July, 2006

Microsoft and vendors have released first draft of Service Modeling Language (SML) today. I’m happy to see Microsoft join in a specification that includes Schematron Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!

Tom has a couple of great links to learn more about .NET 3.0 (formerly known as WinFx).

Project Sandcastle is MS its tool for generating documentation from the XML comments you put in your code. Visit the Sandcastle Blog on MSDN and download the CTP over here . Thanks to Bart's blog .

Talk about “Blogger’s Remorse”. Here I’ve been feeling super-guilty for quite a while about not posting, but I never even got around to posting anything saying I was sorry! I am sorry, I know many people in the BizTalk community...

Online/Virtual Training BizTalk Server Virtual Labs http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/biztalk/ or http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/virtual-labs.mspx Learn how to take full advantage of BizTalk Server key features through virtual labs. It...

Here's my article on SSO . Now I have been a huge DotNetRocks fan forever. I love this show and their others (Mondays and Hanselminutes). I actually just created an application that crawls their sites for new torrents and downloads them. Might be posting...

With the offical launch of Commerce Server 2007 just around the corner, the excitement around these halls is really growing. Interest in Commerce Server is definitely at an all time high and we have a record number of customers working on new site development...

I notice often developers don't pay much attention to the XPath queries they use. And then some complaining about XML performance. Of course, XML means overhead but we're here not to make it worse. For example, such convenient descendant-or-self axis...

Congratulations Brandon and team! The EMC Microsoft Practice (whom Brandon, Brennan and I now work for) won the "Global Business Process and Integration Solutions Technology Innovation Partner of the Year". Whew, that's a mouthfull. Brandon...

This week I met with a healthcare customer who is using BizTalk to build a robust publish-subscribe architecture. One component of this involves making last second decisions to either send or "eat" messages going out to a send adapter. I put together...

If you try to create a new BAM definition (Excel) file by reusing and modifying another that has already been deployed, you'll run into an error like this: Microsoft (R) Business Activity Monitoring Utility Version 3.5.1602.0 Copyright (C) 2006 Microsoft...

As you may or may not have heard, a WCF adapter will be included in BizTalk Server 2006 R2! It won't actually be a single adapter, but instead there will be multiple adapters with each one exposing one of the bindings that are included in WCF. Each adapter...

Reusing BAM Excel template can cause problems. If you get an error like the following: "The BAM deployment failed. Another element with ID IDD1E0429C6CAA4E9EA9B092556AAF573F has already been deployed. Change the ID and retry" Read on to see why and how...

Do you use any of the BizTalk Server 2006 LOB adapters? If not, do you plan to use any of them soon? The R2 TAP (Technology Adoption Program) requests your participation! We are looking for customers that currently use or plan to implement one or more...

A request came to me asking how to create a stored procedure call with no arguments. Here is the steps for the following example: Run the following script against the database: SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO if exists (select * from...

In BizTalk 2004, if you wanted to specify how an attachment filename was defined when sending an email through the SMTP adapter, you'd need to use the SMTPUtils class (whose code was included in the BizTalk documentation), like this: SMTPUtils.Part.SetFileName...

We'll be holding our next .NET Campsight -- Building Connected Systems event in Redmond, WA on September 18-22 at the Redmond Town Center (awesome venue). If you're not sure what this event is all about, read this explanation . The course is constantly...

I found this article quite enjoyable. As I was reading, I kept day-dreaming about the various "divisions" I've experienced over the years that Andy's piece highlights. Are you a Mediator?

AppDev Training is offering a free CD Training Class ! They have many great courses to pick from including a new Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 course called “Exploring BizTalk Server 2006”. If you are new to BizTalk 2006, this looks like it...

Dynamic Direct Bound Ports A dynamic port allows you to set the address of the logical port to a URI so that at runtime the message can be routed to the correct service to handle the request and the service can then send to the indicated endpoint. In...