September, 2008

I’ve just uploaded the source code for my old /dev/null BizTalk Adapter sample on GitHub , which is where I’m posting all my utilities, libraries and tools now. The repository contains both the original version of the adapter, as well as the special BizTalk...

I've read, listened to and been in a few discussions lately about competency, or the rather the different kinds of developers - as in the diverse approach they have to their day job. I thought I'd give my view, compacted as it must be in a blog...

I have come across this a lot and finally was sick of it enough to write about it. The situation is I have an input that has a bunch of optional fields, and the output is normally a fixed length record file. In my case it is normally an EDI file of some...

So my employeer is making a small organizational adjustment, to follow market trends and to adjust to the rest of the company, making the company more normalized in its organizational structure throughout. It happens once a year or so so you kinda get...

This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship.  We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to...

I'm a bit late because of my extended bout of 100% travel, much of it disconnected, but I thought I'd do a post about this anyhow because it is a very significant piece of news. Microsoft has announced that what was previously being called BizTalk...

Some teams use a Sprint 0 to prepare their product backlog, the infrastructure (development environment, CI server), ... .Is this part of Scrum? Is it useful? http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/sprint_zero Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on...

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my presentation Taming Web Services Interoperability at Oracle Open World. I've really enjoyed presenting for an Oracle-centric audience and we got some great reception and feedback . I will make the demos available...

Me and Mikael are doing a technical usergroup talk around Business Activity Monitoring in Stockholm the 20th of october. Read more and signup here (in swedish)....( read more )

I recently encountered a bit of a “gotcha” when looking at how BizTalk receives WCF messages through its adapters.  I expected my orchestration subscription for messages arriving from either the SOAP adapter or WCF adapter to behave similarly...

With many thanks to Sanket for posting this information originally, I wanted to post these links here so that the next time I can save my self the Google search and just hit this post. These links are for the EN language, but there's a link at the...

I see that there is now a CodePlex project based on my original posting of cascading dropdown lists for SharePoint Thanks maiden123 ! http://www.codeplex.com/CustomFieldControls

Microsoft has put a lot of effort into making your environment secure, however, that still does not absolve you of some things that you still have to configure. Here is an example (using the examples in the SDK) of showing PHI: Notice that you can essentially...

In the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2, we are adding support for execution of SAP Queries. A brief one liner on SAP Queries – you can use the SAP GUI designer to create something similar to a “SQL Query” (similar to how you would do it in Microsoft Access) by...

This morning I announced the release of PipelineTesting v1.2.0.0. Now I need to mention that for this release, I need to give a huge ¡Thank You! to the people who contributed to it by reporting bugs and potential problems, providing some great feature...

Requests have come in to allow the ability to email directly from the logging mechanism. I have added the new properties to the pipeline component. You can send this out to multiple individuals with a semicolon (;) separating the addresses in the ToAddress...

Laptop What makes a great laptop for a mobile office? Well I can give some guidelines, and assume I'm talking to a group of developers, but in the end that is up to you. Some things you need to remember: Extensibility - Does your laptop have an expansion...

My latest screencast is up on the Endpoint.tv show on Channel 9. In this screencast I cover the basic steps to host workflows in your applications. I cover the basic hosting steps in a console application, then jump in and run a workflow in an ASP.NET...

These last two weeks represent a shift in Endpoint WF/WCF Developer Screencast series. The first four screencasts in the series concentrated on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) development; we will now focus on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for four screencasts. We will then alternate back and forth every four screencasts. This week, CSD Matt Milner from PluralSight guides you through how to run a WF workflow in your .NET application and how to manage it. The screencast picks up with an...

I’m happy to announce a new release of my PipelineTesting library! PipelineTesting is used alongside your favorite Unit Testing tool to make it easier to create and test custom pipeline components, pipelines and schemas for BizTalk Server 2006 using Test...