The Future of the Microsoft Dynamics AX Client?

I came across one of Brandon George posts today where he touches a very interesting idea around the future of the Microsoft Dynamics AX client with technologies such Windows 8, XMAL, and HTML 5. 

The post is helpful and it really makes a lot of sense when you start thinking about it. I somehow think that everything is going to end up in the cloud very soon and that "clients" will run based on very simple based systems. Anyway, he will be at convergence talking about this stuff, so let's make sure we follow his tweets at @DynamicsERP

You can access his post HERE

Take care!

Lightswitch "How Do I?" Videos - Visual Studio Lightswitch

A few weeks ago I downloaded Visual Studio Lightswitch. I'm still getting to know the application and new features that are offered by Microsoft. You can have a full definition of Visual Studio Lightswitch here:

https://community.altiusconsulting.com/blogs/mikevinson/archive/2010/11/09/microsoft-visual-studio-lightswitch-what-is-it.aspx

I do have to say that the development of business applications has been taken to the next step. I think the most interesting aspect of Visual Studio Lightswitch is that we can now develop apps for the cloud. This is really interesting to me as I'm getting into SharePoint development and I just read that Microsoft will have the Office 365 available really soon.

Anyway the Silverlight team has some interesting tutorials about developing data-centered silverlight apps for the web by using Visual Studio LightSwitch. You can find it here:

http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/announcing-visual-studio-lightswitch-beta-2-is-available/


Also, the MSDN LightSwitch has some easy to understand How Do I videos around Visual Studio LightSwitch here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch/gg604823