29 September 2011 0 Comments

AX Technical Conference Fall Edition session descriptions now Available

The upcoming MS Dynamics AX Technical Conference (November 14-16) in Nice France is your single best opportunity to accelerate your learning on MS Dynamics AX 2012! Learn directly from the AX Product group to unlock the value of our most innovative release to date for your customers and be the first to see What is Next ! The upcoming Conference will offer more than 100 individual learning opportunities, across different Breakout session, Chalk talks as well as Hand on labs. In addition, we’ll provide an unique opportunity to engage directly with our Solutions Architecture team where both customer and partners can share their architecture and implementation blue print and get the expert opinion of the Microsoft Solution Architects. We’ve posted the session description on the conference website to give further insights into the topics that will be presented in the different session.  Register Today ! /Kees  

1 July 2011 0 Comments

How to: Implement a WCF Asynchronous Service Operation with Task<T>

I love Task<T>.  It has to be one of the finest innovations in the framework in the past few years.  Recently I was reviewing some old WCF documentation How to: Implement an Asynchronous Service Operation which was probably written in 2006 and I have to say that we can do a much better job of it with Task<T> so here goes my rewrite. Implement a service operation asynchronously In your service contract, declare an asynchronous method pair according to the .NET asynchronous design guidelines. The Begin method takes a parameter, a callback object, and a state object, and returns a System.IAsyncResult and a matching End method that takes a System.IAsyncResult and returns the return value

8 June 2011 0 Comments

SharePoint Event in Memphis, June 23, RSVP Required

Learn How SharePoint can Increase Worker Productivity and  Get a Sneak Peak on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Ascendum , one of the fastest growing global information technology companies, is now geared up to solve business problems for organizations throughout the Memphis metro area.  Join them for an eventful morning and choose from the Business or Technical sessions carefully crafted to maximize the attendee’s time and address your priorities:   Session #1:     8:30 am – 9:30 am (CDT): · 10 ways to increase business productivity with  SharePoint and Office – Business Track · Sneak Peak System Center Configuration Manager – 2012 – Technical Track Session #2:     9:45 am – 10:45 am (CDT): · Private Cloud: What is it? How do I get there?

3 June 2011 0 Comments

Microsoft and Disney show Tron:Legacy leveraging HTML5

Wow! Another cool web experience, that runs better with IE9. Check this out: Disney TRON: Legacy Digital Book Site . Very cool experience

25 April 2011 0 Comments

Big News from Scenario VPD – New Capabilities for AEC Project Management

Successful construction projects are born from successful project management. Through our affiliation with Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE), we have had the pleasure of learning about some big news for project management in the AEC industry.

24 March 2011 0 Comments

April 20 – Terrace Consulting Webinar on Agile Methodology for Designing and Developing Cloud Applications

Seminar Title   Agile methodology for designing and developing Azure applications – Introducing the Agile Cloud Project     Link for Registration and Details   https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=154717   —————————— Agile methodology for designing and developing Azure applications – Introducing the Agile Cloud Project   The Cloud provides developers with a nearly infinite capacity for utility computing. Microsoft Azure provides a unique solution that is predictable, scales out elastically and is more cost effective.

5 March 2011 0 Comments

IE9: Changes to Jump Lists, some good and some great

I like IE9 site pinning! I really think that if a site takes advantage of this, IE9 users will be that site’s most valuable customers to acquire. Part of the site pinning story is “dynamic jump lists”, which sit on the foundation provided by Windows 7

3 March 2011 0 Comments

Vote Microsoft for DataNews Awards for Excellence

The 2011 Data News Awards for Excellence are an important annual ICT contest and event. Microsoft is nominated for these awards, we hope we can count on your vote in two categories: Software company of the year: · Also in 2010, we offer you the broadest set of software solutions for both the consumer and businesses, small & large. · We bridge both on-premise solutions and public Cloud Power.

12 January 2011 0 Comments

99 technical resources for developers and architects inside ISVs

Admittedly it is not really 99 – but it sounded a better title than 36 :-) (No, I didn’t count them) The following pulls together the best resources to help you discover, explore, learn, adopt and go-live with the latest technologies from Microsoft. It is drawn from recommendations from the UK ISV technical team ( meet the team ) and will evolve and grow through 2011

8 January 2011 0 Comments

WF4 Spike: Activity Versioning, GAC and Loose XAML

A spike is a short project where you investigate how something works and report back to the team with your results. For this spike I want to answer the following questions What happens when a V1 workflow loads a V2 activity? What happens when a V2 workflow cannot find a V2 activity but a V1 activity is available

4 January 2011 0 Comments

Register for the next MSDN Live Meetings in January and February

On January 18 and February 1 the first two MSDN Live Meetings of 2011 will take place, both focusing on the Windows Azure Platform. Every attendee of either Live Meeting will get a FREE Cloud Power T-shirt . – Jan

17 December 2010 0 Comments

NY Technical Community Holiday Party–Tuesday December 21, 2010

For the fourth year in a row, many of the NY Technical communities are coming together to organize a holiday party!  These things always come together at the last minute, but heck… it’s time for some cheer!  If you’re in the city, come on out next Tuesday night at 6:30 and join fellow user group members for some drinks downtown.  You MUST RSVP if you plan to attend.  Details & RSVP info below from the Bootup.io website… We’re back once more with palindromic numbers and holiday cheer as we’re pleased to select 12/21 as the evening for drinks, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, and special giveaways at the professional networking event for New York technology.