Wiping troublesome disks

I'd forgotten the command in Win7.
It's Diskpart
and within that you "clean all" after selecting the disk

Finding the correct action namespace for an AIF service

• Go to the AOT and find the services node in the tree
• Find the service you are looking for
• select it to display the properties
• The namespace details are in the Namespace and Class fields

AIF Service Document Schemas

One way to find schemas for the AIF services is to

• Go into the AOT
• Expand Forms
• Right mouse click on the AifService node and choose Open
• Find the service you need like CustCustomerService and click on "Service Operations"
• Click on "Parameter Schema"
• Then "View Schema"

Certainly better than hunting around the internet for an example.

Trivial AX2012 AIF

Well I need to start getting up to speed with a migration from AX4 and BizTalk 2006 to AX2012 and AIF.

Microsoft have kindly provided a white paper which gives the basics for getting a sales order into AX.

At the moment that's going to be the largest volume of data I'll need to process.

Luckily I found someone had already ironed out the gotchas for the white paper, saving a bit of time.

Once they were out the way it seems a more flexible way to get data in and out and if you've experience of AIF the terminology is familiar in 2012.

I keep seeing references to WCF in documents and in AX which leads me to think it's WCF "under the hood" driving the messages.

The start of something new

Well I've taken the plunge and decided to go it alone, professionally.
I've handed my notice in and started up as a sole trader.
Happy days

.Net Gems

Hopefully I'l make use of these one day,  here.

Wikipedia never lies

• "Working more hours" does not necessarily mean "producing more output"
• "A happy team makes a tough task look simple"

Can't be wrong it's here.

Weekend Ride

17 miles in one hour. That's my new personal best on my bike. There was a fair bit of blood sweat and tears.
Next objective 18 miles :-)

Cycling past MAMILs in a manky pair or shorts and a high street T-shirt, and my scruffy bike, was the best bit.

Quote of the day

"Top notch development teams don't torture their programmers. Even minor frustrations caused by using underpowered tools add up, making programmers grumpy and unhappy. And a grumpy programmer is an unproductive programmer."


Taken from today's read here

NHibernate and "The method or operation is not implemented."

I've had a minor set back.
Group joins don't seem to be implemented in version 3 of NHibernate. I found a blog that stated they were going to be added, but that was in November last year.
By my reckoning I have 2 obvious options.

1. Swap out NHibernate for Linq to SQL but put in a common interface so I can swap it back later
2. Re-work the linq code I have already developed and am re-using

I favour option 1 right now, which I thought would be a "Nice to do" right from the start.

Fluent NHibernate and DB to Entity

I have a project to update a web app, which has a mature MSSQL database, to use ASP.Net MVC and NHibernate. The old Subsonic DAL is to be replaced so I've been looking into Fluent NHibernate.

The "My first Fluent NH" test app went well but getting the database to auto build the entity classes was more hit and miss.

I used NHibernate Mapping Generator which did a fair job at auto building the code but fell short when it came to foreign keys and keys that were made up of more than one column.

I think I'll end up using what was auto generated as a starting point to building new entity classes by hand, then auto build the DB from them. Interesting.. <scratched head>