Devices , Devices , Devices , Devices Are you building Public Sector apps for Windows Phone? WE HAVE A DEVICE FOR THAT! Your application MUST BE a Public Sector Windows Phone App ( what is a Public Sector App? ), ( Sample Apps ) WE HAVE...

Brandon Satrom has written a number of MSDN articles on HTML5.  I found them very useful and would like to share them with you. (Click on the image below to check out test drive apps optimized for IE9 and IE10.) To test the sample apps Brandon provided...

A Public Sector WP app is defined by: Target Audience: Addresses Federal Government (Civilian, Military), State and Local Government, Education, Health and Life Sciences industries. Data Context: Links to open government data source(s) and/or cloud service...

Register here for the Load and Performance Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Webinar! Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 2:00PM EST. Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour webcast during which we'll demonstrate the load and performance...

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Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker , a Microsoft BizSpark One company, discusses with Zhiming Xue the enabling technologies behind their geosocial music service Soundtracker. The free global geosocial internet radio service, which currently...

Another scenario from a customer: We want to use a lookup to another entity because we want to store additional data in the  entities fields and option sets don’t provide this capability.  However, we want the selection of the entity in the...

  Register here for the Manual and Automated Software Testing with Microsoft Test Manager Webinar ! Monday, March 12, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour webcast during which we'll demonstrate the manual and...

I’ve spoken to some folks recently who built solutions using CRM 4.0 and were fond of the ability to put custom ASP.NET (aspx) pages in the ISV folder.  As of CRM 2011, this is a deprecated feature. This has caused a bit of heartache and frustration...

Selecting the right category for your apps is your first step towards success. We have made it very simple by providing the only explicit Government category in ANY mobile marketplace/store. When you are ready to publish your Public Sector apps here are...

I was asked how to implement the following scenario in a CRM 2011 form (paraphrased): Show an alert notification indicator in the header When the user to click the notification indicator, show a dialog with the details of the alert Here’s how I did it...

In this Visual Studio magazine article , my colleague Max Zilberman shares top 10 tips for developers to build Windows Phone apps in a right way. Embrace Metro Leave Some Space Respect Margins Get Controls out of the Way Make Navigation Predictable Learn...

Event Details: Drive your organization forward by learning about how to leverage the Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. March 13th; 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM Free Event Registration Link and More Information...

I recently had a customer request to display the pictures/images attached to a CRM form in an image carousel.  This is one of those things where I’ve seen people write a bunch of Silverlight code to accomplish.  In my opinion, using Silverlight...

  Register here for the Reporting and Dashboard Options in Team Foundation Server 2010 Webinar ! Monday, February 20, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour webcast during which we'll demonstrate the reporting...

I’m a big fan of referencing JavaScript files from a Content Delivery Network (CDN) when it makes sense.  Why? …read more…

Register here for the Manual and Automated Software Testing with Microsoft Test Manger Webinar ! Monday February 6, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour webcast during which we'll demonstrate the manual and...

Register for Developing Applications Using Data from Microsoft Windows Azure Marketplace here ! Abstract The Windows Azure Marketplace is an online market buying and selling finished Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and premium datasets. There...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a simplified self-service development tool that enables you to build business applications quickly and easily for the desktop and web. How do you deploy a web-based LightSwitch application to Windows Azure? Read...

  Register here for the Implementing Test Lab Virtualization with Microsoft Lab Management Webinar ! Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour demo during which we'll demonstrate the test...

  Register here for the Practicing Effective Test Management with Microsoft Test Manager and Team Foundation Server 2010 Webinar Monday March 5, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft Test Manager and Team Foundation Server 2010 With the introduction of Microsoft...

  Register here for the SCRUM and Microsoft ALM: Using Team Foundation Server 2010 and the Microsoft SCRUM Process Template Webinar ! Monday, February 27 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour webcast during which...

Register  for Developing Applications Using Data from Microsoft Windows Azure Marketplace here ! Abstract The Windows Azure Marketplace is an online market buying and selling finished Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and premium datasets...

  Register here for the Managing Requirements and Tracking Defects with Team Foundation Server 2010 Webinar ! Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Microsoft and ALP International invite you to a one hour webcast during which we'll demonstrate the...

  Register here for the Improving Developer and Tester Collaboration using Visual Studio 2010 Webinar ! Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 2:00PM EST Visual Studio 2010 introduces a powerful new set of tools and capabilities that enable testers and...