by community-syndication | May 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
The way forward is streamlining! Here is a blog article from the ECM team reducing the load time of the approx. 450KB core.js file, by loading it in the background.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/02/21/building-a-new-page-layout-which-does-not-reference-core-js-but-downloads-it-while-the-page-is-being-viewed-thereby-optimizing-response-time.aspx
This also brings me to another point – if you look at the Microsoft.com site. This
is driven out of MOSS/WCM or at least the top umbrella pages are.
In terms of a public internet facing readonly MOSS/WCM publishing site – nearly all
the interactive functionality is not needed. E.g. lists, drop down floating menus
for items within lists (ECB Blocks), etc etc etc (site actions menu)…….
A large portion of the client side functionality to all these features is provided
by core.js. Of which MS here on there pages has done some extensive Master
Page modifications as……..there’s not a core.js to be seen………crop
circles…….floating
cars in Perth……what next…..?
by community-syndication | May 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Just a quick note to say that Kevin has a beta release of BizUnit 2.3 on http://www.codeplex.com/bizunit. I had a look at the alpha version earlier and i must say that it looks pretty good. Theres a bunch of additions to the BizUnit() and Context() classes including the ability to pass a Stream to the BizUnit constructor which looks like a nice way to break the dependency on the raw XML. We now have the chance to use the Context in more depth including setting up property values into the Context and passing that into the BizUnit constructor.
I’ve queried about the documentation and whether CHMs will continue to be the only sources there. If so, then i plan to write more articles in the BizUnitExtensions project to cover the new stuff.
I havent had a chance to test extensions against this release, but there is definitely a breaking change in that the Context HasKey() and Change() methods that are used by some extension steps are not available anymore, but the good news is that the ContextManipulator step appears to work, so i guess i can change the code in the appropriate steps to use this step instead of Context Change, or i can move the context change and haskey() into the extension steps. Lets see how it turns out. I should be able to re-release an updated version of extensions as soon as 2.3 is complete.
Anyway, grab your copy of the latest BizUnit and test it out and post your feedback on the codeplex site. Enjoy…
by community-syndication | May 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Just a quick note to say that Kevin has a beta release of BizUnit 2.3 on http://www.codeplex.com/bizunit. I had a look at the alpha version earlier and i must say that it looks pretty good. Theres a bunch of additions to the BizUnit() and Context() classes including the ability to pass a Stream to the BizUnit constructor which looks like a nice way to break the dependency on the raw XML. We now have the chance to use the Context in more depth including setting up property values into the Context and passing that into the BizUnit constructor.
I’ve queried about the documentation and whether CHMs will continue to be the only sources there. If so, then i plan to write more articles in the BizUnitExtensions project to cover the new stuff.
I havent had a chance to test extensions against this release, but there is definitely a breaking change in that the Context HasKey() and Change() methods that are used by some extension steps are not available anymore, but the good news is that the ContextManipulator step appears to work, so i guess i can change the code in the appropriate steps to use this step instead of Context Change, or i can move the context change and haskey() into the extension steps. Lets see how it turns out. I should be able to re-release an updated version of extensions as soon as 2.3 is complete.
Anyway, grab your copy of the latest BizUnit and test it out and post your feedback on the codeplex site. Enjoy…
by community-syndication | May 3, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
If you have been following this blog during last year you know I have been doing a lot of work with J2EE .NET Web Services interoperability. Specifically, a lot of my work and papers have been focused on Oracle .NET interoperability. Well, a few weeks…(read more)
by community-syndication | May 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Developing custom functoids in external assemblies (for your BizTalk Server 2006 maps) can be a pain in Visual Studio 2005. Visual Studio does not really support it and it is very slow.
Here is what you have to do after you just changed something in your custom functoid (e.g. something in the resource file):
Build your custom […]
by community-syndication | May 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Based on the excellent article from Stephen Toub, I was inspired to write a Shockwave Flash preview handler. Basically, it’s just a plain UserControl which hosts the ActiveX wrapper for the player. It works from both Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista. The installer is attached.
by community-syndication | May 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Another quick update, it seems that stores in the US now have stock and are shipping. Both Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble are reporting stock! The UK should follow very shortly, 7 days seemed to be the difference with the Team System book
by community-syndication | May 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Here is a article that walks you through creating a custom web part that calls the Search object model
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms551453.aspx
by community-syndication | May 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Here is a nice tool for calling the MOSS Search Web Service:
http://www.mosssearch.com/searchwebservice.html
Unfortunately, I don’t think it come with the source code.
Have a look at :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms543175.aspx for an overview of calling the web service.
by community-syndication | May 2, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Based on the excellent article from Stephen Toub, I was inspired to write a Shockwave Flash preview handler. Basically, it’s just a plain UserControl which hosts the ActiveX wrapper for the player. It works from both Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista. The installer is attached.
