April, 2011

This is bordering on being somewhat old news (but don’t blame me for that). I attended the Swedish TechDays as a speaker, user group leader and ask the experts answerer. Now as far as the first one goes my two sessions “Windows Azure AppFabric - Middleware i molnet” (Middleware in the cloud) and “.NET utvecklare - utöka verktygslådan med BizTalk Server” (expand your toolkit with BizTalk Server) are now available online (unfortunately there is no direct links since they are hidden away inside a Silverlight...

I’ve had a not-so-few asks to blog about the 70-595 exam. I’m answering those calls with this post. The exam launched on march 30th. I actually tried taking it on the 7th of April, though due to technical difficulties, on Prometric and the testing sites behalf, I had to leave without getting a chance to do it after waiting 90 minute for the issue to be resolved (see my twitter history if you want more on that story). I found the time to come back a week later though, on the 14th, and manage to successfully...

With ADFS I am really starting to think it would be useful to have a way to just run a PowerShell test script to diagnose issues, much like a series of unit tests, maybe call it configuration test. Many of the configuration challenges with ADFS could be diagnosed with some scripts. So I made one [...] Blog Post by: clineer

This week I am speaking at the 4 th international SOA Symposium in Brasilia, Brazil. The topic?, take a guess… SO-Aware of course! Tomorrow I will be doing a session about agile SOA Governance that will illustrate on a lot of the principles SO-Aware is...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

This is a Part 4 of the Questions for interview articles. Part 1: BizTalk: Questions for interview without answers Part 2: BizTalk: Interview questions and principles Part 3: WCF: Questions for studying and interview Part 4: WCF: Questions for studying...

Hi folks, I thought I’d share something that captivated me on this rainy Easter day and that was Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/vstudio/async (you’ll need VS2010 + SP1 before you grab the CTP) There’s a new improved compiler + an extended library for us. Hands up who’s done async programming in either VB.NET or C#??? It’s a pain! Thread management, Main UI threads can only update certain objects, passing values between main + background threads, determining...

For those who may be interested, I will be speaking at the Dallas ASP.NET User Group on Tuesday night, covering an Intro to MVC 3. The talk will cover the purposes of Model, View and Controller, a basic pass through Razor, Editor and Display templates and a few other things. If you're interested in attending, please register at : http://dallasaspapr2011.eventbrite.com / Blog Post by: The Admin

I am happy to announce that the new Tellago’s website is now available. This new website provides a new, fresh view of the accomplishments, mission and vision of our fast growing company. Various members of our team contributed to the content to make...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Ive eventually had time to migrate the build generator to work with BizTalk 2010. Ive released this as a beta for now and would love to hear any feedback from others who might be using it while i work on getting some more testing with other migrated projects...

The XmlDisassembler pipeline component in BizTalk Server basically does three things: promoting properties (including the message type) validating incoming documents (if turned on) disassemble batches into body messages Sometimes situations can occur where you want to process an envelope message but you don’t want to have it disassembled into separate body messages. For example when [...] Blog Post by: Randal van Splunteren

Introduction Today I was working on moving my ADFS environment to a separate VM so I could test out a deployment guide I had been working on. On my VM1 I had installed ADFS with Windows Internal Database (WID) in a standalone mode. In my target VM2 I had installed ADFS on SQL 2008 R1 [...] Blog Post by: clineer

Your WCF-SQL adapter is not comming up after you have installed it in BizTalk? You installed the WCF LOB Adapter SDK? From the ASDK folder on the installation cd. You Installed the adapter Pack? From the AdapterPack folder on the installation cd. You did this: http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/wcf-sql-adapter-table-operations.html Which version did you install?x86, x64, were they both x86, or x64 ? Still not comming up... What version of BizTalk did you install? x86 or x64? If you installed...

Your WCF-SQL adapter is not comming up after you have installed it in BizTalk? You installed the WCF LOB Adapter SDK? From the ASDK folder on the installation cd. You Installed the adapter Pack? From the AdapterPack folder on the installation cd. You did this: http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/2010/08/wcf-sql-adapter-table-operations.html Which version did you install?x86, x64, were they both x86, or x64 ? Still not comming up... What version of BizTalk did you install? x86 or x64? If you installed...

This week I have the honor of speaking at VSLive in Las Vegas . This morning I presented a session about building RESTful services in the Microsoft platform. The session covered the existing options such as WCF, WCF Data Services, ASP.NET MVC and the...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

This week I have the honor of speaking at VSLive in Las Vegas . This morning I presented a session about building RESTful services in the Microsoft platform. The session covered the existing options such as WCF, WCF Data Services, ASP.NET MVC and the...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

In the past I wrote an article about BizTalk Server, all logos over time…, now while searching on the web, I came across with a funny curiosity: BizTalk codenames! Microsoft codenames are the names given by Microsoft to products it was in development, before given the names by which they appeared on store shelves. Unfortunately [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

Last week I sat down to prepare a demo for an ‘application infrastructure’ workshop I’m running next week in which I wanted to demonstrate exposing a BizTalk WCF receive location accessed through the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. Granted - with the BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack released last October – this is merely a case of running the Publish WCF Service Wizard, but I thought it

I get tired of showing Microsoft StreamInsight demos where my (complex) events get emitted to a console.  So, as part of a recent demonstration, I built a simple Windows Form dashboard that receives events and uses the built-in Windows Form Charting Controls to display the results.  In this post, I’ll show you the full solution [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Last year I did a post on table operations on SQL Server Table with WCF-SQL Adapter from BizTalk on SQL. Now I like to do similar thing on table in Oracle 11g Express database using the Oracle Binding from BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010. Oracle 11g Express Edition is available through OTN. For downloading software you will need to have an account! It is important that when accessing Oracle you have appropriate client installed. This can sometimes be a hassle if you do not know, which client you need....

If you receive an error while configuring the BAM Alerts under BAM Tools and the log has this error: “Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.” The BizTalk Install Guide has the install of the SQL 2005 Notification Services files located in Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - December 2008, the XMO file from this location will...