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jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:30:30 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] A few people have emailed me recently asking about the availability of a Visual Studio –vsdoc intellisense hint file for jQuery 1.4.1. I blogged about –vsdoc files in the past – they provide additional intellisense help information for Visual Studio, and enable you to get a richer intellisense experience with dynamic Javascript libraries. If you are using VS...(read more)

Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:54:52 GMT

[ In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This is the fifteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers a nice addition to ASP.NET and Windows Forms with .NET 4 - built-in charting control support. ASP.NET and Windows Forms Charting Controls A little over 14 months ago I blogged about how Microsoft was making available a free download of charting...(read more)

BizTalk & HP Openview Whitepaper Complete

Michael Stephenson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:17:37 GMT

Ive eventually managed to get the "Monitoring BizTalk with HP Openview" whitepaper complete and submitted to Microsoft to go through the publishing process. Not sure how long this takes? Anyway it should be around soon Big thanks to Saravana Kumar (BizTalk 24/7) and Dave Gerrish (a great HP Openview Consultant) for their input, and to Elton Stoneman for reviewing it Cheers Mike...(read more)

Developing Streaming Pipeline Components

Yossi Dahan [BizTalk] - PostRank (PostRank: All) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:48:00 GMT

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BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 – Have you tried it?

Victor Fehlberg's Tech Postings — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:43:07 GMT

As you may know, SP1 for BizTalk 2006 R2 was released about a week ago. Reading the BizTalk Server Team blog, it sounds quite impressive – like an update I would surely want on my servers. However, in troubleshooting with Microsoft a problem I have with performance on one of our servers, the gentleman [...]...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:44:26 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Earlier this evening the ASP.NET team shipped ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5. You can download it here . The RC2 release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is a follow-up to the first ASP.NET MVC 2 RC build that we shipped in December. It includes a bunch of bug fixes, performance work, and some final API and behavior additions/changes. Below are...(read more)

Four Questions interview and other bits

Connected Thoughts - Thiago Almeida — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:29:00 GMT

I can’t imagine anyone that subscribes to my blog that doesn’t subscribe to Richard Seroter’s. Well, maybe one (hi mom!). But I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I am now part of his interview series with BizTalk and CSD leaders around the world, so if you haven’t read it yet check it [...]...(read more)

Host Integration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 has been released

BizTalk Server Team Blog — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:55:02 GMT

Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 has been released and is available for download here This Service Pack includes hotfixes based on customer request and other fixes initiated by the product team. It improves the quality, reliability and supportability of Host Integration Server 2006 and BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems. The following KB articles regarding this Service Pack will be available soon on Microsoft support site: · KB 979238 – A list of the bugs that are fixed in Host...(read more)

Host Integration Server 2006 – Service Pack 1: Now Available

Connected Systems in the Great White North — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:53:54 GMT

Wow, it must be the week for Service Pack announcements. First we see the BizTalk 2006-R1 SP and now HIS 2006 gets its very own SP. Details from about the release are below. Please note, that the Knowledge Base articles listed below might not be active for a couple of days. So if you try and them and they don’t work, give it a day before you hammer me on posting dead links. >>>> Host Integration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the following location:...(read more)

WCF Rocks!

The .NET Endpoint — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:22:34 GMT

About a month ago, Ed Pinto and I did an interview with the .NET Rocks guys on What is new in WCF for .NET 4 and it just went live today. Ed covered most of the detailed technical stuff, I filled in more along the value proposition side of things, and Carl and Richard added their usual comic relief and excellent interviewing skills. It was fun. Hope you enjoy!...(read more)

I guess I could consider this a compliment, but I’m not happy!

Yossi Dahan [BizTalk] - PostRank (PostRank: All) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:55:00 GMT

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Wrong impressions with MaxConnection

Yossi Dahan [BizTalk] - PostRank (PostRank: All) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:12:00 GMT

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ESB Itinerary Selector: Parameter name cannot be null or an empty string. Parameter name: key

Andy Morrison's BizTalk Blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:43:59 GMT

Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 Event Category: None Event ID: 6060 Date: 1/31/2010 Time: 7:06:00 AM User: N/A Computer: WS03_OFFICE07 Description: Parameter name cannot be null or an empty string. Parameter name: key Source: Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Resolver.ResolverMgr Method: System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.String] Resolve(Microsoft.Practices.ESB.Resolver.ResolverInfo, Microsoft.BizTalk.Message.Interop.IBaseMessage, Microsoft.BizTalk.Component...(read more)

MSDN Webcast: Improving Business Agility with Enterprise Service Bus

BizTalk Server Team Blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:21:35 GMT

If you have been wondering so far whether an ESB implementation is the right solution for your integration problems, let us help you make the right decision. On Feb 11th, Peter Kelcey (Technical Sales Professional from Microsoft Canada) and I, will be co-presenting an MSDN Webcast. Peter has extensive experience helping customers with ESB implementation using the BizTalk ESB Toolkit. We will articulate the business values that an ESB brings to integration solutions, specifically how it can promote...(read more)

Multi-Server ESB Toolkit 2.0 Install (including the Management Portal)

Andy Morrison's BizTalk Blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:41 GMT

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/andym/archive/2010/02/02/137753.aspx ] I recently had the pleasure of installing and configuring the ESB Toolkit 2.0 in a multi-server environment. There are some notes on how to do this in the official documentation but they’re not exhaustive and they don’t include details on how to install the management portal in a multi-server environment. Prerequisites: · Install and Configure BizTalk in your multi-server environment · Install and Configure UDDI in your multi...(read more)

The future of Complex Event Processing

Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:14:00 GMT

Mark Palmer , CEO of StreamBase , has posted a series of predictions about the Complex Event Processing (CEP) market in 2010. Generally, I am not a big fan of making or commenting on predictions related to the technology market but I wanted to add a few...( read more )...(read more)

Optimizing XML Queries in SQL Server

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006/2009 blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:12:39 GMT

In creating a process where SQL Server takes XML data that is stored in a table and populates a table, I have learned a few things on how to get SQL Server to more efficiently query XML data. Setup: Let’s first create a table to store the data: CREATE TABLE dbo.XMLDataStore( link nvarchar ( 100 ) NULL , data xml NULL ) ON [ PRIMARY ] GO Let’s take a look at the XML that we are going to query (yes I know is is a large xml document, but I wanted to show the peformance in a real world situation, not...(read more)

Adding and using C# classes in BizTalk projects

Mikael Håkanssons Blog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:08:00 GMT

I’ve seen several posts of how to add .cs files to your VS2008 BizTalk projects ( Yossi has a good post ), but none of them shows how to use them, which is not that obvious. First of all, you can not use classes defined in the same project as the orchestration where you plan to use them. Secondly, and this is where I got stuck, – You don’t get any Intellisense! But it will compile and work just fine. Thanks to Jan Eliasen for the help....(read more)

BizTalk Documenter v3.3

Santosh Benjamin's Weblog — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:57:50 GMT

BizTalk Documenter has been updated to v3.3. This being a point release, there is still no links to other tools such as MapDocumenter, but thats on the list for the upcoming combined Documenter and Profiler. The main changes are The UI now allows selecting “Word” as an output option. This was always available in the command line but [...]...(read more)

AppFabric lands in VBUG (Bracknell)

Santosh Benjamin's Weblog — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:47:20 GMT

Hot on the heels of my previous talk on AppFabric at SBUG, I will be reprising the talk, but with more of a Workflow Services slant at VBUG in Bracknell on Feb 15th 2010. A big thanks to all who attended the SBUG talk and cool to see the large Avanade contingent comprising many familiar faces [...]...(read more)

WebCast - BizTalk Benchmark Wizard

Mikael Håkanssons Blog — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:00:00 GMT

Overview: MSDN Devcenter Download: Download from CodePlex.com For more information: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 1) How to install: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 2) BBW Drill Down: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 3)...(read more)

Returning Custom Formats from WCF WebHttp Services

The .NET Endpoint — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:00:00 GMT

This is part eight of a twelve part series that introduces the features of WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4. In this post we will cover: Using the new WCF WebHttp Services API for content negotiation Returning content with custom formats in addition to XML and JSON Configuring WCF WebHttp Services with the WebHttpEndpoint Over the course of this blog post series, we are building a web service called TeamTask . TeamTask allows a team to track tasks assigned to members of the team. Because the code in...(read more)

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Thiago Almeida

Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:16:50 GMT

Welcome to the 17th interview in my thrilling and mind-bending series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. With the 2010 Microsoft MVP Summit around the corner, I thought it’d be useful to get some perspectives from a virginal MVP who is about to attend their first Summit. So, we’re talking to [...]...(read more)

Book plug: 'Intelligent Systems' by Robert Schalkoff

Charles Young — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:06:53 GMT

I am deeply engrossed at present in a new book, published at the beginning of this year, called 'Intelligent Systems - Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics' by Robert Schalkoff, and published by Jones & Bartlett. Rather strangely, I note the copyright year is 2011, so I guess it fell through some kind of wormhole from the future. I don't think I have enjoyed reading an IT book as much in the last 20 years. The book is a modern introduction to the whole field of 'intelligent systems'...(read more)

Creating Custom Activities in WF 4.0 Webcasts

CloudCasts Blog — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:07:58 GMT

I’ve added the first two of a series of webcasts looking at creating custom activities in WF 4.0. The first one looks at deriving from the CodeActivity class to create simple activities, and the second looks at deriving from the AsyncCodeActivity (and being more friendly to the workflow runtime). WF 4.0 Custom Activities Part 1 Code Activity WF 4 Custom Activities Part 2 Asynchronous Code Activity...(read more)

SoCal Code Camp 2010 slides and demos

Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:27:00 GMT

As promised, you can download the slides and demos from my presentations today here . Enjoy. Pluralsight was happy to sponsor the event this year - look for us at the next Code Camp!...(read more)

Microsoft Field Surveys

Charles Young — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:09:26 GMT

So there I am doing what a geek does best - sitting in Cafe Nero on Tottenham Court Road in the centre of London on a Saturday afternoon, killing time while waiting to meet up with my daughter, and doing a little coding to pass the time when someone (his name turned out to be Jim) asks me "so what do you think of the Visual Studio 2010 beta?" Me> It's OK; its stable and functional, and the UI performs quite well, which is good because it uses WPF. Jim> Yes I know, I'm working...(read more)

BizTalk 2006-R2 SP1 Now Available

Connected Systems in the Great White North — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:04:04 GMT

Folks… I admit that I’ve blatantly copied this from the BizTalk Server Team Blog. Just trying to spread to the word :) <Plagiarism> Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2009 release, as well as some additional enhancements. Important Links: Location: Download Location Detailed...(read more)

HIPAA 5010 support now officially available for BizTalk

Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006/2009 blog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:03:12 GMT

The HIPAA 5010 Support KB Article 973415 explains the new ability within BizTalk to support the next version of HIPAA standards for EDI data interchange. Note: as noted in the Applies To section at the bottom of the article, this only works with BizTalk 2009, sorry BizTalk 2006 R2 users, looks like you will be migrating to 2009 sooner than you thought....(read more)

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 Now Available!!!

BizTalk Server Team Blog — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:13:59 GMT

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2009 release, as well as some additional enhancements. Important Links: Location: Download Location Detailed Article : KB Article BizTalk Server Roadmap: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/roadmap.aspx Additional Details Microsoft BizTalk Server...(read more)