April, 2009

I’ve recently published a free screencast on the basic ideas around context management with workflow services.    Microsoft ships several bindings that support context management, but they cannot possibly cover all of the scenarios you might...

I’ve recently published a free screencast on the basic ideas around context management with workflow services.    This screencast walks through the basic ideas of managing context in workflow services and introduces several concepts that will...

Down at BizTalk 24*7 Saravana Kumar has been working hard to organise a whole collection of BizTalk articles from us in Cyberspace He's done a great job! Check it out - http://blogdoc.biztalk247.com/ and yours truly is here - Mick Badran

Earlier this week I attended the RFID workshop held at Microsoft's Reading Offices. I thought Id write up some notes and thoughts I'd made about the event. Content/Trainer The course was based on the course developed by the guys at Breeze ( http...

Recently, Greg Leake (Senior Director Developer Platform at Microsoft) performed a series of IBM written benchmarks.  The results of the benchmarks demonstrate a significant cost savings of running WebSphere on Windows on HP Blades as opposed to...

I never really “got” the idea of the need to build a textual DSL when I was first introduced to MGrammar. The light really switched on when I looked into developing a DSL that would make it easier for developers to create BAM activities. The BAML language...

For years I’ve heard people say that Microsoft technology is great for mid range solutions. I can’t tell you how many CIOs have told me things like “we use WinTel for department level applications but the big iron apps run on Unix.” There’s a general...

There was a failure executing the receive pipeline: "Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines, Version=3.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Source: "XML disassembler" Receive...

(link to new extension file at the bottom of the post) Jean-Pierre Auconie (JP) , the creator of the Message Box Viewer tool for BizTalk, has released a supporting tool called the Message Box Viewer Query Builder. JP has also posted a quick help about...

Over on the ILOG blog, Chris Berg called out Andrew Siemer’s post at http://geekswithblogs.net/AndrewSiemer/archive/2009/03/30/ilog-rules-for-.net-3.0-ndash-quick-overview.aspx . I thought I’d post some observations by way of a response. See http://geekswithblogs...

Dimension Data has been doing some great work for us around SQL Consolidation. They are holding an updated Techspresso session covering the topic. See below: https://techspresso.didata.com.au/Techspresso/Melbourne/MLB_2009_05_27.htm Lower Your Database...

Six years ago we announced a multi-year, multi-product vision for the Enterprise which we called Dynamic IT. The principles were simple - virtualization, model driven, services oriented and user centric. Shortly thereafter, we began to conceptualize a...

My colleague, the ‘Arch Hacker’, forwarded an email to me this evening from Kenton Price. Kenton had noticed some peculiar behaviour using the Microsoft Business Rules Engine. Here are the pertinent extracts from Kenton’s report: “It appears that if you...

Recently I got the following error while trying to write out a flat file. The way I resolved it was to remove the .dll from the GAC and resinstall the .msi. Event Type: Error Event Source: XLANG/s Event Category: None Event ID: 10025 Date: 4/28/2009 Time...

Last month I blogged about a free end-to-end ASP.NET MVC tutorial called “NerdDinner” that I wrote for the Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book from Wrox Press.  The book is now released and shipping on Amazon .  The NerdDinner tutorial walks through...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of BizTalk Server 2009, which is available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) customers and will be made available broadly in nine languages — Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, English, French...

  Microsoft have now officially released BizTalk Server 2009 for general availability – the April 27, 2009 press release is available here. To match the release there have been a few updates on the product page as mentioned by Richard Seroter. A...

Microsoft officially released BizTalk Server 2009 today. Press release is here , and you can see a complete list of new features here . I was wondering what to write, and a retrospective seemed appropriate. But first, where are we today? I hear lots of...

Earlier today, the DMTF announced the creation of the “ Open Standards Cloud Incubator ” group which will specifically focus on developing a set of informational specifications for cloud resource management. This is one of what will probably be a number...

A while back Matt Milner and I coauthored a whitepaper on the new WCF LOB Adapter SDK and the BizTalk Adapter Pack. It was published on microsoft.com a few weeks ago but I guess I missed it. You can download the paper from here .  Here’s a brief...