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Entries for January 2017

DMC Blown Away by 2017 Holiday Party

Last month, DMC employees and guests gathered to celebrate our accomplishments of 2016 and all we have to look forward to in the coming year. The annual Holiday Party is one of the most exciting events of the year. It's a great opportunity to cha...


Simplify Your Document Management with SharePoint Metadata

Have you ever had a hard time searching for a document in a web of nested folders? So have I. What starts out as a few, organized folders can quickly turn into a messy and confusing file system. Fortunately, SharePoint offers a solution by tagging do...


A Properly Pleasing Primer Tutorial for WPF Prism - Part 3:  Modules

In Part 2 of this series, I introduced the Shell and the Bootstrapper components of a Prism application. The stage is set. The crew's in place. It's time for Lights! Camera! Action! But first, we need to hire some actors. Modules To quo...


DMC Earns InduSoft Certified Systems Integrator Status

DMC is proud to announce our status as an InduSoft Certified Systems Integrator. After years of experience using Wonderware's Indusoft on projects, we have become the only Certified Systems Integrator in Chicago. InduS...


DMC Houston Releases "SCADA Boi" Music Video

One of our favorite DMC traditions is the monthly all-company meeting. All DMC offices meet via video conferencing to share updates. At the end of the meeting, one office will take a turn sharing recent projects and events as well as an office update...


Geek Challenge Results: Infinipool

The results are in! Two people correctly answered December's geek challenge. Ken Brey of DMC and Jesse Batsche of DMC both identified the correct percentage as D: 60-65%. Ken supplied an exact solution for the probability as the...


SharePoint 2016 Forgets Where It’s Installed After Update

Sometimes, when things seem to be going catastrophically wrong, the root cause can be simple. You just have to find it. After a recent batch of updates were applied to a SharePoint 2016 farm, a large number of items quit working on the application...


Automatically Change Windows System Sounds

For those of you who are impatient, click here to download the completed executable, and see the results below. Have you ever said: “UGH, these Windows system sounds are so bland” And then wished you could change them to somethin...


DMC Quote Board - January 2017

Visitors to DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board," documenting the best engineering jokes of the moment.