November, 2009

In a previous post we introduced Windows Server AppFabric, a set of extensions to the Windows Application Server that “make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on Internet Information Services (IIS).” AppFabric enhances the Application Server role in Windows by providing some features out of the box that customers previously have had to build by themselves. These include a scalable distributed cache and features for managing WCF and WF services. In this post...

As part of the “BizTalk In Your Industry” webcast series that Microsoft Canada is running, we are hosting a session tomorrow focused on the retail and manufacturing industries. I am very pleased to have supply chain experts “ QLogitek ” joining us to...

Back in September I blogged about the new Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that the ASP.NET team is now providing.  The CDN provides edge caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX).  The service...

In terms of hands-on coding (not general awareness) I’m a bit of a newbie to the world of LINQ actually, having only dabbled with a little LINQ to XML in MockingBird and even there I wasnt too impressed with it in the area of XPath queries. But...

We ran into an interesting problem a couple of days ago and I decided it would be worth posting the solution in case anyone else runs into it. The scenario involves a Windows Service communicating with a BizTalk WCF endpoint which is hosted using WCF...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] The static analysis of BizTalkCop runs on compiled BizTalk assemblies, and as BizTalk 2009 projects follow the standard Visual Studio format, it's simple to include the rules for BizTalk projects...

There I was rebuilding a new VPC Image (which I'm running in Virtual Box) and the base VHD is a parent of 16GB . For an install of Win2008, VS.NET 2010, SQL2008... it's pretty much game over with a full disk. I spent the last 3 days shifting files...

I’m off to Europe next week to do a bunch of technical presentations.  I’m presenting for 5-6 hours in a bunch of different cities, and will be doing talks that cover: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Silverlight 4. Below are details on...

Hi all. I’ve always used Skydrive and this blog to host my ESB Toolkit how-to videos but I have had a number of people ask me to find a better place for them to live. Well, I am now pleased to say that we are moving them to the ESB Toolkit page on MSDN...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] I've been posting code samples and walkthroughs on MSDN Code Gallery for a while now – keeping them distinct from CodePlex which I use for fully-fledged projects and tools. CodePlex uses TFS for source...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] As Saravana Kumar has blogged , Microsoft have released an MMC snap-in for SSO configuration . It has pretty much all the functionality of the SSO Config Tool I put together a while ago, including: UI...

At my company, we highly encourage our architects and developers to communicate their design models through UML.  We have a standard set of diagrams that we regularly use to convey aspects of a given solution, including: Component diagrams for system...

Every application needs management. Ideally an application should provide two ways of management. First an administrator needs a (graphical) console to be able to do single or ad-hoc actions like changing configuration, responding to error conditions...

I’ll be doing a talk on AppFabric at the Swedish .NET User Group tomorrow at 6 pm in Stockholm hosted at Informator. Others will talk about other interesting topics from PDC as well. More info (in swedish) and sign-up at http://pdc2009afterparty.eventbrite...

I know this is VERY off subject, but I wanted to see what all of the hubub was about with the new OS that is going to be hitting the market in late 2010 . I installed it and ran it. Not terribly interesting. Here are two of the main shots: and the really...

There have been lots of questions lately about AppFabric (code named Dublin). These questions have centered around why Microsoft needs another middle tier solution and will AppFabric replace BizTalk. Lets take a look at these questions as well as two...

I was kind of suprised when I saw this blog post. Saying that 64-bit processing wasn’t allowed with Standard Edition of BizTalk. Since I was at PDC at the time I asked the team who were (without me putting words in their mouths) equally suprised. At the...

In the next few weeks, Microsoft Canada will be hosting a number of webcasts focused on integration solutions for specific industries. On November 26th, we will be focusing on solutions for Healthcare organizations. I will stress that these events are...