layout. Fine. You may also have...
View ArticleRedmond SLG Developer Day 3/6/2013
Be our guest and attend in person to experience all of the incredible new features of Visual Studio 2012 first hand. Experience powerful possibilities.Discover how Visual Studio 2012 allows you to...
View ArticlePower and Simplicity of Time Intelligence in DAX
Almost all data analysis have to deal with dates/time. DAX offers a number of functions that simulate many calculations on dates, but using right function in the right way requires some...
View ArticleApp Ideas for Local Impact
Some developers tell me I want to write an app but I cant think of anything to build. Well Hacker Helper is a wiki resource with some very good ideas for app that can have a local impact in your town,...
View ArticleLes icônes pour les App bars de Windows 8
Comme vous l’avez peut-être remarqué, vous pouvez personnaliser la barre d’application de votre appli Windows 8 et y insérer vos propres icônes spécialement designées. Super. Vous avez sans doute...
View ArticleEngadget Readers Choice Awards Microsoft Kinect Peripheral of the Year
Last week Engadget announced their Readers Choice awards, no less than three Microsoft products were featured including the Kinect as peripheral of the year.Engadget just announced their 2012 readers...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer
L’outil System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyser est un complément à Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyser 2.1 pour le diagnostic des composants serveurs de l’un des composants suivants de la...
View ArticleOneNote test is hiring (again)
I've been helping with our hiring efforts recently and realized that we have two test positions posted out of the Microsoft careers website for openings on the test...
View ArticleMVP Monday - eDiscovery in SharePoint 2013
Editor’s note: The following post was written by SharePoint MVP Paul OlenickOverview of the new eDiscovery features available in SharePoint 2013As you have no doubt heard, or seen for yourself by now,...
View ArticleApp Config Data and Windows Store Apps
In traditional .NET applications developers rely on App.config and Web.config ( client and server respectively ) to store configuration data that the app depends on during runtime. Developers specify...
View ArticleTFS 2012 - Installing Remote SharePoint Extensions on a standalone SP server...
Issue One of my friends had an issue with installing the Remote extensions for SharePoint which comes with the TFS 2012 media on a SharePoint 2013 (note only 2013 is supported on Windows 2012) that...
View ArticleRebate Agreements in AX 2012
Rebates are payments or credits that are payable to customersbased on pre-established agreements to purchase certain items in specific quantities or amounts.There can be distinguished between three...
View ArticleTest Driven Development using NUnit natively in Visual Studio 2012
One of the most criticized features of Visual Studio ever since it came out has been the ability, or lack and inadequacy thereof, of the IDE to integrate third-party unit testing libraries into...
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