July, 2010

If you are exploring the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus capabilities and trying the bits out in your projects, the following article may shed some light on where to be on a lookout when it comes to using the netTcpRelayBinding in Streaming mode. By following the recommendations in this article you can maximize the performance of your TCP streaming solutions. Scenario I’m currently leading the development efforts on a customer project where we are streaming large amounts of structured ...

Why don’t I see the ConfigurationManager Class? Whats wrong with ConfigurationManager class why don’t I see it? read more

You may have noticed that WorkflowServices have two ways of operating.  One way is to pass message content and the other way is to use message parameters.  I have always used message content because it seemed like the easiest thing to do. Download the Sample Code on MSDN Code Gallery Today I wanted to write some test code that would new up a client proxy with a Channel factory without having to go through generating a service reference.  I was just writing some test code so I figured...

This is the twenty-fifth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s blog post is the first of several posts I’ll be doing that cover some of the improvements we’ve made around web deployment.  I’ll provide a high...

One thing I have not tackled until today was how to test a Workflow Service in a .xamlx file.  When I started out this morning working on it I realized that there isn’t a great deal of information about how to do this available anywhere. Update 7/30/2010 – Download the WF4 Workflow Test Helper library for sample code Here is what I came up with.  Look at this test and tell me what you think. using System.Activities; using System.Activities.Tracking; using System.ServiceModel; using Microsoft...

The Windows Azure AppFabric LABS August release is scheduled for August 5, 2010 (Thursday). Users will have NO access to the AppFabric LABS portal and services during the scheduled maintenance down time. When: START: August 5, 2010, 10am PST END: August 5, 2010, 6pm PST Impact Alert: LABS AppFabric Service Bus, Access Control and portal will be unavailable during this period. Additional impacts are described below. Action Required: Existing accounts and Service Namespaces will be available after...

Sharepoint is pretty interesting to use on an enterprise level. More and more companies are adopting the Sharepoint way to share and collaborate documents and to do their Knowledge Management. If you are used to using Sharepoint, I am sure you have used it to upload your word document and share it across the team. read more

It's not a secret that WCF configuration management is one of the biggest challenges that companies face when adopting WCF as part of their enterprise solutions. Whether the declarative capabilities of the WCF programming model enable a great level...

Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters .  These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup...

Last week I stumbled upon the Tenth issue op BizTalk HotRod. I have looked into it a couple of times cause there are so much goodies in there. The items covered in this issue are: Creating Business Documents Automating deployments of BizTalk change requests...( read more )

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I am sure you are excited about Windows Workflow foundation. Who is not? except those poor Java guys... Here is a collection of Videos available on Windows Workflow Foundation 4. I hope you find it useful. The list will keep growing, so feel free to bookmark this page for later reference. read more

Today is a special day for us. After two years of steadily growing Tellago , we have decided to launch a new company to focus on building enterprise software. In principle the idea is very simple, we want to translate the lessons we have learned in our...

Olaf and I were cracking away on some SharePoint 2010 work which we thought should be simple…point SPMetal to the site and start LINQ-ing to our hearts content….. with the one exception that we couldn’t select items from a list based on their Content...

As part of our ongoing experimentation with the HTML5 WebSocket proposed standard for duplex communication between web browsers and servers, we have prototyped a WebSocket protocol implementation based on Microsoft technologies. The prototype consists of a WCF service and a Silverlight client with an HTML bridge to JavaScript implemented in jQuery. You can read more about it at http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2010/07/silverlight-html5-websocket-client-with.html . You can also check out a sample web chat...

We have consolidated some of our recent publications into a pocket-size, printer-friendly format and published them in the July issue of the BizTalk Hotrod Magazine : Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions (page 47) How To Boost Message Transformations Using the XslCompiledTransform class (page 93) Check them out and share your feedback.

This is the fourth in a series of posts on the new features included in BizTalk Server 2010 Beta. Even though new message transmission protocols and standards like the ones supported by WCF are becoming the first choice for data exchange nowadays, the...

This morning we posted the “Preview 1” release of ASP.NET MVC 3.  You can download it here . We’ve used an iterative development approach from the very beginning of the ASP.NET MVC project, and deliver regular preview drops throughout the development...

ca·non·i·cal [ kə nónnik'l ] conforming to general principles: conforming to accepted principles or standard practice In this episode I'll tell you about my new Cannonical REST Service sample code on MSDN code gallery that demonstrates a REST Service built with WCF 4 that fully complies with HTTP specs for use of GET, PUT, POST, DELETE and includes unit tests to test compliance. Cannonical REST Entity Service (MSDN Code Gallery) Ron Jacobs blog http://blogs.msdn...

This blog post is about the management tools in BizPhone. Managing BizTalk components In this demo I chose to highlight the artifacts that the BES project regards as warnings. These are the... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk