March, 2009

Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is my favorite conference of the year – since it nicely integrates development and design topics together in a single event, and is usually accompanied by some pretty cool product announcements...

  The article on Microsoft support about maintaining and troubleshooting BizTalk Server databases has been reviewed and  updated. It even now applies to BizTalk 2009 databases (although I’m not sure they’ve added too much about 2009 there). ...

Hi all Alister Whitford has a question today on the online forums about preserving white space in a map. He thought that the functionality has changed between BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2. He has done a great job looking into stuff and it appears he is right. You can check out he thread here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkgeneral/thread/7dd28a9b-16b5-4c0e-90db-843caf4689ee where he also shows how not to preserve white space in R2 and thus have the same functionality as...

Hi all Disclaimer: I do NOT encourage the usage of he information in this blog post. The post is merely about some silly experiment, he results thereof and a conclusion on it. So, this friend of mine (and former colleague) mentions every now and then that he isn’t all that sure that the “No subscribers found” should be an error but maybe more a warning. His man argument is, that if I have two subscribers for something, say all incoming orders are put into an archive file drop and also sent to the...

In my last post I blogged about the improvements to recoverable interchange processing (RIP) in the upcoming 2009 release of BizTalk Server. One question that pop up while writing that post was whether it would be possible to write a custom pipeline component...

The 2009 version of BizTalk Server is soon to be released, but we have been asked to give feedback to the product team on what features we’d like to see in future releases. My plan was to focus on smaller things that I think would make a big difference...

I must have changed my password to my email server a LONG time ago, because it has been ages since I have been getting emails from my blog. I finally took time to look into this and have reconfigured it to send me emails again. If there are any unanswered...

The new SQL Adapter in the WCF Adapter Pack 2.0 supports composite operations, that is performing multiple SQL operations in response to a single input message. The purpose of this blog post is to provide a walkthrough of how this works. I am using the...

Since I got a fan of the jQuery Javascript library , usually I can’t resist showing off the power of this library in my SharePoint development courses at U2U . For example two weeks ago I was in sunny Cyprus talking about SharePoint, ASP.NET AJAX and...

I ran a file that had a null character in it, and this is the error that I received: <?xml version="1.0"?> <Result State="FAILED"> <Error> <HResult>0xC00CEE2B</HResult> <Description> <![CDATA...

Speaking of standards - I’m thrilled to report that we will release the “M5” (Milestone 5) CTP ( C ommunity T echnology P review – think Beta) for .NET Services (part of the Azure Services Platform) tomorrow! For those who aren’t familiar with this effort...

Matte has a nice and simple tutorial on how to install CruiseControl.Net, which is an automated continuous integration server for the .NET platform and you can use this for your .net web applications. Enjoy!

In recent days there’s been some interesting movement in Oslo-land: Doug Purdy and Chris Sells did a presentation at Mix09 that showed a domain-specific language for invoking RESTful services, and how to use M to create RESTful services BizTalk MVP Yossi...

As you might expect, several of us spent most of Thursday and Friday last week in conversations with developers, standards body members and other vendors regarding open standards for cloud computing and how we get there collaboratively. Being in this...

This webcast will look at implementing a service aggregator pattern to call three WCF services that will book a hotel, flight and conference for attendees of a conference. The design will be kept simple for now, and will be optimized and made more reliable...

This is a third post in a series describing my Oslo based solution for deploying BizTalk applications; I’ve used this exercise to play around with ‘M’, but it was important for me to work on a real solution, with real benefits – something I could actually...

In a previous post we've explored how to extend Dublin's forwarding service by implementing a custom message filter. This post continues the series by illustrating the extensibility model of Dublin's tracking service. WCF message tracking...

Apparently I forgot to blog my demos from my WCF extensibility session at SDWest. You can find them here . Thanks again to all the people who attended my session....( read more )

My latest article on .NET Services is available in the April 2009 issue of MSDN Magazine. It’s called CLOUD COMPUTING: Building Distributed Applications with .NET Services .  Enjoy.

We just wrapped up another great year at DevWeek 2009 in London. It’s one of my favorite shows to attend each year because of the central location, the attendees, the great conference organizers (thanks Nick!), and the chance to hang out with good friends...