January, 2008

Ted Pattison has created a new SharePoint tool called STSDEV. I haven't checked it out, but it sounds promising! If you want to hear Ted's sweet voice, check out the screencasts he has made to get you started. STSDEV: Simple Tools for SharePoint...

Various settings and customizations (e.g. Master Pages, Content Types) can be pushed to an entire SharePoint Site Collection pretty easy. But crossing the Site Collection can't be accomplished without building your own solution (which typically involves...

Extending ESB Guidance · Blogical.Adapter.SQL - Download · Blogical.Adapter.SMTP - Download · Blogical.Resolver.LDAP - Download · Blogical.Resolver.SQL - Download Adapter Provider Framework After a resolver executes, the dynamic resolution service checks...

I spent an hour or so this morning working with a college to debug a strange error he was getting when he tried to use on of the Exception Management Framework samples that are in the ESB guidance for BizTalk. He was intentionally creating exceptions...

This time we'll combine loosely-typed BizTalk messaging concept with dynamic mapping to create generic transformation orchestration. Then we'll add it to the message broker created in the first article to make it even more powerful. Quite often...

Yes, I know that this is a worthless piece of nonsense , but I just wanted to show that there are some quick eyes out there. Looks like this feature was 'pulled' before the rollout.

I've playing around with the new preview of Oracle SOA Suite . Among the new features, Business Events is the most attractive to me and it can be considered Oracle's first iteration towards a complete Complex Event Processing platform based on...

I need to have a correlation set when an email comes in and when a file comes from an ftp site. The file name is not in the email. There is actually not anything that I can use to correlate between the two. I figured that I simply would create a pipeline...

If youare building any applications in health, you should really be across the Microsoft CUI. "The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides Design Guidance and controls which allow a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling...

I'm happy to announce that the new BizTalk interactive capabilities reader has been published to the BizTalk Website. This is a navigation control based on Silverlight technology, which ties up the BizTalk capabilities poster with the capabilities...

I’m apparently being subjected to some new MVP hazing.  I received my “welcome” kit in the mail … but it was for some MOM MVP!  Then poor Tim received my kit in the mail.  This was after my online profile got mixed...

I’ve got to confess that I’m not all that good with the FOR XML EXPLICIT syntax to generate Xml straight out of SQL Server - although there are a few good resources on the technology, I don’t spend enough time writing it and just get...

If you've ever tried to use OPENQUERY to perform a passthrough query in SQL Server to a linked server, you have probably come across the limitations of this function. It is VERY clunky if you are trying to pass variables or to get return parameters...

Some people said to me that I would miss the consulting work, well now I can have the best of both worlds, Stargate Group has launched Stargate Global Consulting and I will be splitting my time between being Systems Integration Manager and Principal Consultant...

Many people are eager to get their hands on the new Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk and to start exploring all of the great stuff it contains. However, we’re seeing that a lot of people are struggling with the installation process. Therefore, I thought...

As I posted here , I had the honor of doing an MSDN Geekspeak last month with Lynn Langit and Glen Gordon . It was a lot of fun, a very casual conversation, covering two of my favorite areas of sub-specialization: BizTalk BAM, and ESB. The recording is...

My apologies for going dark. No valid excuses so I won't waste the bits. Hopefully, you have all discovered Mohsin's blog by now. He has been diligently picking up the slack while I have been dormant. Mohsin has a lot of terrific posts on various...

I encountered yet another MSDTC issue when talking to a remote SQL Server database following a BizTalk 2006 development environment upgrade from Windows Server 2003 Ent. Ed. to Service Pack 1. The usual ‘Mutual authentication required’ / ‘No...

I have need for this occasionally so I thought I would publish the code that I have written. namespace StottIS.ChangeConfigration { public enum Active { Start, Stop } public class Adapter { public static void RecieveLocationStateChange( string ReceivePort...

long time ago I asked if MS could document the error messages that come out of the various parts of BizTalk. My wishes were granted today, and I have a detailed list of error code/message for all of these below: