November 2008 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Some interesting BizTalk compiler hints, well not quite….

Ok, so these aren’t entirely compiler hints, but interesting nonetheless: 1. Re-Ordering of Catch Clauses The compiler will throw the following warning if you catch specific exceptions after a general exception block: Orchestraion.odx(653,17): warning...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2008 12:06 PM by Nick Heppleston's BizTalk Blog

Filed under: BizTalk 2006, Correlation, XML Disassembler, try...catch, Convoy, General Exceptions

Whats the future for BAM?

I was at the SOA/BPM Conference this week at reading and was watching one of the presentations which discussed the differences between BizTalk and Dublin. It occured to my that with BizTalk being pitched as the integration product and dublin being pitched...

Published Sat, Nov 29 2008 4:04 AM by Michael Stephenson

Filed under: BizTalk

RESTFull.Net on Bokus

For those of you in Sweden, who has been waiting for RESTFull .NET by Jon Flanders; The book has now been released on Bokus.com :

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 11:08 PM by Mikael Håkanssons Blog

Filed under: WCF, REST

Application Architecture "Pocket Guides" From Microsoft

Was trolling CodePlex today and noticed that those Patterns and Practices cats just released a neat little set of short architecture guides that cover a few specific architectural areas including the Agile architecture method, web application architecture...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 11:34 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: .Net, SOA, General Architecture

Extending RESTful services with a custom Request Interceptor

There are a lot of aspects that needs to be combined in order to architect robust RESTful services to go beyond the typical HTTP verb and URI modeling. Capabilities such as Low-Hi REST, Error Handling or Caching are fundamental elements of real world...

Published Wed, Nov 26 2008 10:44 AM by Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Filed under: Architecture, SOA, WCF, Web Services, Microsoft, .NET Framework, REST, Design Patterns

BizTalk Ordered Delivery – One way HTTP receive and SQL Send port

I’ve done some experimentation around this as a proof of concept a while ago. With all the hundreds of posts on Dublin and Oslo and .NET 4.0 there’s nothing better than to relax with a bit of BizTalk To ensure ordered delivery between a one way http receive...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 4:48 PM by Connected Thoughts - Thiago Almeida

Filed under: BizTalk

Code for my book is up

You can find it at http://www.rest-ful.net/book/default.aspx . My plan is to have more REST and WCF content up on that site soon - but at least the code files for the book are there. Watch out for the code from Chapter 10 (consuming REST...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 9:27 AM by Jon Flanders' Blog

Filed under: REST;WCF

Blueprints Diary 2 : Getting Started - The Videos

Mike Lehman has posted a set of screen-casts on Channel 9 that explain the process of authoring and composing blueprints, including how to use the WF process workflow, creating custom extensions, using T4 etc. Here is the list of videos and a short summary...

Published Tue, Nov 25 2008 5:13 AM by Santosh Benjamin's Weblog

Filed under: Factories, Blueprints, DSL

Sharepoint Optimisation (Optimization) Tool

James, a student of mine this week pointed me to a great tool that 'optimises' your SharePoint site (as well as websites in general). Runtime Peformance Optimisation (RPO) is the place where it's all at. You basically plug your URL in and...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 11:20 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: Office, Tips, moss, MOSS/Admin

New ASP.NET Charting Control: <asp:chart runat="server"/>

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 10:38 PM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: ASP.NET, .Net, Community News

HIPAA 005010 will not be supported in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

I have just received word that the 005010 HIPAA schemas will not be supported in R2 but will only be available and supported in BizTalk 2009! I am VERY surprised that Microsoft would decide that, given the somewhat slow accepting of new products in the...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 9:23 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

New RESTful .NET book available

Jon Flanders has been a thought leader in the area of doing REST in .NET. His new RESTful .NET book is now available for purchase. He goes into the motivation and background for REST and then shows how to consume and expose RESTful web services with WCF 3.5. Very few people can make low-level technical details as accessible as Jon. Definitely one to have in the library.

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 5:46 PM by The .NET Endpoint

RESTFul.NET in stock at Amazon.com and O'Reilly.com

My book on WCF and REST is doing - and SHIPPING! So many people have been asking me when the book would be ready - well NOW! Code will be up this week (this of course I know will be the next logical question once people get their copies :)) Amazon...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 4:35 PM by Jon Flanders' Blog

Web Platform – Single Install Release Candidate

Today, we posted a release candidate (RC) of the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) here . This effort is a direct result of feedback we’ve received from customers regarding the need to significantly simplify the installation of key components needed to...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 3:25 PM by Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Simple Middleware - Steven Martin, CSD Product Management

Filed under: web

Cool Navigation in SharePoint 2007 using jQuery – Teaser!

So you think GUI coolness nowadays is only related to fancy RIA stuff like Silverlight? Think again! The video above is a little project I’m working on, using jQuery plugins to show a cool way to navigate to the Lists and Document Libraries of a SharePoint...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 1:20 PM by Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Filed under: SharePoint, wss, moss, jquery, navigation

Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery [Part Two]

The first part of this article showed you how you can enable jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites and pages, so in this article let's assume jQuery is up and running in your SharePoint environment. The second part of this article will show you a couple...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 12:37 PM by Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Filed under: SharePoint

Blogical SFTP Adapter for BizTalk gets passphrase support

I've uploaded a new version of the Blogical SFTP Adapter for BizTalk unto Codeplex . This release adds support for passphrase protected identityfiles after a forums request . Get it here ....( read more )

Published Sun, Nov 23 2008 1:47 PM by Be Logical - writings by Johan Hedberg

Filed under: BizTalk, Adapters, download, Sftp

Dublin Webcasts

I’ve posted a couple of webcasts on Dublin on BloggersGuides.net . They are based on the PDC08-CSD image, so things may well change going forward, but they provide a good intro as to how to get started exploring hosting services in Dublin, and the configuration...

Published Sun, Nov 23 2008 9:39 AM by BizTalk 101 - Back to Basics

Filed under: Oslo

I have renamed Windows Azure to Windows "Light Blue"

Today while setting down at the ISV Innovation Day at Microsoft in Melbourne and looking at the agenda, I thought about all the technology around Windows Azure and what it really means to developers. Since returning from the US I having spent the last...

Published Sun, Nov 23 2008 6:00 AM by BizTalkBill's Ramblings

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting - Tuesday 2nd December 2008

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Tuesday 2nd December 2008 at 5:30pm The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond The topics will be: Bill Chesnut from Stargate...