February, 2010

The webcast that Ofer and I ran last week “Improving Business Agility with the Enterprise Service Bus”  went quite well (at least that’s the feedback we heard from those of you who attended.) For those of you who couldn’t attend and those of you...

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...

In the third in series of webcasts on CloudCasts looking at Workflow Foundation 4.0 custom activities I’ll take a look at Custom Activity Designers. The designers use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to allow developers to easily create stylish and...

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...

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 had this exception in the Application Event Log after trying to bring up the portal in IE (after a newly installed and configured BizTalk & ESB platform): --- Exception information: Exception type: WebException Exception message: The remote server...

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...

Hotfix for resolving issues with references between projects: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977428 Hotfix for problem with orchestrations saying “The expression that you have entered is not valid.” when they are in fact valid: http://support.microsoft...

The following warning is often seen on servers running Microsoft Host Integration Server: Log Name: Application Source: SNA Base Service Date: date Event ID: 561 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: user Computer: computer Description: Write to mailslot or socket failed, rc = 64 EXPLANATION A Win32 WriteFile() or winsock sendto() call failed. The return code is shown. ACTION Provide network support personnel with the event log file(s) related to SNA, and the return code included...

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...

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...

The San Diego .NET User Group will be hosting our first Azure day-long conference on March 6th. This first one will be more overview level, we’re planning at least one other which will be more focused and deeper for later this year, and then perhaps more after that. For this first one, we will be covering:   Azure Intro (David Chou) Azure Development (Daniel Egan) SQL Azure (Lynn Langit) Azure AppFabric (Brian Loesgen)   And yes, the way it turned out, all speakers for this are from Microsoft...

[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...

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...

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...

This is part nine of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Learning the basics of T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Using T4 to create views in WCF WebHttp Services for text-based content 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 post builds upon the code from the previous...

[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...

Look at the next version of BizTalk 2009 R2, coming soon, and then think what else would I like to ...

I’m a long-time frequent flyer with Delta Airlines.  I’m a Platinum Medallion, having flown over 750K miles with them alone, and will probably fly another 100K this year, if not more. I’ve stayed loyal to Delta all these years because I used to believe...