http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en
Live and very available.
One of the biggest benefits I see is the WorkflowHostService class
– a class that provides the glue between the WF world and the WCF world….very nice!
Enjoy!
I have updated my custom trigger message entry here since a friend tried unsuccessfully to follow my instructions.
I have added a few more pictures and have noted some gotcha’s.
If you run Microsoft Virtual PC on Windows Vista (running via Bootcamp) on your MacBook Pro (I know, I know), you’ve probably been frustrated by the lack of a real Right-ALT key, which is what you’d normally use to switchin in and out of full-screen mode (the full-screen key sequence is Right-ALT + Enter).
Well, I finally stumbled across a little gem that allows you to remap the “host key“ in Microsoft Virtual PC. The host key allows the “host“ to capture control of the mouse and keyboard from a virtual machine — and by default it’s configured to be Right-ALT. You can remap the “host key” as follows:
Once you’ve done this, you can press Right-Apple + Enter to toggle full-screen mode on your MacBook.
Next week, we are holding a Business Intelligence Summit in Melbourne and Sydney. Check out the details here: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/business/bi/summit/default.aspx
We have laucnhed the *Windows Live Community Builder* service. It allows businesses, non-profit organisations or anyone who wants to create a community service to create customised, branded online experiences. It can include email services, member services, calendaring, contacts, mapping features etc
How much does it cost? $0, zilch, nada, nothing.
Check it out at: http://partner.live.com/communitybuilder.
A few weeks after the SOA & BPM Conference 2007, I finally had the opportunity to upload a few pictures to our blog. What a week! It started with the announcement of “Oslo”, continued with many great discussions at the attendees reception and Ask The Experts and was packed with breakout sessions as well as focus groups and design reviews with our MVPs.
Many thanks to those who spoke at and attended this conference and helped make it a success. To close off a very productive week, our product group welcomed MVPs to a special dinner with our GM Oliver Sharp and many other leaders of our team. Some pictures from this event are attached (click on the pictures to see them in larger format.)
Looking forward to seeing everyone soon again at future events!
Best Regards,
Marjan Kalantar
So you have an orchestration that has been exposed as a web service using BizTalk’s Web Publishing Wizard. It created the proxy files, the virtual directory and the web application, and you have a receive port configured with the SOAP adapter. In my case this was part of an upgrade from BizTalk 2004 to BizTalk […]
Yesterday, Visual Studios 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 was released by Microsoft.
I, of course, immediately download the Team Suite edition from MSDN and installed it on a Virtual Machine. Then, went about my daily business of opening up a BizTalk project to get some work done.
The project conversion wizard opened and ran but the projects were unable to open inside Visual Studios. This really wasn’t a big surprise and doesn’t cause me much pain since none of my projects are working with Visual Studios 2008 yet.
I found a news group post that said a patch for BizTalk might be coming out at some point to allow it to work with Visual Studios 2008. But I have not heard anything about a timeline.
To summarize, have fun working with Visual Studios 2008 but keep in mind you might have a hard time doing BizTalk development.
So
the word if officially out that Amazon will start shipping, on November 29th 2007,
their new eBook reader called “Amazon Kindle“.
The device is very compelling if you are looking for an eBook reader, here is are
just some of the vital statistics:
White background, black text “ePaper” screen
10.3 ounces in weight
Runs 2 days with Wireless turned on, a week with it off.
Recharges complete in 2 hours
Blog reader (or at least some blog feeds available)
Full Wikipedia access
Read Microsoft Word documents and images (JPG, PNG, BMP and GIF)
88,000 books available now, 100 of the 112 New York Times Bestsellers
Wireless access to data without the need for WiFi
*blink Hold on there, run that last point again for me… Yes, you
read correctly you get access to the Amazon data services directly from the device
using Sprint’s wireless broadband network and without a monthly charge. How?
Amazon is absorbing the charges, the control the platform, you go to them for data,
and simply do it over the Sprint network. That is absolutely incredible and
the single most ground breaking concept within this device. With a $399 price
tag, is definitely a niche market right now, but if you consume 20ish books a year,
then you’ll make back the money within a year on the savings over “dead tree” versions.
But
my question to you, dear readers, is that if there was a cell phone company willing
to let a company “Pay Per Download” on devices in the field, how is it that Jeff Bezos
found them, and not Steve Jobs! Just imagine if you will an iPod, not an iPhone,
with the ability to download new songs literally anywhere, anytime, at a small 25
cent upcharge on the cost of the song for the download. This could be huge,
and I’ll bet you money that someone from Apple is already talking with Sprint about
this concept right now.
The good news for everyone else in the portable music industry is that this is a chink
in the armor of Apple. If someone can jump on this bandwagon fast, and cut a
deal for the same services for music, they could vault themselves over the iPod in
popularity because it would still be tethered to WiFi spots. Now, it can’t be
the “TimRayburn.net Music Player”, it would have
to be someone with a name in hardware already, and someone with enough money to make
the deal happen fast, and who has a vested financial interest in seeing the iPod tumble.
Is there such a person? I think so…
Tim Rayburn is a consultant for Sogeti in the Dallas/Fort
Worth market.
Yesterday was a great day for the Microsoft developer community: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 have shipped as announced in Soma’s weblog you can find more details via my friend Sam Gentile . The Express editions are available from the new Express…(read more)