August, 2009

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP has just been released on MSDN and will be publically available on Wednesday. One little point grabbed my attention. The forthcoming CEP engine, formally known as 'Orinoco' (this codename was never meant to be used...

It is quite a common requirement to have a generic receive location in BizTalk to accept any XML file. Richard Seroter has listed a few options already on how to do this. I looked into how BizTalk exposes its WCF receive locations and how they could be...

I’m currently working on an EDI grammar, I came across some unexcited behavior upon tokenizing the input. UNA:+.? ' UNB+UNOC:3+123456789:ZZ+987654321:ZZ+090804:0758+491944' UNH+464009+APERAK:D:07B:UN:2.0b' BGM+313+464009' DTM+137:200908040758...

So there’s been a few things happening on the WSCF.blue front. We’ve had some excellent feedback and also some feature suggestions, so all that has been rolled up into the install package. It’s still Beta-1, but the MSI has been updated...

I was on the MSDN Forums for the ESB Toolkit this morning, and came across a question from fellow BizTalk developer Barry Woods. He was asking about routing decisions in itineraries, so I threw in my two cents on the topic. Then I stepped back for a second...

Just saw on Rahul’s blog that the latest edition of the BIzTalk HotRod magazine is out, with some great articles on: Azure Testing maps and schemas Richard Seroter’s "SOA Patterns With BizTalk Server 2009" book review Throwing typed faults from...

Welcome to #7 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here 1) Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration 2) Composite Itinerary and Dynamic Mapping...

Recently, a colleague of mine had a requirement of getting information on the number of pages being printed by users. Monitoring a printer is done by calling FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification, waiting for the returned WaitHandle to be signaled and then...

Recently, I asked my colleagues if they were interested in beta testing some software I’m building for internal use. I used voting buttons to enable easy tracking of replies. When I wanted to reply to all people who voted “Yes” on my request, I discovered...

I’m happy to announce that the WF 4 whitepaper I wrote this spring has been published on MSDN and is ready for viewing.  This was a fun paper to write digging into the new bits for WF coming in the framework.  I’m very excited about the new...

Looking for a single place to go to learn about what’s new in WCF and WF in .NET 4? We just published a couple of new articles that should help: A Developer’s Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) .NET 4 Beta 1 , by Aaron Skonnard , Pluralsight A Developer's Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) in .NET 4 Beta 1 , by Matt Milner , Plurasight These articles are meant to be overviews of the most important new features and improvements in WCF and WF, with enough technical...

Here we are, one year into this interview series. It’s been fun so far chatting up the likes of Tomas Restrepo, Alan Smith, Matt Milner, Yossi Dahan, Jon Flanders, Stephen Thomas, Jesus Rodriguez, Ewan Fairweather, Ofer Ashkenazi, Charles Young...

I just got back from my vacation. So I thought I'd start it off slow with a small post about web design. If you've ever designed a website then you've come across the tedious (and frustrating) work... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

Last week I was working on an AS2 configuration on BizTalk 2009. The AS2 messages needed to be encrypted and signed. Previously I went through an AS2 configuration upon BizTalk 2006 and as I expected everything looked familiar to me. Setting up the encryption was an easy job. Nevertheless, the second requirement, message signing, wasn’t [...]