April, 2010

When you write the product documentation you learn all kinds of cool inside tips about how to use it. In this episode, Michael McKeown shares 10 tips for troubleshooting using the dashboard. Be sure to check out the AppFabric Wiki for more great tips, and to share yours as well.

Windows Workflow in .NET 4 (WF4) includes a new set of messaging activities to help you build web services that are implemented with workflows. In this episode, our guest is Dave Cliffe, Program Manager for the messaging activities. Wondering how and why these activities work the way they do? Then tune in and learn something... For more check out my blog , and the WF team blog as well.

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] ASP.NET Data Web Control Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0 : Scott Mitchell has a...

I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB configuration tool. They kept receiving a rather puzzle error messages which stated: “The type initializer for ‘EsbConfigurationTool.Helper’ threw an exception...

During the last year, we (Tellago) have been involved in various business intelligence initiatives that leverage some emerging BI techniques such as self-service BI or complex event processing (CEP). Specifically, in the last few months, we have partnered...

When you install hot fix 973910, you will come across this error: The issue is that the hot fix does not know the username/password that the Logging Service uses, so it wipes it out: So you set the credentials and continue and you are ready to go.

As developers we often spend a large part of our day staring at code within Visual Studio.  If you are like me, after awhile the default VS text color scheme starts to get a little boring. The good news is that Visual Studio allows you to completely...

ATTENTION: Windows Azure platform AppFabric has transitioned to commercial availability on April 12th 2010, and is now a fully SLA-supported paid service. Customers who use AppFabric will be notified of their usage, as charges have begun accruing as of...

It’s somewhat old new now but in case you were unaware SQL 2008 R2 has Released to Manufacturing (RTM). Official press here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sqlserver/ “Welcome to the Microsoft SQL Server News Center! We are excited to inform...

With WF4 it is quite easy to use data that is part of the request message, for example an order identifier, to route multiple WCF messages to the same workflow. It is also possible to have multiple messages that can start a new workflow. In this blog post I am going to show both these concepts in a single workflow. This workflow is going to be able to receive three different messages, AddItem, AddExpensiveItem and Submit.  Either AddItem or AddExpensiveItem can start a new workflow while Submit...

Recently the workflow team at Microsoft released a first CTP to the ADO.NET Activity Pack. In this blog post I am going to take a quick look at how to get started with these activities.   First step is installing the activity pack. Download the setup MSI from http://wf.codeplex.com/releases/view/43585 and run the installer. This will install the activities in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft WF ADO.NET Activity Pack\CTP 1 and register them with VS2010 so they automatically appear...

This is the twenty-second in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. I’ve already covered some of the code editor improvements in the VS 2010 release.  In particular, I’ve blogged about the Code Intellisense Improvements...

http://www.appinfrastructure.com We would like to highlight an exciting upcoming event which brings a fresh view on the latest trends and upcoming product offerings in the Application Infrastructure space. This is a Virtual Event that focuses on bringing some of the benefits of the cloud to customers’ current IT environments while also enabling connectivity between enterprise, partners, and cloud investments. Windows Azure AppFabric is a key part of this event. Want to bring the benefits of the cloud...

If you read my blog then you have an interest in BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, WCF, etc… That means that you would also be really interested in the virtual launch event coming up on May 20th 2010 (8:30AM Pacific Time). Details are below, the event site is http://www.appinfrastructure.com . See you there! ================================================ Application Infrastructure: Cloud Benefits Delivered http://www.appinfrastructure.com Want to bring the...

Performance has been one of the more popular topics at the Swedish BizTalk user group, where we’ve had both Darren Jefford and Paolo Salvatori as previous speakers. This event is of a more practical and detailed level, and covers performance considerations...

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Well if you’re cracking on and updating your SharePoint Beta 2 Installs to RTM and wanting to make it out the door while there’s some daylight left…then you’re better than me…right now it’s dark! :) Ok – so I figured, no probs just do a stsadm –o addcontentdb...

Hi all As many of you know, I am writing this book on BizTalk along side some great names of the community. Anyway, I was just writing about the Scope shape for orchestrations and decided to go through the documentation of this to see if I missed something. And indeed there was a small detail I missed, which you can find at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560150(BTS.10).aspx – it states that “You can nest scopes up to 44 levels deep.” I thought that was a funny number and decided to test...

I’ve just spent the past couple of days looking into the ‘upgrade’ process and I’ve come out the other side. Here’s a quick jot down of what I encountered Environment : Single WFE (Win2K8 R2 x64) and a separate SQL 2008 x64 'backend’. Currently running...

  If you are using SharePoint 2010 RTM and get the following error: Access denied by Business Data Connectivity. It likely is because by default on installation the BCS service doesn't have any permissions enabled at all. If you go to your central...