September, 2006

I knew we were releasing the BizTalk 2006 Dynamics CRM Adapter in September, and it looks like it just came in under the wire. Check out Ryan Toenies post for more info, and, the download link. Note that this is a *send* adapter only, but, I love that...

I have just completed working on a small customer project that (at first sight) appeared trivial, but after putting together a prototype was anything but! The client uses BizTalk Server 2004 to accept sales orders from a number of customers in several...

This post is part of an ongoing series, the explanation of which can be found here. This one should be of more use to our friends using BizTalk Server 2006. Today we tackle a problem that anyone who has ever mapped an EDI 837 I/P/D has had to deal with...

Well, I cant help feeling highly amused at the goings on in this particular area. No sooner had David Hayden written a post praising the Web Service Software Factory to the skies than Udi Dahan comes out with the 'anti' view in an article titled " WSSF...

I’m sure they are behind the times, but Computing Careers have just released their job searches as RSS feeds! I’m can now get details of the latest permanent/contract BizTalk jobs delivered straight to Bloglines! Note to self: must get certified...

The first in a series of posts on my functoids library. More information can be found here. While I realize that Logical NOT has been added to the base set of functoids in BizTalk 2006, this class will still be useful for those who want to take the code...

Today someone complained about Windows XP’s lack of virtual desktops and that Mac had the possibility to have several desktops active with different content. I remembered that had tried something like that a couple of years ago and after a while I...

Another new post series that I've been meaning to start for a while. This post kicks off the development of a new project called TimRayburn.CustomFunctoids. The idea behind this project is that, in my not so humble opinion, there are several big gaps...

I'm getting around to it! A while back I did a MSDN Webcast on this topic, and I also presented upon this at the Australian Teched 2006. During my sessions I used a whole bunch of demo code etc. It is my mission to make this available to you (took me...

You know the tags....Minority Report...intelligent fridges and washing machines knowing how to wash your clothes for you (guys...this could be our moment of fame! rather than everything coming out 'pink' and then you get banned from the washing machine...

This TLA (Three Letter Acronym) littered post is about how to add PDB (Program DataBase) files to the GAC (Global Assembly Cache). Today my current client had the need to get the true source of an exception. They had a catch statement which logged the...

Tom posted some pictures of the event here . Cool!

Ingo posted the demos he so brilliantly gave on his blog .

SP1 for TFS is available in beta! http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/09/26/772371.aspx

We had a client incident where there was an issue with the BizTalk WSE adapter that was resolved by the BizTalk WSE Apadter Service Pack 1. The comment from someone on the product team was that not many people seemed to know about this service pack, even...

Show of hands, who has opened up a map created by someone else and been filled with dread at the concept of modifying the map, even for something relatively simply. I'm willing to bet the answer is nearly everyone who has ever done mapping. It usually...

I’ve realized that I never understood the full potential of the Visual Studio Database Project. None of the projects I’ve worked on has had a effective process on handling changes and versioning of the database schema....

A while ago Microsoft released the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0. It finally makes it possible to use all the time saving ASP.NET controls in 2.0 without all the horrible HTML they used to produce. The toolkit gives access...

I'm creating a new series of posts related to using the BizTalk Mapper. I know, it's certainly less sexy than Pipeline Testing Framework (seriously, follow that link) or many other BizTalk subjects, but so much of the magic of BizTalk happens in the mapping...

Even with all the time I have spent with BizTalk 2004 and 2006, there is one thing that I will occasionally get tripped on - the fact that exported Bindings and Configuration files do not contain passwords. For security purposes, BizTalk never shows the...