May, 2008

You gotta love this. Its like buses. You wait for one forever and then two come along at the same time. No sooner had i finished looking through StyleCop, I happened to go over to the Visual Studio Gallery (this is different from the MSDN Code Gallery...

A friend alerted me to the fact that StyleCop (formally named Microsoft Source Analysis for C#) is now available in the public domain and can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery . Its been used as an internal tool in Microsoft for a long time. It...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted some BizTalk coding tidbit… Busy times! I often have to set the value of an element under a message’s repeating node with the same value. Of course, normally you’d use a map, but what if...

For the next release of adapter pack, we are adding 2 new adapters -- Oracle EBS and SQL . In addition, we are also enhancing support for the existing OracleDB adapter. We are planning to add support for the following: - UDTs - Table Types - Boolean types...

I had discussed the design of our integration layer in an earlier post and Stuart commented asking if we implemented the messaging layer using messaging only or if we needed to implement orchestrations. As i started writing the response, it got rather...

In dealing with some EDI data, I came across some data that was invalid In a file we had a large number of COB segments that looked like this: COB*U*1234567*01*1 There are supposed to be 3 elements in the COB, so I hacked away at it for a while and came...

Next week marks the start of TechEd US in Orlando, which is always a fun conference to be at. I'll be there, presenting a session on Friday in the SOA track: "Technical Drilldown into Microsoft's ESB Guidance". The SOA track is packed...

I guess this is the week for my articles to go online :) Now my WF/WCF integration article is on MSDN . Hope you find it helpful. Check out my BizTalk R2 Training .

One of our BizTalk developers had a requirement to collect related messages and send a single email summary with details about those messages. I built the example below to help her out. In this scenario, a series of independent, but related, messages...

PDC08 has opened for registration. I'll be there, will you?...( read more )

We are announcing the availability of the Eval version of the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0! This can downloaded from here . You can use the eval version for development purposes for 120-day from the day of installation. Party on! The BizTalk Adapter Pack...

We are close to releasing the initial CTP of the new BizTalk adapter pack which contains the all new SQL and Oracle E-Business suite adapters. We are looking for your help in securing customers to provide validation of these adapters prior to release...

Jon Flanders and I coauthored an article on BizTalk Services that just went live on the MSDN Magazine web site . We begin the article by discussing ESB's and the trends towards SaaS, and then we describe how BizTalk Services embodies the best of these...

My colleague Karine has released a new version of her Caml Query Builder Tool! Version 3.1.0.0 has some great new features: Query fields by ID GetListItemChanges (method of the Lists.asmx web service) GetListItemChangesSinceToken (method of the Lists...

Pfew, the DevDays 2008 in Amsterdam , The Netherlands are over! I think both of my sessions ( Getting your SharePoint Code Deployed & Advanced Web Part Development ) went pretty well; no crashes or failing demos. Let's hope the audience thinks...

Hi folks, love to see you there Check the details out at - http://sydbiz.org/Lists/Events%20Calendar/DispForm.aspx?ID=15&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fsydbiz%2Eorg%2Fdefault%2Easpx Also one of the things we've been working on in the last month is a Private...

Teched US is here!!!, this year I am presenting two sessions in the SOA track and I have the honor of co-presenting with my good friend Joe Klug who used to be a Product Manager on the BizTalk Server team. On Tuesday 3 rd I will be presenting a session...

“Pragma” killed the Post-Poll Bembeng Arifin commented on my second post in this series calling out something he had found when working with polling and i decided to follow up on this and in my opinion, the technique is so simple, its absolutely...

This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework.  I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release.  Today's build includes some additional...

I've been playing around a bit with Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and ran into a problem deploying a BAM definition XML file I had just created in Excel. When I tried to deploy the definition, I'd get an error similar...