August, 2010

For those using BizTalk, we have long had the need to store configuration information in a central location that is shared between each of the distributed BizTalk instances.  BizTalk itself uses SSO for all of its internal configuration information...

Simplicity and the ability to listen to customers are some of the principles behind SO-Aware and Tellago Studios for that matter. Building sophisticated software that is still simple and intuitive from the user/operator perspective is one of those fundamental...

When a busy developer is running under tight deadlines, every instrument that helps increase productivity would be in high demands. Visual Studio 2010 with Power Tools is a heaven for .NET developers but developers would always ask for more and it’s natural. We have recently come across a good tool that could help BizTalk developers save precious time so that it can be spent elsewhere whether it’s that another important feature, that last-minute bug or that delicious cup of strong Italian...

A funny sight I saw today: I think they would be proud!

The voting on our site What do you want to see on endpoint.tv is moving along nicely.  Yes we are going to do something about OAuth with the HttpClient but today I want to think about the #2 issue which is versioning with workflows.  This post is foundational thinking.  As we move forward to consider solutions I want to have this foundation to build upon.  Feel free to add you thoughts as we consider versioning What do we mean when we say “Version”?  Version is an artificial...

Introduction In the first part of the article we have introduced and analyzed the problem regarding the transmission and reception of a large message via a WCF Receive Location. In particular, we discussed the difference between the Buffered and Streamed transfer modes provided by WCF and in particular how using the Streamed transfer mode for exchanging large messages between WCF-enabled applications. In the second part of the article, we’ll see how to take advantage of the Transaction File...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share...

One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying). The Visual Studio team recently released a patch that fixes this issue...

We have recently developed a RESTful .NET 4 service which was deployed to a server running Windows Server AppFabric. We wanted to take advantage of all the Windows Server AppFabric goodness and its WCF monitoring capabilities. Deployment could not have...

In case you have for some unfathomable reason missed the posts by Brian, Jon, Mick, Richard Steef-Jan and Yossi, I would also like to point you to the recently launched Windows Server AppFabric CAT Team Blog. It combines posts from some of the most...

I initially blogged about the SOA Manifesto that I was honored to be a part of almost a year ago. If you read through the signatories page , you’ll see some very prominent names (individuals and companies) and great comments supporting the work we did. We labored long and hard about the exact wording in English. The French looks good to me, but I’ll have to defer to others for the other languages. Dutch is “coming soon”, but currently it is available at the site in: English Chinese French German...

As shown in the previous precompiled view blog ( Isolating Performance with Precompiled/Pre-generated Views in the Entity Framework 4 ), views can significantly improve performance in various scenarios such as first-run; memory usage; and execution of one-off queries. However, the creation of views for large complex models that consist of many entities and associations), can create lots of views which in turn will require heavy use of strings, and reach the .NET metadata format limit on the number...

Hi folks, an email floated across my desk from Tim Wieman today tell me about a new AppFabric CAT blog. Thanks Tim. --- snippet --- Recently as part of building the Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team (or AppFabric CA T for short). This team...

Oh my. Somehow I missed this one from earlier this month. A guy from HP Labs called Vinay Deolalikar claims he has the proof. P ≠ NP. I'm nowhere near clever enough to follow his arguments (see http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/Papers...

Microsoft’s Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team ( CAT) has launched a new blog focused on AppFabric (both Windows Server AppFabric and Azure AppFabric), WCF, WF, BizTalk, data modeling and StreamInsight. This team contains the artists-formerly-known-as-BizTalk-Rangers, and they provide deep expertise on BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, WCF, WF, AppFabric Caching and StreamInsight (CEP). These technologies become more and more important in time to come, when it comes to integration...

It was always obvious that IE9 was going to get new chrome. Why else publish the technical previews with a mocked-up UI? The very fact that the IE team has cleanly separated the core browser technology from the old IE chrome indicates that they are free...

I just got the news my BizTalk Performance Optimization session was approved for Tech·Ed: Topic Information Primary Track Application Server & Infrastructure Session Type Lunchtime Session Session Title BizTalk Server Performance: Configuring BizTalk...

A interesting question that came up last week was how to convert workflows defined in C# to XAML. A co worker of one of the attendees of the Essential Windows Workflow Foundation 4 course had been experiencing a lot of problems with the workflow designer and decided to create their workflows in C# instead of using the designer to generate XAML. While these workflows run just fine you do lose the visual aspect of the designer, one of the benefits of workflow in the first place. Fortunately it isn...

Error: The following errors were encountered while processing the workflow tree: read more

Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx have a great show on Channel9 called the Cloud Cover Show.  I’ve been watching it since the beginning, and have learned a lot about different features of the Windows Azure Platform, the latest news and announcements, as well as tips and tricks.  Naturally, I was honored (and a bit scared) [...]