January, 2008

We'll I just spent about three hours tonight fighting with this issue, so I thought I'd post about it to hopefully save someone else from having to go through this. I was trying to run a couple of samples from the ESB and I noticed that whenever...

I've been meaning to post this stuff for a while and now finally gotten round to it :) Venkatesh (RFID lead architect) before Christmas ran through a first teach of our RFID Course in Singpore + China. One piece of feedback that came out of the course...

If you have been keeping up to date with developments within the Connected Systems Division within Microsoft you will be aware of the “Oslo” initiative. Microsoft has released information about this here , and Charles Young has a very informed summery...

A couple months back I wrote a short post explaining some simple BizTalk Server 2006 R2 + Windows Communication Foundation scenarios.  Afterwards, I was approached by the folks at TopXML.com to write a series of articles that provided depth on BizTalk...

Fellow pilot and talented IT professional, David Megginson , put out neat web site http://www.ourairports.com that allows to leave comments about airports visited (as pilot or passenger), and share personal maps. I added those where I landed as a pilot...

This post is based on something we experienced recently. When we activated some more file receive locations against a machine to which we previously had a bunch of receive locations configured, after a while they began to become disabled, one after the...

Great news! When I attended and spoke at the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference I was informed that they were recording all sessions to be included in a DVD of the event which would be sent out to those who had attended. Great, wonderful...

Hi All, In an effort to gather more customer feedback on our Visual Studio 2008 developer exams, Microsoft has extended the beta periods for the following tests: * 71-502: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation Application Development...

Students frequently ask my opinion on which BizTalk Books will be most helpful. I have reviewed several books, and will recommend a few of them here. I haven’t really seen any terrible BizTalk 2006 books (and believe me, I have seen some terrible...

We have documented and posted all the error messages for RFID, SSO, EDI and WCF for the event log. See the links below: · RFID: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb968047.aspx · SSO: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb899027.aspx · EDI...

This is really a note to self, as I have a habit of forgetting the numerous issues I have overcome and feel my blog can be a great repository for such information, as it may also assist someone else out there. I haven't been as rigorous with this...

If you're a nerd/geek like me, you will have noticed that the lego brick just had its 50th birthday. I think we should all take a moment now to commemorate such a profoundly important invention. Let me explain. If you do a snap poll of all the people...

Ever had the need to create an enumeration of values for a field or element within a BizTalk Schema? Did you know that you can store those values inside an Access database for synchronization with the enumeration values for the schema? The BizTalk schema...

Consultants (like me) tend to exist in very different worlds than enterprise architects and developers. We get exposure across a broad range of companies, flitting from site to site, solving problems, spewing wisdom, and moving on. That’s a great position...

The Exception Management part of the ESB Guidance was first introduced (to me at least) through the book Pro BizTalk 2006 by George Dunphy and Ahmed Metwally. I didn't immediately make the connection, but when looking at the ESB Guidance solution...

If you read the SimpleTalk blog (aka RedGate Software), you’ll probably have read Phil Factor’s latest entry ‘Microsoft Boy announces his School Homework‘ which is a piss-take on the standard Microsoft marketing blurb, attempting...

You must have read in the documentation that the SAP adapter does not support/honour the timeout values specified on the binding (sendTimeout, openTimeout, etc). However, at times you might yet receive timeout related exceptions from the adapter. Why...

I've written about Model View Presenter (MVP) several times before, once after hearing a talk and learning about the pattern, and again when I learned about extension methods . Today I bring you a screencast on Model View Presenter using Visual Studio...

Happy New Year!! Yeah, i know its kinda late for that but i only got back last weekend from a nice long holiday back home in India so as far as i am concerned the year is just starting. It was heartening for me to see that BizUnitExtensions has clocked...

I’ve had a few folks ask recently about the presentation I did for MDC 2007 on release management and branching strategies with Team Foundation Server. The PDF was available on the conference site, but not the PowerPoint, so here it is .