.NET 3.0 training today

Today I gave a training to 13 people about .NET 3.0. I recycled yesterday’s session on WPF (there was only one person who already saw it yesterday – who got to do same extra labs) then went on with WCF and WF.


However, can you imagine training people in .NET 3.0 in a single day? I mean, it’s very hard to give an overview of most of .NET 3.0’s features in a single day…

Great BizTalk Resources

There are a slew of new resources that have become available in the last few days
for BizTalk Server.  Here is the quick run down.

Also, added another fabulous BizTalk blogger to my list, as you might guess, Lakshmi
Murthy aka TechSavyGal
.  Lakshmi is a BizTalk MVP from India and is always
on top of her game.  Definitely check out her blog!

Listing BTS Adapters with Powershell

Listing BTS Adapters with Powershell

This sample script will list all installed adapters in your local BizTalk Server,
including the names of configured send and receive handlers for them:

#
#
Helper function to list all WMI objects of

#
a given type

#
function btslistobjs($kind)
{
   get
wmiobject $kind `
     
namespace root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer

}

#
#
get objects related to an adapter

#


function btsgetrelated($adapterName, $kind)
{
   get
wmiobject $kind `
     
namespace root\MicrosoftBizTalkServer `
     
filter AdapterName=’$adapterName’

}

#
#
dump adapter information to the console

#
function btsshowadapter($adapter)
{
  
+ $adapter.Name +

  
$sendHandlers = @(btsgetrelated $adapter.Name
MSBTS_SendHandler2)
  
if ( $sendHandlers.Length gt 0 )
   {
     
Send
Handlers:


     
for ( $i =0; $i lt $sendHandlers.Length; $i++ )
      {
        
   + $sendHandlers[$i].HostName
      }
   }
  

  
$recvHandlers = @(btsgetrelated $adapter.Name
MSBTS_ReceiveHandler)
  
if ( $recvHandlers.Length gt 0 )
   {
     
Receive
Handlers:


     
for ( $i =0; $i lt $recvHandlers.Length; $i++ )
      {
        
   + $recvHandlers[$i].HostName
      }
   }
  


}

#
#
main script

#
btslistobjs
MSBTS_AdapterSetting
| %{
bts
showadapter $_ }

Here’s a sample output of running the script:

BizTalk Server 2006 integrated with SAP Code Samples!!!

One setback in BizTalk Server 2004 is inadequate Documentation and now with BizTalk Server 2006 released, we see Microsoft putting in lot of efforts for documentation and help. In this line, you can now check out the very cool SAP Labs for BizTalk Server 2006 from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=49d09411-2211-4549-9de8-ff3a136202d1&displaylang=en
The above labs contain the following scenarios:
Lab Scenario 1 […]

BizTalker Volume 6: BAM Reduce the Barrier to Entry

The latest edition of The BizTalker has been released. 

This issue headlines Brennan O’Reilly from EMC’s Microsoft Practice in Bellevue, Washington.  He covers Business Activity monitoring (BAM) and talks about how easy it is to get up and running with BAM in no time. 

View this issue online or subscribe now to make sure you do not miss an issue. 

Currently, The BizTalker is published every few months to over 1250 people worldwide.