December 2009 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Unit testing: COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used

Let's say you're writing unit tests for code which uses COM objects. You want some initialization and some cleanup to be done. So you set up your test: private static MyStore store; [ ClassInitialize ()] public static void MyClassInitialize( TestContext...

Published Thu, Dec 31 2009 4:20 AM by Random ramblings about Technology

New learning resources for Azure and BizTalk

A couple of new resources have become available in the past few days that will likely be of interest to you. Azure The Developer and Platform Evangelism team has just released a new version of the Azure training kit (Dec 23 2008). It’s a great way to learn about Azure. If you’ve not gotten a feel for what’s coming, check out the videos. It’s an easily digestible set of videos that go through the various pieces that make up the Windows Azure platform. Remember folks, this is not science fiction...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 1:24 PM by Blog.BrianLoesgen.com

Filed under: BizTalk, SOA, Cloud, Azure, ESB Toolkit

UK SOA/BPM User Group meetings in January

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 12:27 PM by Yossi Dahan [BizTalk] - PostRank (PostRank: All)

Empowering BizTalk in HotRod Magazine

Yesterday the new issue of BizTalk HotRod Magazine was published. Besides other nice content it contains an article on our PowerShell Provider for BizTalk. Tagged: BizTalk, PowerShell

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 2:19 AM by BizTalk Messages

Filed under: BizTalk, Powershell

Populating Word 2007 Templates Through Open XML

I recently had a client at work interested in populating contracts out of the information stored in their task tracking tool. Today this is a manual process where the user opens up a Microsoft Word template and retypes the data points stored in their...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 12:10 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk

Gravatars in ASP.NET MVC using HtmlHelper

I’m working on a side-project right now that is using Gravatars and found the wonderful article by Ryan Lanciaux on creating an HtmlHelper extension. His extension was good, but did not use integrate with the FluentHtml model of MvcContrib, so I...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 11:11 AM by TimRayburn.net

Filed under: Blog

Breeze SharePoint 2010 Bootcamp Details

Hi folks, we’ve used our SharePoint expertise and knowledge to distil SharePoint 2010 product feature set, to provide a rich 5 day course for you. I believe with SharePoint in particular that as a developer you *need* to know details about the SharePoint...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 4:59 AM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: Training, moss, MOSS/Admin, SharePoint/2010

Copying your host configuration

Moving your host configuration from one server to another can be daunting and time consuming task. This usually needs to be done when you hand over stuff from development to test, or from test to production. On those environments you mostly want to have...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 8:44 AM by BizTalk Messages

Filed under: BizTalk Tools, BizTalk, Powershell, BizTalk Management

Untyped messages and Business Rules Engine

The other day one of my BizTalk buddies asked me if I knew a way to process different messages by the same policy in the Business Rules Engine (BRE). In other words is it possible to create some sort of generic policy that can process different types...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 3:54 AM by BizTalk Messages

Filed under: BizTalk, Business Rules Engine

BizTalk 2009: Ho Ho Ho.... BizTalk 2009 R2 TAP program announced

Folks Christmas and the holiday season has started with the BizTalk Team been busy and are opening up the BTS 2009 R2 TAP program on connect. If you're a customer (or have customers) that would/could benefit in working with some of the newer BizTalk...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 8:07 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk/RFID, BizTalk/2009, BizTalk/2009/R2

SBUG Competition - Pluralsight OnDemand Library

Just to help put the word out about the upcoming SBUG meeting. Pluralsight have offered a free 1 year standard subscription to their on demand training library which will be raffled at the next SBUG meeting. All of the details are on the below link http...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 1:17 PM by Michael Stephenson

Filed under: BizTalk, SBUG

UK Microsoft Integration Roadshow

A few SBUG members were asking about this recently, the slides from the UK Microsoft Integration Roadshow are available from the following link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/ee890502.aspx

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 1:13 PM by Michael Stephenson

Filed under: BizTalk, SBUG

New Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK now available

There is a new version of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK was made available yesterday, you can get it here . There was also a scheduled outage of the service yesterday while the team did a “major software upgrade”, presumably this is tidying things up in advance of going production live on Jan 1. There was a pre-announcement of breaking changes posted here , but… I missed that. My first clue that something had changed was that the Access Control Service wasn’t talking to me anymore :)....

Published Sat, Dec 19 2009 11:09 AM by Blog.BrianLoesgen.com

Filed under: Cloud, Azure

Implementing a SAML sender-vouches scenario with WIF

Sender-vouches is one of the two subject confirmation methods included in the SAML security token profile specification. Essentially, the sender-vouches scenario enables an attesting entity to vouch for the identity of a subject to a relying party. The...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 10:19 AM by Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Filed under: Architecture, Security, SOA, WCF, Microsoft, Standards, Federated Identity, Web Services Interoperability, .NET Framework, Design Patterns, Windows Identity Foundation

This should not be a routing failure!

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 5:18 AM by Yossi Dahan [BizTalk] - PostRank (PostRank: All)

Building WCF Workflow Services and Hosting in AppFabric

Yesterday I showed how to deploy the new WCF 4.0 Routing Service within IIS 7. Today, I’m looking at how to take one of those underlying services we built and consume it from a WCF Workflow Service hosted in AppFabric. In the previous post, I created...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 11:44 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: .Net, SOA, WCF/WF

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update

In October we shipped the public Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. The feedback on the new features in VS 2010 and .NET 4 has been really great. I’ve been working on a blog series about some of them (lots more posts to go!)...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 6:21 PM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Community News

5 minute interview

Well, here is a shameless piece of self-promotion. Five minutes with a Rules nut, thanks to Tibi Covaci from Cloudcasts . http://www.cloudcasts.net/ViewWebcast.aspx?webcastid=2521412533822906559 One of the best things about working in a company is that...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 6:26 AM by Charles Young

Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available

[ In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Last month I gave a Silverlight 4 keynote at the PDC conference. You can watch my keynote online here (my part of the...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 11:56 PM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: .Net, silverlight, Community News, Talks

Hosting the WCF 4.0 Routing Service in IIS 7

I recently had occasion to explore the new WCF 4.0 Routing Service and thought I’d share how I set up a simple solution that demonstrated its capabilities and highlights how to host it within IIS. This new built-in service allows us to put a simple broker...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 11:27 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings