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SSAS 2012 Links Free SQL 2012 EBook SQL 2012 Virtual Labs DAX in the BI Tabular Model Whitepaper and Samples SSAS Administration Analysis Services 2008 R2 Operation Guide Automating SSAS Backup SSAS...
View ArticleUpdated SMB Website Launch Announcement
Hi All I am delighted to announce the launch of our new UK ERP SMB website, with a ‘Starting from’ price displayed clearly at the top of the page....
View ArticleMaking your Winforms application Global
Recently one of our customers reported an issue that their Winforms application was not behaving properly. The size or alignments of different controls on the forms were badly affected after porting to...
View ArticleTask vs IObservable: when to use what?
The Task<T> class was integrated with the .NET Framework in .NET 4.0, as part of what is known as the Task Parallel Library. The main purpose of the TPL was to facilitate writing parallel code,...
View ArticleKMS Update to Support Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012
There is an update available that allows your KMS server to activate Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating systems. An update is available for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 KMS hosts to...
View ArticleWindows 8 Notifications: Image Handling
In the last post, I discussed the structure of a notification template and the mechanics for providing the various bit of information in that template. As you know, many of the notification templates...
View ArticleWindows 8 Notifications: Leveraging Azure Storage
When incorporating images into your toast and tile notifications, there are three options for hosting those images: within the application package itself, using an ms-appx:/// URI, within local...
View ArticleWindows 8 Spotlight
In this article series, I'll talk about our new operating system Windows 8. I love photography and this series will bridge photography & technical content together. In every blogpost I'll review...
View ArticleA great way to spend the weekend
If you get excited about technology and learning new things, here is an update on my learning activity this past weekend. Learn XAML and programming XAML using C++ /Cx. With the C++ Renaissance in full...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 SSRS reports - enums not translated into user language
I recently was working on the issue when Enums values in report were not translated into user language. I always got it in EN-US. Please look into following example. I have two columns which are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics Operations Dynamics Hour August 2012 Topics
The Dynamics Hour offers partners a monthly training opportunity where subject matter experts deep dive on one or two Operational topics. The August 2012 calls will be held during the weeks of August 6...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics NAV Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Since the exciting launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Andrew and I have been asked extensively about the support for Microsoft Dynamics NAV on the latest and greatest version of SQL Server. Check out...
View ArticleGetting OCS 2007 Certs through WMI
We recently had an interesting adventure where we needed to do an audit of the certificates used by various OCS servers. In this case, scanning the computer's cert store wasn't sufficient - we needed...
View ArticleWhy is the desktop treated so special in window ordering?
Clipboarder Gadget wants to know why the desktop is treated so special in window ordering. Specifically, when you double-click a folder icon on the desktop, and the immediately close it, why does...
View ArticleFacebook thinks my self-esteem is for sale. WTF?
So, the other day, I shared a picture on Facebook. Nothing I haven't done before, As usual, I was just sharing someone else's picture (I seldom create pictures myself). Just passing the time. Sometimes...
View ArticleWindows 8 Developer Camps
We are launching a series of developer camps focusing on Windows 8 development. These camps will be in Detroit, Columbus, and Austin to begin with. I am sure we will be booking more of them. I will be...
View ArticleUpcoming Events for August 6th, 2012
Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next couple of weeks for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar...
View ArticleThe Wrapped PST and Unicode Paths
A customer just raised this issue with out Wrapped PST provider sample. They were trying to retrofit the sample to use Unicode paths to the NST and found that the CreateStoreEntryID routine was...
View ArticleHow to work around the Program Compatibility Assistant warning in Visual...
If you are creating and using an unattended INI file to deploy VS 2005/VS 2008/VS 2010, and the target system is Windows VISTA and above Operating Systems then the Program Compatibility Assistant may...
View ArticleShimNotSupportedException when using ReSharper unit test runner
I recently did some work using the VS 2012 RC together with R# 7. I needed to use the shim functionality from Fakes but ran into trouble. My unit test failed with a ShimNotSupportedException. After a...
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