January, 2007

I own an A Class BizTalk domain name which i'm thinking of selling. The domain is http://biztalk.ms . Click the link and check it out. I have a holding site there. This would be an excellent blog site or site for a company specialising in BizTalk. If...

Updated a machine to all the latest patches/updates/hotfixes...whatever. Rebooted (there's always that moment where you wonder "will it" or "wont it" startup again....... My system gave me a great error message (worst thing is - this was working fine...

Scott announced this morning that the final release of ASP.NET AJAX shipped this morning. There are already a number of sites out there using the framework. Some of the more recognisable ones are the Live Image Search and Pageflakes and for a NZ example...

In previous posts I have mentioned the usage of Decision Trees or Decision Tables to represent business rules. Acumen Business has developed an editor to create such Decision Tree rules. See the video here . The decision tree can be viewed in horizontal...

ASP.NET AJAX has just RTM-ed, cool! Even cooler: Daniel Larson has released the SharePoint AJAX Toolkit on CodePlex, which uses the ASP.NET AJAX framework. This sounds very promising! Daniel writes : ASP.NET Ajax Extensions (aka Atlas) have been released...

Ok, Ok, I better get in on the action as well. Seems like the rest of the world has been tagged so here is my contribution to the 5 things you may not know about me... thanks Mick Badran and Graham Elliott for the pleasure ;-) So in no particular order...

While working on a BTS 2006 solution - I decided to use the SQL Adapter to call a stored Proc to update data. While the SQL Adapter wizard is OK, there's no real reason to use it. I usually delete everything it creates, apart from the Schema for namespace...

If you think of this as a proxy server for RDP Clients then that works. It can also sit behind an ISA 2006 server. You need the latest RDP 6.0 client. Download it from Microsoft here . Read the KB article here (which includes links to versions for OSes...

Hey all, I'm back from leave and ready to rock for 2007! The BrizTalk guys have posted thier synopsis for thier next session which should be a GEM!!! Here is the email. If you can't get to the session (becuase you don't live in Bris Vegas!) email the...

[Via Bill Simser ] Required for every SharePoint developer: SharePoint Server 2007 SDK The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, code samples, references, and an Enterprise...

[Via Thomas Hawk , Techcrunch ] (Why do photo sharing sites need to have weird names: Flickr , SmugMug , Zooomr ?) People who know me a little bit probably know that I love to take photographs, lots of photographs. My inner geek of course wants to do...

The new issue of the Architecture Journal is available in PDF format . The topics: Composite applications. Happy reading!!

We have published new Line of Business Adapter Walkthroughs. They are available on MSDN here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/aa937652.aspx Using an Oracle System Executing an Oracle Sample Query Using a PeopleSoft System Executing a PeopleSoft...

Via Luke, I suspect that this updated page of articles, whitepapers and webcasts on the BizTalk 2006 adapters will be invaluable for folks working in a diverse environment (hey, like me!). Note all of the Line of Business adapter walkthroughs now available...

Did you know? The default XMLReceivePipeline does not validate the structure of the input XML message. Based on the MessageType of the input message, it will try to lookup a document specification (schema) and if it finds one, will do all the required...

Hi, I have received a number of inquiries on this post . Some have left comments with little contact information. For those of you interested in job opportunities on BizTalk Server, please send email to our recruiter, Kerry Van Voris, at kerryv@microsoft...

We have published new Line of Business Adapter Walkthroughs. They are available on MSDN here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/aa937652.aspx Using an Oracle System Executing an Oracle Sample Query Using a PeopleSoft System Executing a PeopleSoft...

In my last post I showed how to add conditional tracing to your BizTalk application using a flag stored in an external configuration file. While this is the easiest “lookup” solution to set up, it also has a few downsides. Namely, being forced...

We have received a few requests to create a single zip file containing all of the SDK samples on the BizTalk Server Developer Center Code Samples page . Since this is something I can do quickly outside of formal channels, I grabbed a copy of all of the...

I just finished up my first week in the new job, and so far, so good. One aspect of my job as Architect is to help identify reusable frameworks and encourage their usage. I spent a brief time considering “tracing” and how best to add *conditional...