The plan to pass the Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET 4. certification

I was working through a chapter for my Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET 4.  I was just finishing the second chapter and the whole self study book has 14 chapters.

I was thinking how much progress should I be making.  I had set myself an a target of doing most of the studying by the end of March.

I had also been doing practise exams, watching videos, reading around the subject.  But my main target is working through this book, so I thought to myself I need to know how many pages I need to read each week so I am on target to get this done by the end of March.  This is mentioned in the post – https://crmbusiness.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/seven-steps-to-certification-success/

The important factor here is the importance of setting a goal/deadline.  Once you have done that then you know the amount of work you need to do each week to achieve you goal.

So with the book I’m reading, it’s 880 pages, so I roughly need to read around 100 pages a week.

I noted down all the chapters in an Excel spreadsheet so I can track my progress.  Now that is sad.

70-515 – Self paced	chap pages	chap start	chap end	percent	current page	current percent
Chap 1	39	1	40	4.55
Chap 2	55	41	96	10.91	96	10.91
Chap 3	63	97	160	18.18
Chap 4	66	161	227	25.8
Chap 5	63	228	291	33.07
Chap 6	37	292	329	37.39
Chap 7	57	330	387	43.98
Chap 8	65	388	453	51.48
Chap 9	97	454	551	62.61
Chap 10	71	552	623	70.8
Chap 11	61	624	685	77.84
Chap 12	101	686	787	89.43
Chap 13	43	788	831	94.43
Chap 14	48	832	880	100

 

Toolbox is missing in visual studio 2010

I was studying for .NET 4 exam and running through one of the lab sessions and it needed me to add a button and dropdown box but then suddenly the toolbox was not coming up.

I was searching around and couldn’t find out how to add it back in, I also couldn’t understand where it would be.

 

Finally I found out how to add the toolbox back in.

 

Go to the VIEW menu

Click on Toolbox

then once again you can enjoy adding buttons and dropdowns to your hearts content

 

PDF font fuzzy/blurry on laptop

I had been reading pdf’s on my laptop at home and found the text seemed fuzzy when compared to reading the same pdf files at work.

I had searched the internet for “pdf fuzzy text”, “blurred pdf text”

but I couldn’t find anything which was useful.  So I resolved to sort out the problem myself but looking in the preferences and changing values and see what happened.

Finally I changed to values which seemed to make a difference.

I changed the Smooth text to “For Laptops/LCD Screens”

I also changed ticked the use smooth zooming.

Finally my text was not fuzzy/blurred any more.

CRM 2011 – Syntax changes in plugins from CRM 4

The changes between CRM 2011 and CRM 4 with regards to plugins are not that much.   Like a lot of the changes it involves using the XRM dll rather than CRM dll.  In many ways it seems Microsoft were busying changing others in CRM 2011 to worry about the plugins.

Although they have added in WCF services rather than Web services (don’t panic they do still work)

There are a few subtle differences and we now use Entity rather than Dynamicentity.  This is a nice improvement and will make coding easier.

It’s always good to know what has changed and today I saw this concise list of the major differences between plugins in CRM 2011 and CRM 4.  I would also like to say this blog is excellent from a CRM developers point of view, the articles are always interesting and have excellent code examples.  I have added to my netvibes so I know when he adds any more posts.

Read the article by clicking the link below

5 syntax changes in Dynamics CRM 2011 plugins

There are number of changes between Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK and CRM 4 SDK. Let’s take a look at what has changed between plugins.