January, 2010

This is the second post in which I in detail describe how to install and configure an EPiServer project. Configure providers and permissions in web.config Since we’ll be using SQL Server... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

These two posts are the base for an introductory EPiServer lab evening I’ll be hosting at Sogeti (or have hosted depending on when you’re reading this). Instead of a... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

I am deeply engrossed at present in a new book, published at the beginning of this year, called 'Intelligent Systems - Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics' by Robert Schalkoff, and published by Jones & Bartlett. Rather strangely, I note the...

I’ve added the first two of a series of webcasts looking at creating custom activities in WF 4.0. The first one looks at deriving from the CodeActivity class to create simple activities, and the second looks at deriving from the AsyncCodeActivity (and...

As promised, you can download the slides and demos from my presentations today here . Enjoy. Pluralsight was happy to sponsor the event this year - look for us at the next Code Camp!

So there I am doing what a geek does best - sitting in Cafe Nero on Tottenham Court Road in the centre of London on a Saturday afternoon, killing time while waiting to meet up with my daughter, and doing a little coding to pass the time when someone ...

Folks… I admit that I’ve blatantly copied this from the BizTalk Server Team Blog. Just trying to spread to the word :) <Plagiarism> Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk...

The HIPAA 5010 Support KB Article 973415 explains the new ability within BizTalk to support the next version of HIPAA standards for EDI data interchange. Note: as noted in the Applies To section at the bottom of the article, this only works with BizTalk...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server...

My colleague Gijs (BizTalk MVP) pointed me towards benchmark tool for BizTalk. This wizard checks the performance of your BizTalk Server installation using pre-existing scenarios and validates it against some known results. I thought I will give it a spin on my VPC (sandbox BizTalk 2009 environment with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and Windows 2008 Enterprise). Installation process is describe on this blogpost . Run script: If follow up the rest of process and you have your Benchmark tool set to go...

[ In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] I’ve been working on a series of blog posts the last few months that cover some of the new features coming with .NET 4 and...

Jeffrey Knight was kind enough to point out a small missing thing in the expressions for built-in variables in my modified syntax file for PowerShell scripts for Vim. I’ve now updated the syntax file in my github repository following Jeffrey’s suggestion...

As Meagon announced over on her blog , I’m heading to the SoCal Code Camp this weekend two give a few of my favorite talks in sunny California: Why you need some REST 12:15 PM - Saturday, January 30, 2010 Location: UH 319 REST is quickly becoming the...

This is part seven of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Creating ASP.NET cache profiles in configuration for use with WCF WebHttp Services Using the [AspNetCacheProfile] attribute to associate service operations with cache profiles Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in a given blog...

Reason: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009\Pipeline Components\Microsoft.Solutions.BTAHL7.HL72fDasm.dll' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect...

The Host adapters is a very significant part of BizTalk. However, the knowledge about them are almost absent, which is unfortunate as they should be quite useful. I quick study among our biggest clients shows that many of them are still using mainframe...

During last years CodeCamp in Rotterdam I recorded my presentation on doing iPhone development using jQTouch and ASP.NET MVC . After looking at several options I have posted the recording on Vimeo. You can view the Dutch language recording here . If you are interested in doing iPhone development but don’t want to get started using Objective-C that jQTouch might just be what you need. Its a cool way to build HTML 5 and JavaScript application for the iPhone. And, thanks to HTML 5, it will even let...

[ In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This is the fourteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  Today’s post...

The next ACUSG meeting is confirmed for the 25th of February at 6:00pm (arrive 5:30 for drinks and pizza). Register to Attend | Add event to Outlook Location: Datacom Systems Limited, 210 Federal Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland, 1141. Parking on the...

Note: This blog post is written using the .NET framework 4.0 Beta 2 In this previous blog post I showed how to create an asynchronous activity using the NativeActivity and CreateBookmark to pause a workflow execution. Using that in a WorkflowApplication was easy but what about WorkflowInvoker or WorkflowServiceHost?   So what about using a WorkflowInvoker or a WorkflowServiceHost? Neither the WorkflowInvoker not the WorkflowServiceHost contain a ResumeBookmark function so how do we resume a...