February, 2010

I was lurking around the ESB Toolkit forums yesterday, and got involved in an exchange with someone who was hitting the same roadblock to the Itinerary Designer that a lot of people hit: confusion with the model elements and extenders. Upon my first exposure...

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Hey, my ESB Toolkit videos have found a new home. They’ve made their way over to www.cloudcasts.net It’s a great community site dedicated to hosting webcasts concerning Microsoft technologies. Run by the very prolific webcaster Alan Smith, this site has...

I know that there are many different reasons why you would be getting this error, but I wanted to document one way you can try to get the BTAHL7 DASM: Error happened in body during parsing Error # 1 Segment Id: GT1_Guarantor Sequence Number: 1 Field Number...

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...

Both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 have a rather annoying issue relating to how XAML is highlighted in the Text Editor. I’ve complained in the past that the XAML designer team introduced a separate set of classifications (i.e. options in the Fonts and Colors...

Perhaps known to a smaller portion of general community of WCF developers and WF developers, there is a Connection for WCF and Connection for WF that enable you, our customers, to submit bugs and feature suggestions. As the focusing for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 turns to polish and final tweaks, the team’s thoughts start to turn towards the next versions of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). As we start to think about what to improve and where...

While enhancing a custom ORU^R01 schema, there was a Z segment at the end (that I did not want to place in the ZSegments message part. I went happily creating the schema, deployed it and ran it, and received the following errors: Event Type: Error Event...

Every year Microsoft hosts an event they refer to as the MVP Global Summit in the Seattle area.  This event is invitation only event where those who have been recognized as Microsoft MVPs get to meet with their product groups, discuss strategy, impart...

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...

I rebuilt my laptop recently with Windows 7 and installed AppFabric, .net4, VS 2010, etc. When I came to configure BIzTalk 2009 I got the error in the subject line because the SSOSQL assembly needed to be re-registered. Follow the instructions here to get it to work http://tomas-simonavicius.blogspot.com/2010/02/sso-service-failed-to-start-after.html

Recently there’s been a few really good resources on streaming pipeline handling published. You can find some of the here and here. The Optimizing Pipeline Performance MSDN article has two great examples of how to use some of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Streaming...

BAM Operations, a brief summary Installing the BAM infrastructure BAM infrastructure composed on the base of the SQL Analysis Services and the SQL Integration Services. The SQL Notification Service is an optional element. 1. Before installing BAM make...

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...

Last week, I spent some time looking at a problem with a customer's orchestration. In one place, the developer had made use of the infamous BizTalk xpath() function to assign a value in one message to a decimal field in another message. He got an...

Last week I undertook a completely unscientific study of the .NET Blogosphere (as much as I loathe that term), to determine which namespaces and classes people are most excited about, confused by, or frustrated with – at least to the point that they would...

While browsing Microsoft's Virtualization site, I stumbled across an upcoming event: Looking at Desktop Virtualization including VDI? Thinking about Windows 7 migration; wants savings, but wondering about ROI? Join Microsoft, industry experts and...

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...