December, 2008

Microsoft announced the public BizTalk 2009 beta today.  You can snag it from the Microsoft Connect site.  I’ve been running BizTalk 2009 on a VM since late summer, and while you don’t notice a whole lot of differences, there are...

Do you wish you could open your presents before Christmas? Your wish has come true! Microsoft has announced the release of BizTalk 2009 CTP, and it’s available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . The updated Enterprise Service...

From the connect.microsoft.com Site: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2009 represents the next release in Microsoft’s long-term strategy to enable the connected enterprise. BizTalk Server 2009 enhances enterprise connectivity with broad industry support...

This application has been on blog for a while, and I'm happy to have got lots of feed-back. Apparently, I'm not the only one finding uninstalling/re-installing BizTalk assemblies to be challenging. You have to know the order of references between...

I was asked: "How can I call into a Windows Service to get it's status?" A little more background said that status was to be retrieved by clients (a website) on the same machine. My response was to use WCF with the NetNamedPipeBinding. Since...

The papers in Sweden reported last week that resources with expert level knowledge on standard platforms and systems are hard to come by. In summary it says that its an emerging trend in Sweden to use standard platforms, but the fact that resources are...

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has brilliant support for WCF out of the box; in fact I use it’s WCF based adapters almost exclusively now, unless I have a specific line of business system, like S.A.P / Microsoft Dynamics to connect to. It is really painless to...

Yesterday I was hanging out at the Microsoft office in Los Angeles for an “Architecture Council” meeting on the new Cloud Computing platform.  You can find the slide materials on the Strategic Architecture Council blog. Overall, a worthwhile...

My friend Jon Flanders ' most recent book, RESTful.NET , is now available. Jon's a masterful instructor, always doing a great job explaining technologies to the masses. I'd highly recommend this book if you're doing anything with REST...

You’re probably surprised that I’ve kept this up, aren’t you.  Here we are, five interviews into this series and still going strong.  This month, we chat with the one Flanders that Homer Simpson actually appreciates: Jon Flanders...

Just found the .Net Services Team blog entry where they explain that they are retiring the labs.biztalk.net stuff. I personally never quite got BizTalk.NET as it had nothing to do with the BizTalk product. Did anyone else ever get the correlation? Now...

Uploaded new version of SSO Config Tool including fix for the browsing SSO Config Store application and some usability/UI improvements. Download source code .

I came across this a while ago and thought it's too good to keep quiet. The classic problem we've all been in "works on my machine" says the Developer. Basically this certification is easy - you launch the app, get to the main screen...

Last week I was teaching the U2U Advanced SharePoint Development course in Brussels when one of my students showed me a web part he had created. The web part showed a cool 3D chart (rendered with Adobe Flex ) based on some data coming from a SharePoint...

I just got my copy of Programming SQL Server 2008 - great book, I highly recommend it as the SQL Server 2008 reference for developers. Great job guys. Check out my new book on REST .

Consider a scenario where I want to insert data into two tables in a single transaction. The tables have a field that should be populated using the same sequence - one using SEQUENCE.NEXTVAL, and the other using SEQUENCE.CURRVAL, so that both tables get...

I have wrote a little about the BRE , and Microsoft is looking for customer experiences also here at this survey .

Today the BizTalk Adapter Development team announced a new whitepaper on troubleshooting the BizTalk Server Soap adapter in BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 (although a lot of if not all still applies to BizTalk 2004). The download link is here. The whitepaper...

Microsoft® BizTalk® Server uses the SOAP adapter and orchestrations to receive and send Web service requests. The SOAP adapter enables orchestrations to be published as Web services and consume external Web services. Because configuring and/or using Web...

I'll be geeking out today on this MSDN Web cast, where I'll be talking about Windows Azure and Microsoft .NET Services, and the impact they'll have on .NET developers in the years ahead. We'll be following the typical geekSpeak formula...