February, 2010

Welcome to the 17th interview in my thrilling and mind-bending series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. With the 2010 Microsoft MVP Summit around the corner, I thought it’d be useful to get some perspectives from a virginal...

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...

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...

Overview: MSDN Devcenter Download: Download from CodePlex.com For more information: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 1) How to install: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 2) BBW Drill Down: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 3)

This is part eight of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Using the new WCF WebHttp Services API for content negotiation Returning content with custom formats in addition to XML and JSON Configuring WCF WebHttp Services with the WebHttpEndpoint 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...

In creating a process where SQL Server takes XML data that is stored in a table and populates a table, I have learned a few things on how to get SQL Server to more efficiently query XML data. Setup: Let’s first create a table to store the data: CREATE...

I’ve seen several posts of how to add .cs files to your VS2008 BizTalk projects ( Yossi has a good post ), but none of them shows how to use them, which is not that obvious. First of all, you can not use classes defined in the same project as the orchestration...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/andym/archive/2010/02/02/137753.aspx ] I recently had the pleasure of installing and configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.0 in a multi-server environment. There are some notes on how to do this in the official documentation...

Mark Palmer , CEO of StreamBase , has posted a series of predictions about the Complex Event Processing (CEP) market in 2010. Generally, I am not a big fan of making or commenting on predictions related to the technology market but I wanted to add a few...

Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 Event Category: None Event ID: 6060 Date: 1/31/2010 Time: 7:06:00 AM User: N/A Computer: WS03_OFFICE07 Description: Parameter name cannot be null or an empty string. Parameter name: key Source: Microsoft...

If you have been wondering so far whether an ESB implementation is the right solution for your integration problems, let us help you make the right decision. On Feb 11th, Peter Kelcey (Technical Sales Professional from Microsoft Canada) and I, will be...

About a month ago, Ed Pinto and I did an interview with the .NET Rocks guys on What is new in WCF for .NET 4 and it just went live today.  Ed covered most of the detailed technical stuff, I filled in more along the value proposition side of things, and Carl and Richard added their usual comic relief and excellent interviewing skills.  It was fun.  Hope you enjoy!

Wow, it must be the week for Service Pack announcements. First we see the BizTalk 2006-R1 SP and now HIS 2006 gets its very own SP.  Details from about the release are below. Please note, that the Knowledge Base articles listed below might not be...

Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 has been released and is available for download here This Service Pack includes hotfixes based on customer request and other fixes initiated by the product team. It improves the quality, reliability...

I can’t imagine anyone that subscribes to my blog that doesn’t subscribe to Richard Seroter’s. Well, maybe one (hi mom!). But I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I am now part of his interview series with BizTalk and CSD leaders around the world...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Earlier this evening the ASP.NET team shipped ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5.  You can download...

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...