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On July 1, 2010 -  i had put forth a blog titled - Defining the Application Portfolio using the "EXIST" framework  which looked at a 'holistic' approach to choosing the 'right' applications for the enterprise. There were several comments and offline discussions which led me to post a follow up blog on the topic. Before going into this blog in detail you may want to check the original blog on this subject. And needless to say, i would look forward to your thoughts and opinions as this subject in itself is a lot debated one and there are no 'correct' answers as yet.

Continue reading "As you sow, so shall you reap: Effective Application Portfolio with 'Cloud Inclusivity'" »

Posted by Sachin Bery at 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Recently while trying to integrate an existing Silverlight component into my ASP.NET based application, I got error 2103 "Message: Invalid or malformed application: Check manifest". Online search resulted in almost similar answers everywhere that talked about a change in project namespace and not correctly reseting the startup object.

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Posted by Atul Gupta at 5:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Recently in one of our projects we had a requirement, where column TemplateName within an entity named Template should have unique values. Users were supposed to enter the value for TemplateName while creating a new template. Later on, saved templates were being used by all the users in the system. Obviously, duplicate template names would confuse users while selecting the specific template.  At a glance this seems to be a very simple and standard requirement.

Continue reading "Unique Column values in Azure Table Entity" »

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In the Web 2.0 world, companies are developing rich sites / portals to promote their services and products that intend to provide better customer experience. The objective is to increase the stickiness, provide self service capabilities, market the products to the customers and increase the revenue. Discoverability is the first step in the process to meet the above objective. Any large Brand site or e-commerce site needs to make sure that customers are able to find their sites first before the products and services can be targeted.

Continue reading "Search Engine Optimization - Why is it important and some of the ways to improve it" »

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While working on the Sizing Approach, we have found that there are various factors which come in play to define  a "true" fitment of the package application to the client needs. Some of these factors are described in my previous blog around "Percentage Fitment Anomaly - Gosh! Did I just over-sell/under-sell the product to my client?". There is a detailed blog by my colleague Amol Gupta around the Challenges in Sizing Package Application Based Implementations which brings forth the concept and its related dimensions. This blog is an attempt to try and explain this furthur to stress on the need of having a multi-dimensional view of the fitment before selecting a package of choice.

Continue reading "Connecting the Dots: Sizing & Percentage Fitment for Package Applications - A Perspective" »

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Can package application based implementations be sized just like the way an ADM work can be? Is it feasible to use FP estimation methodology  for package implementations? These are some of the question I have been trying to get an answer for in a quest to identify a mechanism to effectively size package applications in general and MS Dynamics apps in particular.

Over the past few weeks, I have come across multiple mechanisms. On one hand, there are the standardized methodologies based on FP which do not directly fit in this space given that we are talking of a large base of functionalities/features already available in the package even before we start thinking about the client requirements. On the other hand, there are SME developed mechanisms/tools, of which most seem to be derived with effort spent as the key basis of sizing.

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What do companies in diverse industries such as manufacturing, real estate, recruitment and asset management have in common?

All of them have Line of Business (LoB) applications to help them achieve strategic competitive advantage. However, several of these disparate legacy applications have evolved over the years and they do not leverage latest technological advancements, while being increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain.

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If you are keen to know how your enterprise can address some of the burning issues/challenges in bespoke Enterprise application development landscape by leveraging recently released Microsoft .NET 4 and VS2010 technologies. You may want to take a look at our just released view point on .NET 4 and VS2010.

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If you check online forums, one of the issues that has caused possibly most grievances is the styling of the WPF button control. You set some property values for things like foreground color and background color and when you run the application things don't always work out. Either the button will show some default animation when having focus or will not use the specified background when is in disabled state.

Recently a colleague was styling a Button control and had a need for custom disabled look and we landed in the same problem. We had set a background color, but when disabled the button will default to the light gray color. Trying various options didn't work out. Interestingly the properties like Foreground or Opacity worked fine. The designer in us said that we can always create a custom style, but the developer in us wanted to know why this doesn't work.

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Business Insights Webcast: SharePoint 2010 Adoption Made Quicker and Easier with Infosys Solutions (Level 100)

Please join the Webinar planned on 22nd July 2010,10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Attendee Registration URL:

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032455833&Culture=en-US

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