[Updated] SlimBrowser - Slim and Fast

[Updated on 29-Jun-15]: This uses IE rendering engine and is sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Hence, i have uninstalled it. I have IE9 and hence this behaves like IE9 but not a consistent performer especially with script intensive sites like eCommerce e.g. shopclues.com, flipkart.com, paytm.com snapdeal.com, infibeam.com etc


I use my office laptop at home and my Organization doesn't allow us installing any browser other than IE. I am stuck in IE 9 which is pathetic on new age ecommerce sites.

So, I was looking for a small browser which can be installed and and unistalled easily. I came across SlimBrowser (v7) which is just 3+ mb in size. http://www.slimbrowser.net/en/
It got

• installed fast
• No bundled software
• browsing is blazing fast
• Automatically imported all my IE9 favorites into it
• Integration with Facebook - sharing status, current page and selected text,
• Reviews were also good
• Shrinking images during uploads etc (infact you have choice of multiple sizes)

It got good features like IE9 mode, download mgr, ad blocker, popup blocker, privacy, backup and restore etc. So far it looks good, lets see how it fares in the long term :)

Duplicate messages received by BizTalk

I recently witnessed an issue with AIF in Dynamics AX 2009. The system uses BizTalk adapter to send messages to a subsystem. It was working fine till recently. All of a sudden, we found that BizTalk is receiving multiple messages for each message sent out of AIF.

Here are the symptoms:

• Send messages out of AX using AIF
• Message is successfully sent out and can be seen in document history
• After that, message stays in AIF Queue manager for 10-15 minutes
• In these 10-15 minutes, BizTalk receives the same message multiple times(5-12 times)

What we tried:

• Running AIF receive/send related 4 classes using a job
• Tweaking AIF global settings (disable caching etc)
• Restart AOSes (its a clustered environment)
• shut down one AOS and one BizTalk instance
• No luck after all the above

Here is the solution proposed by MS support:

• Create a new configuration and restart AOS and BizTalk
• Duplicate issue is resolved
• We reverted to the original configuration but Duplicate issue didn't arise

I suspect some where sessions/previous Business connection session information is stuck and the new configuration cleared it up.

Dynamics AX 2009 BizTalk Adapter issue

When ever we change AIF configuration in DAX 2009, we refresh services and sometimes restart AOS to refresh business connector sessions.

However, recently we found that we need to restart BizTalk host instances as well. We never had this issue before. It looks like this is an adhoc issue.

Unit Testing

In the couple of projects i worked on, i tried to use nunit but failed miserably. All the applications i tried were typical asp.net applications (3-tier) and i had a lot of difficulty in writing test cases to test the methods which return collections and in testing UI events. UI events include checking whether a particular field/set of fileds are updated and with correct data upon some action by user. I thought it has something to do my knowledge of using nunit OR nunit supports testing of components and not UI events or methods returning collections.

The problems i faced (in testing methods that return collections based on filter criteria)
1) I have to write the data retrieval methods to fetch data from DB to check against the method being tested. So, there could be error in writing the code to fetch data directly from DB.
2) Once a method is tested, i have to restore the data to previous state to test the same method again. i think this is necessary for repetitive testing.

I discussed the same with my colleagues but didn't get a satisfied answer. Thanks in advance for providing me any links to useful posts on the topic.