It's beginning to sound as a cliché, but once again, Directions EMEA 2010 was great! Outstanding organisation, outstanding sessions, outstanding food .. outstanding girls ;°) (sorry, felt mandatory to mention them as well :-) ). Sure there are always things that could be better, but that's always, everywhere, anytime. One should know that most of this event was realized by only four persons. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the efforts of those guys... and to thank them for the opportunity for me to speak for the audience. I'm always quite nervous doing sessions, but afterwards,…

I've been looking forward to this session of Freddy. He has been advertising it during our session on Wednesday, and apparently, people listened, because lots of the people that attended our session were here as well. Off course, it's a hot topic as well .. the cloud.. what the hell is that cloud?? And Azure?? I don't know if these questions were really answered during the session, but at least, everyone has got a pretty nice picture now of what it can be useful for ... . I'm not going to blog all the details, because very soon, Freddy will blog all about it on his blog . He started out with…

A session presented by a fellow-MVP:Jörg Stryk. The guy is unbelievable into SQL Server and SQL Server performance tuning on a NAV database (like Hynek is as well), so he's quite a good catch to be presenting a session about this topic, off course. May be you know Jörg from his book: The NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide . Jorg started out by pointing out that a Key is not necessarily the same as an index. Key's are terms from the classic environment, while an index is something else. And it's indexes that he would liked to explain... He compared it with the "yellow pages". If you want to search…

There is nothing much new on the Testing Codeunits Functionality, only that it hasn't been adopted very wel in the NAV community by now. During the session, it was nice to see (again) how it works. I'm not going to explain it again, because Kamil Sacek already did in his blog: Kine's Info and it's quite good explained in the MSDN as well. But, I am going to tell you this: Application Test Toolkit v2 There is going to be a new "Application Test Toolkit", which will contain testing routines that Microsoft uses internally. This toolkit is a great way to get started with the new types of codeunits…

At this moment, Directions EMEA is "going on" .. and once again, it's turning out to be quite a success. This is only my first blog about it, while it's the second day .. . This is because I had a session about Web Services (with Freddy, by the way :-) ) on the first day, and wanted to take the time I had to do some preparation, because things have been so busy that I didn't find enough time. But I can say that (now I finished the session) all went fine. I'm not going to blog about it, because it was just a session about the basics of web services: how to set it up, some coding examples on how…

Are you familiar with Freddy's blog ? As I said in my previous post (and in my presentation about Web Services ), Freddy's blog is the "Mekka" of Web Services. And I should have known ... after finishing this blog, I was browsing through his one, and found quite exact the same blog as I wrote here . Stupid me. Here you can find Freddy's entry. But I did the effort, so I publish it anyway. The solution is quite the same, but still a little bit different , so may be it's useful for you. This application is something I always use in my demo's. It's nice to see how easy it is to publish and use…

Remember this from 2009, when the list first came out? It got a lot of attention and was covered in numerous articles, blogs and ... . But what is it, actually? The "Microsoft Dynamics Top 100 Most Influentional people" is a list that is composed by the poeple of Dynamicsworld. You can find their website on www.dynamicsworld.co.uk . It's a community that tries to offer what the other Dynamics community hasn't got to offer .. and one of the things: "The List". Now, last year, it was kept a little bit of a secret, because of the surprise effect they wanted to achieve. This year, however…