August, 2009

I'm presenting a webcast on BizTalk Performance this Tuesday September 01, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time along with Trace Young who wrote the majority of the BizTalk Documentation. We'll be covering a summary of all the performance tests we've performed in the lab this year and answering any questions. Please tune in if you have any performance related questions or if you just want to see what we have been up to. Registration link is here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails...

Just got a note from Ewan Fairweather from the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team. He is presenting a TechNet webcast on the BizTalk performance tests him and his team have performed this year and their results. The webcast is happening in a couple of days...

Code Camp Auckland is coming fast – 13 of September 2009, the Sunday before Tech Ed. With many international and local speakers, this is the biggest Code Camp ever. If you want to catch some free  sessions on the state-of-the-art in .NET development...

I’ve added a new webcast on http://www.cloudcasts.net . This webcast shows how the WS-ReliableMessaging standard can be used in WCF to increase the reliability of message transmission across unreliable transports. The Fiddler tool will be used to examine...

I was sitting at a local drinking establishment, and I saw this massive fire in the distance, we were about 20 klms away, yet we could clearly see the flames... I cam home a little later, and checked the news channels, there was no mention of this, did...

A WCF question came up recently on StackOverflow about using a binding for a custom transport through configuration instead of code. My initial reply was that you needed all the right configuration classes associated with your binding so that you could...

This is the third in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post discusses VS 2010’s enhanced multi-targeting support – which allows you to use and target multiple versions of .NET.  We did significant...

Generally, it is not recommended to store passwords in the binding file and by default BizTalk administration UI clears it out when exporting binding to the xml file. But in development environment where you have automated continuous integration build...

This is the second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post is about another small, but I think nice, change coming with VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 when you create new ASP.NET Web projects – which is the...

I spent this weekend toying with Microsoft StreamInsight bits. I have a few blog posts planned for the next few days that tackle very specific CEP patterns but I figure it might make sense to start by highlighting some of the features I think differentiate...

I just remembered today that I haven’t uploaded my presentation on Dev Days 2009 . So I just did :-) You can find the presentation at this: link . Unfortunately the presentation text is in Dutch. If you’ve got any further question let me know.

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post is about an admittedly small, but I still think kind of nice, change coming with ASP.NET 4.0: clean, simple, web.config files.  You’ll...

Over the next few months I’m going to be doing a series of posts that talk about some of the cool things coming with the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  VS 2010 and .NET 4 are the next major releases of our developer tools and framework.  Together...

Yeah! Pro BizTalk 2009 is now published and available. It was an interesting project to be involved with (even in just a small way). You can find it on Amazon now at http://www.amazon.ca/Pro-BizTalk-2009-George-Dunphy/dp/1430219815/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s...

A few months ago I did a free online chat hosted by LIDNUG (Linked .NET Users Group) that was a lot of fun (and which people seemed to really like). This Tuesday (August 25th) I’m doing it again from 9am-10:30am (PST – Pacific US time).  The agenda...

We’ve just published Chapter 2 in the WCF Essentials series .  This new chapter is about WCF Templates and Tools. There are several Visual Studio templates available to help you to be more productive with WCF. In addition there are a few essential tools – some that are most useful as you are getting started, and others that you will use more regularly. In this chapter Michele Bustamante summarize the available project templates and when to use each; discusses some side-effects and workarounds;...

Folks I recently came across this site on codeplex - http://btsazureadapters.codeplex.com Where a hard working Danny(not sure of further details) has created a send and receive adapter for the cloud. The adapter surface and publish the required information...

I just got the code syntax highlighter for Windows Liver Writer working together with BlogEngine.NET. I thought I’d throw together a post that lists the steps to get this working! The... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

Richard Seroter talks here about feeding BizTalk events into StreamInsight or receiving events out as BizTalk messages. I spent a little time considering the possibility of using StreamInsight in conjunction with BTS messaging infrastructure by building...

Last Tuesday (the 18th Aug) marked my first year at Microsoft Consulting Services (UK). I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. Years ago, I used to wonder how it would be to work in MCS and dismissed the idea as too high to aspire to and yet here...