BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

XNA Games on the Zune

Last night I finally had the opportunity to install the new Game Studio 3.0 CTP, and deploy some games to my Zune. I've tried 4 games (the official sample plus stuff I got from ZuneBoards ) and one app (an e-book reader). These are very simple, and...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 4:32 AM by João Pedro "jota" Martins

Filed under: Posts in English, Zune

BizTalk Services New Release - Now with Workflow

There's a new release of BizTalk Services (R12) coming out and already available at the Pre-Production environment . This new release brings exciting new functionality, the most visible of which is (finally) Workflow support. The SDK includes 2 workflow...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 3:31 AM by João Pedro "jota" Martins

Filed under: Workflow, Development, Posts in English, BizTalk Services, Cloud computing

It feels like this webcast has been pimped enough but..

If you haven't seen it advertised - I am doing a WebCast on WCF/WF integration next Wednesday at 10 am Pacific time. Signup link : http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032381608&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 8:10 PM by Jon Flanders' Blog

Filed under: WCF;WF

This collection already contains an address with scheme http. There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection - WCF/BizTalk Error

You'll get this error when using WCF/IIS and host headers.....fortunately a fellow colleague Paul Glavich figured it out!!! Well done Paul! (It involves an IIS reshuffle, you may be able to do something within a custom WCF Binding.) Remember: There...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 2:51 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, .NET Developer

No results when searching for A word or phrase in the file

Have you ever used the search functionality in Windows Explorer, only to be disappointed as it returns no results. I've seen this a million times, and is one of the first settings I change when bring up a server. Here's the fix: set the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:50 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

ASP.Net DefaultButton fires wrong button when tab is used to focus a button

My loyal BizTalk readers :) may be surprised to know I'm pretty handy with writing code as well. As such I've been working on a ASP.Net site recently and had to deal with this weird situation. If you have a webpage with two buttons 'Ok'...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:16 PM by BizTorque.net

.NET 3.5 Framework WebCasts for the Month of July

There's a great line up this month that are too good to keep secret. Some fellow CSD experts are lining up for some great topics to give all around Workflow and WCF!!! Does it get better? Get on and register. For more, check out the Live Calendar...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 8:41 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, Events, BizTalk/Insights, moss, silverlight, BizTalk/RFID, BizTalk/Usergroup

Microsoft MVP again in 2008

I'm thrilled to report that I've been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award once again in 2008, though this time I am a Connected Systems MVP, instead of a BizTalk MVP. The difference is nearly inconsequential, as I...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 6:44 PM by TimRayburn.net LLC: Blog

Filed under: Blog

BizTalk Server MVP, Year 3

Microsoft has decided to re-award me with the MVP title for another year, still in the BizTalk Server category, which means another year in the wonderful world of Connected Systems technologies, and more learning ahead. :-) Hurray! With Oslo and BizTalk...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 3:40 PM by João Pedro "jota" Martins

Filed under: BizTalk Server

Let the upgrade begin

So I know at least some of my friends will be pleased to hear that I've completed my upgrade to Graffiti CMS, migrating from dasBlog. I must say that dasBlog has served me very well, but as the blog has grown in popularity, I've done screencasts...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 2:00 PM by TimRayburn.net LLC: Blog

Filed under: Blog

BizTalk 2006 Message Archiving Component v0.4 - Proposed Enhancements

The BizTalk 2006 Message Archiving Component I released in March of this year on Codeplex has been received well by the BizTalk Community based on the e-mails I have received and downloads (156 source code downloads & 51 binary downloads): The component...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 5:41 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: General

July's must See WF/WCF Influencer MSDN Webcasts

As promised, we’re launching our July series of WF and WCF Influencer MSDN Webcasts . You can find links to them on our MSDN Webcasts site here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnnetframework35.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=liveall Webcast Title Date...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 11:03 PM by BizTalk Server Team Blog

Filed under: WF, .Net, WCF, msdn, Web Service, SOA:BPM, Webcast

BizTalk RFID training coming up...

Quick Learn one of our training partners has announced upcoming training's on BizTalk RFID. Following are the training dates. BizTalk Expert Series - RFID August 25-26 http://www.quicklearn.com/newsletters/news061808c.htm BizTalk Expert Series - RFID...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 9:56 PM by Express the RFID in you!

Filed under: BizTalk RFID, Author : Sudhir Hasbe

Silverlight 2, BizTalk RFID, BizTalk Server and WCF PollingDuplexBinding Element

You might be wondering what do all these guys have in common....good question.... :-) We're currently building an RFID enabled System where complex processes are handled by BizTalk Server, and data being pushed down to Silverlight V2.0 clients via...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 4:55 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, .NET Developer, BizTalk/Insights, silverlight, BizTalk/RFID

Using the WCF SQL Adapter to read messages from SSB queues and submit them to BizTalk

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how the Polling feature in the WCF SQL Adapter can be used to read messages from SQL Service Broker (SSB) queues and publish them in the BizTalk MessageBox. And to make it really simple, we’re going to do it without...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 7:58 AM by WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack

Enabling Data-Driven Permissions in SharePoint Using Windows Workflow

A group I’m working with was looking to use SharePoint to capture data entered by a number of international employees. They asked if SharePoint could restrict access to a given list item based on the value in a particular column. So...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 7:32 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: SharePoint, WCF/WF

Tracking Down Deadlocks using SQL Profiler

Yet more great content over on the (RedGate sponsored) Simple Talk blog, this time an excellent article on tracking down deadlocks using SQL Profiler by Brad McGhee, well worth a read before your production system starts to exhibit this behaviour!

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 3:50 AM by At the Coalface: A BizTalk Blog

Filed under: SQL Server, Deadlocks

Any recommendation for Windows 2003-ASP .NET hosting?

Hi All, In the past few months I been hit with so many technical problems running biztalk 24 * 7.com. I'm currently with 1and1 for my hosting, I been with them for past few years now. Everything is well and good until you hit a problem, but once you...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 3:00 AM by Saravana Kumar

MsgBoxViewer to quickly find BizTalk production issue

We’ve had a recent deployment to production that did not go according to plan, or so we thought at first. It is an upgrade of a BizTalk solution from BizTalk 2004 to 2006 R2. It integrates a website, a CRM system, a bank system, and a fulfillment...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 11:49 PM by Connected Thoughts

Filed under: BizTalk, SQL Server, spool, msgboxviewer, jobs, table, sql agent

VBUG: VSX & Software Factories - slides

Thanks to all who attended my talk on VSX & Software Factories at VBUG last week. It was a decent turnout considering the last minute change of venue. The slides should be available from Chris Mitchell at VBUG and I’m also posting them here...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2008 11:58 AM by Santosh Benjamin's Weblog

Filed under: Software Factories, Factories, VSX, GAT