January, 2009

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up. In this session, I go into detail about how to use one of the more powerful control flow activities in the framework. I show how to use data to drive control flow with...

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up. In this session, I follow up on my previous screencast where I covered using SQL Tracking Services and dive into how Tracking Profiles work and how you can create them...

Get it here .  One note of caution - delete your Repository database first.   I didn't and had to completely uninstall and re-install again - YMMV but at least you are warned :) Check out my new book on REST .

I will be speaking at VSLive! San Francisco at the end of February, specifically on the 25th and 26th. I'm presenting the following sessions: Codename "Dublin": Windows Application Server What's New in WCF/WF 4.0 Web 2.0 + WCF Blog readers...

Certification for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is available, at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx . Apparently it came out last October.....anyone done it? let's go there! I'll post back shortly and let you know how I went.....

[ Via Paul Andrew ] Now here is a must have tool for every SharePoint developer that wants to make sure that his code isn’t causing any nasty memory leaks due to forgotten Dispose calls (typically on the SPSite and SPWeb instances)! The SPDisposeCheck...

In a recent internal discussion I was enlightened to the fact that there is a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 certification exam available.  This exam is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx , so get going and be one of the...

I had a requirement to extract several thousand rows of X12 data from a back end database and package them up once a month into X12 EDI with a max of 5000 rows per Transaction Set and maximum 4 Transaction Sets per file. I found that there was no out...

Today we wrapped up the 6 th annual SOA and BP conference here in Redmond. This was the 14 th stop on the tour which continues around the world thru April. Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote to kick off the conference and took that...

I'm teaching one of Pluralsight's signature Double Feature events in London the week of February 16th. Double Features are basically two four day courses jammed into a single 5-day week (extended hours). The topics this time are WCF + WF. Most...

Planning on Enterprise Library 5 has started! See Gregori's blog for more information if you want your EntLib needs to be in the next release: http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/01/26/enterprise-library-5-what-s-on-your-wish-list.aspx !

I've come across the same situation twice, so time to blog about it. I have an EDI segment that can take 4 line procedure codes. The back end system contains the 4 procedure codes, but it is not guaranteed which order they will be populated or if...

Setting up an HL7 Solution HL7 Accelerator Overview As you might know, the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 offers a great deal of enhanced messaging capabilities for the healthcare industry. Although it is offered as a separate download, it comes with the...

Microsoft just published a very interesting an in-depth 86-page document about BAM, one of the most under-used features of BizTalk Server, “Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers”. You can download if here , and find more overview info about...

As the Beta release for the Adapter pack approaches, here's a list of changes in the Oracle EBS/DB Adapters so that you can prepare for it: · Now support Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 · B ased on Oracle ODP.Net 11.1.0.7 Both adapters now _...

Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC).  Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh).  It works with both Visual Studio 2008...

Just a quick note that the slides for my talk on BizTalk 2009 on the 22/01/09 for the Auckland Connected Systems User Group can be downloaded from the Attachments section of this page: http://www.acsug.co.nz/Meetings/New-Capabilities-of-BizTalk-2009—Thiago...

The latest round of research is out from Gartner, and they have positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant of all three Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants. The Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects...

Our Australian Govt. has been busy over Christmas by finally legalising RFID UHF Reader Frequencies and Power Output! Previously the 'work around' was to operate under a Scientific (Experimental) 'License' - these were controlled by GS1...

For those who deploy BAM activity definition using the Tracking Profile Editor, it may come as a surprise when denied access to the BAM portal......( read more )