May, 2007

OK, Reading actually, but if you are in the London area and interested in workflow, then this is your chance to get a thorough understanding of not only the how of WF, but the why. We will look deep under the covers of building WF programs, hosts and...

I and Pluralsight are excited to announce another new BizTalk Server 2006 R2 course - one specifically geared toward RFID! Check it out here - http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/AppliedBizTalkRfid.aspx no public offerings schedule yet - but there should...

Normally when we need to consume a . asmx web service in BizTalk 2004/2006 (NOT R2) inside an orchestration, we add a web reference, which will create all the multi-part message and web port type required to consume the orchestration. You construct the...

Well Microsoft Teched is here !!!!!!!! This year I will be sharing stage again with my friend Sonu Arora who is the Program Manager for the WCF Line of Business Adapters SDK (official name until they change it again). We will be talking about using WCF...

Several people have asked if I'm going to be at Teched next week, and unfortunately I won't due to the limits on my travel schedule right now (thanks to our new little girl , Emma). However, several of my Pluralsight colleagues will be there speaking...

I'm excited to be hosting a BOF this year at Tech Ed on the tracking services in Windows Workflow Foundation. If you are interested in talking about tracking in general, the use of the included SQL tracking and query APIs, or custom tracking services...

My team has been working on a set of technical BizTalk Server 2006 posters that are finally ready and available for download. Hey, we had to have been doing something while we weren’t blogging. :^) Be that as it may, the first in the series is a capabilities...

So I had to fire up my XP laptop today because my new Rode Podcaster microphone (which is otherwise is totally awesome) won't start on Vista despite getting a usbaudio.sys hotfix from MS Support (which was a suprisingly painless experience). Anyway -...

We have received a lot of questions from our TAP customers and beta users regarding how and where to configure certificates for encryption and signing of AS/2 messages and MDNs in BizTalk Server 2006 R2. To that end, our resident expert Yury Bogucharov...

Just wanted put in a plug for me first break out session called Advanced Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 Concepts. It's SOA312 and it is on Thursday at 2:45 PM. The abstract is: "Business processes are a required component in most Enterprise Integration solutions...

Apologies if anyone has been experiencing IE7 crashes when trying to read articles on this site (though I don't really see why I should apologise for IE7 crashing!). As far as I can tell, this seems only to affect IE7 users on Vista. IE7 on XP appears...

It is so easy to get caught up in our day to day existence... it often takes a moment to make us once again become present to the now. I have been teaching my daughter to stand up and gain the confidence to walk. Tonight when I got home from work she...

As of today the full family of Microsoft Expression products are available for purchase in New Zealand! Web , Blend , Media (includes license for Expression Media Encoder when it ships) or the whole Studio (which includes includes the other 3 + Design...

I don't know why this site changed it's good ol' name from The Daily WTF to "politically correct" WorseThanFailure but I wouldn't do it in my case. I happen to perform code reviews on Java to .Net migration recently and in both...

Está publicazdo mais um screencast sobre BizTalk, o 3º, dedicado a mapas de transformação. Download aqui . Ps: o audio não ficou com a qualidade que eu gostaria. I'm working on it.

When I tried to add a "Web Reference" to a WCF service (basicHttpBinding), I encountered following behaviors 1. Either it will throw an exception showing "Failed to add Web Reference" and no more clue anywhere, OR 2. Message saying "This page is accessing...

The current issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal has an article ( Software Development In Eastern Europe ) about the Outsourcing/Offshoring topic I posted a while ago. The article focuses in Eastern Europe. One of the interesting conclusions was that the «region...

Together with a colleague , I spent 2 weeks customizing the Web Service Software Factory , to change some of its behavior. It was the first time I used it in practice, apart from doing the tutorials and some peeking into the recipes and available actions...

I'm basically replying to Yossi's post here . I tried to leave it as a comment in his post but for some reasons my comments are not getting posted in his blog. Myself and Yossi used to work together in a big public sector Healthcare BizTalk project for...

I wrote this lab about a year or so ago, with a view to posting it when I got the time. If you want to learn about multi-server installs with BizTalk, it may be a good idea to run through it in a virtual environment first. It will probably take you about...