November, 2011

The demand for webinars about Moesion keeps growing and tomorrow we will be hosting a new one( http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1030856 ) to show you how to use Moesion to manage your Windows Server infrastructure from your smartphone...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

Last couple of week I written a few wiki article for TechNet Wiki a place, where content is generated by community about Microsoft technologies for the community. I very much like the concept and glad I was able to contribute (see my interview on Wiki). Below you will find a list of my ten completed wiki articles on BizTalk: First the featured article BizTalk Server 2010 and discusses BizTalk and shows all resource on its features. Second a list on all available BizTalk Server 2010 community tools...

My company Ordina will host next Dutch BizTalk User Group Meeting. This event we will have four speakers and agenda will be: Steef-Jan Wiggers (Ordina) - "BizTalk Server Adapter 2010 Integration" Jeroen Boiten ( GasUnie ) – "BizTalk at Gas Unie" Jasper Defesche ( Axon Olympus ) - "BizTalk and Dynamics AX" Jeroen Hendriks ( Axon Olympus ) – "Robust BizTalk DTAP” It will be all Dutch talks and if you able to attend you can sign up here .

English Français As announced on the Windows Azure blog, “ Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games ” version 1.1 was just release. Here is the architecture diagram that can be found in the documentation of the toolkit, once installed: Comme annoncé sur le blog américain de Windows Azure, la version 1.1 du “ Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games ” vient de sortir. Je reprends ici la diagramme d’architecture qui est dans la documentation de la boîte à outils, une fois installée: Let’s have a tour of...

BizTalk developers have often felt the need to unit test any dotnet components called from within an orchestration. However, messages passed to dotnet components are of type XLANGMessage and this class is an abstract class, therefore rendered useless when it comes to initialising these types in your unit tests. The way around this is to [...] Blog Post by: DipeshA

Recently, I came across a very odd issue in CRM 4.0. This issue popped up because of an improper deploy/refresh in conjunction with the removal of an entity between test and production servers. It was very out of the ordinary, and I had not seen anything like it before. The Issue at Hand This issue was that [...] Blog Post by: rlanzilli

So far in this blog series we’ve been looking at how Enterprise Integration Patterns apply to cloud integration scenarios. We’ve seen that a Shared Database Pattern works well when you have common data (and schema) and multiple consumers who want consistent access. The Remote Procedure Invocation Pattern is a good fit when one system desires [...] Blog Post by: Richard Seroter

  English Français This video shows a Windows Azure VIP Swap (VIP = Virtual IP Address), which is one of the means to deploy a version n+1 of a web site while version n is live. Cette vidéo montre un échange d’adresses IP virtuelles qui est un moyen de déployer une version n+1 en production, alors que la version n est en train de tourner. In this demo, Dans cette démo, - version n is deployed to the production slot. Visually, it has a white border. - la version n est déployée dans l’emplacement...

I'm currently working on an application for a un-named organisation. As part of this, I need to export files for processing in the Australian defacto standard for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) files - the ABA format. I'm using BizTalk of course, and it can handle this weird format, however all I had was the sample file, which for a fixed width flat file is not great. I found the format documented here: http://ddkonline.blogspot.com/2009/01/aba-bank-payment-file-format-australian.html Apparently...

I've been using Watin for quite some browser automation projects. But it seems that Watin is a bit dead in the water. No Chrome support. No Firefox 4 or higher support. It also seems to be an heroic effort of a few people. So it might be time to move over to Selenium . Active development, wide browser support...

QuickLearn’s MVP Anthony Borton is scheduled to teach the pre-conference hands-on workshop Managing your Application Lifecycle with TFS at next week’s ALM Summit . Audience This pre-conference workshop has been developed as a level 200 event to help get conference attendees up to speed with TFS and maximize their understanding of the product and its features prior to the ALM Summit kicking off. Course Abstract Many organizations use only part of what Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) has to...

The November 2011 release expands on the Service Bus brokered messaging content to provide more details of the features. Deadlettering and message expiration are covered, along with message deferral, duplicate message detection, message correlation and...

In WCF there is an option in your contract to markup as an OneWay method like this: [OperationContract(IsOneWay=true)] You will get the following error when you try to send a message from BizTalk to this WCF Service: Details:"System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: The server did not provide a meaningful reply; this might be caused by a contract mismatch, a premature session shutdown or an internal server error. The problem with this is that BizTalk can't consume the WCF service as it...

Moesion’s adoption keeps skyrocketing and tomorrow we will be hosting our 2 nd Moesion webinar. We are going to be walking through real world scenarios about how to manage your IT infrastructure, whether on-premise or on the cloud, from your smartphone...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

I wanted to write about the topic of whether to repurpose system entities in CRM 2011 or create new custom entities. I know that there have been some blog posts about this before, but I can also reflect on this from personal experience. There are many different points to consider when repurposing entities: 1. The out [...] Blog Post by: rlanzilli

Every time I suggest BizTalk as an alternative in a “bid” or project I feel like the guy to the right. Blog Post by: Mikael Sand

The new mapper in BizTalk 2010 is major improvement on the old BizTalk mapper but a couple of things real bug me. 1. In the old map if you had a greater than functoid on the page and you wanted to change it to say less than all you had to do was drag the [...] Blog Post by: mbrimble

This is just a reminder for my self of how and why we do this. We have 2 projects within a TFS project collection for our integration component developments. We have: 1. A project for .net based integration projects 2. A project for BizTalk based integration...

Many people use TypedPolling when they are working with BizTalk and wanting to poll data from the SQL Server and publish it to BizTalk, but there is another way where you use notification. This sample show how to use notification with the WCF-SQL adapter and BizTalk. It shows that you can use notifications without orchestrations to call a stored procedure in a SQL Server database (Adventureworks) and send output from this stored procedure into the file system. The execution of the stored procedure...

Past few weeks I have contributed the following samples to MSDN Code Gallery: BizTalk Table Operations - Messaging This sample will show how to perform simple table operations using WCF-SQL Adapter a part of BizTalk Server Adapter Pack. The Sample provided by Microsoft shows only Select statement operation. This sample will show all the other operations. It is based on the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 WCF-Custom with sqlBinding Table Operations through Messaging solution post . Polling SQL Azure Table...