July, 2008

Looks like a silly question, but recently I struggled to find the installed hot fixes on our server. We install certain hotfixes on all of our BizTalk server. One of the critical ones is http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943165 to solve the high CPU...

Tomorrow my good friend and colleague Joe Klug will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about integrating WCF and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Joe has prepared a cool set of demos that explore how to integrate WCF services and adapters with MOSS...

Hi, I just uploaded a build 9.23.42 with some new features and two small fixes and among the new features I included two queries getting high fragmentation info for DTA and MSGBOX dbs . Behind this query is a SQL script which is available only for 2K5 SQL Servers which get list of indexes where fragmentation percentage > 30, so these two queries won't execute on a BizTalk 2K4 Group for example.The tool however keep the old Detailed Fragmentation queries. You have to keep in mind that the SQL...

CSD have just announced Release 12 (R12) of Codename BizTalk Services, Clemens has a good low-down on what’s new here . Remember BizTalk Services != BizTalk. BizTalk isn’t used in the cloud or the client – it’s just a branding thing. The Connectivity...

Yes, It’s been quite a while since my last blog post! A lot has been happening internally including a job move for me to the Solution Architecture team in MCS as a Solution Architect from the fantastic Application Development Consulting (ADC) team. I...

This article appeared in eWeek a couple of days ago, I wanted to ensure that people following Oslo's progress on my blog are aware of it, it's a good read. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Oslo-Road-to-Microsofts-Cloud/ We're...

I’ve seen people struggle both on the forums and while consulting when in it comes to finding an good way of grouping and transforming content in file before debatching it. Say for example we have a text file like the example below. 0001;Test row...

The DocumentSpec class in the Microsoft.BizTalk.Component.Interop namespace of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipelines assembly is commonly used in custom pipeline components (particularly assemblers in disassemblers) to represent a compiled BizTalk schema (a...

Thanks to everyone who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF extensibility and special thanks for the great feedback. The recording is now available on MSDN and you can download the samples here ....( read more )

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I’ve got SOA on the brain lately.  I’m in the process of writing a book on building service-oriented solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 R3 (due out right around the product release), and, trying to organize a service review board at...

After working for the past couple of months to get this setup, I can now announce that Stargate Global Consulting ( http://www.stargateglobalconsulting.com ) is partnering with Quicklearn ( http://www.quicklearn.com ) to deliver advanced BizTalk training...

The PDC 2005 was the best conference I ever attended. Seeing WF and WCF for the first time, as well as the DSL Tools and lots of other stuff, plus the several contacts I did while there, helped understand what was to come in technology, and this help...

Microsoft has published a few days ago a new guide around optimization of BizTalk Server performance. This is a lengthy guide (over 200 pages), but it has a lot of very interesting information, some of which you can't find anywhere else, and there's...

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week.  The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP...

This weekend I took the plunge, literally, and participated in my first sprint triathlon here in Minneapolis. I won't say it was pretty, or that I did excellent, but I feel pretty good about my effort and the results. Mostly I was hoping to just finish...

I just pushed all the source code for my BizTalk 2006 PipelineTesting library to GitHub . I'll keep this public repository updated whenever I make any changes to the library, so if you're interested in keeping track of the code or forking it,...

After the more than normal pain in getting this done for my previous post , I decided to post the fruits of my labour (not labor that my wife tells me about watermellons and men wouldn't know the first thing about birth....I'm not about to do...

"Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Silverlight, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies." You're starting to Roll your sleeves up and get dirty with Silverlight 2 Beta...

This week I returned to my home state of Texas to attend the Worldwide Partner Conference. Returning to my home state didn’t get me back to speaking in my southern-drawl, but it did get me speaking with partners about something we are both excited about...