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Dynamics consultants
by David Connors 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Hi All, Does anyone know any Dynamics (CRM and Sales and Marketing addons / modules specifically) consultants or contractors who they rate highly? We're looking at moving off our existing ERP at Codify and onto the Microsoft stack. Need someone to help us set things up best practice. We are highly geo/timezone flexible. David Connors david(a)connors.com // +61 417 189 363

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[OT] Windows Server install problems
by Greg Keogh 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

Folks, it's been a non-TGIF day. My old server under the desk running Server 2019 (or 2016 I forget) died this morning and I'm trying to create a replacement I have a brand new *one of these* <https://www.ple.com.au/Products/665032/ple-midnight-gtx-1650-prebuilt-ready…>, so I installed Server 2019 and it all went smoothly until it booted and all chipset devices are dead, including the network adapter and the screen is stuck at SGA. The only drivers I can find are for Windows 7 to 11 and nothing else. I tried installing 2016 as an experiment but it produces the same results. Am I wasting my time? Is that box incapable of running recent Windows Server editions? *Thanks, Greg*

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AI
by Tom Gao 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

Hi guys, I haven't posted in a few years and haven't been on the tools for a long time now as well. I'm on a panel on a digital conference coming up in march. We had a pre meeting today and the topic of AI came up. Two of the panelist said cited CBA and Westpac using AI and were able to save 30% on development effort. Personally I just finished an AI course my view is quite the opposite. My personal opinion of the generative AI space and AI in general having spent time with the academics is that the benefits are significantly over inflated. I want to get some other opinions if you are seeing any significant benefit and that I may be just out of touch or not aware. Thanks, Tom

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CPU profiling an MS unit test
by Greg Keogh 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

It's not Friday, but I can't find any way of running the CPU performance profiler over a [TestMethod] in my unit test project. Web searches produce no useful results, some hint that I can right-click a test in the test explorer and pick Profile..., but I have no such menu. Is this possible or not? If so, what's the trick? P.S. I often use the profiler for commands or GUI apps, but in that case you set breakpoint #1 and start the profiler, then at breakpoint #2 you stop it and collect the results. That doesn't work for a unit test method (so far...). *Greg*

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[OT] MSDN news September/October 2001
by Greg Keogh 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

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Private Apple App distribution
by Greg Keogh 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Folks, We're planning a MAUI app to be installed on company Android and Apple phones. For Android I can just generate the APK file and side-load it (after the security settings are relaxed). I don't know how to do the same for iPhones. We don't want the app in the store. Assuming there is a convention for "side-loading" Apple apps, what's the technique? Is anyone doing this? A few years ago we published a Xamarin app, but it was for the public and was published in both stores. This time the app's private to the company. Thanks, *Greg Keogh*

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Web app large uploads and downloads
by Greg Keogh 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Folks (anyone working?) I've been asked to add a feature to a Blazor Webassembly app to allow uploads and downloads of possibly large numbers of files between the local file system and Blob storage. I'm not sure how to implement this feature in a browser hosted app. I wrote a WPF tool for "managers" which does high-performance bulk uploads and downloads with nice progress (the code is trivial on the desktop), but now they want the same feature for "normal" users in the Blazor app. Given how dumb and restricted browser hosted apps are, I don't know how to code this, or if it's even feasible. Are there some tools, techniques or tricks I can apply? Any ideas or suggestions anyone? Thanks, *Greg Keogh*

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[OT] Contracting PAYG vs ABN
by Tom P 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Hi all, I’m getting asked by a recruiter whether I want to do PAYG or use a personal ABN for a contracting position. I never really understood why one would use an ABN as you’d need to get your own insurances etc. Can anybody explain? Cheers Tom

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Many years ago
by mike smith 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

We'd post invite codes for Gmail, when it was beta and invite only. Here's some bsky invite codes, 3, if it doesn't work its been used Mike

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Conditional builds of arbitrary files
by Greg Keogh 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Folks, the MSBuild process provides Condition= and #if to provide lots of control over which files and code fragments are compiled and published for a given Configuration. My projects contain increasing numbers of non-cs files like html, css, js, txt, etc which often need conditional processing, especially the equivalent of a #if to select fragments of those sorts of files for different configurations. There's no way to select fragments of arbitrary files with a #if, so I've been wondering for years about the best way to simulate the feature. I can't find any tools to do this, so I *think* that a custom MSBuild Task might be the way to go. The task could be given some parameters and it would edit the files and add and remove sections based upon the configuration before the build starts. Does anyone think that's a good idea? Or maybe there's a better way. Cheers, *Greg Keogh*

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