Thoughts from a solution architect, technologist and Christian citizen.
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 […]
Continue ReadingHi 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, […]
Continue ReadingEverything 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 […]
Continue ReadingOne 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 […]
Continue ReadingToday’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 […]
Continue ReadingVisual 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 […]
Continue ReadingHi 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, […]
Continue ReadingHi 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 […]
Continue ReadingHi Community, Please find here https://github.com/angelhernandezm some repos with my contributions made towards developer community. I still have to upload a few other ones scattered around though. Regards, Angel
Continue ReadingHi Community, As usual, I’d like to share with you a recent change to my MVP status. After 11 years, I am not an MVP recipient any longer. I recently had a lengthy conversation with my MVP lead and she gave me the news and I took it easy, but now I am member of […]
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