June, 2008

As promised, we’re launching our July series of WF and WCF Influencer MSDN Webcasts . You can find links to them on our MSDN Webcasts site here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnnetframework35.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=liveall Webcast Title Date...

Quick Learn one of our training partners has announced upcoming training's on BizTalk RFID. Following are the training dates. BizTalk Expert Series - RFID August 25-26 http://www.quicklearn.com/newsletters/news061808c.htm BizTalk Expert Series - RFID...

You might be wondering what do all these guys have in common....good question.... :-) We're currently building an RFID enabled System where complex processes are handled by BizTalk Server, and data being pushed down to Silverlight V2.0 clients via...

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how the Polling feature in the WCF SQL Adapter can be used to read messages from SQL Service Broker (SSB) queues and publish them in the BizTalk MessageBox. And to make it really simple, we’re going to do it without...

A group I’m working with was looking to use SharePoint to capture data entered by a number of international employees.  They asked if SharePoint could restrict access to a given list item based on the value in a particular column.  So...

Yet more great content over on the (RedGate sponsored) Simple Talk blog, this time an excellent article on tracking down deadlocks using SQL Profiler by Brad McGhee, well worth a read before your production system starts to exhibit this behaviour!

Hi All, In the past few months I been hit with so many technical problems running biztalk 24 * 7.com. I'm currently with 1and1 for my hosting, I been with them for past few years now. Everything is well and good until you hit a problem, but once you...

We’ve had a recent deployment to production that did not go according to plan, or so we thought at first. It is an upgrade of a BizTalk solution from BizTalk 2004 to 2006 R2. It integrates a website, a CRM system, a bank system, and a fulfillment...

Thanks to all who attended my talk on VSX & Software Factories at VBUG last week. It was a decent turnout considering the last minute change of venue. The slides should be available from Chris Mitchell at VBUG and I’m also posting them here...

Assume you’re using the WCF SQL Adapter (part of the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0). You decide to create 2 Receive Locations (RL), in order to poll the database. Each RL polls a different table (e.g., the “PollingStatement” binding property in the first RL...

That some spammer thought my wiki pages where hit enough to warrant modifying them on a daily basis with links to various "odd" sites ;-) Thanks to Craig I've upgraded to FlexWiki 2.0 and now those pages are locked down - I apologize if...

When we make changes to our BizTalk environments, we always ensure that the changes are scripted so the Ops Team don’t really need worry about messing things up - as a result, we use Binding files everywhere. Normally, we do large scale solution...

On my previous MSDN WebCast I showed a demo of how to use a custom WCF protocol channel to combine Workflow Services and durable messaging transports channels like MSMQ. If you watch the recording of the WebCast you can see the entire demo, but there...

Thanks to everybody who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF-WF integration in depth . You can watch the recording here and the samples are available for download here ....( read more )

For those of you who attended my webcast today on workflow communications, the demo code is attached to this post. It includes the base activities used for communication activities (more on these in a later post) and it provides simple example of local...

During my preparation for my Tech Ed talk on BizTalk Server port binding options, I wanted to write a PowerShell script to help me manage the transitions from one demo to another. For the most part, I was looking for a way to quickly enable / disable...

Mostly this post is here to motivate me to actually get this book done ASAP - http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-NET-Jon-Flanders/dp/0596519206/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214538175&sr=1-2 Yes - I am writing a book on WCF and REST. Not a big...

still going on Check out my BizTalk R2 Training .

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then these two diagrams (courtesy & copyright Microsoft) are worth millions! At least they are to anyone desperate to understand how the BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN 3.5) really works. Initiator...

Here's a sample PowerShell script/functions to start/stop BizTalk orchestrations. This is an extended version of the Stop-Orchestration VBScript included in the BizTalk 2006 SDK, which I hope someone finds useful . The script can be used to start...