Technology exists to help us be more productive, but what if we could use it to identify potential issues or crises someone might be experiencing? This year’s hackathon project is all about that—wish me luck!
My first patent award at Microsoft
Three years ago, I relocated from Australia to the USA, years before that I relocated from Venezuela to Australia. Today I received my patent cube award for being able to let creative ideas come into shape and with that contribute to building and creating innovative solutions to empower millions of people. I am humbled by […]
Fixing memory leak in Microsoft USD
Microsoft USD is a pretty cool framework, but sometimes when some requirements are complex due to technical constraints this can suddenly change. I’ve been working on this project for one of my customers, helping them deliver an integrated desktop built with Microsoft USD. I had delivered similar solutions in the past when the product was […]
Retrieving IHTMLDocument & IWebBrowser2 objects from hWnd
Hi Community, For the past year, I’ve been pretty busy assisting one of my customers to deliver an integrated desktop solution built with Microsoft USD as part of a major transformation program that encompasses Dynamics CRM 365, Microsoft Azure, Apttus (CPQ), ERPly, Guidewire products and banking software. During this time we’ve faced some technical challenges, […]
Accessing and handling WndProc in USD
Everything in Windows is a window, from buttons to dialogs to everything in between. Same principle still applies to WPF applications such as USD. I recently had a requirement that I needed to release some external resources in USD before the AgentDesktop was destroyed. To do that, all I had to do was to add […]
Detect unsaved changes in USD session
One would have assumed that detecting changes made in any of the hosted apps within a USD session should be something pretty straightforward, right? It turns out to be that no, it’s not as easy… USD 4.1 introduced some functionality that is still buggy and it doesn’t detect these pending changes, so I had to […]
Enable real-time notifications of external hosted apps in USD (Unified Service Desk) with WMI
Today’s post is about something I had recently implemented for my customer’s USD project. Over the years I’ve delivered multiple projects with Microsoft CCF, CCA and now USD. Regardless of the version the framework lacks of functionality to notify the AgentDesktop that something has gone wrong for any of the external hosted apps. There a […]
Visual SOS – Visual Studio extension to debug managed applications through SOS
Visual SOS is both an executable and extension for Visual Studio that leverages the debugger engine available in Windows in conjunction with SOS debugging extension. It’s similar to having Windbg embedded into Visual Studio but in a much simpler way, because it exposes some of the most commonly used commands just a click away. Visual […]
SIF (Service Integration Framework) on github
Hi Community, Please find here https://github.com/angelhernandezm/SIF-Service-Integration-Framework the source code for SIF. SIF was a project I started working on to overcome some of the limitations and issues found in CCF, CCA and USD. One of the design principles was to have less dependencies in assemblies that are required to be distributed along with the solution, […]
Recipe – Recursively find specific files on Windows through C++ lambda expression
Hi Community, I’m sorry for having been “absent” in the past few months, but I had been commuting (7 months) interstate working on this important project for this department in federal government. I hope to catch up with the blogging and continue contributing as I have done in the past. Today’s post is about a […]