October, 2012

Halloween’s just over and my place was overrun with Kids of all sizes seeking high-fructose corn syrup hits…to keep them going till the next house. It seems Scott Gutherie has all sorts of pieces he wants to chat about on this next free conference. The world of the Cloud moves just so quickly that these sorts of events are essential to get you up to date in your thinking. Remember what the cloud story was 12 months ago & how many new features/capabilities have been added since. Check out the...

Announced at the //build conference, HDInsight is available as a Web Platform Installer installation. This allows to have Hadoop on a Windows box (like a laptop) without requiring cygwin. Comme annoncé à la conférence //build , HDInsight est disponible à l’installation depuis Web Platform Installer. Cela permet d’avoir Hadoop sur une machine Windows (un portable par exemple) sans nécessiter cygwin. Let’s see how to install this from a blank Windows Server 2012 server (example). Voyons ce que donne...

As a community event, hosted on channel 9, there is to be the Windows AzureConf. This is a free event for the Windows Azure community. This event will feature a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie , along with numerous sessions executed by Windows Azure community members. Streamed live for an online audience on Channel 9 , the event will allow you to see how developers just like you are using Windows Azure to develop applications on the best cloud platform in the industry. Community members from...

Couple of years ago I received a DVD pack from Microsoft which contained two-days instructor led  course that consists of series of hands-on-labs to develop applications using Microsoft BizTalk Server ESB Toolkit. That was very valuable resource, which came with complete labs, presentations, videos, and even couple of Hyper-V virtual machines with everything pre-installed to [...] The post BizTalk Server 2010 ESB Training Kit appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

While working on an SSRS Report for a client, I ran into a problem surrounding the summing of a particular field in my dataset, called “TotalAmount”. It seemed that the SSRS Sum function was returning double the amount that I was expecting. This was a result of my view returning multiple rows for items that [...] Blog Post by: Micael George

It’s a common practice to reuse schemas and types within your BizTalk solution. Lately, I’ve encountered an issue regarding this. Here you can find a simplified example and a solution to the problem.

Since the launch of BizTalk360 BETA back in early 2011, we have written lot of blog posts showing various capabilities of BizTalk360.  The problem is, the articles are spread all over the place and there is no single categorised index page to help user identify the content. The search box in the site is OK, [...] The post BizTalk360 articles–Table of Content appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

In this new mapping pattern I want to show you how can you transform an hierarchical schema into a Name/Value Pair record. The first thing we need to know is how I can read the name of the element from the source schema. By default when we drag a link from the source to the [...] Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira

I started using MacBook as my main laptop since 2007, the moment Apple announced their switch to Intel based processors and started supporting running windows on Mac. It’s the perfect hardware you can have to run Windows. When you are relying on your laptop for everything these days, upgrading the core OS always takes some [...] The post Installing Windows 8 on MacBook Pro experience appeared first on BizTalk360 Blog . Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar

I fell into this trap earlier in the week with a mistake I made when configuring a service to send and listen on the azure service bus and I thought it would be worth a little note for future reference as I didnt find anything online about it. After configuring...

Great news – Jurgen Willis and his team have worked hard to bring Microsoft’s first V1.0 WF Workflow Hosting Manager . It runs both as part of Windows Server and within Azure VMs also. It also is used by the SharePoint team in 2013, so learn it once and you’ll get great mileage out of it. (I’m yet to put it through serious paces) Some links to help you out… What is it? WF Mgr 1.0 – Code Samples The following main areas for WF improvements in .NET 4.5: (great MSDN magazine article ) Workflow Designer...

I have been doing a lot of work with NodeJS and Windows Azure lately. I am planning to write a series of blog post about the techniques required build NodeJS applications that leverage different Windows Azure components. I am also planning on deep diving...( read more ) Blog Post by: gsusx

When creating BizTalk orchestrations, we also have some building blocks available to do exception handling. In this blog I'll try to give a very brief explanation of the available building blocks for your orchestration. I won't describe everything in detail, because this would lead us to far (and would give one massive blog post). For exception handling in orchestration there are 3 shapes available: Throw Exception Scope Compensate I want go in much details for the Scope and Compensate shapes...

For a recent project I needed to send messages to BizTalk through an ASP.NET application. This blog post contains a streaming approach using the net.tcp WCF binding. Code and screenshots provided.

Published By: Bill Chesnut Recently Microsoft has added the Service Bus to the Preview (new) Portal and has added several new features, I will provide you with an introduction to the portal and the new features. In the portal you can see all of the Service Bus name spaces that I have defined, which subscription they belong to and the location If I select one of the name spaces, I can see all the Queues, Topics and Relays under that namespace, including the type, current size and max size When I open...

Published by: Bill Chesnut One of the preview feature that Microsoft release in June 2012 was the Virtual Network Preview, before this the only choice for connection your Azure services to your on-premises resources was Azure Connect. Azure Connect was a good solution for point to point connections, but had several limitation around domain controllers and windows clustering. With the June 2012 release of Azure Virtual Networking we were now able to connect a set of Azure services to our on premises...

SOAPUI is a great free tool that helps you to frame up request messages generated based on a service’s metadata and use them to call on HTTP based SOAP services as well amongst other advanced features. One of the most common questions I have been approached for recently is how to use SOAPUI to call on a [...] Blog Post by: Johann

The out of the box unit test framework for BizTalk maps leaves a lot to be desired. Effectively a Visual Studio map unit test is the equivalent of choosing to validate your map, which involves running an instance of an input message through your map and validating the output of the map against it’s schema. [...] Blog Post by: Johann

Ever since I came up with the crazy idea of creating an Azure application that would spin up 256 worker roles to render a 3D animation created using the Kinect depth camera I have been trying to think of something useful to do with it. I have also been...

The BizTalk community series blog posts have been running for a number of months now. Since January I have introduced 20 BizTalk community members . Yet there are a still more stories to follow the next couple of months. There are a lot of IT professionals around the world dedicated towards BizTalk. Many of them contribute to community through blogs, forums, wiki's, articles, books and giving presentations. The people I interviewed and talked to for these series are representatives of the BizTalk...