May, 2008

According to Brian Harry[1] , he has been working with the BTS folks to get this put in place. He has been assured that this will be part of the R3[2] release of BizTalk Server that is due out next year. Finally, automated builds for BizTalk without all...

Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don't get confused, this is not just a simple set of bug fixes, this thing is big! Entity Framework and LINQ to entities ADO.NET Data Services (formerly...

I got a chance a few weeks ago to sit down with Jeff Brand at the local Microsoft office and talk about something I love - Connected Systems. We discussed Workflow and Biztalk, WCF and web services and how it all fits together. Jeff is fun to talk to...

Scott Guthrie announced the availability of .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 today. If you read his entry , you'll see this release is packed with new features, many of which revolve around the Ajax, MVC, and ADO.NET improvements they've...

Hi, Microsoft has released .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 for VS 2008 and this has been announced in Soma’s blog and this service pack is not just a bug fix patch but has new features and extensive support for asp.net as listed here. Ta!

Clayton sent through a great picture that explains what the main placeholders are on SharePoint Master Pages. Well done CJ - thanks!

If you want all resources of your BizTalk application to be registered in GAC on MSI import, it is necessary, prior to exporting BizTalk application to MSI file, to check ‘Add to the global assembly cache on MSI imports (gacutil)’ option in...

One of the new WCF features in .NET 3.5 SP1 is that DataContractSerializer now supports serializing types that aren’t annotated with any serialization attributes like [DataContract] or [Serializable]. If you were using DataContractSerializer prior...

Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases.  These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November. ...

One of the things I like to track are book sales on Amazon.com, which provides a useful data point to monitor what developers are interested in on any given day.  I use the www.TitleZ.com site (which is built using ASP.NET) to track specific titles...

WCF: Technique of debugging inconsistency in Wsdl and Response messages. I have consumed several WCF services where WSDLs do not conform the Response messagess (See below. I’ve bolded the sample text related to one issue.). We can fix the issues by changing...

I came across an unusual requirement earlier this year while at a leading golfing industry company: We needed to retrieve current tournament standings from the PGA Web site, pulling scores and statistics from them by FTP every 2 minutes while the tournaments...

Michele recently wrote a lengthy but deliciously thorough article on MSDN (hat tip: Lynn) called Application Deployment Strategies which identifies five core scenarios for using Windows Communication Foundation within a distributed application. ...

Another new WCF feature that's part of .NET 3.5 SP1 has to do with better support for object references. DataContractSerializer has always supported serializing object references and dealing with graphs, including cycles, and not just simple trees...

The ability to rigidly define the content of a data field is an essential element in any structured data definition.  It is no surprise therefore one can define data constraints on elements and attributes in a schema through the means of various...

Earlier this week, I grabbed a couple new CDs, hopped in the car, and drove down to San Diego to present at the .NET User Group’s Connected Systems meeting.  The topic was the BizTalk Adapter Pack and I outlined what the BAP is, what the core...

Richard Seroter has finished writing his articles on TopXML.com about BizTalk and WCF. He goes into a lot of detail on all that can be done with the WCF adapters in BizTalk and also the WCF Adapter Pack for Line of Business Applications. If you work with...

As most of you know, during the day I’m a mild-mannered .NET developer using all things Microsoft. But I lead a double life! Before my (still undiagnosed) illness came upon me suddenly last year, most of my free time was spent with my family or...

I've previously posted my ideas about using LINQ in BizTalk . At that point it was just theories, and following the links in the comments section of that post I wasn't the first to have them. Thanks to the red bits/green bits approach BizTalk...

Richard Seroter published useful utility to store/retrieve configuration settings in Enterprise SSO database. I added some more functionality to it. First, I added Export/Import functions allowing to actually save values in the external XML file (Richard's...