October, 2008

It’s been a very busy week in terms of announcements. “ Dublin ” has been announced, and Darren Jefford probably has the best summary of what Dublin is and how it will affect us. Channel 9 has published some great webcasts looking at Visual Studio 2010...

I'll be at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam next week, and am really excited about it. Amsterdam's a great place, I've been there a few times, and this is looking like it will be a really good event. I could do without yet-another trans-Atlantic...

During the last couple of weeks I've been involved with a customer that thought that doing a Big Design Up Front (BDUF) before starting out implementing a BizTalk solution was the way to go. However it wasn't a BDUF from the aspect that they first...

The guys from K2 have provided some more detail on what they will be showing us during the User Group meeting on Wednesday: Home Improvement Retailer – Integrated Sales Order Solution. Charles (Sales Officer) creates a new sales order. Customer...

Parallel programming is an extension of sequential programming; today, it is becoming the mainstream paradigm in day-to-day information processing. Its aim is to build the fastest programs on parallel computers. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture...

In this post, I outlined the ways in which stored procedures can be executed using the SQL Adapter. Similar to the methods described there, are very similar methods for polling on the inbound side. (I won’t mention the advantages/limitations/workarounds...

I know a lot of you are excited about attending PDC2008 from the 27th through the 30th of October . There are some very interesting sessions at the PDC this year, I wanted to draw your attention to some of the sessions by members of my team. WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 Presenter: Ed Pinto WF 4.0: A First Look Presenter: Kenny Wolf Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML Presenters: Rob Relyea, Daniel Roth Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services...

Today, one of our BizTalk developers asked me how to take a delimited string stored in a single node, and extract all those values into separate destination nodes.  I put together a quick XSLT operation that makes this magic happen. So let’s...

Christian Weyer has now announced that WSCF-Blue the code name for the next version of WSCF - Web Services Contract First is now an open project on CodePlex and is looking for people to participate and take the lead on driving the tool forwards. In case...

Have you ever had two objects, of different types, and wished that C# could just be smart enough to realize that objA.FirstName should be assigned to objB.FirstName? For me this comes up quite a bit when working with WCF services. I don't want a service...

Now I’ve run into a bit of a roadblock with powershell when it comes to creating host instances. I’ve posted a note on the newsgroup and will probably cross-post to the BizTalkGurus forum as well, once i reset my credentials there. Anyway...

Welcome back to the WCF screencast series! After a spending four weeks covering WF topics, we return to WCF for the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series. In the coming month, we’ll be covering topics around the calling of WCF services. This week, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to create your first WCF client application that consumes an existing WCF service (see the screencasts covering the creation of a WCF service and how to create endpoints...

Hello, Before Dublin is in charge, especially the Repository for the Web-services I'm using the custom code to manage the buzz with many URLs in Web.config files There is a utility to change all URLs in .config files by one click. http://www.codeplex...

The first of two whitepapers entitled “Using Custom Behaviors with the BizTalk WCF Adapters, Part 1"” is now available for download. You can get the Word version of the whitepaper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129615 . Alternatively,...

Although adding the BAM WCF-WF interceptors via .config files works for most of the scenarios, there are some cases on which you need to add these interceptors programmatically. Dealing with multiple BAM databases, dynamically enabling and disabling tracking...

I was asked a couple days ago whether it was possible to receive a related but disjointed set of files into BizTalk Server and both aggregate and reorder them prior to passing the result to a web service.  Below is small sample I put together to...

Something I’ve never come across before - which Host does a Dynamic Send Port use? There is no value displayed under the Handler column for a dynamic Send Port: Also, when you look at the configuration for a dynamic Send Port (in this case a dynamic...

Sometimes in the BizTalk forums such questions appear. "...I have been using event log to test variables. I was hoping there was a way to watch it process in VS like you can debug a forms app." There is a difference in the usual app and in the...

I was sent a link to a mind blowing Channel 9 video on Service Oriented Modelling presented by Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna. IMO, thats the most inspiring piece of kit i’ve seen so far. The work Hatay has put into it is fab. If you havent seen it ...

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