Check out the landing page here: http://crm.dynamics.com/microsoft_ISV_readiness/index.html

You can follow the links through and perform a self assessment as an ISV on your readiness for CRM and S+S http://www.saasreadiness.com/wpc08/

Top line blurb from the site:

The ISV SaaS Readiness Self Assessment tool is designed exclusively for ISVs who are planning, building, testing and/or launching a software + services solution on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. It will help you to continuously measure your SaaS business, technical, hosting, and operational readiness.

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One of his posts, measuring testers, caught my eye. One of the things that I like to think about when considering performance is how much better a tester has made the product. A tester can make the product better in a variety of ways. Finding bugs in code before we ship is an obvious way and one that is easily measurable. Another thing that is fairly measurable is the quantity and quality of the regression automation that a tester writes to help us avoid bugs in existing code. Those are good ways to make the product better, but even better is the impact a tester has in the functional spec and design phases of a feature. Helping to build the right feature in the right way the first time has a much bigger impact on the product, but is also much more difficult to measure.

James’ post throws another dimension to this evaluation. James’ advice on evaluating testers is to ‘measure how much better a tester has made the developers on the team‘. What I like about this is that it is more sustainable than any of the things that I mention in the previous paragraph. Making lasting improvements through improved development practices (individual and team wide) on the team is a great thing to consider. How a tester is impacting the product in the short term is also obviously important, and I don’t think a tester should come to work with an attitude of “I’m going to make my developer peer better today whether he wants to or not!” But improved developers and practices is a logical side effect to great testing.

An even better way to improve developers is for them to be a tester! Some of the best developers that I’ve worked with are also some of the best testers that I’ve worked with – whether or not they have formally been in a test role or not. I especially like a developer career path that includes a tour in the test group.

James has gotten off to a fast start on his blog – check it out!

This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here.

Check out the landing page here: http://crm.dynamics.com/microsoft_ISV_readiness/index.html

You can follow the links through and perform a self assessment as an ISV on your readiness for CRM and S+S http://www.saasreadiness.com/wpc08/

Top line blurb from the site:

The ISV SaaS Readiness Self Assessment tool is designed exclusively for ISVs who are planning, building, testing and/or launching a software + services solution on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. It will help you to continuously measure your SaaS business, technical, hosting, and operational readiness.

This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here.

Not the snappiest of titles though if you are debugging Win32 applications, COM servers or just see a random error code in your event log these two mapges may be of help…

HRESULT Values
Win32 Error Codes

I’ll try and come up with something more interesting for the next post…

Jason

One of his posts, measuring testers, caught my eye. One of the things that I like to think about when considering performance is how much better a tester has made the product. A tester can make the product better in a variety of ways. Finding bugs in code before we ship is an obvious way and one that is easily measurable. Another thing that is fairly measurable is the quantity and quality of the regression automation that a tester writes to help us avoid bugs in existing code. Those are good ways to make the product better, but even better is the impact a tester has in the functional spec and design phases of a feature. Helping to build the right feature in the right way the first time has a much bigger impact on the product, but is also much more difficult to measure.

James’ post throws another dimension to this evaluation. James’ advice on evaluating testers is to ‘measure how much better a tester has made the developers on the team‘. What I like about this is that it is more sustainable than any of the things that I mention in the previous paragraph. Making lasting improvements through improved development practices (individual and team wide) on the team is a great thing to consider. How a tester is impacting the product in the short term is also obviously important, and I don’t think a tester should come to work with an attitude of “I’m going to make my developer peer better today whether he wants to or not!” But improved developers and practices is a logical side effect to great testing.

An even better way to improve developers is for them to be a tester! Some of the best developers that I’ve worked with are also some of the best testers that I’ve worked with – whether or not they have formally been in a test role or not. I especially like a developer career path that includes a tour in the test group.

James has gotten off to a fast start on his blog – check it out!

This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here.

Why have site features that don’t work or don’t look as good in Internet Explorer?

Browsers 1 year ago (1% or higher share)

• IE7: 45.6%
• Firefox 2: 25.9%
• IE6: 23.3%
• Opera: 2.5%
• Mozilla: 1.1%

Browsers this week (1% or higher share)

• IE7: 47.1%
• Firefox 3: 25.4%
• IE6: 12.7%
• Firefox 2: 11.2%
• Opera: 1.4%
• Safari: 1.2%

There’s one number that is increasing very quickly and the rest are either flat or declining for the most part. I’ll credit Silverlight for bringing in enough readers on Safari to make the cutoff.

Why all of the emphasis on font sizes, content spacing, and other issues for large displays?

Resolution of largest dimension 1 year ago

• Bigger: 28.8%
• 1280: 46.6%
• 1024: 23.5%
• Smaller: 1.1%

Resolution of largest dimension this week

• Bigger: 40.9%
• 1280: 45.3%
• 1024: 13.1%
• Smaller: 0.7%

I’m evidently atypical in not having moved to increasingly larger displays over the last few years. It turns out that automatic scaling and device independence is still weak enough that you have to do some fine tuning to work over even the most common variations of scale.

Next time: Web Address Filters

This post originated from and is provided by the MSDN Blogs RSS feed. The original post of the article can be found here.

Not the snappiest of titles though if you are debugging Win32 applications, COM servers or just see a random error code in your event log these two mapges may be of help…

HRESULT Values
Win32 Error Codes

I’ll try and come up with something more interesting for the next post…

Jason

L’équipe MSDN vous propose d’approfondir vos connaissances des technologies et des outils de développement pendant la saison estivale.

Les sujets sont :

·         Silverlight

·         Faites-vous plaisir (Coding4Fun)

·         Visual Studio 2008/.Net

·         Visual Studio Team System

Concernant Team System, on a décidé de mettre en avant le coach Team System qui vous permet de parcourir l’ensemble des fonctionnalités de la gamme.

L’installation, les tests de performance, sans oublier les outils de qualité, la configuration des projets d’équipe… 9 chapitres au total pour les versions 2005 et 2008 de Team System en passant en revue les apports de Team System pour un projet logiciel.

Un concours permet de gagner des lots en répondant à quelques questions.

Why have site features that don’t work or don’t look as good in Internet Explorer?

Browsers 1 year ago (1% or higher share)

• IE7: 45.6%
• Firefox 2: 25.9%
• IE6: 23.3%
• Opera: 2.5%
• Mozilla: 1.1%

Browsers this week (1% or higher share)

• IE7: 47.1%
• Firefox 3: 25.4%
• IE6: 12.7%
• Firefox 2: 11.2%
• Opera: 1.4%
• Safari: 1.2%

There’s one number that is increasing very quickly and the rest are either flat or declining for the most part. I’ll credit Silverlight for bringing in enough readers on Safari to make the cutoff.

Why all of the emphasis on font sizes, content spacing, and other issues for large displays?

Resolution of largest dimension 1 year ago

• Bigger: 28.8%
• 1280: 46.6%
• 1024: 23.5%
• Smaller: 1.1%

Resolution of largest dimension this week

• Bigger: 40.9%
• 1280: 45.3%
• 1024: 13.1%
• Smaller: 0.7%

I’m evidently atypical in not having moved to increasingly larger displays over the last few years. It turns out that automatic scaling and device independence is still weak enough that you have to do some fine tuning to work over even the most common variations of scale.

Next time: Web Address Filters

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Un nouveau poster vient de voir le jour avec cette fois l’Adapter Pack 2.0 qui est décortiqué.

Ce poster montre l’intéropérabilité avec les applications Métiers (Line of Business) grace au BizTalk Adapter Pack et le WCF LOB Adapter SDK

Ce poster propose 3 schémas du BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 avec une vue générale de l’Adapter Pack, une vue détaillé du Run Time et du Design Time du WCF LOB Adapter SDK et enfin une vue des différents usages et scénarios du BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0.

Il est disponible en téléchargement PDF ici : Poster BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0

Pour rappel cet Adapter Pack 2.0 vient de sortir en CTP 2 et apporte principalement le support de SQL Server de l’Oracle EBS Adapter et plus encore. Plus de détails ici.

Il complète ainsi la collection de Posters BizTalk :

• 
  
  BizTalk 2006 R2 Capabilities

• 
  
  BizTalk 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture

• 
  
  BizTalk 2006 R2 Scale Out Configuration

• 
  
  BizTalk 2006 R2 Legacy Modernisation with Host Integration Server 2006

• 
  
  BizTalk 2006 R2 Business Activity Monitoring

Esperons qu’il y en ai encore d’autres a suivre car ils illustrent bien le fonctionnement de BizTalk.