June, 2007

Many thanks to all the guys and gals of the Little Rock .NET User Group for having me in to do the "WCF Deep Dive" for 6 hours today. Despite some challenges from the lab, we made allot of good headway. I promised the code and slides, so here they are...

If you're in my WCF Deep Dive class, the ConsoleWCF in CSharp is here and VB is here .

Sonu Arora has a great post on what exactly the WCF LOB Adapter SDK does and how it relates (i.e. extends) the capabilities of the normal WCF channel and extensibility model. Her entire blog is worth checking out if you've been wondering just what the...

Sonu Arora, who I had the pleasure of meeting at TechEd this year, has just posted on her blog that her team has released an RC (Release Candidate) of the WCF Line of Business Adapter SDK to Microsoft Connect . In case you don't know, this is the framework...

Sometimes the weirdest things come up when testing. I was helping with some Integration Testing recently, and we needed to submit a new valid postal address with every request to this system. That's a hefty load to bear, and certainly if I were doing...

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Wow what a night planned!!! WF 101 (even good for managers! :)); BTS hosting WF and making it all happen under BizTalk Labs (that's next after R2) Check it out and looking forward in seeing you there...... -------- Details --------- Examine Windows Workflow...

What a name....talk about the pinnacle of TLA's at the height of a great technology field. Can you imagine being at work/meetings etc. and say "Hold on, I've got to grab the WCF LOB Adapter SDK for my BTS Messaging Hub" (at this point I'm sure it would...

MS have been busy in this space and we've now got the following (or soon will have :) BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Evaluation Edition BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Branch Edition BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Developer Edition BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Standard Edition BizTalk...

Hi, Microsoft has swiftly released WCF LOB Adapter Release Candidate yesterday. This WCF LOB Adapter RC contains SDK , which allows developers to build WCF Adapters integrating .net applications with existing applications and messaging platforms. Download...

We are delighted to announce the first public RC release of the WCF Line-of-Business Adapter SDK . Goal of this SDK is to create uniform, reusable and metadata-based service-oriented interfaces to existing systems and applications using WCF. It allows...

How would you like hours and hours (in fact weeks) of training and sessions on WPF, Silverlight and everything Web Related? Arturo Toledo has even given us permission to share with you the Expression Blend, Web and Silverlight Hands On Labs from MIX!...

From Netcraft yesterday ... "Microsoft has recently switched its main website, www.microsoft.com to Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft-IIS/7.0. There are already around 2,600 sites running Windows Server 2008 on the Internet. Whilst some of the servers...

Marty Wasznicky of the BizTalk product team is back from the blogging dead and talking about Microsoft’s ESB Guidance. The last time this character posted on the blog was immediately after he and I taught a brutal BizTalk “commando”...

Announcing - June 2007 Community Release of ESB Guidance – http://www.codeplex.com/esb By Marty Wasznicky Field Program Manager, Connected Systems Division In October of 2006, we announced the preview of the Microsoft ESB Guidance at Microsoft SOA Conference...

I mentioned in a previous posts that the rule validation in the interactive rule map (cause-effect graph between terms and rules) is part one of the rule validation. In the image on the right (click to zoom) you see the second part that is currently being...

Wow......I can't even remember the last time I blogged. I've been living on an airplane; it seems like for years now. I guess an update is in order. I'm still working for Microsoft....in the Connected Systems Division. That's the place in Redmond where...

I've been pretty quiet lately - mostly because I've been working on this project for hosting workflows inside of BizTalk 24x7 (well more like 16x7 - I'm too old to do 24x7 anymore even with RedBull). Its been really fun getting this code to work (generating...

One of the new power features in .NET 3.5, sorely missing when .NET 3.0 was released is the integration between Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation, in the way of the new Workflow Services model. Besides providing an easy...

Finally it's here - there was some talk internally within MS about an adapter being built to communicate to WF Runtime, thus allowing hosting of WF workflows within BizTalk. At the moment we're at cross roads with BizTalk 2006, as the Orchestration/Business...