September, 2010

We have a multitude of options for storing data in the cloud. If you are looking for a storage mechanism for fast access to non-relational data, then both the Amazon Web Service (AWS) SimpleDB product and the Microsoft Windows Azure Table storage are...

The following post is intended to walk you through the implementation of a loosely coupled communication pattern between processes and role instances running on Windows Azure platform. The scenario discussed and implemented in this paper is based off a real-world customer project and built upon a powerful combination of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus , Observer design pattern and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). Background In the world of highly distributed applications, information exchange often occurs...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] I've had a need on a couple of projects for a monitoring system to record progress of a long-running transaction. Enter Heartbeat - a library which does just that. It's a project of mine on github...

Well if you ever end up like me with a XSD that has about a zillion includes ( schemaLocation ), maybe this tool is something for you. It is a pretty simple tool. You give it an XSD, and it will download all files that are referenced to your local system...( read more )

When trying to build a BizTalk project I got this error. Here is the solution: 1) Checking out a single XSD file does not result in the corresponding CS file being created 2) Excluding the XSD file from the project then re-including it does result in...

Error: error reading an amsdata file Solution: If you have been using AccuZip to CASS certify your data and happen to get the above error, here is what you need to do. read more

This blog post is about creating a Windows Azure Web Role project in Visual Studio and adding EPiServer CMS to it. It’s the third installment in the series “Running EPiServer on the Windows Azure... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

Recently David K contacted me through my blog and shared with me a solution that he came up with for a particular problem that he was able to solve using IWorkflowInstanceExtension and said it would be great if I could do an endpoint.tv episode about it. David already solved his problem but he wanted to spare you the pain in case you ever have to do this. Download WF4 Activity Callbacks and Events Example from MSDN Code Gallery The Problem Let’s imagine that you have a class library that exposes...

Developing a BizTalk Server solution can be challenging, and especially complex for those who are unfamiliar with it. Developing with BizTalk Server, like any software development effort is like playing chess. There are some great opening moves in chess, and there are some great patterns out there to start a solution. Besides being an outstanding communications tool, design patterns help make the design process faster. This allows solution providers to take the time to concentrate on the business...

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Blog Update Yesterday I found out about the big change Microsoft was making to abandon the Live Spaces blog platform. I had been using this platform for the past three years so I am sorry to see it go. It was definitely not perfect but I found it to have better search engine rankings and [...]

This morning Microsoft released a security update that addresses the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability that I’ve blogged about this past week.  We recommend installing it as soon as possible on your web-servers. Common Questions/Answers Below are some...

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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is one of the most attractive features of the BizTalk Server product family. Since its first release in 2004, BAM have been positioned as a mechanism to enable real time visibility across business processes implemented...

This post is a follow-up to the RTM last week of BizTalk Server 2010 . The BizTalk User Experience team has been REALLY busy putting together a ton of great resources. These are all live now, enjoy!   Learning: BizTalk Server 2010 Training Kit Video tutorials Working with BizTalk AppFabric Connect   Documentation: BizTalk Server 2010 Help BizTalk RFID Server 2010 and BizTalk RFID Mobile 2010 Help BizTalk Server 2010 ESB Toolkit Documentation BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer UDDI Help...

There is tremendous interest in versioning .NET4 Workflows. This blog post provides guidance on common scenarios that can be supported. Background Workflow versioning is required by a change in a business process that causes a modifications in the implementation of a .NET4 Workflow Service and this may be change may need to be shielded from or is not evident to the client. In other words, existing clients (already deployed) can continue to communicate with the Service without any changes. It is entirely...

One of the great (and major) features of Windows Server AppFabric is the out-of-the-box experience for monitoring WCF and WF based services. Gone are the days when an exception half way through a workflow instance could either 1) never be discovered or 2) take hours of creative efforts and ad-hoc debugging (not to mention the hair pulling that goes along with all this) to find out exactly what the issue was and why it happened. The AppFabric Dashboard does a pretty good job at exposing key execution...

BizTalk 2010 hit the stands this week and quite prominently up on the BizTalk 2010 site there’s info about vNext. The team has been busy and The BizTalk 2010 Developer Edition is free! - http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/developer.aspx Lots of info...

An hour ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability that I’ve blogged about this past week.  The security update is...

With BizTalk Server 2010 going RTM I was interviewed briefly about the release in the last issue of the Swedish podcast show MSDN Radio . Link to show is here . It’s in Swedish. I’m on at about 5:20 in, but it has lots of other interesting content as...