I spent the last few weeks working with Joe Klug (BizTalk Server Product Manager) and other members of the Product team on a demo that shows SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), specifically the WCF LOB Adapters…(read more)
There’s the whole suite of products on here now! From 2004 to R2 (you thought I was
going to say BTS2000!!!! ….I try to push that out of my mind)
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/roadmap/default.mspx
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!