December, 2009

Recently we had the need to transform System.Drawing.ContentAlignment property to System.Drawing. Stringformat alignment property for creating a Graphic object with text drawn on it inside a given rectangle. Assuming that you want the text printed from...

Using SQLite in a Windows Mobile Application provides a simple way to add pre-populated data for consumption by the application.  There are a couple of configuration considerations when adding the database to the project. 1. Adding reference to SQLite...

Let's say you're writing unit tests for code which uses COM objects. You want some initialization and some cleanup to be done. So you set up your test: private static MyStore store; [ ClassInitialize ()] public static void MyClassInitialize( TestContext...

A couple of new resources have become available in the past few days that will likely be of interest to you.   Azure The Developer and Platform Evangelism team has just released a new version of the Azure training kit (Dec 23 2008). It’s a great way to learn about Azure. If you’ve not gotten a feel for what’s coming, check out the videos. It’s an easily digestible set of videos that go through the various pieces that make up the Windows Azure platform. Remember folks, this is not science fiction...

Yesterday the new issue of BizTalk HotRod Magazine was published. Besides other nice content it contains an article on our PowerShell Provider for BizTalk. Tagged: BizTalk, PowerShell

I recently had a client at work interested in populating contracts out of the information stored in their task tracking tool. Today this is a manual process where the user opens up a Microsoft Word template and retypes the data points stored in their...

I’m working on a side-project right now that is using Gravatars and found the wonderful article by Ryan Lanciaux on creating an HtmlHelper extension.  His extension was good, but did not use integrate with the FluentHtml model of MvcContrib, so I...

Hi folks, we’ve used our SharePoint expertise and knowledge to distil SharePoint 2010 product feature set, to provide a rich 5 day course for you. I believe with SharePoint in particular that as a developer you *need* to know details about the SharePoint...

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric December release is live as of December 18 th 2009. This release includes improvements in stability, scale, and performance. Please refer to the release notes for a complete list of the breaking changes in this release. You are encouraged to visit the AppFabric portal to retrieve the latest copy of the SDK.

Moving your host configuration from one server to another can be daunting and time consuming task. This usually needs to be done when you hand over stuff from development to test, or from test to production. On those environments you mostly want to have...

The other day one of my BizTalk buddies asked me if I knew a way to process different messages by the same policy in the Business Rules Engine (BRE). In other words is it possible to create some sort of generic policy that can process different types...

Folks Christmas and the holiday season has started with the BizTalk Team been busy and are opening up the BTS 2009 R2 TAP program on connect. If you're a customer (or have customers) that would/could benefit in working with some of the newer BizTalk...

This post is about retrieving EPiServer CMS PageData properties in a safe way using generics and extension methods. Retrieving PageData properties in EPiServer CMS Retrieving EPiServer CMS... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

Just to help put the word out about the upcoming SBUG meeting. Pluralsight have offered a free 1 year standard subscription to their on demand training library which will be raffled at the next SBUG meeting. All of the details are on the below link http...

A few SBUG members were asking about this recently, the slides from the UK Microsoft Integration Roadshow are available from the following link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/ee890502.aspx

Hi all I just threw my blog through http://typealyzer.com to see what type my blog is, and it turns out my blog is an “ESTP - The Doers”. Description of that: The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities. The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than...

There is a new version of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK was made available yesterday, you can get it here . There was also a scheduled outage of the service yesterday while the team did a “major software upgrade”, presumably this is tidying things up in advance of going production live on Jan 1. There was a pre-announcement of breaking changes posted here , but… I missed that. My first clue that something had changed was that the Access Control Service wasn’t talking to me anymore :)....

Sender-vouches is one of the two subject confirmation methods included in the SAML security token profile specification. Essentially, the sender-vouches scenario enables an attesting entity to vouch for the identity of a subject to a relying party. The...