December, 2006

On this post Dare summarized an interesting discussion about REST and Message Security

I have uploaded an update to the BizTalkGurus.com BizTalk Bloggers OPML file. This update adds 6 new BizTalk related blogs and brings the total to 97. You can download the OPML file here . If you do not want to track the blogs yourself, you can see most...

I was coming across some issues with my WCF Service Clients and not shutting down properly. They were throwing exceptions for various reasons and while trawling the ether I came across a great helper class (and this is where I saw the c# where clause...

When I was onsite recently doing a sharepoint migration to MOSS 2007 from WSS V3 - for whatever reason all the servers (and databases) were blown away and all the client had was one content database of their site. (Who said client sites werent exciting...

Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10185

Eric provides some interesting food for thought around anti-patterns for BizTalk Server, starting with a kitchen sink analogy applied to maps . http://blogs.msdn.com/ebattalio/archive/tags/BizTalk+Anti-Patterns/default.aspx...( read more )

I spent a rather interesting day at Microsoft , Reading at the Grey Matter Architect Forum. The focus of todays sessions was all about how other companies/partners are using VSTS and extending it. Heres some of my thoughts on the sessions today and on...

We BizTalk developers often get frustrated with this assembly GACking stuff. Here is a cool registry setting which will make our life little bit easier. Copy and paste the code into a notepad file and save it with extension .reg. Double click on the file...

I've just made an update to the R1 BETA release. Now instead of the multiple MSI's, the source code is packaged in a simple zip file and the bindings to source control have been removed. This should make this easier to use in your own directory structures...

What an awesome two weeks. First I'd like to thank Clare Dillon for setting up the tour, and then all the user group leaders and people that came out to here me talk about WF. For those of you who came - here is the zip file of the slides and the demos...

and as you well know, when people use the word "interesting" in a sentence like that its usually a euphemism. Let me start off with some background. The Visual Studio BizTalk project system is different from the native Visual Studio project systems like...

I had the privilege tonight to speak at the Dallas .NET User Group. While December meetings are normally lightly attended, we had a good crowd who was very engaged on the subject matter. The talk reviewed XML namespaces, XPath syntax, and closed with...

It took a while for the online version to appear but you can find the article, "Introduction to BizTalk Server's Features and Benefits" , here .

MS has published a code sample for Integrating BizTalk Server 2006 with Windows Workflow Foundation at the link http://msdn.microsoft.com/biztalk/ Luke has posted little more information on this sample here: http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/archive/2006/12...

Dimension Data Learning Services (DDLS) and Breeze Training (aka Mick Badran and co) have worked in collaboration to put together some public training courses next year (April 07 / May 07) on BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Sydney: 16th April - 19th April 2007...

I am investigating updating the BizTalk Server 2006 Operations section of the documentation. A large part of my job is to improve our documentation by gathering customer feedback. Specifically I want to know what is missing, incorrect, unclear, or just...

  Introduction Recently, a company in the process of implementing BT 2006 within their enterprise asked me for a recommendation regarding best practices for a pre-existing usage scenario they were seeking to accommodate using BizTalk. This company...

The BizTalk Server Documentation Team is looking for customer input on the documentation of the operations topics. Specifically they said they "want to know what is missing, incorrect, unclear, or just needs work in any of the Operations topics". Go here...

Recently I end up in a scenario where I need to debatch a message inside the orchestration to produce multiple messages based on XPATH. There are already quite few articles about it, one good one is from Stephen Thomas hands on lab. Only problem with...

I stumbled upon this japanese translation of my Amazing XAML article http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/nlarchive/bexp2/issue_6/AmazingXAML_Japan.aspx LOL!!