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My wife does a lot of work volunteering at our school.  No, check that, she does a metric ton of work. The school was planning a silent auction to raise money for various programs. As part of this, the group decided to hold an online auction allowing people to bid on various activities offered by...

BizTalk Server 2013 (the 8th release!) has released to manufacturing, and is available NOW for download at MSDN for MSDN subscribers. You can read the team blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2013/03/21/biztalk-server-2013-is-now-rtm.aspx A list of enhancements can be...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Marcel Meijer over huidige stand van zaken bij Windows Azure. Ze blikken even terug op de eerste versie van Azure en wat je toen allemaal wel en niet kon. Het grootste deel van de podcast gaat over hoe Azure veranderd is en wat je tegenwoordig allemaal kan...

As we have seen in previous blog posts getting data from a RavenDB database is easy. Either use the IDocumentSession.Query<T>() function to load a series of documents or the IDocumentSession..Load<T>() function to load a document using its identity. However sometimes we want more control...

In a previous post I explored various options of hosting RavenDB . While using RavenDB as a Windows Service or hosted in IIS is probably the best way to go in most cases there are a number of cases where the embedded option is great. And one of the places where I really like the embedded option of hosting...

  In case you missed it, the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery now contains an image for BizTalk Server, letting you create an Azure Virtual Machine with BizTalk installed. It was super-easy to do. I had to run the BizTalk configuration wizard and turn on SQL Agent, but that’s all. In a few...

This is easy to do, IF you have the right pieces. For the connection string, you can use the JDBC connection string presented in the portal (see below). For the JDBC driver, you need to be using Version 4. The reason is that earlier versions had problems with wildcard SSL certificates. You can download...

These code samples are part of the book "Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform". Each folder relates to a specific chapter in the book. While this code can be useful on its own, this code is best used along with the book. The book walks through a detailed use-case and then...

This download contains the power point slides and code from the Azure Platform AppFabric session at the European BizTalk Convention in Stockholm, Sweden. This session reviewed a unique scenario related to Remote Message Broadcasting into home devices on different networks. Using the AppFabric Service...