Well, after a quite a few months of mainly coaching and mentoring, i finally got permission to get my hands dirty with code for a new project, where it appears, that yours truly is going to be a one man army. Its quite an interesting project involving getting data from an oracle system, content enriching […]
More exciting news from the Orlando Code Camp . My good friend (drum roll… the one, the only J ) Danny del Rio is going to be presenting a session about Enterprise Integration (EAI) Patterns using BizTalk Server R2. Danny has put together a series of…(read more)
Have you been getting an intermittent error similar to the following during a TFS
Team Build execution (within the CoreGet target) ?:
Access to the path 'C:\Documents and Settings\tfsbuild\Local Settings\Temp\TFSTemp\4580{#$@;._}808'
is denied.
If you look around, you will find a few folks who point at antivirus software as the
culprit, but in our case it turned out to be the disk defragmentation service…
I sat down with Jeff Brand from Microsoft
to discuss “BizTalk for .NET developers”. We touched on how BizTalk
fits in with a typical SOA effort, dealing with the learning curve, typical usage
scenarios, and several other topics. Great fun. You can grab the MP3 here if
you like.
Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap. Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release. Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here. Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of great ASP.NET MVC tutorial videos that you can watch to learn more about it here. One of the things I mentioned in my MVC roadmap post was that we would be publishing the source code for the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and enable it to be easily built, debugged, and patched (so that you can work around any bugs you encounter without having to wait for the next preview refresh release). Today we opened up a new ASP.NET CodePlex project that we’ll be using to share buildable source for multiple upcoming ASP.NET releases. You can now directly download buildable source and project files for the ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 release here. You can download a .zip file containing the source code for the ASP.NET MVC Framework for the release page here. When you extract the .zip file you can drill into its “MVC” sub-folder to find a VS 2008 solution file for the project: Double-clicking it will open the MVC project containing the MVC source within VS 2008: When you do a build it will compile the project and output a System.Web.Mvc.dll assembly under a \bin directory at the top of the .zip directory. You can then copy this assembly into a project or application and use it. Note: the license doesn’t enable you to redistribute your custom binary version of ASP.NET MVC (we want to avoid having multiple incompatible ASP.NET MVC versions floating around and colliding with each other). But it does enable you to make fixes to the code, rebuild it, and avoid getting blocked by an interim bug you can’t work around. Our plans are to release regular drops of the source code going forward. We’ll release source updates every time we do official preview drops. We will also release interim source refreshes in between the preview drops if you want to be able to track and build the source more frequently. We are also hoping to ship our unit test suite for ASP.NET MVC in the future as well (right now we use an internal mocking framework within our tests, and we are still doing some work to refactor this dependency before shipping them as well). Hope this helps, Scott
Building the ASP.NET MVC Framework
Next Steps
Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap. Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release. Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here. Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of great ASP.NET MVC tutorial videos that you can watch to learn more about it here. One of the things I mentioned in my MVC roadmap post was that we would be publishing the source code for the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and enable it to be easily built, debugged, and patched (so that you can work around any bugs you encounter without having to wait for the next preview refresh release). Today we opened up a new ASP.NET CodePlex project that we’ll be using to share buildable source for multiple upcoming ASP.NET releases. You can now directly download buildable source and project files for the ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 release here. You can download a .zip file containing the source code for the ASP.NET MVC Framework for the release page here. When you extract the .zip file you can drill into its “MVC” sub-folder to find a VS 2008 solution file for the project: Double-clicking it will open the MVC project containing the MVC source within VS 2008: When you do a build it will compile the project and output a System.Web.Mvc.dll assembly under a \bin directory at the top of the .zip directory. You can then copy this assembly into a project or application and use it. Note: the license doesn’t enable you to redistribute your custom binary version of ASP.NET MVC (we want to avoid having multiple incompatible ASP.NET MVC versions floating around and colliding with each other). But it does enable you to make fixes to the code, rebuild it, and avoid getting blocked by an interim bug you can’t work around. Our plans are to release regular drops of the source code going forward. We’ll release source updates every time we do official preview drops. We will also release interim source refreshes in between the preview drops if you want to be able to track and build the source more frequently. We are also hoping to ship our unit test suite for ASP.NET MVC in the future as well (right now we use an internal mocking framework within our tests, and we are still doing some work to refactor this dependency before shipping them as well). Hope this helps, Scott
Building the ASP.NET MVC Framework
Next Steps
Yesterday I finally had some time to finish a project I’ve been working on for some time: the Autocomplete Text Field for SharePoint 2007. Click here for a small demo screencast on Soapbox, or download the high resolution video from the CodePlex site.
The idea is pretty simple: you’ve got a SharePoint list (or document library) that contains some interesting lookup data, now you can make use of the Autocomplete Text Field to display a textbox to the user that will show a dropdown list of items that start with the text the user already entered. When the user types more (or less) text, the dropdown list will adapt to that and update the contents. All of this is made available as a new column type (aka custom field type) in SharePoint 2007. The beauty of this field is that it doesn’t need to do a page postback to refresh the data, the ASP.NET AJAX extensions are used to fetch the data in the background.
When the column is added to a SharePoint list or document library, the user can customize by defining various settings:
For more information, the download and the source code; visit the SmartTools for SharePoint Codeplex site. Be aware that if you want to make use of this column, the ASP.NET AJAX extensions must be installed and configured on your SharePoint sites!! (more info here)
A long, long time ago, back in the SharePoint 2003 days, I created some pretty popular web parts which filled in some gaps the out-of-the-box functionality left open. In SharePoint 2007 most of those web parts are obsolete; for example the Breadcrumbs web part is not necessary anymore since SharePoint 2007 has breadcrumbs by default. But a lot of people contacted me to ask for a SharePoint 2007 version of the What’s New web part. This web part displayed a list of new and changed items on site. It’s arguable that this functionality is not needed anymore because in SharePoint 2007 we have RSS feeds, the Content Query Web Part (MOSS only) etc. But apparently some people like the simplicity of the original What’s New web part so much … and just for those people I’ve create a new SharePoint 2007 What’s New web part! 🙂
Of course the new version is better and improved! Internally it’s making use of the SPSiteDataQuery class so it can also aggregate new and changed items from multiple sites (recursive from the current level, or the complete site collection). The web part has following configuration parameters:
The installation is very easy (and completely documented), there is a setup wizard that will guide you through the process (thank you WSPBuilder and SharePoint Solution Installer!). For more information, download and source code; visit the SmartTools for SharePoint CodePlex site.
Microsoft BizTalk Server Operations Guide is now available on MSDN. You can also download it as a separate PDF, DOCX or CHM. This guide is based on real-world experiences around maintaining and operating BizTalk Solutions in demanding production environments.
Happy Reading!
Marjan Kalantar
I have been working with pipeline components quite a bit recently and when I try to attach to the BizTalk Server process I find that there are a lot of host instances and I need to determine which one to attach to.
If you run the tasklist utility from a command prompt it will enable you to get a list of the host instances (services) as well as the name and PID. Exactly what we need to determine what to attach to.
If you have a 32 bit hosts then run the following:
tasklist /SVC /fi “imagename eq btsntsvc.exe”
and if you have 64 bit hosts then run this:
tasklist /SVC /fi “imagename eq btsntsvc64.exe”
the /fi is a filter and the eq is equals.
The results that will come back will look something like
Image Name PID Services
================== ==== ===============================
BTSNTSvc.exe 6324 BTSSvc$BizTalkServerApplication
BTSNTSvc.exe 3676 BTSSvc$BizTalkServerReceive
BTSNTSvc.exe 6152 BTSSvc$BizTalkServerSend