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In an effort to keep our web content relevant, up-to-date, and informative, we have recently gone through and updated our Microsoft Dynamics Development Services landing pages.

Below is a brief snapshot of the new content, along with the links to individual pages:

Microsoft Dynamics AX Custom Application Development: With a team of highly-qualified Microsoft Dynamics AX developers, Merit Solutions provides custom application development to both ISVs and Microsoft Dynamics AX clients, extending your team in regards to requirements analysis, technical design and development, and quality assurance testing of all software products. In the end, we measure success by our ability to deliver custom applications that will help organizations optimize performance and reduce costs.

Read more about our Microsoft Dynamics AX Development services.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Migrations: Users migrating to Microsoft Dynamics GP often want to improve the structure of existing processes and line-of-business applications. Typically these businesses have grown and become more complex in their business process needs. Using the migration tools available from Microsoft, Merit Solutions can help organizations plan and implement an efficient migration from systems like QuickBooks, Peachtree, and legacy systems. Our methodology preserves data, enhances security, improves reporting, and minimizes business disruption by designing and following an efficient migration plan.

Read more about our Microsoft Dynamics GP Development services.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Integrations: For companies interested in integrating front- and back-end business operations, Merit Solutions provides seamless Microsoft Dynamics CRM integration that brings together sales, marketing, accounting, supply chain, and more. We have extensive experience with Microsoft Dynamics CRM integrations to Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, and other 3rd party ERP Systems. Merit Solutions also provides cost-effective integrations with external sites, hosted either in-house or at the hosting partner.

Read more about our Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development services.

Microsoft SharePoint Development: Merit Solutions provides Microsoft SharePoint development and deployment services to companies in need of extended portal functionality. Our integration, training, and consulting services help companies through new intranets, workflows, collaboration, document management, and custom portal solutions. We also have extensive experience developing SharePoint-based features and solutions, including 21 CFR Part 11 SharePoint Document Management.

Read more about our Microsoft SharePoint Development services.

We hope you enjoy the new content. Feel free to make suggestions by commenting on this blog article!

“Not being able to reproduce it, not a bug” is a developer’s main philosophy. And generally it can be accepted as a fact. This is one challenge which continues to appear in different forms and testers need to spend a considerable amount of time analyzing environments, build versions, preconditions, and code without any guarantee that any verification process will provide precise information to what caused an issue.

So, are non reproducible bugs one of the most frustrating and toughest challenges for a QA?

One of the most interesting improvements in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 which should help both developers and testers is the option to collect IntelliTrace files during the test process. New Visual Studio 2010 allows testers to save rich test logs when running test cases and attach them with the bug. Developers can debug the code reproducing the steps recorded in those files, they can go back and forward in the call stack and analyze parameters and result values. The main advantage is that the developer’s environment can be completely different from the one where the file has been recorded. This is accomplished by deploying the IntelliTrace diagnostic data adapter (DDA) to the target system as part of the Visual Studio Test Agent or by deploying the IntelliTrace.exe command-line utility.

IntelliTrace has two main modes it can run under. In the default mode, IntelliTrace will just be collecting debugging data at the predefined IntelliTrace event points. While in the “methods and calls” mode, IntelliTrace will be collecting debugging data (including method parameters and return values) for all function inputs and outputs for all included modules. The “methods and calls” mode provides a lot of additional information about your application’s recorded execution path, but at a substantially higher cost in terms of time overhead and log file size.

However, there are several drawbacks related to this feature:

• The IntelliTrace DDA and/or IntelliTrace.exe cannot be used on a machine or a server in the production environment
• IntelliTrace files created using either methods can be opened and debugged only by using Visual Studio Ultimate.