March, 2010

Here’s a ‘Thank You’ to all our customers and partners, for creating a Windows Azure platform AppFabric commercial account. The trust you have placed in the Windows Azure platform is tremendously appreciated. As you may remember from our previous announcement , AppFabric will become fully SLA-supported in April, and your account will begin to accrue charges. In order to help prepare you for the onset of billing, today we are releasing the AppFabric Billing Preview . To use this...

After spending hours learning to play the fake guitar simply to get a higher score, I often wondered why someone couldn’t make a game to learn useful skills. Where’s arithmetic Hero? Going-to-bed-on-time Hero? Microsoft Office Ribbon Hero...

Happy Monday! It’s an exciting time here as we start ramping up for launch next month. Within the product group, there has been a flurry of activity as they squash their bugs, and the final polish is being placed on the Visual Studio release. In the business group, we’re busy finalizing web content and launch material that you’ll start seeing over the next few months. On Friday, in preparation of the release of the new Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime in .NET 4 (WF4), the team has released...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010.  I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th...

Hi all Today I discovered something, that AGAIN confirms, that BizTalk 2009 was simply shipped without any form of proper testing of the new Visual Studio .NET project system that they chose to switch to. I have already described lots of issues here: http://blog.eliasen.dk/2009/07/21/IssuesWithBizTalk2009OnVSNET2008.aspx and a hotfix has been releases which I have shortly described here: http://blog.eliasen.dk/2010/01/27/HotfixForIssuesWithDevelopingBizTalk2009SolutionsInVisualStudio.aspx . Anyways...

I guess most of my readers are from BizTalk/BPM background. So, some of these post may not be relevant to them. I'm just using the blog as reference archive for all of the issues I'm encountering during my Silverlight learning. So, please feel free to ignore id ;-) Exception Detail: System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled by user code Message="The IModuleCatalog is required and cannot be null in order to initialize the modules." StackTrace: at Microsoft.Practices.Composite...

Hi all I have just installed VMware WorkStation 7.0.1 in order to start building 64bit guest OS’es in order to try out Windows Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010. Microsoft Virtual PC does not support 64bit guest operating systems, and since I really appreciate being able to run guest operating systems in a window on my host PC I saw no other way out than getting and installing VMware WorkStation. Now, after installing it, I tried to create my first Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine, but that failed...

Note: This blog post is written using the .NET framework 4.0 RC 1   Most of the time I used compiled workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation 4. Its nice and easy, you design the workflow, compile it and at runtime there is a .NET type you use to create and run workflows. The main drawback is that this approach isn’t very flexible, sometimes you want to be able to change your workflow definition at runtime or store it in a database so recompiling isn’t an option. Fortunately we can also load...

Tim Bass posted on ‘ Orwellian Event Processing ’. I was involved in a heated exchange in the comments, and he has more recently published a post entitled ‘ Disadvantages of Rule-Based Systems (Part 1) ’. Whatever the rights and wrongs of our exchange...

San Diegans, time is running out, the Windows Azure conference (I blogged about it here ) is *tomorrow*. This is a great opportunity to ramp-up quickly on what Windows Azure is, and how it can be used in the real world. Come see why everyone is so excited, and why everyone agrees that this is a major shift in our industry. This is not future-tech, the cloud isn’t vapor anymore :) – this is live and production-ready today. I will be presenting on Windows Azure platform AppFabric, and specifically...

Just a quick link to a post on Maxime’s blog: http://maxime-labelle.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D8D9369449D177DA!236.entry Maxime added support for deploying vocabularies and policies to the PowerShell provider for BizTalk. In our opinion this is the easiest...

BizTalk Server is an enterprise product; there is no second thought about it. Any enterprise product will go through the phase of being left out with very older version on production environment. Ones the code is up and running in a production environment with live business, it becomes mission critical. Enterprise just don't upgrade either their applications drastically or the platform on which they are running until there is a compelling business case behind it. The organisation I'm working...

I a previous post I described a way to deal with untyped messages in the Business Rule Engine. This allows for flexibility in scenarios where you want to use a single set of rules (lets call it an “untyped policy”) on multiple types of messages. Untyped...

This is a follow up post to my previous post on this topic. The method described in that post doesn’t seem to work when the policy is called from an orchestration. For more background information see this blogpost. I this post I will use the exact same...

I’ve really enjoyed my time here in Dubai for the first-ever TechEd Middle East .  Pooya Darugar , my track owner from the local Microsoft office, told me that this was actually the first “paid” technical conference to be held in the area, so it...

In the past I have published overview tables of BizTalk version numbers. I used to publish a new table whenever a new version or service pack of BizTalk server was released. I wanted to do the same after the release of SP1 for BizTalk server 2006 R2....

I wrote a very simple PowerShell script which allows you to easily determine the installed BizTalk version and service pack level. You cannot just look at the version number anymore because it seems SP1 of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 does not update the version...

I came across this handy tool to identify which process is causing the Copy-Paste malfunctioning GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip (4.08 kb)

Welcome to the first of many posts around BizTalk Server 2009 R2, the latest version of BizTalk Server that is scheduled for release later this year. As many times before, CODit is again part of the TAP (Technology Adoption Program). In this serie, I will create a post for each new feature in this version. This post will probably the less interesting one: installation and configuration :) The 2009 R2 version can be installed on the latest available platform: Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008...