March, 2008

Given a scenario where you have a maintenance window, and need to shut down one or more applications, you might find it challenging when you are going to start them up again. If you are working with a large BizTalk solution, the Application Stop and Start...

Scenario You have a pure messaging solution (no orchestrations) and you wan't to be able to keep track of messages delivered to their destination by send ports and adapters for internal logging purposes. That is, you want delivery notifications, or...

As was already announced on this forum, the BizTalk Adapter Pack (BAP) was announced more than a month ago during the Office Developer Conference and became available starting March 1st. The BAP provides a robust and comprehensive out-of-the-box connectivity...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Three New ASP.NET Security Tutorials Now Available : Scott Mitchell...

I personally only have the actual BizTalk items (schemas, pipelines, maps, orchestrations). And of course, the solution might also have other projects like custom external DLLs, custom pipeline components, test projects, .NET 3.X projects, all the stuff...

Having successfully started with the Oracle adapter and dumped the entire table out to a file, I decided to look into the mechanisms for getting the data out for the official assignment. I’d like to share what i found. As i mentioned in the previous...

Time flies when you're having fun; my little girl is already one year old. She's the reason why I don't have that much time to blog anymore as I used to have; and I love it. :-)

When installing Windows Vista SP1 for your 32bit operating system you may be fooled into believing that you do in fact have more than 3GB of memory and that the operating system is taking advantage of that. In pre SP1 installs only 3GB will be detected...

If you’re looking to dig a bit deeper into WCF security, and specifically how to perform particular tasks, go check out J.D. Meier’s blog for a link list of new “how tos” and videos recently posted to CodePlex. Specifically, you’ll...

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session about RESTful services at the New York Connected Systems User Group and at the Orlando Code Camp. I had a lot of fun in both event and got some interesting feedback. The presentations and demos can be...

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Report Manager web application has help pages in several languages. They display nicely in IE, but in Firefox they are reduced to a mere   is the unicode byte-order mark, coded in UTF-8. A first inspection with Firebug...

How would you like to take portions of MSDN online documentation in your laptop without installing the entire library? Package This is a GUI tool written in C# for creating help files (.chm and .hxs) from the content obtained from the MSDN Library or...

One of the core priorities we focused on when building IIS 7 was to enable a rich .NET extensibility model that provides developers with the hooks to easily plug-in and extend the web server.  These extensibility hooks are provided in the web-server...

I'm always looking for these: InvalidType = -1 GenericList = 100 DocumentLibrary = 101 Survey = 102 Links = 103 Announcements = 104 Contacts = 105 Events = 106 Tasks = 107 DiscussionBoard = 108 PictureLibrary = 109 DataSources = 110 WebTemplateCatalog...

For those of you wondering where I've been - I've been on vacation for the last 10 days, skiing and snowboarding. Although slightly of topic for this blog I just have to share one of the pictures we took with you, to give you an idea of the wonderful...

I’ve re-worked the BizTalk 2006 Message Archiving Component as a true streaming pipeline component - utilising a forward only eventing stream - to more efficiently use process resources when archiving large files, as suggested by Mikael Håkansson...

A good friend and colleague of mine has started a project on codplex to build a GUI for BizUnit, Check it out here : http://www.codeplex.com/bud

Ready to build a content publishing business in the fastest-growing group at Microsoft? The Windows Mobile Communications Core Content Publishing Team is looking for an experienced Content Publishing Manager to drive our commercialization content publishing...

The concept of Service Oriented Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus is huge topic for many organizations now days. To address this, our patterns and practices team have recently released the Enterprise Service Bus Guidance which organizations...

Happy Easter, It's user group week and this Wednesday we're going to look at BAM (as well as playing some xbox!) Wow another month has gone by and there’s been some great work done in the land of BizTalk . There’s been a BizTalk Operations guide...