May, 2007

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Scenario: The following question is taken from BizTalk.General NewsGroup (altered slightly for readability purpose) "I'm mapping an element in the source schema to an attribute in the destination schema. The element does not exist in the source schema...

As my new friend Sam mentioned on his blog, we've been hanging out yesterday and today exploring Windows Workflow. Just had lunch as this excellent place - http://philadelphia.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=0&restaurantid=30368&neighborhoodid...

My latest Service Station column is now online -- it's called WCF Addressing In-Depth . It starts out by reviewing WCF addressing fundamentals and then it quickly dives into IIS addressing considerations, multiple endpoints, unique vs. shared addresses...

One of the things that always interests me is the number of people that are building things for the web that aren't in the IT industry. I liken this to when I was a young kid writing games for my Vic 20. One thing we often overlook is that kids have heaps...

From within an Orchestration, there often times occurs the need to retrieve the original filename and/or the archived filename in the %documentshome% directory. The following stored procedure can be run from within the orchestration that consumes the...

Tomorrow , there is a free webcast by Kavita Kamani (Microsoft) about using the rules engine that is part of Windows Workflow Foundation. You can register for this event here . Microsoft's rules engine is a bare bones forward-chaining rules engine. The...

Because there are so many entries on the web about how to develop a schema not included in the standard install of the BaseEDI accelerator, I would like to share how to create schemas that can be successfully imported and used. Use http://www.disa.org...

Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people on 7/7/7 to raise awareness about global warming. With 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world's top musicians, Live...

Natasha and the Webstock team have just launched Full Code Press . On Friday the 6th of July the New Zealand team will be chosen. On Saturday the 18th of August (Saturday after Tech.Ed) teams from Australia and New Zealand will spend 24 hours (yup no...

There is a new release of QuickCounters up at http://codeplex.com/quickcounters . Great new useability additions to the viewer application by Dave Comfort, as well as fewer priviliges required against remote servers. See here for the quick tour…...

There is a new release of QuickCounters up at http://codeplex.com/quickcounters . Great new useability additions to the viewer application by Dave Comfort, as well as fewer priviliges required against remote servers. See here for the quick tour…...

In the last post we looked at how SOA Software is used to manage and maintain web services. Today, let’s look at how we can configure web service “policies” to do everything from encryption to load balancing. So far we’ve seen...

During our BizTalk development we come across some really strange error message, which normally doesn't reflect the real cause. I always wanted to consolidate everything in one place. After seeing couple of errors that's being raised in the news groups...

A few weeks ago my good friend Harry Pierson mentioned me that Pat Helland was back at Microsoft working on the Developer Division. For those of you who haven’t heard about him; Pat has been one of the main contributors to transactional programming technologies...

When writing WCF implementations, or any code for that matter, testing is an important part of the process. This week, I was building tests for implemented WCF services and had difficulty aligning all the external dependencies of the tests (running hosts...

I downloaded and installed Roxio Buzz this morning. Now I was impressed how quickly it allowed me to get a slideshow built and uploaded to the silverlight streaming service . I opened the ap dragged in 28 photos and 1 wmv file... clicked the share button...

The main reason for this blog post is due to this newsgroup post Download Sample from here . Step #1: Catching SOAP Exception: Whenever you call a Web service it's a good practice to handle the SOAP exception specifically rather than just leaving the...

During the conference I had the pleasure and oppty to spend some time with Andrew and his family. The conference was tooooo short - should have been 4 days. It's not often you come across great inspiring people, with a great attitude to 'lets see if we...

A magic piece of software that deserves a great rap!!! :) There I was....on a client site 'inbetween' meetings (as best you get) and I got a call from another client having a biztalk issue and needed some guidance. (sound familiar....family members wanting...