June, 2011

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...

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

After the unexpected success of my previous post and some requests, I decided to spend half of my weekend to improve the stencil by adding more artifacts. The result is 26 new shapes of a total of 37, representing: BizTalk topologies (Standalone and Clustering) BizTalk Runtime Architecture and ESB Toolkit Receive and Send Pipelines, Inbound [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

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...

More of a note-to-self, but may be useful to other ReadyNAS users who aren’t quite at home with Linux. As I’m doing a lot of coding with different environments, and I want easy SCM, git is a fine choice. Git runs through IP addresses, so I can access...

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...

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 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...

Today I was trying to share a folder in Windows 7 in the home group and I was constantly greeted by an error message "Your folder can't be shared". There are no other message or description about the exact reason why its happening. I just ran the troubleshoot problems wizard (on the task bar, right click on the network icon, and click "Troubleshoot problem"), after some diagnosis the wizard gave me the warning the PC is connected to multiple networks, and it gave me the choice...

Found via Rahul Garg This training kit contains a complete set of materials that will enable you to learn the core developer capabilities in BizTalk Server 2010. This kit includes lab manuals, PowerPoint presentations and videos, all designed to help you learn about BizTalk Server 2010. There is also an option below to download a Virtual Machine that is ready for you to use with the training kit. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=14865 The material looks really extensive, haven't...

Everybody with some experience with BizTalk Server knows that sometimes the ODX files get garbled and have to be fixed manually. I’ve had situations where the compilation of an orchestration works fine, but when viewing the orchestration in the visual studio designer, there are shapes with the red icon of error in it. When things like this happen, or you get those strange “Errors exist for one or more children”, what you can do is have BizTalk re-generate the code part of the ODX. To do this, edit...

I always take compiler warnings seriously and at least investigate them before releasing. In one of the solutions I work on I consequently received the warning ‘Cannot resolve the ‘schemaLocation’ attribute’. This solution contains a BizTalk project with a lot of schemas. For each schema multiple occurrences of this warning where reported. This lead to [...] Blog Post by: Randal van Splunteren

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...

By default Silverlight applications are allowed to access resources (services) only from the location from where they originated. From Silverlight 2.0 support was included to access services from a remote server (cross-domain), as long as the remote server allows the Silverlight application to access it. This gave administrators more control on who is accessing the resource, and can impose certain restrictions. The security policy system in the Silverlight runtime requires that a policy file ( clientaccesspolicy...

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...

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

Introduction In part 1 we setup the scene by creating a simple Silverlight/WCF application. In that application the Silverlight application is initialized, it made a call to the underlying WCF service operation "GetWelcomeText" and displayed the text on the UI. We used the basicHttpBinding to establish communication between the SL client and WCF service. In this part, we are going to make some modifications to the configuration files, IIS/Windows Server AppFabric settings and make the application...

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...

Another month and another time for our Tellago Technology Updates webinar !! Next Tuesday, my friend and Tellago’s mobility practice lead Chris Love will be speaking about IOs and Android development from a .NET developer perspective. The session will...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

“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