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When trying to redeploy a BizTalk 2004 solution I received the following error message: "Some items in the removed assembly are still being used by items not defined in the same assembly, thus removal of the assembly failed. Make sure that items in the...

After working several years with the Castle Monorail MVC framework, I decided to try ASP.NET MVC to see if it had caught up to Monorail. The transition seemed to go rather smoothly, but one area where I was surprised to find how clumsily it was handled, was the management of JavaScript files. Basically, if some [...] Blog Post by: James Curran

  Note: Reposted from post at blogs.msdn.com/gblock on 6/30/2010 Side note: I am having serious writer’s block these days….or maybe it’s twitter’s block :-) Continuing the tradition of overdue posts…….It’s been over a month since i left the MEF team. Before moving on let me say that working on MEF was a fantastic experience! The team is very excited to see all the community interest and adoption we’re seeing with MEF in commercial products, internal applications, as well as OSS projects. Thank...

Last week I published several blog posts that covered some new web development technologies we are releasing: IIS Developer Express : A lightweight web-server that is simple to setup, free, works with all versions of Windows, and is compatible with the...

Is there a BizTalk Server 2006 orchestration in your future? This post is a modest attempt to catalog some of the many useful tidbits of information out on the web. It will evolve over time. Legend blog = blog post core = BizTalk Server 2006 core documentation...

After what seems like a huge delay the usual UK retailers such as Amazon and Computer Manuals now have stock of the book! From what I've heard pre-orders have already started to drop through letter-boxes. Enjoy, and please remember to put a review...

Matt Meleski implemented a custom pipeline component to process Excel or DBF files. I did not test this component myself but it seems that other people have tried and it worked well for them. This looks like a nice component that could complement the...

Hi all This is probably most useful to Danish BizTalk people… We are four guys trying to start up a Danish BizTalk User Group. The first meeting is set to be on August 12’th with the following agenda: Introduction to the User Group Basic topic: The new mapper in BizTalk 2010 by Jan Eliasen Advanced topic: Introduction to WF4 by Christian Stærk Tools of the Trade: Pipeline Component Wizard by Jan Eliasen So as you can see, I’ll be speaking twice :) And unless someone else has a great topic, I have...

This blog post is about creating a custom configuration section in ASP.NET. This is an alternative to keeping website settings in web.config or appsettings.config. Perhaps you’ve seen this... Daniel Berg's blog about ASP.NET, EPiServer, SharePoint, BizTalk

English Français In a previous post , we saw what certificates are for while using Windows Azure. Here is a quick explanation on how to manage and find such certificates in Windows and in Windows Azure. Dans un billet précédent , nous avons vu à quoi servent les certificats quand on utilise Windows Azure. Voici maintenant une explication rapide sur comment gérer et trouver ces certificats dans Windows et Windows Azure NB: the screenshots come from a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, while logged as an...

In previous two posts on the new adapters available with BizTalk Server Bus I discussed both the Relay adapters: BasicHttp and NetTcpRelay. The Relay is one of the capabilities of the Windows Azure Service Bus. It enables you to expose WCF Service that resides within your enterprise. Benefit of exposing the service or at least an endpoint (as a listener) in Windows Azure that you do need to open

Today we deployed an incremental update to the Access Control Service in the Labs environment. It’s available here: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com . Keep in mind that there is no SLA around this release, but accounts and usage of the service are free while it is in the labs environment. This release builds on the prior August release of the Access Control Service, and adds the following features: · Support for OAuth 2.0 Web Server and assertion profiles ( http://tools.ietf.org/html...

Windows Azure AppFabric CTP October Release Today we are announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP October Release, available in our LABS environment: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com. This release introduces an exciting new service called Windows Azure AppFabric Caching, some important new features for Service Bus, and some bug fixes for Access Control. The Caching service is the first of several new services planned for AppFabric, several of which are being announced at PDC today. Taken together...

Recently on our project we created a “functional” unit test for some services. The test was designed to check the entire call stack from the service layer to the DAO and return some expected results. We are using Spring for dependency injection through...

One interesting new feature I noticed in the Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 debugger: You can now turn watch expressions into little detached “post-it”-like notes that float around your debugger window. I’m calling them Watch Notes for now, since I have no clue what the feature is actually called. You can create them by hovering [...]