January, 2007

We have been waiting for this a few years now. W3C has announced the release of eight (8) Recommendations, representing some eight years of work by members of the W3C XSL Working Group and XML Query Working Group, with widespread implementation experience...

I've been doing those 'getting round to it' things over the break and I had an interesting couple of questions with this exam. I'm in the (never ending) process of updating my qualification to MCSD.NET 2.0...TS The exam http://www.microsoft.com/learning...

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

Lee Graber (the man behind all things SQL and LOTS of other areas within Biztalk) has posted some great tips around the BTS Message box - interacting with and what's 'changeable'. Check it out - thanks Lee (one for the bookmarks folks)

[Via Mark ] Every SharePoint developer knows that creating SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP files) for deploying your web parts, event handlers, features, ... is the way to go: it allows the SharePoint administrators to easily deploy the customizations...

Recently I got a question from a student how to get a list of all the web parts (in code) that are displayed on a specific SharePoint Web Part Page. This could be useful if you would like to close all the web parts at once, add web parts programmatically...

Several people have begun to encounter a problem compiling projects after installing BizTalk Server 2004 SP2. Fortunately this problem has been encountered before and there is a Windows HotFix which solves it. Despite the name, this fix will work for...

Hi All, Continuing with my series on “Useful links on Windows Workflow Foundations”, this post targets to provide more information to beginners as well intermediate level of Workflow Developers: 1. MSDN contains loads of information on Microsoft...

Debugging in BizTalk (and other async/messaging-based solutions) can be complex, and very often the UIs (the Admin Console and Hat) don't give you enough tracking information, either because you've just re-deployed and lost tracking settings, or because...

Rule of thumb: In the "Script Functoids - Inline C#" use only string types as the input and output parameters. How it works: If the C# method in the Script Functoids - Inline C# has non-string parameter, it will be converted to the string on...

(It's all over the Belgian blogosphere, but I wanted to mention it as well!) If you want to see one of the "big shots" in the Microsoft .NET team, who happens to be an excellent speaker, you should come and visit the next VISUG meeting with Scott Guthrie...

Here is a very handy list of promoted context properties and their name spaces that I found on Stephen Kaufman's WebLog . Receive Side 1. ReceivedFileName ( http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/file-properties ) 2. InboundTransportLocation (...

Promoting properties inside BizTalk is quite common task, after all back bone of BizTalk's underlying routing infrastructure Publish-Subscribe is based on property promotion. There are tons of articles published in the web explaining this concept. Properties...

It is no secret that I like Rock Music... I was one of those kids wearing old lumber jack shirts in the early 90's listening to Grunge . Growing up Seattle was as much of a pilgrimage to me as Mecca is to so many others. Off course I liked the more popular...

As one of the most important rules for a test is that it can’t rely on state, I’ve always found automated data access testing hard. As I view it there are three approaches to accomplish reliable testing of such a layer:  ...

I had the pleasure of talking last night at the Little Rock .NET User Group and present my Black Belt XML talk. It was a packed house, though not in there usual room and that was why, but approximately 50 people attended. If you were one of those, welcome...

Peter Lin has a very valid concern : My main caution to users is that no matter how nice the writing part is, how does the tool make it easier to maintain and understand a large ruleset ? Does it have the ability to analyze the rules and show the relationship...

Signing Assemblies In Visual Studio 2003, you had no way to create strong name keys and you were forced to use a command line utility (SN.exe). Microsoft simply assumed that creating strong names is a relatively infrequent operation, done once per company...

We’re working with a lot of code libraries that we use in different parts of our BizTalk solutions. As the are used on several servers and by loads of different “BizTalk parts” (both in orchestrations and maps) it’s important...

Ofcourse, there will be changes from earlier versions for all products..but asp.net 2.0 has surpassed my expectations… it has definitely eased programming , however, its getting more complicated…check out how to retrieve connectionstring from...