10 May 2010 0 Comments

Dynamics AX & SSRS Learning Roadmap: Part 2 – Learning about the Report design surface

In the previous step we created a sandbox and a simple report. The design for the report was stored in the Customers.rdlc file. In this step we will play with Customers.rdlc to learn about the basic features available in the report design surface in visual studio

10 April 2010 0 Comments

Basic Auth may take precedence over Win Auth on IE 6 for a website hosted on IIS 7

Issue: ===== For a website hosted on IIS 7, and having Basic and Windows Authentication both enabled we got the prompt for Basic Auth while browsing the site from IE 6. In other words IE 6 was not giving any precedence to Windows Auth over Basic Auth.  Resolution: ======== We took some fiddler traces and  noticed that the Basic auth was returned as the first in the list of authentication headers sent by the IIS 7 server like below

9 April 2010 0 Comments

Queue names for WAS hosted WCF service

On WCF forums, I have noticed a common issue that developers face when hosting their WCF service in WAS. The issue is that the service does not get activated. Often, the reason is that the queue name does not match the service endpoint name.

27 March 2010 0 Comments

Strategies for dealing with Orientation Changes

Several people have asked me what the best strategy is for dealing with portrait and landscape layouts in the same page, and really the answer depends on what kind of content you have, how you want it to behave when it’s laid out, etc. So today’s post brings you not one, not two, but three different ways of dealing with orientation changes in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight applications (XNA applications typically won’t deal with orientation changes, being hard-coded to either portrait or landscape)

27 March 2010 0 Comments

Creative disruption 2010-2020: Contextual IT

The 12th Annual Emerging Technologies Update Day @ Wharton was very helpful on helping us not forget how IT is evolving longer term: Microprocessor . Workloads that required 200 servers 5 years ago can now be executed with only on 13 servers.