Oliver Sharp, general manager of the BizTalk Server group at Microsoft, provides an update on how BizTalk has fared in the marketplace and progress the team has made on the next version of the product, BizTalk Server 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass Read More……(read more)
I’ve used this quite a bit on BTS 2004. Instead of deploying projects through Visual Studio, sometimes I want to just overwrite the DLL in the GAC, restart BizTalk, and start using it.
Here’s one of the easier ways to do this:
Create a .reg file with the following text.
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\shell\gacutil\command]
@=”c:\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Frame%u00adwork\\v1.1.4322\\gacutil.exe /i \”%1\” “
Double click the .reg file and right click on the strongly named .DLL to see the new menu item.
Just thought I'd post this since I couldn't find a concise hit myself when searching for it. I'm using the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool in a restricted environment where my default user isn't an administrator. In certain scenarios…(read more)
As for the process server, the new workflow version, BizTalk Services, and the other developments, we will have to wait until PDC at the end of October for further confirmation. It should be a very exciting conference.
As a response to question posted in a previous post, Nabeel Prior, having used HWS before, had this to say about the use of HWS:
"…while it is capable of doing workflow it is a rather cumbersome tool to use. Couple that with the fact that it was announced as a deprecated feature in R2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559720.aspx), and you have something that just isn’t worth investing time in.
My view is that it would be much more beneficial to learn WF and use WF from BizTalk, as per http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2007/11/01/just-released-biztalk-server-2006-extensions-for-windows-workflow-foundation-sdk.aspx.
Even though ZTP was based on HWS, even it is moving to WF: http://blogs.msdn.com/daclark/archive/2007/06/15/provisioning-4-0-on-windows-workflow-foundation.aspx"
I would like to thank Nabeel for the brilliant response. You can check out Nabeel's blog here.
This week I had the privilege of sitting with Bob Muglia while he taped a short video on his thoughts of how model-driven development could transform the way we develop and manage applications. Bob also announced Microsoft’s participation in the Object Management Group (OMG) standards organization, which owns key modeling standards like UML and BPMN. Given bob’s history, it was great to hear his perspective on how modeling will impact the next generation of computing.
Bob spoke about the opportunity that Microsoft sees to take this kind of approach mainstream – not just the Fortune 50 or Fortune 500, but the Fortune 5 million In the video, Bob talks about modeling as a core focus of Microsoft’s Dynamic IT strategy, and highlighted three areas of focus for Microsoft: platform, personas and partners.
What is the significance of these 3 “Ps” aside from being a super-cool alliteration? Well, they are the three-part strategy to bringing modeling into the mainstream. We think that by driving modeling capabilities into the core .NET platform, expanding the various types of personas within an organization that can interact with models, and finally expanding the partner ecosystem to create a broad array of solutions and standards, this gives customers – of all sizes – the ability to benefit from modeling as a part of their application development. In many cases, customers will benefit from modeling through natural evolution of existing technologies. They won’t necessarily know they are using modeling when they deploy an app – their life will just get easier.
I’ve talked about “ Oslo” many times here. “Oslo” is the codename for a set of technical investments that will significantly enhance modeling capabilities for Microsoft, our partner ecosystem and our customers. It consists of:
%u00b7 A tool that helps people define and interact with models in a rich and visual manner
%u00b7 A language that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages and data models
%u00b7 A repository that makes models available to both tools and platform components
It’s also important to note that modeling is a company-wide investment, which means it doesn’t start or stop with “Oslo” – it includes a lot of exciting work we’re doing as part of Visual Studio Team System “Rosario”, System Center, BizTalk Server, SQL Server and more.
Want to know more about the OMG news or what Bob had to say? Check out the video.
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Ok, so one more complaint on language usage and i’ll go back to proper tech stuff, I promise.
2 things that i see very often which are more than just typos are the following:
Using ‘extravert’ instead of extrovert: This comes up very often in posts and articles about personalities. The opposite of an ‘introverted’ personality is […]
…that can be seen here looks exactly like the SQL Server logo and is very similar to the System Center logo. I wonder why and which server product is next?…(read more)
I can only follow Mikaels post and thank everyone who attended the BizTalk User Group Sweden event last thursday about REST with Jon Flanders. It was a great turnout weighing in at about 80 people. According to Jon we were one of the largest usergroups…(read more)