by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Hi All,
Following this evenings webcast the recording of the event is available from the following location:
https://www311.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/view?id=Z9M8RH
We were interested on feedback of what we would like to see at a future SBUG session, the suggestions were as follows:
Getting more value from Sharepoint in a BPM solution
Integrating BPM and Biztalk
An industry sector case study
More about the persona based approach
Claims and case management
Nationwide case study?
Hands on where we can play around with Global 360 product and make some processes
If you would like to see any of the above or an alternative please drop me an email or use the forum post for feedback
http://sbug.org.uk/forums/p/178/266.aspx#266
Cheers
Mike
by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
When automation and word comes to mind, you usually think of COM, Interop and lack
of speed with 40 copies of Word running in the background that you’ve got no idea
how they got there.
Imagine having your own copy of ’Word’ Server Side – callable through APIs you could
easily create and manipulate Word Documents (Docx) and do a whole bunch of things
through the OpenXML.
These Services are to live within SharePoint 2010 and imagine being able to create
PDFs on the fly. 🙂
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/10/26/introducing-word-automation-services.aspx
by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
So my buddy Mikael informs me (actually all of us), that my presentation on “BizTalk, SOA and Leveraging the Cloud” from my visit to the Sweden User Group is finally available for viewing on Microsoft’s Channel9.
In Part 1 of the presentation, I lay the groundwork for doing SOA with BizTalk, and, try to warm up […]
by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Eventually the videos from Richard Seroters sessions at the Swedish BizTalk User Group has been published on Channel9. I’ve been contacted by many of people, wanting to know when they where going to be published. We’re sorry for the delay, and hope we can publish upcoming events much faster.
Richards event has been one of the most popular ones we’ve had so far with over 100 attendees, and we are really happy to finally share this with the rest of the community.
Thank you Richard (and sorry for the delay)
Topic: BizTalk Server, SOA and the Shift to the Cloud
Session 1:
In this session Richard talks about the continued relevance of SOA and how to apply SOA principles when designing and exposing services from BizTalk Server.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSCOMSWE/BizTalk-Server-SOA-and-the-Shift-to-the-Cloud-12/
Session 2: This session shows how to exploit SOA principles when consuming existing services. Richard also also shows how BizTalk can directly engage cloud offerings from the leading vendors.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MSCOMSWE/BizTalk-Server-SOA-and-the-Shift-to-the-Cloud-22/
Richard Seroter is a solutions architect for an industry-leading biotechnology company, a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and a Microsoft Connected Technology Advisor. He has spent the majority of his career consulting with customers as they planned and implemented their enterprise software solutions. Richard worked first for two global IT consulting firms, which gave him exposure to a diverse range of industries, technologies, and business challenges. Richard then joined Microsoft as a SOA/BPM technology specialist where his sole objective was to educate and collaborate with customers as they considered, designed, and architected BizTalk solutions. One of those customers liked him enough to bring him onboard full time as an architect after they committed to using BizTalk Server as their enterprise service bus. Once the BizTalk environment was successfully established, Richard transitioned into a solutions architect role where he now helps identify enterprise best practices and applies good architectural principles to a wide set of IT initiatives.
Richard maintains a semi-popular blog of his exploits, pitfalls, and musings with BizTalk Server, SOA and enterprise architecture at http://seroter.wordpress.com.
by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As you may notice, this blog has undergone a massive overhaul.
I set-up the original blog using the open-source, now Microsoft, DasBlog. It came highly recommended to me by a few individuals whom I trust, and I noticed that the product development team was headed by none other than Scott Hanselman, a blogger whom I respect a great deal. After some tinkering, I was able to get DasBlog set up on a local machine, do some basic configuration, and then consider the site ready for publication to my hosting provider.
I contacted my hosting provider, M6.net, well in advance to ensure that they did in fact support DasBlog (they do) and that they were able to provide me the necessary permissions to the directories within the DasBlog file structure. M6, while cheap, uses open source web management tools, that aren’t the easiest to navigate.
I found that when content was sent via FTP to M6, the content being published was using absolute rather than relative links. Therefore, when I attempted to view the content after it had been uploaded, it had no problems. Likewise, when I attempted to make posts or monitor for feedback, I had no problems — DasBlog’s config was redirecting portions of the web parts in page back to my local server while the URL in the browser appeared legit.
Additionally, the permissions on the remote server were set such that if you attempted to post a comment, you were given a link that indicated an error had occurred, and that I had been notified, when in fact, I had not. When I attempted to access that page and post a comment, because I was logged in, no such error occurred.
In short — I’ve done away with DasBlog. While it was worth much more than I paid for it (free), I’m giving BlogEngine.net a go as it doesn’t seem to suffer from the same behind-the-scenes content redirection issues.
For those of you who may have attempted to utilize the old site and were met with challenges, I sincerely apologize.
by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I was working on an RFI recently, and WS-* standards are all important these days, and it wanted to know what ws-* standards WCF supported. Well it took some reading and digging, but here they are:
BasicHttpBinding
WS-I All Basic Profile 1.0 standards
WsHttpBinding
WS-Reliability
WS-Reliable
WS-Security
WS-SecureConversation
WS-Trust
WS-Federation
WS-Addressing
WS-Policy
WS-MetadataExchange
WS-Coordination
WS-Atomic
by community-syndication | Nov 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m doing keynotes at two big conferences later this month:
ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas: November 9th to 12th
I’ll be doing a keynote talking about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 at the ASP.NET Connections conference next week. I’ll also be doing an evening Q&A session together with the ASP.NET team.
ASP.NET Connections is a great conference that is jointly hosted with the VS, SharePoint, SQL and Windows Connections conferences (enabling you to choose from tons of great sessions). The speakers at the event are also really top-notch.
You can learn more about the conference and register online here.
PDC in Los Angeles: November 17th to 19th
I’m also doing a keynote at the Microsoft PDC conference in two weeks. The PDC is Microsoft’s big platform conference, where we talk about future platform and technology roadmaps. There is almost always some cool new stuff…
You can learn more about the conference and register online here.
Hope I might be able to see some of you in person at one of these events!
Scott
P.S. In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)
by community-syndication | Nov 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Fresh on the heels of the beta 2 release of .NET 4/Visual Studio 2010, the team has been working on supplemental documentation to help you out with evaluation and adoption of WCF and WF in .NET 4.
Last week, two sets of documentation went live:
- WF4 Migration Guidance: The WF team updated the documents to .NET Beta 2. We posted the documents up to the Downloads site mid last week.
- B1->B2 Breaking Changes: The team also created a document that outlines the breaking changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 of the .NET Framework 4.
We have a couple of new migration guidance documents in their final authoring/reviewing stages, and I hope to have them published out to the Downloads site by the time PDC comes around.
It’s exciting times having the second beta bits out, seeing what folks are doing with the new capabilities in .NET 4, and hearing from some customers that they are planning on taking advantage of the ”Go Live” License that is available with the Beta 2 release.
At any rate – happy Monday all – enjoy the docs and the new beta! If you’re heading to PDC and want to grab lunch with someone from the team while at the event, remember to drop me a note. BTW – I saw the shirts for the event last week – they look real nice!
by community-syndication | Nov 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
A few tidbits to share with you so far.
WSS has gone through a name change (there was a time when WSS stood for ’Web Storage
Server’ that SharePoint V1 + Exchange 5.x were based on) and is now called SharePoint
Foundation 2010.
I’m guessing that this name is more inline with Microsoft’s thinking around getting
SharePoint as the backend/foundation in Companies, as Office is standard on user’s
desktops.
Setting up your Development Environment:
(no more WSPBuilderthe SharePoint tools are baked into VS2010 beta 2. A nice feature
is that you can select what a ’Deploy’ does, or a ’ReDeploy’ by essentially adding
all these actions to your config, such as ’restart IIS’, recycle app pool, make web.config
change You just package them up – nice!)
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SharePoint 2010 Beta Center – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx ***
Great place to Start ***
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SharePoint 2010 SDK – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/ee557253(office.14).aspx
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx (this
will work with the upcoming beta release of SharePoint 2010)
Point to note: .NET 4.0 introduces WF4.0, however at this point SP2010 supports
only 3.51. There are some *very* significant changes in Workflow between
these 2 versions and we’ll have to wait and see the outcome. Performant 10-30x faster,
reduced memory footprint, more flexible, clean XAML, more events etc etc.
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One last little point – where is the Public SharePoint 2010 download.unfortunately
not yet will be soon and should be up on Dev Center Downloads – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/aa905690.aspx
In the meantime, be sure to check out the changes and enhancements to the SharePoint
2010 API model and some of the new capabilities such as:
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Powershell everything
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Check out LINQ/ADO.NET Entities integration and querying data
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Performing JOINS in CAML
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Client.svc – client side proxying, batching of requests and sending them through to
SharePoint 2010. Very fast, as we only send what we need.
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Workflow exporting/importing from Visio->SPD->VS.NET->Deploy.
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Sandbox Solutions – now we can target our SharePoint Solutions to the Site
Collection Level (rather than previously targeting only the farm). When we
create this solution in VSNET2010, it rebinds to a ’fake’ Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
(v14.0.0.39 from memory) that introduces all the restrictions in your code and provides
special intellisense. Commands such as ’Run Under Elevated Security’ get caught on
compile as these are not allowed.
Could you be in the situation where your code compiles but the *real* SharePoint ’foundation’
says ’no!..that instruction is not allowed’ – it’s possible, as you’re not actually
compiling against the real DLL.
Currently there are several projects that you can’t sandbox based
on their type – such as Workflow Projects. These still need to be targeted to the
Farm.
Worth checking out – specifically if you’re hosting SP sites.
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AJAX through out – even WebPart editor toolparts you can introduce AJAX there for
alot of the lookups etc.
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Other noted feature is that Throttling is on by default – so if you
say “list.Items.AllItems” and that returns back 50000 usually, SP2010 will error.
You have to explicitly ask to make the request without Throttling (couple of properties
you set before hand)
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Your WSSv3.0/MOSS sites can be *supported* in SP2010 and stay at their existing UI
Level (look and feel), then at a later point we can flick the switch and see your
site under the newer/AJAXY UI – through the APIs we can change it back SPWeb.UIVersion
= 3 or 4.
Enjoy,
Mick.
by community-syndication | Nov 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Welcome to the 14th edition of my interview series with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. This month, we are chatting with Lars Wilhelmsen, development lead for his employer, blogger, and Connected Systems MVP. In case you don’t know, Connected Systems is the younger, sexier sister of the BizTalk MVP, but we still like […]
