February, 2010

Triggered by a question on the MSDN Forums I did some digging in Reflector to find out the way to programmatically resume orchestration instances that have been stopped in a breakpoint via the Orchestration Debugger. I quickly realized that resuming the...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] We shipped the VS 2010 RC on Monday , and have seen some great feedback regarding performance and stability with it. One issue...

I recently built a POC that wrapped an SAP RFC call in a WCF Service exposed by BizTalk. I exposed schemas as WCF services instead of opting for exposing the Orchestration as a WCF Service. The purpose of the Service was to validate a utility meter’s status inside of SAP.  Some of the statuses may include active/inactive/meter not found.  The RFC that I used is called RFC_Read_Table.  This is a pretty generic, out of box,  RFC that allows you to query SAP tables.  The RFC...

I ran into a situation where I needed to get the last value from a re-occurring node that SAP was returning. In order to extract the last record, I utilized the Record Count functoid and fed that value into the Index functoid. The Index functoid is also fed with the value from the "WA" element that I am really interested in. The result is then passed to a String Concatenate functoid where the data is enriched before being assigned to the destination document.

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] A few people have emailed me recently asking about the availability of a Visual Studio –vsdoc intellisense hint file for jQuery...

Peter Kelcey has been kind enough to let me host his “How to…” webcast series on the BizTalk Server SEB Toolkit on CloudCasts . ESB Toolkit How To 1: Dynamic Routing and Endpoint Resolution ESB Toolkit How To 2: Dynamic Mapping and Service Composition...

When adding a Web reference to a BizTalk project, the following message appears: There is a problem with the WSDL but you don't get any extra information. The cause was this part in the WSDL: <port binding="tns:TestServicePortBinding" name="TestServicePort"> <soap:address location=" REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL "/> </port> Apparently a BizTalk project can't handle an invalid location (a Console project doesn't have any problem with this!). The...

Ive eventually managed to get the "Monitoring BizTalk with HP Openview" whitepaper complete and submitted to Microsoft to go through the publishing process. Not sure how long this takes? Anyway it should be around soon Big thanks to Saravana...

BizTalk Documenter has been updated to v3.3. This being a point release, there is still no links to other tools such as MapDocumenter, but thats on the list for the upcoming combined Documenter and Profiler. The main changes are The UI now allows selecting...

WSCF.blue v1.0.7 now supports VS10 RC in addition to VS2008. There are no new features as such although v1.0.6 which we released a short while ago fixes a number of important bugs in data contract generation. Alex , our code-master extraordinaire, blogged...

A couple of people have reported a nasty bug in the PowerShell Provider version 1.0 Beta. The provider doesn’t seem to work when SQL Server (hosting the BizTalk management database) is on a remote SQL Server. Although we will have this fixed in the 1...

As you may know, SP1 for BizTalk 2006 R2 was released about a week ago. Reading the BizTalk Server Team blog, it sounds quite impressive – like an update I would surely want on my servers. However, in troubleshooting with Microsoft a problem I have...

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts on WF4 performance. In this post, we will discuss the core workflow runtime. An important reason many of our customers are moving from WF3 to WF4 is the large performance improvements they realize with the WF4 runtime. This post describes a few of these improvements, provides some background on what we did to make it happen, and warns about some common pitfalls. Please note that the data contained in this post is based on prerelease software and is subject...

I was looking over some of the industry news this morning, and spotted this gem from Miguel de Icaza’s blog : We are also porting our C# compiler to work with Microsoft's Reflection.Emit to enable us to run our C# Interactive Shell in Silverlight...

Hot on the heels of my previous talk on AppFabric at SBUG, I will be reprising the talk, but with more of a Workflow Services slant at VBUG in Bracknell on Feb 15th 2010. A big thanks to all who attended the SBUG talk and cool to see the large Avanade...

Windows 7 has some nice and very welcome functionality for attaching/detaching VHD files so that you can access files in them directly from the operating system, which is something I’ve been finding very useful when working out of my laptop. Unfortunately...

Here’s a handy set of commands when using in particular Virtual Machines with a ‘demo’ environment. We certainly create images for my students to take away with them and the common question is: “ When will this OS expire?” or more likely on the 3rd day...

Following the release of Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate, I installed it on one of my laptops. I ran into some minor issues with the Silverlight dev tools SDK, but I hear they’ve been resolved for RTM. Other than that, it seems to be working fine...

I have had to look this query up a few times, so I thought I would write about it here: USE [ DBInstanceName ] GO SELECT st.row_count as [ Row Count ] FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats st WHERE index_id < 2 and OBJECT_NAME ( OBJECT_ID ) = ' TableName...