Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.

UX, Propeller Hats, OOTB Oh My

Background It took a moment for me to make sense of it, but Bil Simser is the guest here for NothingButSharePoint.com discussing Furuknap and MarcAnderson blog articles that are duking it out over (mmm.. I mean discussing nicely) ootb vs custom SharePoint dev.  Or more to the point is modified ootb really ootb or not.…

Office 365 Beta Open to Public

Just Announced!  Office 365 Beta has moved from “Limited Beta” status to “Public Beta” status.  This means that anyone can now sign up and test drive Office 365.  Here are some resources to get you started: Home Page for Office 365 Community Website (Blogs, Forums, Wikis, etc.) Deployment Guide Beta Service Descriptions   To sign…

Welcome to My Blog and LINQ2SQL Performance Issues

Thanks for coming to my blog.  I’m a Software Engineering Consultant for Catapult Systems.  From time to time I will be posting whatever interesting programming related information here.    This time I’ll be discussing .NET and LINQ2SQL and/or EntityFramework.   The LINQ2SQL DBML Visual creator allows you to build ORM objects that map to underlying tables with…