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...
Humans are visual by nature so creating a graphic icon for a list of items or tasks can be extremely beneficial when trying to sort through data. Without having to configure SharePoint Designer or writing custom code, you can create a simple color co...
It is often desired to have "occasionally connected" applications where a device may not always be connected to a network and that makes the task of maintaining a central data store such as SQL Server 2008R2 consistent across...
We are all getting new business cards at DMC, so we thought it would be fun to put QR codes on them to make it easier for our smartphone enabled customers to scan our info and add us to their contact database. Thanks to Google it's pretty easy...
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) To help explain why one would choose Silverlight for application development, I think it’s important to have a basic understanding of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Silverlight is one of a small handful ...
SharePoint and Web Parts : An Introduction Microsoft SharePoint is clearly the current top-dog in corporate information sharing, document management, and workflow management. What many companies are now discovering is how SharePoint can be an effe...
Last Thursday, October 1st, Ben Zeinz and I attended the afternoon session of an MSDN event entitled "Real World Azure". It introduced Windows Azure ahead of its upcoming release. The morning session was geared towards IT personnel while th...
One of the more fun, and sometimes challenging aspects of working at DMC are service calls to work on legacy systems, hardware, and software. I have recently been working on a Baldor motion control system with a Visual C++ 6.0 front end. When I fi...
When developing a SharePoint solution, there are many choices of development environments to get the job done, but they are not all equal. Once you’ve figured out the purpose of the page, how many web-parts are required for that purpose, and...
Check out the nifty new code syntax highlighter we've added to the blog. This will make it much easier for us to post code snippets. Here's a sample c# function that is automatically formatted. Also note the handy tools on the upper rig...