Anith Gopal

Companies buying software want partners they can trust, especially in today’s economic climate. Microsoft partners that follow a structured methodology to sell, deliver, and optimize Microsoft Dynamics solutions can reduce their own cost and risk, focus on core competencies, and ultimately increase profits and customer satisfaction. http://nucleusresearch.com/research/notes-and-reports/guidebook-maximizing-success-delivering-microsoft-dynamics/ Phil Newman

In response to my description of how you can use the #error directive to check whether the compiler even sees you , some commenters proposed alternatives. I never claimed that my technique was the only one, just that it was another option available to you. Here are some other options

Some of you might be adventurous and be going to update you machine to the Windows 7 RC. I you have the chance it is an amazing update. Just recently Microsoft announced the availability of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.

That’s a Flip MinoHD and a red Gorillapod in case you don’t recognise them. I made a little test video of me making coffee

For the past few days, I’ve been delving really deep into Geneva , though it can be really frustrating at times because it takes awhile to learn the definitions.

The RSA Conference is one of largest information security and identity conferences in existence. It’s happening next week, April 20th-24th, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.   RSA® Conference 2009 offers enterprise and technical professionals one-stop learning

Start to schematically represent any component system and you’re likely to come up with a diagram like: So what do the dependency and the service actually mean ? In most implementations, each is associated with a key: Here the Screen Renderer component needs the Typesetter service, which the Fast Typesetter component can provide. Dependency resolution is a done by matching keys – resolving the Screen Renderer’s dependency boils down to doing a dictionary lookup with Typesetter as the key, to find the Fast Typesetter implementation

CCF 2009 SP1 was released on 31th of March.

In my previous posts I have discussed various bits that are important know before taking on Work Item types customization. Today I’d like to talk more about approaching the whole process.

Today we released an updated version of the Azure Services Training Kit.   The first Azure Services Training Kit was released during the week of PDC and it contained all of the PDC hands-on labs.   Since then the team has been creating new content covering new features in the platform. The Azure Services Training Kit April update now includes the following content covering Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services: 11 hands-on labs – including new hands-on labs for PHP and Native Code on Windows Azure

There’s an upcoming breakfast event in Toronto called Migration of Small Business Server 2008 and Sales Opportunities for SMB-focused partners. You can have breakfast with us and listen to guest speaker Philip Elder – SBS MVP, owner of MPECS Inc., and fellow SBSC from Alberta. Philip will walk you through an SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 migration technical overview and sales upgrade opportunities from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008.

This next section is about how to configure the debugger to stop on first chance exceptions. For example, you may wish to automatically enter break mode when a specific exception occurs, such as “OverflowException.” Runtime casting error   Notice the ridiculous casting error below.