April, 2010

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

A few days back, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon released a new paper called Testing in Service-Oriented Environments. This report contained 65 different SOA testing tips and I found it to be quite insightful. I figured that...

[ 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 eighteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. A few days ago I blogged...

Three days back I went to the BizTalk forums and noticed my MVP tag was removed. I thought of some bug in the forum as the tag was entered after 45-50 days after getting my award so I couldn’t believe that something was wrong with my account. Then I went to my MVP profile and [...]

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting two sessions at Microsoft's Dutch DevDays at Den Hague. On Tuesday I presented a sessions about how to implement real world RESTFul services patterns using WCF, WCF Data Services and ASP.NET MVC2. During...

In true SharePoint fashion, I’ve updated the common lightup.xml file for SharePoint 2010. Some things that are missing from below is an Admin link – I’ll update shortly as I’ve got to get back to a lab I’m finishing writing. (note I’ve added ~sitecollection...

Hi all At times you may run into this error at compile time: “an atomic scope may not contain a receive with a correlation filtration initialized in the same scope”. Not very many posts exist on this topic so I thought I’d just share some thoughts on it. First of all, the error occurs because you have a Receive shape inside an atomic scope and this Receive shape follows a correlation set that is initialized within the same scope. This is not allowed, as explained here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en...

Hi all When I run into some issues on web pages and report them, one of the things that almost always happens is that they won’t deal with your request until you have deleted all cookies and tried again. The support guys have some steps to guide the user through before they can send anything on to the second level support. And this usually includes getting the users to delete all cookies. Now, this is bad! IF there is an issue with the cookie for a particular web site, then Deal with it in your server...

Hi all I am trying out BizTalk 2010 beta, and just discovered a small glitch, will I will describe here and then email a link to the blog post to Microsoft to let them know about it. I have a very simple solution: I have a C# project which is a helper class, which I will be using from my orchestration in another project. The project structure is as you can see here: The helper class only has one class with one method which looks like this: 1: private const string XPATH = "Some XPath expression"...

BizTalk User Group Sweden has so far, published all recorded sessions on Channel9, so that these could later be viewed by those who could not attend. As different user groups over the world have chosen to publish their videos on different sites, it has...

For us as developers it’s important to log errors that occur on a website. We do this in ASP.NET and EPiServer through either debugging during the development phase, or implementning log... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

A new Architecture power tool, the Feature Builder has been announced. This is the outcome of the earlier Blueprints project. As I had written earlier, in many ways Blueprints was the successor to GAT/GAX in terms of a platform for providing executable...

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

In the ASMX world, handling WSDL (for the purposes of say, generating code or custom documentation etc) is pretty straightforward. If you are given a .asmx?wsdl endpoint (or even a local WSDL file), all you need to do is instantiate a System.Web.Services...

Danny Garber and I were interviewed for Endpoint.TV on Windows Server AppFabric and our upcoming book. The interview has been published and is now available. Check it out at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-Pro-Windows-Server-AppFabric...

Welcome to the 19th interview in my series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technologies” space. This month we have the pleasure of chatting with Udi Dahan. Udi is a well-known consultant, blogger, Microsoft MVP, author, trainer and lead...

While debugging a stored procedure I came across an issue where I was no longer able to hit a break point, even though I was stepping through the code and see all of the variables. No permissions had changed. In this case, you need to: in the Server Explorer...

While writing a lab for an up and coming SharePoint 2010 course I came across a few handy things. I’ve always been a big fan of the developer dashboard and until recently the example code has been a little scarce. Fortunately I’ve found a couple of gems...

It has been brought to my attention that a hotfix has been released for the BizTalk Server 2009 developer tools that should fix the problem I mentioned a few months ago with referencing WCF services within the same BizTalk project as the orchestration...

Some of our customers have experienced problems while developing BizTalk projects that references other BizTalk projects. This problem occurs because the project reference is lost intermittently when developing a BizTalk project in Visual Studio. We have...