October, 2010

In the previous versions of Host Integration Server, all connection properties to the Host environment were configured in a static remote environment (RE). On the HostApps adapter properties, the connection to a Host was made through one of the existing RE’s on the BizTalk server. Defining a remote environment was done through the TI Manager. From Host Integration Server 2010, the Remote Environment can now be configured on the sendport itself, instead of a pre-defined RE by using the TI Manager...

Pablo Castilla contacted me about his take on auto starting a workflow with IIS and AppFabric. WF 4.0: How to automatically start a workflow by itself hosted in AppFabric It looks interesting.  I read the code but I have not tried it myself.  I thought I would share it with you – I’m interested to know what the community thinks about this approach. Endpoint Q&A Chat Also I’m thinking of starting an open chat with the WF4 team.  The idea is 2 or 3 of us get together and respond...

When configuring WS-Reliable messaging, you would notice that even though number of retries (MaxRetryCount) is configurable but the interval in which retries are attempted is NOT configurable. This is because WCF uses an exponential back-off congestion control algorithm to calculate the retry timeout. This algorithm is internal to WCF and is NOT configurable. The initial [...] Blog Post by: zamd

Greg Leake has been at it again. He has emerged from his lab with the latest results of benchmark testing of Windows Server AppFabric Caching vs. IBM eXtreme Scale and the results are something you definitely want to see. Microsoft ® Windows ®...( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint : AppFabric

Access Control Service v2 is significantly enhanced compared to the first version which only supported OAuth WRAP and Simple Web Tokens. Check out this post from Hervey for a listing of new exciting features. In this post I’ll talk about integrating ACS v2 with web/workflow services (hosted in Windows Server AppFabric) and show you all [...] Blog Post by: zamd