Blogs

Late Thursday night last week we decided to upgrade one of our largest BizTalk 2006 R2 environment to recently released Service Pack 1. The installation went fine and everything looked good. … But after a while we started see loads of error messages looking...

Today I investigated one strange error working with Dynamic SMTP Port. Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Server 2006 Event Category: BizTalk Server 2006 Event ID: 5754 Date: ******** Time: ********AM User: N/A Computer: ******** Description: A message...

I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5.  You can download and install it from the following locations: Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsoft...

Have you heard about this tool? This is a capture tool that records your actions as you perform them on your workstation, remote desktop, etc. It's made by the same company that makes SnagIt, etc. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp I have used...

I have come across this ‘INFORMATIONAL’ event log message a few times and after much banging of heads (mine in particular), Microsoft has a hot fix for the following message: Event Type: Information Event Source: BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Event Category...

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. I will be...

A few months back I was screwing around with the WCF Routing Service and trying something besides the “Hello World” demos that always used self-hosted versions of this new .NET 4.0 WCF capability. In my earlier post, I showed how to get the Routing Service...

Happy Monday! It’s an exciting time here as we start ramping up for launch next month. Within the product group, there has been a flurry of activity as they squash their bugs, and the final polish is being placed on the Visual Studio release. In the business group, we’re busy finalizing web content and launch material that you’ll start seeing over the next few months. On Friday, in preparation of the release of the new Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime in .NET 4 (WF4), the team has released...

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th...

San Diegans, time is running out, the Windows Azure conference (I blogged about it here ) is *tomorrow*. This is a great opportunity to ramp-up quickly on what Windows Azure is, and how it can be used in the real world. Come see why everyone is so excited, and why everyone agrees that this is a major shift in our industry. This is not future-tech, the cloud isn’t vapor anymore :) – this is live and production-ready today. I will be presenting on Windows Azure platform AppFabric, and specifically...