It looks like I don’t need to post the second part of my WS-ReliableMessaging WCF WSIT interoperability scenario . Check out this great post by Arun Gupta , one of the leaders of WSIT (Project Tango). Also if you are interested on Project Tango, check…(read more)
A couple of useful BizTalk whitepapers released today. It’s good to see two once-dormant BizTalk blogs (first MartyWaz, now Doug from the CSD Customer Experience) wake up in the past couple weeks.
The first paper, Best Practices for the SQL Adapter, covers how to properly write SQL receive location queries, deal with unsupported data types, […]
I was trying to move my RS from one machine to another, like so:
C:>rskeymgmt.exe -e -f c:\rskey.txt -p thepassword
When I got this error:
The local NT Service is disabled 0x80090005
I fixed the problem by setting the Reporting Services NT Service to use the Network Service account. Then I was able to back up the key.
Two new whitepapers have recently been authored and will be posted to MSDN shortly. These are full of key information on the primary issues customers may face when using the SQL and SOAP adapters with BizTalk Server.
They can be found at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/aa937652.aspx.
Best Practices for the SQL Adapter
Sample Design Patterns for Consuming and Exposing Web Services from an Orchestration
Kudos to our fantastic Support Engineers who continue to publish relevant content back to our customer base!
Enjoy,
– Doug
The PRESTO Adapters Starter Kit is intended for architects, developers or anyone who are interested in consuming or exposing services that “communicate” withPRESTO from the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 exchange platform. Whatever the role people are going to play, the adapters provided as part of the PRESTO Adapters Starter Kit are intended to be […]
When I first heard that Vista Sidebar Gadgets where to be developed using Javascript, I thought Microsoft was making a mistake, and that Javascript+Html+Css was the wrong platform for these developments.
Since then, I’ve tried several gadgets, and tweaked two of them: first the Show Me Life Flickr gadget and yesterday the Scraper gadget. What I found is that the technologies involved are really convenient, and development turned out to be really quick. The Scraper gadget sample doesn’t work anymore (I think the site where it scrapes info from is down), but I quickly changed it to get financial quotes from my bank’s pages, add auto-update timers, use a better layout, and be configurable. All in a couple of hours.
Being a simple development, I did the code editing in Notepad2, but I think for more advanced gadgets (a few months back I tweaked Microsoft’s Outlook Upcoming Appointments to get my own custom to-do list, and Outlook’s object model is significantly more complex, which made this much more complicated) a more sofisticated development+test environment is probably a good idea.
You’ll have to excuse me for not sharing the code, but I don’t want the bank to block the scraping. 🙂
Whether it’s BTS04 or 06 – you can always generate the schema behind the magical binding
file from the following command (courtesy of Mark Berry):
xsd.exe “C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006/Microsoft.BizTalk.Deployment.dll”
/type:BindingInfo-Mark Berry
Pretty cool – thanks Mark. (obviously change ‘2006’ to ‘2004’ if on BTS 2004)
You now have an XSD that corresponds to all the options in your Binding File.
Enjoy!
I have to say – TechEd Hong Kong has been one of the best conferences I’ve ever been
to. The hospitality shown by the people from Microsoft is really second to none.
Hong Kong is a beautiful city to visit and the people (not just from Microsoft) were
very accomodating.
This year, not only do I get to hang out with my old friend Bob
Beauchemin – I also get to bring Shannon with
me this year. I am sure we’ll have a blast.
And – I get to do talks on WF/WCF (one of my current favorite topics). BAM (always
one of my favorite topics) – and its integration in BizTalk Server R2. Plus – I get
to do two talks on new features in Orcas and ASP.NET!
Should be a great week in
Hong Kong if you are in that area of the world – sign up!
Check out my BizTalk
R2 Training.
Arvindra Sehmi one of the leaders of the Microsoft EMEA Enterprise Architecture Group has started blogging again. Check out his first series of posts about Service Capsules ….(read more)
Be sure to run Visual Studio as an administrator. Failure to do so causes a bunch of little problems.
Problem 1
After creating the Guidance package project type. I immediately tried to build and got “Error 1 ‘PostBuildEvent’ failed with error code ‘1’ ‘Unspecified error’ %ProjectPathHere% GuidanceSetup.vdproj %project name here%Setup”
Solution 1
The project path had a space in it and I was getting the error ‘C:\Users\neilth\Documents\Visual’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.” in the output window. I just moved the project to a path that had no spaces.
Discovery 1 – I’ve been playing with the solution and project template vstemplate xml files. I can easily change them around to rearrange the structure of the solution this factory will generate. I also found that it’s real easy to just right-click on the guidance project, register it and then open VS and create an instance of the solution that this guidance package generates. This seems like the most approachable feature of the guidance automation so far.
Problem 2 After adding another project to the solution template, and including a folder for it under projects. I get “An exception occurred during the binding of refrence or execution of recipe Restiers. Error was: action register failed to execute: Failed to process package. See the guidance package development output window for mrore information about the error..You can remove the reference to this recipe through the guidance package manager.
Solution 2 – The ProjectType element in the vstemplate for the new class library project was incorrect.I changed the project type to General, it then worked fine. I also saw some references to using CSharp as the project type. I found that the SampleLibrary template uses CSharp as the project type, so that’s good enough for me.
Discovery 2– Good forum is at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=78&SiteID=1
Question 1 – Hmm.. where to I find the schemas for all of these xml files that I’m working with?
Discovery 3 – It’s a good idea to dload the other service factories (Web Service, Smart Client, Mobile Client etc) and use the shortcuts in the start menu to install the source code for the guidance package
Hmmm…progress slowed right down as soon as I started trying to explore existing guidance packages. Perhaps they are a bit too complex to fully understand at this point.