June, 2009

Hi all A friend and colleague of mine has just release SolZip version 1.1 on CodePlex – Find it here: http://solzip.codeplex.com/ . Basically, it is a nifty way of zipping a Visual Studio 2008 C# solution. The utility is pointed towards the .sln file and then zips all files in the solution and projects into one zip file. To me this is really nice, because as of BizTalk 2009, the project files are just specialized C# projects and therefore, it seems to work just fine for BizTalk 2009 solutions as...

Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 released to web yesterday evening, and if you have not been following the earlier CTPs, now is a great time to get on board. The name has been changed, a support model has been introduced, and official MSDN forums for...

BizTalk WCF-BasicHttp adapter issue with http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema namespace I am using the WCF-BasicHttp adapter to consume outer Web-service and getting the error (actually if I have retry>0, I am getting Warning first. See below: Event Type...

I got a message from my colleague Scotty showing off some new app for his iPhone. This new app was showing that he could bring up on his iPhone some xbox 360 live info. I thought damn that would be nice to have on my HTC Touch phone ….so I went searching...

We have developed a HIPAA 4010 to HIPAA 5010 converter for use in Visual Studio 2008. After installing the converter, the steps to use the converter are as follows: Place the appropriate 5010 HIPAA schema in the same project as your current 4010 HIPAA...

Well folks – that pain point SPAM, it’s normally pills, sniffers, adding inches, removing inches… Lately I’ve been getting…”Just confirming for the online event X that is happening in 2 days <blurb> Click Here” This latest one I had to share with...

Welcome to #4 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. Each of these videos has built up from the one before it, so if you have seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. In video #3 ( found here ), I showed you how to use the toolkits new...

While preparing for my webcast on the WCF-SQL Adapter as part of a series of webcasts* I ran into a requirement that is quite frequent with BizTalk solutions: merging the contents of a flat file with a SQL Server database table. I wrote a post a while...

Today I tried to access a WorkflowService hosted in IIS on Windows 7, and got this nice little error message: Error: Cannot import wsdl:portType Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.DataContractSerializerMessageContractImporterError...

Hi folks Here's video #3 in my "ESB Toolkit How To" series. In the last video ( found here ) we built out a complex itinerary that implemented dynamic mapping and dynamic routing. We also saw how to use the resolver mechanism to retrieve...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Often in BizTalk deployments you need to do additional work after installation. Typically your full install process may need to: Install BizTalk artifact assemblies to the GAC Install application dependencies...

Originally posted by Nick Heppleston at: http://www.modhul.com/2009/06/17/how-to-clone-or-copy-a-virtualbox-virtual-disk/ As a virtual machine environment user, I regularly create ‘base’ images of machines that I can reuse - a base Windows...

In part 1 we covered how to create a custom behavior to inject header data into the dynamically created WSDL. In this part we will look at consuming the header data passed in. By default BizTalk will take any custom header it finds in the incoming WCF...

In part 1 , I covered how to create a custom behavior to inject headers into the dynamically created WSDL. In part 2 , I showed how to either promote or write the header data to the BizTalk context. What happens if I want different headers for different...

First, this post is not about any automated tools for mapping your activities, so don’t get too excited. :)   Instead, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the changes to the base activity library in the context of the activities available...

Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog . Silverlight 3 Beta introduces a new way to improve the performance of web services. You have all probably used the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service item template in Visual Studio to create a WCF web service, and then used the Add Service Reference command in your Silverlight application project in order to access the web service. In SL3, the item template has undergone a small change that turns on the new binary message encoder , which significantly...

I ran into a very strange issue today. After installing the ESB Toolkit, I tried to ‘Choose Items…” in the pipeline components toolbox: But every time I did that Visual Studio 2008 just closed without warning and the following exception appeared in the...

By now you must be aware of the significantly enhanced Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) scheduled to be released with .Net Framework 4.0. The road to WF 4.0 and .Net Framework 4.0 Beta1 documentation for WF can give you more details. Being a member of the team responsible for the development of the WF tracking feature, I am excited to discuss the components that constitute this feature. In a nutshell, tracking is a feature to gain visibility into the execution of a workflow. The WF tracking infrastructure...

I just bought a new laptop, and because I am studying Music Technology part time at university now, I decided to get a Macbook Pro so that I could use Apple's Logic program for music projects as well as run all my development apps like Visual Studio...

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