July, 2011

I’ve posted a screencast that goes through the key features that make ReSharper an invaluable tool for developers on the MS platform. Note: I recommend watching this video in HD Mode, full screen. (Video: Watch this video on the post page) Screencast Download Link: High Definition (.mp4) (85MB) Please leave questions/concerns in the comments! Blog Post by: Michael Gerety

I had one of those old/non conforming to the standards web service of kinds Ineeded to call. The ones you really hate, and wish they’d just upgrade them to WCF... but hey thats 90% of integration, old rotten systems... so I persisted. It did accept xml messages, however was very fussy as it seemed to employ the good old, no xml translator, the one that is more of a text base, string manipulation xml decoder, where if you send quite valid xml, it will fail because they didn’t support it. This kind...

Introduction On a recent project I was calling a PowerShell script and wanted to return Xml from the script so that I could iterate on an object using Linq to Xml. I investigated options available for exporting an object in Powershell to Xml and looked at some built-in cmdlets like Export-CliXml: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347657.aspx, but I could [...] Blog Post by: clineer

The configuration authoring experience remains one of the main challenges of .NET applications. Every time we need to create a new configuration files, we find ourselves going to MSDN or similar websites and trying to figure out the structure of different...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Visual Studio LightSwitch seems to be a real productivity booster for some applications. See one demo here how even a business user can create the application. Cheers Rohit Sharma

Today when we were showing the demo of BizTalk 360 to some potential customers, the question was raised about the various deployment choices for BizTalk 360. This is one of the common questions we have seen recently on our customer engagements. Here are the choices Scenario 1: You can install BizTalk 360 in one of the BizTalk Server environments (production, non-production etc) and configure all the environments using the administration module . The user can then access BizTalk 360 via a url (something...

We released BizTalk 360 with lot of features targeted toward supporting and monitoring controlled BizTalk environments like production, test etc. After the release, our basic principle in the direction/road map of the product is mainly driven by customer request. That's the result you are seeing on the latest addition of alert/notification functionality added to V2, fixing of clustered host instance behaviour etc. One of the latest addition in the same line is the ability to start and stop the...

One useful feature in SQL Server is something called the OVER clause. The OVER clause has been available since SQL Server 2005 and allows you to perform window functions over a set of data. SQL Server provides two types of window functions: aggregate window functions and ranking window functions. I will explain what aggregate [...] Blog Post by: Dylan Barrett

We need to admit this is one of the thing we didn't pay enough attention in the previous versions of BizTalk 360. Until last week when one of our potential clients raised the issue and told us its a show stopper. We reacted quickly and can confirm from version 1.0.206 and above all the issues related to clustered host instances are fixed. Background: In majority of the cases you don't need to cluster the BizTalk host instances. BizTalk group concept having multiple BizTalk servers and the...

This post is about how to retrieve the entry point page reference when the page data object is served from a custom page provider. We have a look at Page Providers in EPiServer CMS, the DataFactory... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

Charan: Hey Pal I am getting this weird error not sure what is wrong everything was working fine few hours ago and now I am unable to start the 32-bit BizTalk host instances. I have even repaired the BizTalk installation and still getting the same error. Rohit: Have you done any recent changes to the machine. Charan: Yes I have installed one BizTalk application exported from the other machine

This week, Packt Publishing released the book BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I contributed three chapters to this book covering integration with Dynamics CRM 2011, Windows Azure AppFabric and Salesforce.com. The lead author, Kent Weare wrote a blog post announcing the release, and you can also [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

Story: Bob is an IT Professional ( ITPro ) responsible for maintaining dozens of enterprise .NET applications. One day, Bob gets a call informing him that one of the applications he is responsible for have stopped working after some changes in the configuration...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

I always seem to spend ages looking for this when i need it so this is the link to terminator http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=2846

One of the top requested feature for BizTalk 360 is the ability to send alerts/notifications to the users in the event of failures. For V1 we focused on bringing rich dashboards in the UI to help support/monitoring people to identify issues. For V2 we are bringing the same richness directly to the user inbox, with the alerting/notification capabilities. Please provide your feedback in our ideas section of the forum http://getsatisfaction.com/biztalk360/topics/biztalk_360_alerting_notification_capabilities...

For the past 10 months I have been involved in a project with 4 other talented individuals.  This project was a little different than the projects that I have been involved with in the past.  While other projects have always had some sort of documentation deliverable, documentation, in the form of a book was the main deliverable this time around. While many BizTalk books exists, we felt there was an opportunity when it came to discussing Line of Business integration with BizTalk Server...

Charan: I have one additional requirement to my old problem mentioned here. Now I want to remove the leading Zeros for the value of Element1 in addition to finding the existence of this optional element in input schema. Is there any easy way to do it. Rohit: hmmm yes we can do it using the scripting functoid and simple C# code. Let me show you how. Step1: Add new scripting functoid. Step2:

Get information about, and a sample chapter from, BizTalk MVPs Kent Weare, Richard Seroter, Sergei Moukhnitski, Thiago Almeida, and Carl Darski's book--Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration.

BizTalk MVP Michael Stephenson has produced some handy videos and samples that demonstrate Behaviour Driven Development and Acceptance Testing techniques with BizTalk 2010 development.

BizTalk MVP Michael Stephenson has produced some handy videos and samples that demonstrate Behaviour Driven Development and Acceptance Testing techniques with BizTalk 2010 development.