February, 2010

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...

[ 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 fifteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  Today’s post covers...

[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...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates.  You can find download links here . Right...

I ran into the error, below, because the host instance didn't have permissions to read the C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0\esb.config file. Also, don't forget to restart your host instance (or run iisreset) after you update...

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...

I got an email from David Marsh telling me about this new world from MS. Let me share a little… Way back when…LOGO was one of the first languages I learnt as a kid. Moving a turtle around on a page with commands such as PenUp, PenDown, RightTurn etc etc...

Since I have had to explain how to use the BulkXML adapter a few times, I decided to create a quick tutorial on how to use it. Also, this is a tutorial for me to follow, since every time I do this, I re-learn the same things over and over. The first thing...

This list covers known breaking changes between 4.0 Beta2 and RC WCF & WF Framework. Summary of Breaking Changes FlowChart Designer produces FlowSwitch<T> instead of FlowSwitch Description : In Beta2 the FlowSwitch item in the activities toolbox produces a non-generic FlowSwitch. Post Beta2, it produces a FlowSwitch<T>. The reason for the change is that non-generic FlowSwitch (used in beta2 and earlier) only allowed to switch on strings (e.g. all keys in the cases needed to be strings...

Juval Lowy has a great article in the January 2010 issue of MSDN Magazine: Discover a New WCF with Discovery .  He goes into the basics of Discovery, how it works and why you would use it, and also provides his own set of helper classes that you can download to make using discovery in your application even easier.  Then he shows how to use these classes to build a publish-subscribe service using WCF.

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...

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...

Today we opened up the VS 2010 RC for everyone to download.  You can download it here .  Jason Zander (who runs the Visual Studio team) has a good blog post that summarizes a lot of common questions about it here . As I mentioned in my blog...

Brian has been busy looking at the integration capabilities of BizTalk, the ESB Toolkit 2.0 and the Windows Azure service bus. There are two webcasts looking at different aspects of this: Extending the Reach: Using a BizTalk Dynamic Send port to send...

Hi folks, Lately I've had several requests from folks whom want to have a play with BizTalk but don't want to setup the whole infrastructure etc. Here's a great page from MS Virtual Labs that will get you on your way (some labs are for BTS2006...

[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...

In the past, the product team has been blogging about BizTalk in multiple blogs: BizTalk Engine http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/ Adapters http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/ B2B/EDI http://blogs.msdn.com/BizTalkB2B/ RFID http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkrfid...

By clicking the    icon above you can have the content of the blog post to be read back to you. Not a very useful feature perhaps, but I thought it was pretty cool. The feature is provided by ReadSpeaker and is easy to implement. First, register...

Has anyone been successful creating schemas based off of an Oracle package using the new Oracle adapter (BAP v2.o)? We had a Business Adapter Pack v1.0 send port that utilized an Oracle package. When we upgraded to v2.0, it stopped working showing an...

I’ve been spending a fair amount of free time recently looking much deeper into Microsoft StreamInsight which is the complex event processing engine including in SQL Server 2008 R2. I figured that I’d share a few thoughts on it. First off, as expected...