November, 2008

Ok, so these aren’t entirely compiler hints, but interesting nonetheless: 1. Re-Ordering of Catch Clauses The compiler will throw the following warning if you catch specific exceptions after a general exception block: Orchestraion.odx(653,17): warning...

I was at the SOA/BPM Conference this week at reading and was watching one of the presentations which discussed the differences between BizTalk and Dublin. It occured to my that with BizTalk being pitched as the integration product and dublin being pitched...

Hi all A new functoid has been added to the collection of functoids that an be downloaded at http://www.eliasen.eu/Downloadsoftware.aspx . The functoid simply takes one parameter, which is used as a key against BizTalks app.config (The BTSNTSvc.exe.config file in BizTalks installation folder) to read an application setting from the appSettings group. So given a .config file like this: <appSettings> <add key="eliasen" value="eliasenValue" /> </appSettings> and...

For those of you in Sweden, who has been waiting for RESTFull .NET by Jon Flanders; The book has now been released on Bokus.com :

Was trolling CodePlex today and noticed that those Patterns and Practices cats just released a neat little set of short architecture guides that cover a few specific architectural areas including the Agile architecture method, web application architecture...

There are a lot of aspects that needs to be combined in order to architect robust RESTful services to go beyond the typical HTTP verb and URI modeling. Capabilities such as Low-Hi REST, Error Handling or Caching are fundamental elements of real world...

I’ve done some experimentation around this as a proof of concept a while ago. With all the hundreds of posts on Dublin and Oslo and .NET 4.0 there’s nothing better than to relax with a bit of BizTalk To ensure ordered delivery between a one way http receive...

  You can find it at http://www.rest-ful.net/book/default.aspx .  My plan is to have more REST and WCF content up on that site soon - but at least the code files for the book are there. Watch out for the code from Chapter 10 (consuming REST...

Mike Lehman has posted a set of screen-casts on Channel 9 that explain the process of authoring and composing blueprints, including how to use the WF process workflow, creating custom extensions, using T4 etc. Here is the list of videos and a short summary...

James, a student of mine this week pointed me to a great tool that 'optimises' your SharePoint site (as well as websites in general). Runtime Peformance Optimisation (RPO) is the place where it's all at. You basically plug your URL in and...

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support...

I have just received word that the 005010 HIPAA schemas will not be supported in R2 but will only be available and supported in BizTalk 2009! I am VERY surprised that Microsoft would decide that, given the somewhat slow accepting of new products in the...

Jon Flanders has been a thought leader in the area of doing REST in .NET.   His new RESTful .NET book is now available for purchase.   He goes into the motivation and background for REST and then shows how to consume and expose RESTful web services with WCF 3.5.  Very few people can make low-level technical details as accessible as Jon.  Definitely one to have in the library.

My book on WCF and REST is doing - and SHIPPING! So many people have been asking me when the book would be ready - well NOW!  Code will be up this week (this of course I know will be the next logical question once people get their copies :)) Amazon...

Today, we posted a release candidate (RC) of the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) here . This effort is a direct result of feedback we’ve received from customers regarding the need to significantly simplify the installation of key components needed to...

So you think GUI coolness nowadays is only related to fancy RIA stuff like Silverlight? Think again! The video above is a little project I’m working on, using jQuery plugins to show a cool way to navigate to the Lists and Document Libraries of a SharePoint...

The first part of this article showed you how you can enable jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites and pages, so in this article let's assume jQuery is up and running in your SharePoint environment. The second part of this article will show you a couple...

Hi all I have added a new functoid to my functoid library. This functoid will take a string, that is separated by some character as input and split it up into the substrings it is, given the separator. It will then return the substring given by a third parameter. So for instance, given these three inputs: Jan,Eliasen,BizTalk , 1 You would get "Eliasen" as output. You can download my functoid library at http://www.eliasen.eu/DownloadSoftware.aspx and here you can also find updated documentation...

I've uploaded a new version of the Blogical SFTP Adapter for BizTalk unto Codeplex . This release adds support for passphrase protected identityfiles after a forums request . Get it here ....( read more )

I’ve posted a couple of webcasts on Dublin on BloggersGuides.net . They are based on the PDC08-CSD image, so things may well change going forward, but they provide a good intro as to how to get started exploring hosting services in Dublin, and the configuration...