June, 2011

“BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack” project (available on CodePlex) is now updated for BizTalk Server 2010 (sorry for the delay). This is a simple migration of the project to 2010 and all functoids were tested in this environment. The project was originally published on 21 November 2010 and no new developments have been made ​​since then. [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

We are happy to announce the latest addition to Tellago Studios’ product family: TeleSharp . After the success of SO-Aware and the SO-Aware Test Workbench , we decided to tackle on a bigger challenge by taking the initial steps towards simplifying enterprise...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Microsoft finally launched the WCF binding to connect with the top Non-Microsoft i.e. Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Metro, IBM WebSphere, Apache Axis2 You can get the bindings from CodePlex which also contains the links to the following useful whitepaper. Oracle WebLogic-to-WCF Secure Messaging Interoperability WhitePaper IBM WebSphere-to-WCF Secure Messaging Interoperability WhitePaper

Practice #1: Catch Exceptions at the Highest Possible Level (Tier) In general, exceptions should be bubbled up to the highest possible level to be caught and processed. For example, in our project, a search goes through the following logical tiers: UI -> Services -> Data/SharePoint/Refinement -> Web Services There are quite a few instances where we’re catching exceptions [...] Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

Recently, we ran into some issues in which the MQSC adapter was not displayed as an option in the BizTalk Administration console, even after the adapter was properly installed on a BizTalk 2009 / Windows 2008 SP1 server. Before outlining the problem and the solution, let’s discuss the MQSC adapter basics first. MQSC Adapter Basics The MQSC adapter is only supported running in 32-bit mode on BizTalk 2006 R2, regardless of the operating system being used. On BizTalk 2009 and 2010, the MQSC adapter...

Tomorrow I'll be presenting BizTalk 360 to the Dutch BizTalk user group at Almere. I need to thank the organisers especially Randal van Splunteren , Steef-Jan Wigger , and Charles Storm for making this happen. Randal has already raised the bar and increased the expectations by his blog post . Steef-Jan is going to do couple of talks on Salesforce-BizTalk integration and Jeroen Boiten going to talk about BizTalk project at Gasunie. If you are around and haven't registered, please do so, this...

In a very short time, my latest book (actually Kent Weare’s book) will be released. One of my chapters covers techniques for integrating BizTalk Server and Salesforce.com. I recently demonstrated a few of these techniques for the BizTalk User Group Sweden, and I thought I’d briefly cover one of the key scenarios here. To be [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Just a quick FYI that my last book, Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform, is now available on the Amazon Kindle.  Previously, you could pull the eBook copy over to the device, but that wasn’t ideal.  Hopefully my newest book, Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration will be Kindle-ready shortly after it [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

This is an open invitation for all of you to access/manage one of our test BizTalk environment, running in our premise protected by NAT/Firewall. http://demo.biztalk360.com Note: The first time loading will take sometime, once the SilverLight application is downloaded, it will be quick. Why do we need AppFabric Service Bus integration for BizTalk 360? Even before shipping the V1.0 of BizTalk360, we started on some of the cool features requested by potential customers (coming in V2.0). Ability to...

Recently Microsoft has released another Azure AppFabric CTP.  This particular one focuses on Azure “AppFabric Applications” or otherwise known as “Composite Applications”.  The goal of Azure AppFabric Applications(as I see it) is  to build, deploy and manage multi-tier applications as a single logical entity in Windows Azure. Coming from the BizTalk world I am very familiar with distributed applications.  Some of the challenges in developing and maintaining these types of applications...

We’ve just opened up registration for Dallas TechFest 2011, at http://DallasTechFest.com and you can find the outstanding list of speakers there as well. If you use discount code TwoDays you will get $50 off the price of a ticket. For the first time this year we are a two day conference, and also for the first time we are offering Pre-Conference seminars.  The Pre-Conference seminars are being offered by our incredible Platinum Sponsor Improving Enterprises, who is offering an Agile Scrum Immersion...

This tutorial will show you how to add and remove buttons to the ribbon in CRM 2011. There are three different places you can add buttons to on the CRM Ribbon. They are the entities grid view (HompageGrid), the form (Form), and the in-line grid inside of another form or dashboard (SubGrid). Adding a Button [...] Blog Post by: rlanzilli

Note: This is not a definitive guide, this is just my understanding based on the research I've done and based on response I received from the Microsoft Azure support centre for some of my queries. If you are planning to use AppFabric Service Bus, there are 3 different charges you need to be aware of AppFabric Service Bus connections (of individual and pack types) AppFabric Access Control transactions Data transfer (in gigabytes) In this article we'll try to address in detail about the AppFabric...

Tellago keeps growing and hiring very aggressively. We were recently received the American Business Award to the best company in the United States, under a 100 people, in the computer services industry ( More details about that in a future post J ) We...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

I'm in the process of hosting my WCF services in IIS/Windows Server AppFabric, whenever I saved the web.config file I can see the following exception in the EventViewer. WebHost failed to process a request. Sender Information: System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/61308764 Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/UI.Web.V2/ServiceManagement.svc' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation.  The exception message...

I’ve just published a webcast on creating and deploying AppFabric applications using the Azure AppFabric June CTP. As the bits are very new I have not had much time to get into the details of how it all works yet, but I will be taking a deeper look over...

When you try to install the ESB toolkit BAM definition file Microsoft.BizTalk.ESB.BAM.Exceptions.xml you might encounter this error OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Cannot open database "BAMStarSchema" requested by the login. The login failed.; 42000. Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of 'bam_ExcByApplication', Name of 'bam_ExcB yApplication'. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error...

At the upcoming BizTalk User Group (BTUG) meeting in Almere on June, 29th I will do a talk on integration between SalesForce and BizTalk. In past I have been involved in an integration project with SalesForce using BizTalk 2009 and have blogged about it: BizTalk, SalesForce and MSMQ – Part I BizTalk, SalesForce and MSMQ – Part II Also recently in Dutch .NET magazine an article has been published called “Force.com werkt met BizTalk Server 2010”. Besides this talk Saravana Kumar will talk about and...

So, once again it’s that time of the year. Summer. And with it Microsoft Sweden arranges a series of presentations across the country that goes under what word-by-word translates to summer school – Sommarkollo . I’m happy to be presenting about integration in the broad context of the Microsoft Application Infrastructure aka Middleware platform, aka BizTalk Server , Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric . A lot of the content will be focused around Azure AppFabric, simply because that...

One of the common requests we received recently from customers was to relax the licensing rules for evaluation purposes. The original design didn't allow installing Standard/Enterprise edition on a Microsoft BizTalk Server Developer edition machine. This imposed a serious problem, the customer can only trial the product on a proper test environment. With the release of 1.0.185 version, we modified the rules slightly, so now its possible to install Enterprise/Standard edition on a Microsoft BizTalk...