Hi all
The CSD/BizTalk Product Group is conducting a survey to assess customer usage of the
Business Rules Engine (BRE).
They have sent a link to us MVP’s to get our opinion, but would also like the opinion
of BizTalk consultants, BizTalk customers, and so on.
If you can spare a few minutes, please take the survey at https://live.datstat.com/MSCSD-Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=BRE_Usage_Survey_Blog
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eliasen
Next week I’ll be off at PDC08, which is shaping up to be as good as PDC05 was, with a lot of sessions on Today’s hot topic: Cloud Computing. One week later, I’ll be at the Ask-The-Experts booths at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers in Barcelona (my colleague and SharePoint God Ra%u00fal is also attending the conference), focused on making contacts and maybe attending some of the sessions missed from PDC that will be repeated there. Pedro Rosa from Microsoft Portugal is the owner of the dev track, and has some pretty good sessions lined up.
If you happen to be at any of the events and want to meet, contact me using the form on the blog.
You just gotta love technology 🙂 See you there.
VBUG, a user group that I have been involved quite a bit with over the past few years is holding its 11th annual conference on Nov 4th and 5th. Check out their website for a full color brochure of the agenda and Craig Murphyhas got a short summary of the topics on his blog as […]
Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I’ve done myself in the past.
Building a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application from Scratch: Brad Abrams has a nice end to end application tutorial that shows off building an ASP.NET AJAX application from scratch. It covers ASP.NET, LINQ, Server and Client-side AJAX, the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, jQuery and more. A great end to end read.
A Guide to Learning the ASP.NET MVC Beta: Stephen Walther has a great set of links with some good videos and tutorials you can follow to learn more about the recent ASP.NET MVC beta release.
ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 URL Rewriting Module: Scott Hanselman has a great post that shows off using the new IIS7 Rewriitng Module (which is free and very, very cool) to deliver great SEO (search engine optimization) for sites built with ASP.NET and specifically ASP.NET MVC.
7 of my Favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET: Dave Ward has a nice blog post that talks about 7 of his favorite jQuery plugins and how he uses them with ASP.NET.
Using jQuery to display a modal ASP.NET UpdatePanel confirmation: Dave Ward has another nice blog post that talks about how to use jQuery with the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control.
Using jQuery Load with the ASP.NET MVC Framework: Jason has a nice simple sample that demonstrates how to use jQuery to load an ASP.NET MVC view remotely and populate a page on the client.
VS 2008 Snippet Designer: A cool utility that enables you to quickly create re-usable Visual Studio snippets. Very handy for automating common tasks.
XAML Power Toys Released for WPF and Silverlight: Karl Shifflett has released an awesome update to his XAML Power Toys download. This is a must-have download if you are doing WPF or Silverlight development, and provides a bunch of great wizards and tools that help automating application development. Very, very cool stuff.
WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library on CodePlex: .NET 3.5 SP1 added Pixel Shader support to WPF – which enables you to add cool DirectX optimized visual effects to any WPF control or surface. This article from Jamie points to a nice new CodePlex project that is available that delivers a bunch of pre-built effects you can use.
Silverlight 2 UI Templates: Tim Heuer writes about some cool new UI templates available for the recently released Silverlight 2.
Viewing Design Time Data in VS 2008 WPF and Silverlight Designers: Karl Shifflett has another nice article that talks about some techniques you can use to see sample data in the VS 2008 WPF and Silverlight designers when building applications.
Hope this helps,
Scott
If you are looking for a deep dive or topic specific training on BizTalk or .Net, check out these new classes offered by our training partner Quicklearn:
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Regards,
Ofer
As some of you may know, BizTalk Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) activities can be populated from outside of BizTalk solutions. Say you have a large solution where you want to monitor the full lifecycle of certain data. For example, you have prospective customers arriving in an Excel file that is imported into SQL Server via […]
In my previous post I extolled the virtues of Sun’s desktop virtualisation software, VirtualBox. One thing niggled me though – I couldn’t easily expand a Virtual Disk Image (VDI) and was regularly reaching the space limits of the modest 20Gb disks I was creating; I needed an easy way of expanding disks before I could […]
Here are the samples from the BizTalk User Group meeting last Monday.
Here is the demo code , and presentation (in swedish) from the BAM talk I gave at the BizTalk User Group Sweden event on the 20th. Thank you all who attended, and to Precio for hosting it. Please contact me with any questions you might have about the…(read more)
I had the pleasure of presenting at both the Minneapolis and Omaha Heartland Developers Conference this year. This is a great conference in the central region where national and regional speakers participate to create a great conference offering. I did a presentation on BizTalk Services in both cities and the slides and demos have been posted so you can download and play with those. You'll need to setup a account and update the configuration files with your username and password. The SDK is also available on the site when you sign up for an account. http://labs.biztalk.net/
In Omaha, I also did a presentation on Windows PowerShell for .NET Developers. In addition to the slides and the sample cmdlet, I've included my PowerShell profile with the functions showing some usage of script to convert Word and PowerPoint files to XPS or PDF and the zip related functions (thanks to David Aiken for the originals).
Finally, the IIS Snap-in that I showed with the provider can be downloaded from http://www.iis.net. This only works with IIS 7 on Vista or Server 2008.
For those that attended, I hope you enjoyed the talks and have fun with the samples. For those that didn't, check out HDC next year!