March, 2007

Howdy everyone, So first off, I should probably say that my posts might be a bit more far and few between (not that they are all that often as it stands :). A long time co-worker, Kartik, will probably be manning the ship on the blog as I have decided...

Hey everyone, I've finally managed to upload the v2006_R2 release. Its actually a rather small release and i know i've got to sort out my version numbering really soon. I promise to do that in the next release. I've been struggling with a VPC from hell...

Hey everyone, I've finally managed to upload the v2006_R2 release. Its actually a rather small release and i know i've got to sort out my version numbering really soon. I promise to do that in the next release. I've been struggling with a...

The Rule Manager will soon be enhanced with a new feature that allows the Interactive Rule Map as a Rule Debugger. See a video here: Rule Validation Video . It's almost an action movie. This is part one of providing Rule Validation (testing your rules...

Everybody these days seems to be pretty excited about the new PDF version of BizTalk 2006 documentation (Btw, a latest .CHM version is out as well, but there is no hoopla around that). So thought I'll download the PDF version and check it out as I have...

Hi, I'm reliably informed by Wiley that the book should be in-stock at their warehouse on the 23rd April 2007 and should then ship to distributors/stores in the US followed by international outlets subject to delivery times. Enjoy! Woo Hoo!

Every organization (and developer) has their own development project structure. I’ve set up a BizTalk project structure that my company will use for all new BizTalk projects. To make life easy, I also built a simple VBScript file to automatically...

Hi, I'm reliably informed by Wiley that the book should be in-stock at their warehouse on the 23rd April 2007 and should then ship to distributors/stores in the US followed by international outlets subject to delivery times. Enjoy! Woo Hoo!

Some of us when new to building custom pipeline components would have faced this problem, especially with long messages. You have a custom pipeline component placed downstream after the disassembler component and expect that the disassembler component...

Eric (MS) has been working hard in providing us (loving your work Eric!) with updated BizTalk documentation. The folks are doing a great job over all of this. This is a massive PDF - a single one which encompasses a great deal of things within it. Here...

If you haven't already download and install the Service Factory it really reduces the time taken to build and publish your WCF services to IIS letting you concentrate on implementing business logic. Unfortunately it doesn't come with any refactoring functionality...

I have Visual Studio 2005 with Service Pack 1 installed and I cannot debug any web service or web application. This worked for a while and then it stopped working. I researched this on a couple of sites and the suggested solutions were - Debug with F5...

I have Visual Studio 2005 with Service Pack 1 installed and I cannot debug any web service or web application. This worked for a while and then it stopped working. I researched this on a couple of sites and the suggested solutions were - Debug with F5...

Here are a few scripts / stored procedures that most of the BizTalk newbies would love to know. These scripts are very useful in a development environment to clean up your MessageBox and Tracking databases. To clean up the MessageBox First create the...

The Architecture Strategy Team has just released an Office Business Applications Reference Application Pack for Loan Origination Systems (OR-LOS) that leverages SharePoint, BizTalk Orchestrations, BizTalk Business Rules Engine, WF Workflows, and Office...

Any day now.....it'll be making it's way to the download area and then refreshed by the web front end servers and then.....viola!!! It will appear as a download. Some great improvements around EDI (6000+ schemas out of the box) - WCF + WCF adapters. ...

Clayton has posted a link to fix this problem: http://claytonj.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/moss-2007-records-center-fails-when-using-a-required-field/

Sezai has written a whitepaper detailing the process involved in migrating a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Website to a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Internet Site. Have a look at it here: http://sharepointblogs.com/sezai...

Off to Code Camp Oz this weekend ( www.codecampoz.com ), hope to see lots of familiar faces.

I passed the final exam for my MCPD Web Certification today, this will allow me to become an MCT.