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Entries for January 2013

Automating Siemens S7 and SiMotion Tasks Using C# .NET

Siemens offers useful tools for accessing both Simatic and SiMotion projects programmatically, in the form of registered COM Type Library DLLs. These tools offer many exciting possibilities (well, it does if you're like me, and get excited by thi...


DMC Earns Microsoft Gold Partner Status in Application Development and Collaboration and Content

DMC is proud to announce that it has achieved Gold Partner status within the Microsoft Partner Network for the ninth consecutive year.  Microsoft uses Gold Status Competencies to identify top partners in specific solution areas.  DMC e...


Geek Challenge: Malleable Mystery

January’s Geek challenge is from the field of Topology, which is the study of continuity and connectivity of shapes. This field of math gives us such gems as the Hairy Ball Theorem.   A Continuous Deformation of a shape is what you can ...


Employee Spotlight Video: Alex Krejcie

Alex Krejcie, Systems Engineer Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. This month, Alex Krejcie's shares his "board sports" enthusias...


Better UI's in LabVIEW: Making Custom Image Buttons

It can sometimes be a challenge to create good looking User Interfaces in LabVIEW – or at least UIs that don’t look like they were built in LabVIEW. One of the easiest ways to make your UIs look a little flashier is to add custom buttons ...


Quote Board - January 2013

Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.  


Android Connectivity using the Android Open Accessory Development Kit

With Android operating system’s market share growing rapidly, the appeal for developers to release their applications on this platform has never been higher. Android is quite developer friendly, and as it matures the variety of applications has...


Copying and Moving SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows

Anyone that has worked with SharePoint 2010 workflows knows what a valuable tool they can be for a variety of tasks. However, list workflows in particular suffer from a reusability problem. While site and reusable workflows are by design (a...


Windows Server 2008 R2 Security Patches Break SharePoint 2010 User Authentication

Today I had to restore user authentication on a SharePoint farm. The farm had been functional yesterday, but upon arriving into work this morning users would get a low-level error message when trying to log in. Microsoft pushed out some security p...


A Bug in Calendar Lists

As I explained in a previous post, a client had need of copying appointments from an Exchange shared calendar to a SharePoint calendar. I recently encountered a bug in calendar lists that I thought I should share. The task was to populate a ShareP...


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