Serge Calderara's Blog

SAMSUNG SUR40 : Anticiper vos projets est la clé

Serge — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:14:07 +0000

Dans quelques mois, la nouvelle génération de table surface sera sur le marché français et aujourd’hui nombreux ceux qui nous contact afin d’être les premiers servi. Nous comprenons cet enthousiasme mais ce qu’ils ne savent pas la plus part du temps et le fait que sans application adapté, leur table restera probablement dans un coin, comme déjà vu avec la version précédente.

La raison ? Mauvaise information et surtout mal conseiller.

C’est pourquoi Solatys a pour mission principal le conseil avant toute acquisition et bien insister sur la nécessité d’une application spécifique. Aujourd’hui les personnes nous ayant contacté pour leurs projets ou conseil nous le rende bien et sont content de nos services alors pourquoi pas vous !

Discutons ensemble de vos futurs projets sur Microsoft Surface et donnons l’envol à vos idées.

Faites-nous confiance comme d’autres l’ont déjà fait

http://www.solatys.fr

SAMSUNG SUR40 : The key is to anticipate your project

Serge — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:00:07 +0000

The SUR40 is coming soon and all of us want to be the first to get one. Great! But most of the things that customer totally forget is that the SUR40 will be delivered with the Bing Demo application only ( at the time of this writing). So the key is really to anticipate your projects in order to get them as a package with your unit. One of the main and big advantage to work with us on getting your unit and your application is that we have big experience on the product and we can advise you on the right path to go, bringing at the same time our development expertise for your application.

Do not hesitate to contact us for more details and I am sure we can go further on your projects.

Microsoft Surface is today our world of creativity

Have you thought of your next Microsoft Surface project ?

Serge — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:50:18 +0000

The new generation of Surface unit is coming soon. Solatys is able to provide the first deliveries in France for mid -February and we still have few unit left for you.

As a common approach, Surface acquisition needs a dedicated and specific application to be run. This application will be your identity and your new image tight to your business. This is the main reason why this application will be unique and tailor-made for you.

If you want to discuss your future projects on Microsoft Surface, Solatys and its team is a human being company you can rely on.We have proved our expertise from our past experience with Surface. We enjoy working with people from different culture and collaborate on your success.

Do not hesitate to contact us at info@solatys.com

Date and Time in WPF

Serge — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:27:05 +0000

Recently, i was fighting with a date/Time interpretation which makes me a kind of crazy.The scenario was collecting data from a return dataset based on SQL serve table. When looking in that dataset, the date/Time format of dat fields was formatted correctly based on the culture I get set. But as long as the data was rendering by my WPF gridview, Date/Time value gets disply in different manner.

After browsing around I met Mike Danes on a forums which gets similar trouble.

When you convert a date time to string in code the current (correct) culture is used. However WPF doesn’t use the current culture, it takes the culture name from the Language property of the FrameworkElement and then gets the culture by using GetCultureInfoByIetfLanguageTag. This method returns a standard CultureInfo object, not the user customized version. This has been reported as a bug by Mike already.

To overcome this, it was needed to apply a converter to my date/Time column field.

I would never seen that problem if my users did not start to change cutsom settings of standard culture.

Hope it could save you time as well.
Thanks to Mike as well helping me isolate the issue

Solatys recherche developpeur(s) .net, Wpf

Serge — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:43:58 +0000

Solatys a affirmé sa phase de développement et recherche ses développeurs .Net, WPF afin de renforcer son équipe.

Vous avez toujours voulu exprimé votre créativite dans une technologie innovante mais n’avez pu le faire aujourd’hui?

En tant que Microsoft Surface Partner, nous vous offrons cette chance de participer avec nous à l’élaboration d’applications tactiles sous Microsoft Surface, tablettes et windows phone 7.
Vous vous reconnaissez et etes motivé à l’idée de nous rejoindre, alors contactez-nous sans plus attendre et faite partie de l’aventure.

Solatys s’agrandie

Serge — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:37:33 +0000

A partir du 1er Octobre, solatys comptera parmi son équipe un Designer graphique. Ceci nous permettra de fournir à nos clients une approche design professionnelle à la mise en place d’interfaces utilisateurs tactiles sous Microsoft Surface, Windows 7 touch..et bientot sous Windows 8

Windows 8, une nouvelle vision de demain

Serge — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:25:59 +0000

C’est fait, lors de la conférence Microsoft BUILD aux Etats-Unis, Microsoft a levé le voile sur son nouveau système d’exploitation Windows 8. Une approche complètement différente de l’interface utilisateur et la façon dont on va consommer l’information, d’où qu’elle provienne. Pour ceux qui ont déjà eu en main l’interface utilisateur de Windows Phone 7, y trouverons une similitude. En effet, toute l’interface utilisateur a été entièrement repensée et standardisée au « style Métro ».

Plus d’info

Windows 8 revealed at Build

Serge — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:22:01 +0000

That’s done, Windows 8 has been shown at Build conference. A completly new approach of what you have seen so far; A user experience which has been redesign in order to cover the way we are using computer and consuming data today. Those who are familar with windows phone 7 user experience will see in Windows 8 a complete standardization between those .A deep dive in services consuming in WinRT, the runtime of the new Windows 8. One big thing which has been introduced is the fact that Windows 8 applications will be abe to be build in the language of your choice ( C#, C++, Silverlight, WPF, HTML, CSS, javascript). The Metro Style is part of the Windows 8 SDK with new controls completly accessible through Blend 5.

A store for Windows 8 application ?
Yes, your read right, a store for Windows 8 application has been introduced. Hmmm are they following the Mac OS strategy by going through the certification process of apps ?

In fact you have the choice. from visual studion you will be able to publish your appliation on the Store, same as we do today for windows phone application. Bad or good, I do not know yet personnaly but would expect they will be not too much locking as Apple is doing today.

Anyhow real cool feature in windows 8:

Faster boot, less that 5 seconds

Rich user experience

fluidity of the information

fast application launching and switching

Multi programming language

Live connection to web service

better management of ressources

Support of Hyper-V

And much more to come….

CRM 2011 Import Organization on the same server

Serge — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:06:31 +0000

I do not know if some of you were like me at the time you were wondering how can it be possible to import a CRM organisation on a same server.
That was my case actually and was fighting days until having the right answer given by Pavel Brestovsky

Actually the idea was that the only thing I get from a previous CRM deployement was the Organisazion_MSCRM database backup. As my original server has crashed, I could not import organisation from it.

How to do then ?

Here is the trick :

Restore you previous CRM backup database into a new one named for instance MYCRM ( hopefully you get a backup
run the following querries on the new created database MYCRM

SELECT ‘ALTER TABLE ‘+QUOTENAME(name)+’ NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL’
FROM sysobjects WHERE xtype=’U’ and uid=1

declare @newid uniqueidentifier

select @newid = newid()

SELECT
        ‘Update ‘ + c.TABLE_SCHEMA + ‘.’ + c.TABLE_NAME + ‘ set ‘ + c.COLUMN_NAME +’ =”’ + +cast(@newid as varchar(40))+””
    FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns c
        INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables t
        ON c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME
        AND t.TABLE_TYPE = ‘BASE TABLE’
    WHERE DATA_TYPE = ‘uniqueidentifier’ and column_name=’organizationid’

SELECT ‘ALTER TABLE ‘+QUOTENAME(name)+’ CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL’
FROM sysobjects WHERE xtype=’U’ and uid=1

This script return 3 result set that must be executed on the new database to change the OrganisationId. Organisation Id is the trick, without a new ID the Deployement manager import wizard will not identified a new organisation on the server.

run the 3 results querry on new created database MYCRM
import organization from new database MYCRM with different name than original organization

Tada, here we go.

Thnaks again to Pavel Brestovsky helping me on this issue.

Bing team finnaly relase a WPF control

Serge — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:56:27 +0000

The Bing team released the Bing mapping control for WPF and
Surface!

Perhaps the most notable facet to this WPF control is support for Microsoft Surface.
That’s right. The Bing Maps WPF Control Beta is touch-enabled with support for
Surface 2.0 with PixelSense™ which will be on the Samsung SUR40 for
Microsoft Surface. So, for those of you using WPF in your Surface applications
you’ll have native support for touch features. This mapping control is a great
supplement to the recently released Surface 2.0 SDK and developer center at www.msdn.com/windows/surface.

Check out
the blog announcement on http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/08/22/announcing-the-bing-maps-wpf-control.aspx
and download the control from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27165