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1 of 2641 | 4th Dynamics CRM Accelerator is now available for Download! - Over the weekend the 4th Microsoft Dynamics Accelerator – eService was released for download on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/crmaccelerators/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=19956 It allows users to expose CRM functionality via the Web. Included out of the box are custom webcontrols as well as sample pages that allow you to : Ability to Add/Edit: Your own Contact Information Your Notes Service Cases Ability to Create Users (Allows you to adds contacts against an account) Search & display Knowledge Base Articles Schedule a service activity The documentation for this module is very comprehensive – and I also suggest you download & vie......

2 of 2641 | Attend this weeks Sydney Deep .NET User Group on Thursday 4th Dec on Exposing Windows Workflow to SOA, Details below - Hi Guys.  Just in case you are not already a member, the Sydney Deep .NET UG never disappoints - why not top off a great year and attend this week's gathering.  Details below: SDNUG December Meeting - Thursday 4 Dec 2008   Exposing Windows Workflow to SOA: Real Life Lessons by Paul Sorauer   In this 90 minute presentation, Paul Sorauer from Code Red Solutions will demonstrate the practical steps required to expose Windows Workflow to SOA, and discuss the lessons learn from real-world projects.   Service-Orientated-Architecture is becoming increasing more important when designing 'Enterprise Level' software solutions, and the recent releases of Visual Studio 2......

3 of 2641 | Attend this weeks Sydney Deep .NET User Group on Thursday 4th Dec on Exposing Windows Workflow to SOA, Details below - Hi Guys.  Just in case you are not already a member, the Sydney Deep .NET UG never disappoints - why not top off a great year and attend this week's gathering.  Details below: SDNUG December Meeting - Thursday 4 Dec 2008   Exposing Windows Workflow to SOA: Real Life Lessons by Paul Sorauer   In this 90 minute presentation, Paul Sorauer from Code Red Solutions will demonstrate the practical steps required to expose Windows Workflow to SOA, and discuss the lessons learn from real-world projects.   Service-Orientated-Architecture is becoming increasing more important when designing 'Enterprise Level' software solutions, and the recent releases of Visual Studio 2......

4 of 2641 | Design: Architecture Frame Considerations (Part 1) - At Microsoft we are working hard in putting together the different components that are involved deciding the architecture approach. One of these components is the architecture frame, which together with the architecture style and application type creates the architectural baseline for modern design. This guideline is targeting architects and not developers, therefore the topics and recommendations cover high level decisions. One of the most common situations when we sit down during reviews is that the team starts choosing the technology first without analysing what they really need. They usually end up in a model that fails to deliver value to the business and trigger a set of failures aro......

5 of 2641 | Future of Queuing - Another of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is queuing. WCF has previously supported queuing through the one-way channel shapes with a combination of datagram and session options. The session in a one-way queued session channel is just a way of defining a unit of work for the messages. You can think of the one-way datagram channel as being equivalent to a one-way session channel where each of the sessions contains a single message. The sessions are interesting when multiple or more messages need to be processed at once. However, just having a channel shape for one-way communication does not cover the common cases for buildi......

6 of 2641 | Sharepoint + Silverlight – ?????? ? ?????????? ????????????? - ? MSDN ??????? ????????? ???????????? ?? ??????? ???? ?????? “??????????? SharePoint ? ??????? ???-??????????? Silverlight 2”. ?????????? ????????????? ???? ???? ?????????? ????????? ??? ???????? ?????? ?? ???? ?????: ? ????? ??????? ?? ?????? ?? ????????????? ???? ?????? ??? ???????? ?????????? ? ????? ????????, ?????? ????????????? ??????? ? ?????????? ? ????????? ?????????????? ? ???????????, ???????????, RSS ?????, Web Services API ? ??? ??????? ?????? ???????????, ??????? ??? ?????????? ? Sharepoint – ????? ??????????? ????????? ? ?????? ??????? ?? ?? ?????????? ???-????????????, ? ?????? ????????? ??????????? ???????? ? ?????????? ?????, ????????????? ?????????, ? ? ????????? ......

7 of 2641 | SharePoint and CRM, which tool to use? - When I moved from my previous role into this one, I had to get up to speed on Dynamics CRM having never really looked at it before – and to be honest I had no real desire, it was a CRM tool.  Coming from a classic Microsoft architecture background to say I was pleasantly surprised is a wild understatement.  Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a fantastic product, however the name does it no justice at all. We should be looking to rename it Microsoft Business Application Platform or something along those lines.  It offers you the ability to build dynamic xRM applications; a bunch of entities with various attributes attached to them with relationships between them.  Nice, but not g......

8 of 2641 | The Secrets Of High Performance Consulting From ACE Performance Engineer - Alik here. Being member of a global team I was wondering recently about few questions: How distributed team can improve its own performance and communications? How the team can share technical and professional values when each member is thousand miles away? How our team - ACE team - can offer more value to the online community? I thought that interviewing ACE team members spread all over the globe would be a great idea to start.  Mohd Abubakr ("call me Abu"), ACE Team Performance Engineer, happily agreed to share his insights on performance consulting. Abu shares great tips on how to earn customer’s trust, how to effectively cope with the challenges, how......

9 of 2641 | Today's the Day - NAV 2009 released! - It’s here! Microsoft announced today the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, a comprehensive, innovative business management solution that helps people work faster and smarter, and gives businesses the flexibility to adapt to new opportunities and growth. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 embodies simplicity, ease-of-use and adaptability and helps partners and customers alike realize significant productivity gains, enabling you to work faster and smarter to drive business success. Never before has so much effort been put into a Microsoft Dynamics NAV release – from extensive customer research and a complete architecture redesign, to a concentrated focus on quality. The product ......

10 of 2641 | Creating a distinction between business services and SOA business services - I'm always a bit dismayed when I hear the following terms mixed up, or combined: SOA service and business service.  In my mind, these things are different.  In one sense, they are related, but indirectly. A business service is a function (or capability) of the business that is offered to one or more customers.  Those customers are often  internal, because this scenario is often applied to corporate supporting functions. For example, the accounting business unit may provide "accounts payable" services to every business division of an enterprise.  Those divisions are internal customers.  The business unit is accounting, and the business service is &quo......

11 of 2641 | Customizing High Confidence Search Result for People search in MOSS 2007 - OOTB when searching for a person using "PreferredName", "WorkEmail", "UserName" and "AccountName", along with the core search result (Displayed via Search Core Result webpart) person's information is also displayed using "Search High Confidence Results" webpart (Same webpart used for Best bet) as exact match. By default following properties are included in the high confidence search result: Title Skills Work Email Work Phone Department Office About Me Responsibility Following steps allows administrators to add additional information (e.g. Cell Phone or any custom profile property) to the resultset. Step 1 Fro......

12 of 2641 | Expirations in WS-Eventing - WS-Eventing is one of the building-block specifications that DPWS profiles and makes available for solution authors.  Some applications require the device to send notification messages back to the client; e.g., a printer sends a message to the PC when it has finished printing a document.  WS-Eventing doesn't describe the content in these notifications, but it does describe the messages that the client and device use to set up and manage the subscription for those events.  The way this works is that the client subscribes to events; the device sends zero or more events; and some cleanup happens to tear the subscription down. It's actually a lot more complicated at the pro......

13 of 2641 | Export Providers and Custom factories with MEF - Matt Hawley has a nice set of posts where he explores a method to extend MEF to allow custom activated exports. MEF + FactoriesMEF + Factories Using an Export ProviderMatt's scenario involves exporting a set of WCF proxies. WCF proxies can't simply be instantiated through the constructor, so he needed a way to control the activation. One thing he could have done is manually create the instances and use the AddExportedObject method on the container to add them directly.  This would mean however that the container wasn't doing the work. Another option is using property exports, as they allow you to control the creation logic in the property getter. The down side of this approach......

14 of 2641 | Need to make service project web.config file Debug=True when debugging project with file system based web service.in VS2008 - When debugging a web page which uses a file system based web service, I met an error message in Visual Studio 2008 which troubles me for a while.  Here are the steps and the solution. 1. Create a new C# file system based web site (website1)2. Add a file system based web service web site into the solution, by file->Add->New web site. Name it webservice1.3. In website1, add service reference to webservice14. In website1 default.aspx.cs file, add following to the page_load function        ServiceReference1.ServiceSoapClient client = new ServiceReference1.ServiceSoapClient();        Response.Write(client.HelloWorl......

15 of 2641 | PDC2008 Sessions - ?????Tag?Channel 9 PDC 2008???????PDC??,?????????????????????????????????Channel 9??????,??????????????????PPT????????? KYN01 | Day 1 Morning Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia, David Thompson) KYN02 | Day 2 Morning Keynote (Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, David Treadwell) KYN03 | Day 2 Afternoon Keynote (Chris Anderson, Don Box) KYN04 | Day 3 Morning Keynote (Rick Rashid) BB01 | A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform (John Shewchuk) PowerPoint BB02 | Architecture of the .NET Services (Dennis Pilarinos, John Shewchuk) PowerPoint BB03 | SQL Services : Under the Hood (Gopal Kakivaya, Tony Petrossian) PowerPoint BB04 | Live Services: A Lap around the Live F......

16 of 2641 | ??????MSXML4 SP3 Beta? - MSXML ???????????:????????MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Beta?! MSXML4 SP3 ?????????MSXML4 SP1?MSXML4 SP2?MSXML4 SP3??????: ????????? ????????? MSXML 4 SP3?????????: Windows 2000 SP4 Windows XP SP2 Windows XP SP3 Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Vista RTM Windows Vista SP1 Windows Server 2008 ????????????????,????: ????MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Beta?????????????????? ??Microsoft Connect????????????????????????????Microsoft Connect,????Data Platform Development????????MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft XML Core Services)? ???????????!?????????????,???????Microsoft Connect?????????? DP CRD MSXML??...

17 of 2641 | ?????? TechDays ??????? ? ?????????? ??? Sharepoint - ? ??????? ? ??????? ??????, ??????? ????? ? ??????, ???????, ?????????????, ?????? ????????? ? ??????????. ? ??????? ??????????? PPTX ? ????? ????????????. ???? ???? ??????? ??? ??????????? – ???? ??? ????????. ????????? ??????? ?? ???? Silverlight+Sharepoint, ?????????????? ? Web, WorkFlow ? ?.?....

18 of 2641 | ¿Y que paso en el PDC 2008? - El pasado 27 de Octubre dio inicio la conferencia dedicada a desarrolladores más importante para Microsoft, el Profesional Developer Conference 2008, en la ciudad de Los Angeles, California. Si bien durante el evento se realizaron varios anuncios que develan la nueva tecnología que podremos consumir los próximos meses, tales como Windows 7, Silverligt 2.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, el que me considero de mayor relevancia para la habilitación de soluciones bajo la estrategia de Software + Servicios es lo anunciado como Windows Azure Esta tecnología esta compuesta por varios servicios disponibles en los centros de datos de Microsoft. Si bien todo el detalle lo puedes encontrar en www.micro......

19 of 2641 | ASP.NET AJAX - Esta vez quiero compartir con ustedes este excelente recurso, son 71 videos cortos que te llevan desde cero a crear los componentes de aplicación muy completa, pudes decargas las videos para consultarlos después, además de poder descargar también el código… #1 Get Started with ASP.NET AJAX? #2 Get Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit? #3 Use the ASP.NET AJAX CascadingDropDown Control Extender? #4 Implement Dynamic Partial-Page Updates with ASP.NET AJAX? #5 Make Client-Side Network Callbacks with ASP.NET AJAX? #6 Add ASP.NET AJAX Features to an Existing Web Application? #7 ASP.NET AJAX Enable an Existing Web Service? #8 Use the ASP......

20 of 2641 | Controlling Your Festive Lights with the .NET Micro Framework - Author: Rob Miles: www.robmiles.com Download: http://coding4fun.net/source/festivelights1.0.zip Software: Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition or better, .NET Micro Framework 3.0 Hardware: Digi Connect-ME GHI Electronics Embedded Master Devices Solutions Tahoe II Time Required: 3 hours Cost: 30 dollars for lights plus the .NET Micro Framework device The Micro Framework is one of the newest kids on the .NET block, but it does something really rather wonderful. It brings embedded development within the reach of a......

21 of 2641 | How to retrieve Quantity On Hand amount using Web Services for Dynamics GP 10.0 - This post is due to requests I have come across in the past and very recently in a support incident.  The question raised was how to retrieve quantity amounts like Quantity On Hand for inventory items?  This Visual Studio 2005 (C#) sample shows how to retrieve the Quantity On Hand value for an Inventory Item.  The SalesItem class provides a Quantities property which is a collection of SalesItemWarehouse objects.  The SalesItemWarehouse object contains the different quantity amounts for each Item and Site combination.  These values are stored in the IV00102 table.   Since we need to retrieve a SalesItem and there is no GetSalesItemByKey method, I used a e......

22 of 2641 | Implementer Exchange Server 2007 Training Resources - Implementer Role Training Resources     Course Title Course Type Level Early Preview of Exchange Server 2007 SP1  Web Seminars  100 Forefront Security for Exchange Server 2007  Web Seminars  100 Improving Productivity with the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows Vista  Web Seminars  100 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 01 of 24): Integration of Exchange Server 2007 and Active Directory  Web Seminars  200 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 02 of 24): Transport and Routing Architecture  Web Seminars  200 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 03......

23 of 2641 | Mie sessioni ai TechDays WPC 2008 - Anche quest'anno sarò presente all'edizione TechDays WPC 2008 a Milano con due sessioni : DEV201 : Building Composite Applications with Sharepoint 2007 and Office Il cloud computing è forse la sfida maggiore che dovremo affrontare nei prossimi anni. Come conseguenza di questa sfida nascono le nuove piattaforme applicative capaci di ospitare vere e proprie applicazioni "on the cloud". L'emergere di servizi specializzati permette inoltre a chi disegna e sviluppa applicazioni di concentrandosi esclusivamente sui componenti funzionali delle proprie soluzioni delegando alcune funzionalità a servizi esterni sfruttandoli come se fossero delle "librerie o API on-line......

24 of 2641 | REST vs. SOAP - Recently more and more Microsoft technologies are exposing REST API. WCF 3.5 added REST support, ADO.NET Data Services creates a REST interface over your Entity Framework / Database and many Azure Services are REST based. So the question that naturally arise is: should I use REST or should I use SOAP? Unfortunately is not so easy to answer because REST and SOAP are at the extreme opposites. SOAP is now a quite complex, especially if you count all the WS-* stuff. It is probably even a bit over engendered protocol, creating  a challenge to make it work across stack versions and platforms. The big plus is that there is now a rich tooling available that makes life much easier at develo......

25 of 2641 | SQL Jobs pare el buen funcionamiento de BizTalk Server - Esta semana seguimos con el mantenimiento de base datos de BizTalk. En en post anterior hemos cubiero la configuracion que debe tener nuestro servidor de SQL y ahora trataremos por encima los SQL Jobs creados por el producto. Una vez instalado el producto encontrareis que se han creado números jobs.  BizTalk necesita que estos jobs se ejecuten y se ejecuten bien ya que todos ellos se encargan de mantener limpias las base de datos de BizTalk.  De todos los jobs creados veremos  que el job MessageBox_Message_ManageRefCountLog_BizTalkMsgBoxDb se lanza una vez y no termina nunca. No os alarméis, es normal. Este Job llama al procedimiento almacenado “bts_ManageMessage......

26 of 2641 | WCSF Application Architecture 6: Structuring Modules - This article is 6th part of the WCSF Application Architecture series by Simon Ince; ·         WCSF Application Architecture 1: Introduction ·         WCSF Application Architecture 2: Application Controller ·         WCSF Application Architecture 3: Model View Presenter ·         WCSF Application Architecture 4: Environment Abstraction ·         WCSF Application Architecture 5: Defining Modules Introduction This post is intended to address some common scenarios when using the Web Cli......

27 of 2641 | ????????? ????????? ??????????? ?? ???????????, ?????????? ? Visual Studio 2010 CTP - ??????? HTML ????????? ? ?????????? ???????????? ? ??????????? ????? ???????????? Visual Studio 2010 CTP ??, ??? ??? ?????? ? ???????? 7 ???????????? ????? ??????????? ?????? Visual Studio 2010 CTP, ?????? ?????, ?????? ??? ???????????, ??, ?????, ?????? ????? ??????? ??????? ? ???? ?????????????, ? ????? ???, ?????????, ???-?? ???????? ??? ???? ??????????, ?????????? 7 ????????. ??????? ???????? ????? ?????? ??????????. ????? ??????????? ?? ???????????? Visual Studio – zip 10 MB ????? ??????????? ?? ???????????? ASP.NET – zip 500 KB ????? ??????????? ?? ???????????? Visual Studio Team System – zip 3,61 MB           ??????? ????? ?? ?????????? ??......

28 of 2641 | ???????Windows Workflow Foundation? -     ??10??????????MVP??????????.NET Framework 4.0??Workflow??????????????????????????Windows Workflow Foundation??????,???MVP???:“????????,??????????????????????????”     ???,??????????????????2006?????.NET 3.0??,???????,??????WPF?????????,WCF???????????,???Workflow????????????????????????????,????????Workflow?????????????????????????,??????????????????,???????????????,???????????Workflow???????????,???????????????????????????????????????????????????     ????????,?????????Workflow?     ??????????????(Workflow Foundation)?3?????: Activity(??),Runtime(???)?Tooling(????)?????????,?????A.R.T——??? Activity???????????,????Activity?????......

29 of 2641 | An Identity Provider and its STS: preliminary considerations - [Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] Few weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting, together with Planky, a TechEd EMEA interactive session on the subject of equipping your Identity Provider with an STS. The session was pretty popular, I got a lot of people telling me that they searched for that exact content without finding it anywhere else, and the topic of custom STSes keeps coming out: hence I decided to capture some of the key points in a couple of posts before the Thanksgiving laziness takes over. The first one, that you are read......

30 of 2641 | Bulk insert using UNICODE data files -   Did you ever tried to use bulk insert with unicode instead of ansi data files using a format file as described below: BULK INSERT MyTestTable FROM 'c:\data2.txt' WITH ( FORMATFILE = 'c:\format.fmt',DATAFILETYPE = 'widechar' ) go data2.txt (UNICODE format) "test1",test2,Praha 5 - Reporyjezøíujc "test1",test2,Praha 5 – Reporyjezøíujc format.fmt (ANSI format otherwise SQL Server asks for XML format file type) 9.0 3 1       SQLNCHAR            0       80      ","  &#......

31 of 2641 | How all bills should be paid - Wouldn’t it be cool if i could just grant permission for www.earthclassmail.com to scan and write my mail into my mesh, bonus points if they could also structure it in some type of XML. That way, any program could write an adapter to my mesh: add a reminder to my calendar; import it to my MS Money upload it to www.Mint.com or www.wesabe.com share it with my accountant for now i have to resort to scanning and dropping in outlook. Danny Thorpe wrote about this a while ago… time for someone to step up and do it! If anyone knows the equivalent of Earth Class Mail in Australia I’m all ears....

32 of 2641 | How to Purchase the IMM solution - As an overview, the Interactive Media Manager (IMM) solution is a collection of managed Intellectual Property (IP) that extends Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and other Microsoft platform capabilities that enables the development and deployment of a collaborative asset management system. The solution addresses a variety of rich media management scenarios built on top of MOSS’07: Digital Asset Management Media Asset Management Enterprise Marketing Management Corporate Communications eLearning eLibrary Media Distribution The solution builds on existing technology investments, and helps create an end-to-end content ingest, production, and delivery system.  ......

33 of 2641 | How to send deferred delivery email using Exchange Web Services ? - We can send deferred delivery mail using Exchange Web Services by setting PR_DEFERRED_SEND_TIME and PR_DEFERRED_DELIVERY_TIME MAPI properties as extended properties on the EWS request. Here is the sample code in C#: NOTE: Following programming examples is for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This sample code assumes that you are familiar with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to create and debug procedures. 1: using System; 2: using System.Collections.Generic; 3: using System.Linq; 4: using System.Text; ......

34 of 2641 | Latest videos posted to Chopsticks: “Oslo”, “M”, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, IE8 and all Luxembourg TechDays08 content - Quite a few new screencasts and interviews have been added to Chopsticks these last few weeks. Time for an overview of what is new. Content by Microsoft folks Last month Thomas Delrue, a Belgian software development engineer at Microsoft Corp visited Belgium and my colleague Philippe Destoop sit down with Thomas for two interviews about the newly announced “Oslo” platform. Thomas Delrue talks about "Olso" and the "M" modeling language Thomas Delrue, software development engineer at Microsoft Corp, discusses Microsoft's recently announced platform for model driven applications, code named "Oslo" in an interview by Philippe Destoop, Architect Evangelist a......

35 of 2641 | Novidades do CRM 5.0 - Antes que alguém me acuse por relevar segredos da Microsoft, este conteúdo foi desenvolvido com informações que já estão públicas na internet! Gostaria de agradecer ao meu colega Simon Hutson, responsável pelo contéudo em inglês. Para aqueles que não puderam participar do Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference (PDC) em Los Angeles  algumas semanas atrás, é possível assistir às sessões através do site do evento:  www.microsoftpdc.com. O evento teve algumas sessões da próxima versão do Microsoft Dynamics CRM ("v.Next"), as quais ainda não tiveram um conteúdo muito profundo mas com demonstrações do build atual do CRM5 , e também informações detalhadas sobre as novas funciona......

36 of 2641 | SharePoint: Blog, Emails, Workflow… - ...ou um formulário do Outlook customizado? Contexto: Você trabalha em uma unidade onde, para padronizar o meio de comunicação, foi criado um modelo de email, divido em áreas onde os autores desses emails deverão obedecer a esse modelo para enviar comunicados para sua área. Você tem instalado em sua base um Windows SharePoint Server 3.0, um servidor de Exchange e um Active Directory, obviamente, distribuído.  //A solução: Que esse autor pudesse enviar um email para um “lugar”, onde esse email ficasse armazenado para futuras consultas e que, a partir desse “lugar”, usuários da sua área pudessem receber esse email. Pois bem, a primeira solução que me veio em mente foi criar um......

37 of 2641 | Technical Books… Do you read them? - A few weeks ago David Lean asked me if I read technical  books. Without a seconds consideration I said – “No way – I look online for everything I need, when I need it!”, to which he quickly replied – “I guess you wont be wanting this then!” and went to put the Programming Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 book back in his bag… “Wait!” I said – “I’ve heard about that book! Let me look at it!” ** Now true to my word of not reading technical books, I got home, popped it in my bookshelf (which funnily enough in itself contradicts my initial reply and if nothing else shows that I do have a great number of technical books!) and didn't look at it again… Until last night. I was waiting for some VP......

38 of 2641 | TFS Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 shipped - The VSTS Rangers have shipped the TFS 2008 Management Pack for SCOM2007. It is also published in the official System Center Operations Manager 2007 Catalog on TechNet (choose “System Center Operations Manager 2007” from the dropdown list and enter “TFS” as keyword). It takes out a new record for the longest name of a Microsoft download: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Management 2007 – English The VSTS Rangers are a community of Microsoft field staff that are experts in VSTS. Their mission is to create re-usable solutions to aid adoption problems and influence future versions of VSTS based on lessons learned. In the past,......

39 of 2641 | UK MSDN Flash, 26th November 2008: Azure Services Platform - Hello all – this is just a test post. I’m interested in creating an RSS feed for the UK MSDN Flash. Editor's Intro Hello all, Last time we did a special Flash focused exclusively on the technologies of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Normal service has now been resumed with a healthy variety of Fresh Discoveries, everything from using FxCop with Biztalk to Test-driven Development (TDD) for Sharepoint. The Technical Article this week is an overview of the components of the Windows Azure Services Platform. There are a lot of components but the good news is you can choose to use as little or as much as you want. To make life a little easier, we will be drilling into each of......

40 of 2641 | Understanding Service Credits under 99.9% Service Level Agreements (SLA) - The new Microsoft Online services represent an excellent option for businesses to base all or part of their Exchange, Sharepoint and MeetingPlace functionality within a Microsoft hosted data center. But what about Service Level agreements for these services. What happens, for instance, if the service goes down for 2 hours in the middle of the day? The following documents: Microsoft Exchange Online Service Level Agreement Microsoft Sharepoint Online Service Level Agreement Microsoft Office LiveMeeting Service Level Agreement are all quite similar and outline the Service Levels guaranteed by Microsoft for availablity, but with some important conditions and exclusions which ......

41 of 2641 | Windows CardSpace ?? Part.1 - ??????????????……???????????????????? Windows CardSpace (WCS)???????????????? Windows CardSpace ??????.NET Framework 3.0 ????????????????? WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) WCS (Windows CardSpace) ??.NET Framework 3.0 ?????????????????…??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Windows CardSpace ????????? ???????????????? ?????????????? 1. Windows CardSpace ?????????......

42 of 2641 | .NET Application Architecture Guide - Application Types, Architectural Styles and Architecture Frames - First post on the blog by Mehran, in this post he gives us a guide to .NET Application Architecture. If you have been using the .NET Framework since its first version, you may remember the Application Architecture for .NET guide, which was published back in 2002. Most of the subjects covered in this guide are still relevant but since then, .NET Framework has come a long way and there are loads of new features available in the framework such as automatic transaction management, WCF, WFP, WF, ADO.NET Entity Framework, etc, etc. So the patterns and practices team thought this is a good time to revisit this guide and rewrite it to bring it up-to-date. We have been working on this guide for th......

43 of 2641 | [18 décembre] BPM avec Aris et BizTalk Server - Accenture/Avanade, Aris et Microsoft ont le plaisir de vous convier à un petit déjeuner le 18 Décembre 2008 de 9h à 11h au Centre de Conférence Microsoft pour découvrir comment BizTalk Server permet d’exécuter et monitorer des processus métier modélisés avec Aris. La session sera animée par Accenture qui dispose d’une practice sur la solution ARIS. IDS Scheer, éditeur spécialisé (ISV) sur la modélisation métier, dispose de tout un panel d’outils spécialisés destinés aux fonctionnels pour cartographier les processus métiers et applications du système d’information. Mais également de templates métiers (ex : SCOR dans le manufacturing, ou Risk Management/compliance pour la finance). La solu......

44 of 2641 | Building A Visual Search Service For IE8 With WCF - Part III - It's definitely about time to publish the promised third part of this series. This time I will cover the class model which I used to let the .Net XmlSerializer generate the necessary XML structure. I want to utilize almost the full breadth of the capabilities the Visual Search component is offering with respect of information display. So in this case the features are: Categories or sections Descriptions/Abstracts Urls Images So the XML structure needs to look like the following: <SearchSuggestion version="2.0" xmlns="http://opensearch.org/searchsuggest2">     <Query></Query>     <......

45 of 2641 | Données à récolter pour un travail de surveillance ou d'investigation sur un serveur Web - Afin de commencer un travail d’investigation sur le fonctionnement d’une application Web (erreurs, crashes, performance, fuites mémoire), voici les données à récupérer d’un serveur Web : - Logs IIS - Logs HTTPERR - Journaux d’événements - Logs perfmon si possible - Dumps si necessaire   Voici plus de précisions : Logs IIS Les logs IIS sont les fichiers contenus dans « C:\windows\system32\logfiles\W3SVCxxxx ». xxxx représente le numéro du site Web. Vous avez ensuite un ou plusieurs fichiers portant la date du jour Référence pour les codes IIS : Description of Microsoft Intern......

46 of 2641 | Existing Post Summary - Going forward this blog will announce individual content offerings but before I begin I want to take a minute to summarize all the content I have already created on my main blog, here it is: Announcements Announcing the new Live Search API, version 2.0 beta! Microsoft Virtual Earth Web Service SDK 1.0 My Presentations Live Framework – Presentation Slides Slides from my Live Framework talks Speaking This Saturday - Fairfield / Westchester Code Camp! Live Mesh Sessions @ PDC & My Session in NJ This post contains a good link-list of all PDC sessions on Live Mesh Session Exception, Oh No! Azure CTP – SQL Server Instance error As always for ......

47 of 2641 | Looking at the “Oslo” Modeling Platform - The last 3 years I was working a lot on evolving the Software Factories Paradigm and applying it to industry problems. Part of this effort I spent researching Domain Specific Modeling Languages with the Microsoft DSL Toolkit which is part of the Visual Studio SDK. Therefore I was also very curious to see what the “Oslo” project is all about so I downloaded the CTP from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/oslo. What is “Osl