February, 2008

I'm happy to announce that Darren Jefford will do two sessions at our next BizTalk user group meeting in Stockholm at the 8th of April. The first session will be about performance and testing followed by "stories from the field", and of...

We had a promising turnout last Wednesday - thanks for your time guys. I asked the question what would you like to cover this year/things to happen etc..... the XBOX night won unanimously (don't blame you :) ) I took down some notes which looked like...

I was just alerted to this whitepaper that has a very good discussion about using WF versus when to use BizTalk. For those of you that are previous readers of my blog I'm an avid fan of WF and BTS working together to solve solutions rather than a...

In this section: Transformation Choices BizTalk Mapper Custom XSLT with the BizTalk Mapper External Transform Engine Transformation in code Which one should you use? Transformation Choices When performing transformations in BizTalk, you have four choices...

Difficulty Level: Easy Two children have the following chores to do, before they will be allowed to play Halo 3. Mow the lawn. Wash the dishes. Wash the car. When done by one child each of these chores will take 1 hour to complete. If they were to start...

I’ve finally gotten around to publishing my source code for my SSO Configuration Data Store Tool.  You can download both the runtime application and underlying source code from here.  If you want to mess around with it, great, but please...

For those of you who like me attended the Microsoft SOA and Business Process conference in late october 2007 you might have been waiting for the post conference DVDs. And it feels like we have been waiting quite awhile. Perhaps the US participants have...

By now i think most people would be aware of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit. I just got my hands on it today and am going to install it soon. The docs seem to indicate that Vista is a prerequisite and i only have Windows 2003...

If you haven’t seen it, SQL Server 2008 February CTP is available for download ....( read more )

Minor update to the BizTalk naming conventions here . The big thing is that for a long while now I’ve thought physical send/receive ports should be named with just a plainly-worded phrase that will be as transparent as possible to operations staff...

One of the cons of working for a large company such as Logica is that you don't really know your collegues. Those closest to you and those you have worked with or met at social getogethers you have a fair concept about who they are and what they do...

On February the 12th me and Mikael Håkansson did a presentation for the BizTalk UserGroup Sweden on ESB Guidance . The slides we used for that presentation are now, perhaps somewhat later then I would have liked, online for your viewing and re-using pleasure...

The title says it all. Microsoft is now offering students free access to developer tools, enabling you to persue your dream, to allow the spark you have to ignite into a succesful company (or so the talk might have gone when they thought up the name)...

Today the company I work for is unifying its brands in diverse international markets under one new name. WM-data is an old and established name within the Nordic region while Logica CMG has been the name of the UK corporation in which we became part of...

This week is an exciting one for Microsoft, particularly those of us who work on the Server & Tools Business—today we’re launching new versions of three cornerstone technologies—Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The theme...

Team Foundation Server 2008 provides the ability to specify a “remote” Sql Server Analysis server as well as a remote Sql Server Reporting server. Normally, your Analysis Server is located with the data tier, and the Reporting Server is located...

Unit testing is a best practice when it comes to application development.  BizTalk development falls into this realm of application development so it would be great to be able to unit test these applications as well.  The most commonly used...

Richard Seroter has a great article entitled You’ve Just Bought BizTalk Server. Congrats. Now What? over on his blog, in which he lists his top ten recommendations for organizations getting started with BizTalk. He highlights some important points - which...

This msdn article is tempting, but the following page does not explain how to use the decoration tags. I have created a sample that uses a resx file, but also show how to use decoration tags (there are three groups BAM, Polling, and Server, coupled with...

A set of video recordings of sessions from the SOA & BP conference are posted on the Spotlight! sight. This is a fantastic channel for IT Pros to get access to key content from MS events worldwide. Please see the list of sessions below including the...