January, 2010

For some time now, I’ve been working with BizTalk Server 2009.  One of the major frustrations has been with the VS 2008 integration.  Project references between BizTalk projects wreaked havoc if you were working on a single developer machine with BTS installed.  Fortunately, Microsoft has released a hotfix for many of these issues [1].  If you are having issues within Visual Studio, you may want to try this hotfix.  Look for the link near the top of the document to request...

I had a great time presenting at the TC Cloud Computing User group about a week ago.  The group is still kind of small, but growing rapidly and pulling together good content as well as hands-on opportunities for people to get going on cloud technologies.  This particular presentation was on the Azure platform AppFabric (ServiceBus and Access Control).  For those of you who attended, the demos I used are in the attachments as I mentioned Demos: AzureAppFabric_Demos.zip .  Blog...

This post aims to provide you with an introduction into monitoring the health and activity of your WCF- and WF-based applications with Windows Server AppFabric. More specifically, the post will outline the AppFabric tooling features that are built into IIS Manager as well as outline some basic strategies in using these features to monitor your applications. Introduction At the center of AppFabric’s monitoring tools is the Dashboard, which provides a centralized gateway to view the health of WCF and...

Goal: Configuration of WCF 3.5 services can be challenging and .NET 4 introduces additional configuration settings for WF services and new WCF features. Today, there are several options available to edit configuration: svcConfigEditor.exe, Visual Studio, and Notepad. All of these tools provide a basic, but complete experience that enables you to edit the entire set of configuration knobs available in System.ServiceModel. While many of these configuration knobs may be relevant during development,...