by community-syndication | Apr 30, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
To close out the month of April, I’m happy to share news of the event that the group will be conducting next month to launch Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk Server.
On May 20th @8:30 pacific, we will be kicking off the Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event on the web. The event will focus on how your current IT assets can harness some of the benefits of the cloud, bringing them on-premises, while also connecting them to new applications and data running in the cloud.
We have some excellent keynote speakers for the virtual launch:
- Yefim Natis, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner:
Yefim will discuss the latest trends in the application infrastructure space and the role of application infrastructure in helping business benefit from the cloud.
- Abhay Parasnis, General Manager of Application Server Group at Microsoft:
Abhay will discuss how the latest Microsoft investments in the application infrastructure space will begin delivering the cloud benefits to Windows Server
In addition to the keynotes, there will be additional sessions providing additional details around the participating products and capabilities that we will be delivering in the coming months. Folks who would likely get the most from the event are dev team leads and technical decision makers, as much of the content will focus more on benefits of the technologies, and much less on the implementation and architectural details.
That being said – the virtual launch event is open to all and requires no pre-registration, no hotel bookings, and no time waiting/boarding/flying on a plane. In the spirit of bringing cloud benefits to you, the team has decided to host our event in the cloud. 🙂
The Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event website is now live at http://www.appinfrastructure.com/ – today, you can add a reminder to your calendar and submit feedback on the topic you are most interested in. On Thursday, May 20th, at 8:30am Pacific Time, you can use the URI to participate in the virtual launch event.
See you then!
Cliff
by community-syndication | Apr 30, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
When you write the product documentation you learn all kinds of cool inside tips about how to use it. In this episode, Michael McKeown shares 10 tips for troubleshooting using the dashboard.
Be sure to check out the AppFabric Wiki for more great tips, and to share yours as well.
by community-syndication | Apr 30, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Windows Workflow in .NET 4 (WF4) includes a new set of messaging activities to help you build web services that are implemented with workflows. In this episode, our guest is Dave Cliffe, Program Manager for the messaging activities. Wondering how and why these activities work the way they do? Then tune in and learn something… For more check out my blog, and the WF team blog as well.
by community-syndication | Apr 30, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Here is the latest in my link-listing series.
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]
ASP.NET
ASP.NET MVC
Visual Studio 2010
Hope this helps,
Scott
P.S. If you haven’t already, check out this month’s "Find a Hoster” page on the www.asp.net website to learn about great (and very inexpensive) ASP.NET hosting offers.
by community-syndication | Apr 29, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB configuration tool. They kept receiving a rather puzzle error messages which stated:
“The type initializer for ’EsbConfigurationTool.Helper’ threw an exception. You must have Microsoft ESB Guidance installed in order to run the tool.”
Now this is certainly an odd error message since the ESB Toolkit no longer goes by the name ESB Guidance. Also the client most certainly had the toolkit installed. To dig a little deeper into this, I asked for the log file from that the configuration tool creates. This is created in the same directory as the configuration tool and is called “EsbConfigurationTool.log”. After looking in this, I saw a number of error messages which resembled the following:
ESBConfigurationTool.exe Error: 0 : An error has occurred:
Unknown error (0x80005000)
Stack Trace:
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail)
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind()
at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.RefreshCache()
at EsbConfigurationTool.Helper.GetWebSites()
ESBConfigurationTool.exe Error: 0 : An error has occurred:
IIS Install Registry Key is missing.
I could see from this that the issue was actually with IIS and not with a missing copy of the ESB guidance. From this we were able to determine that the IIS 6.0 extensions were not installed on the Windows 2008 system. Once the client installed those, the configuration ran properly. This is certainly an error message that needs updating, hopefully you won’t be caught by it.
Cheers
by community-syndication | Apr 29, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
During the last year, we (Tellago) have been involved in various business intelligence initiatives that leverage some emerging BI techniques such as self-service BI or complex event processing (CEP). Specifically, in the last few months, we have partnered…(read more)
by community-syndication | Apr 29, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
When you install hot fix 973910, you will come across this error:
The issue is that the hot fix does not know the username/password that the Logging Service uses, so it wipes it out:
So you set the credentials and continue and you are ready to go.
by community-syndication | Apr 29, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As developers we often spend a large part of our day staring at code within Visual Studio. If you are like me, after awhile the default VS text color scheme starts to get a little boring.
The good news is that Visual Studio allows you to completely customize the editor background and text colors to whatever you want – allowing you to tweak them to create the experience that is “just right” for your eyes and personality. You can then optionally export/import your color scheme preferences to an XML file via the Tools->Import and Export Settings menu command.
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]
New website that makes it easy to download and share VS color schemes
Luke Sampson launched the http://studiostyles.info/ site a week ago (built using ASP.NET MVC 2, ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010).
Studiostyles.info enables you to easily browse and download Visual Studio color schemes that others have already created. The color schemes work for both VS 2008 and VS 2010 (all versions – including the free VS express editions):
Color schemes are sorted by popularity and voting (you can vote on whether you find each “hot or not”).
You can click any of the schemes to see screen-shots of it in use for common coding scenarios. You can then download the color settings for either VS 2010 or VS 2008:
You can also optionally upload color schemes of your own if you have a good one you want to share with others.
If you haven’t visited it yet – check it out: http://studiostyles.info/ And thank you Luke Sampson for building it!
Hope this helps,
Scott
by community-syndication | Apr 28, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
ATTENTION: Windows Azure platform AppFabric has transitioned to commercial availability on April 12th 2010, and is now a fully SLA-supported paid service. Customers who use AppFabric will be notified of their usage, as charges have begun accruing as of 11:00 PM (UTC) on April 12, 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/appfabric/
by community-syndication | Apr 28, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
It’s somewhat old new now but in case you were unaware SQL 2008 R2 has Released to Manufacturing (RTM). Official press here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sqlserver/
“Welcome to the Microsoft SQL Server News Center! We are excited to inform you that SQL Server 2008 R2 has released to manufacturing, meaning customers will get it through our distribution channels in the next few weeks! SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers breakthrough capabilities for organizations that want enterprise-class scalability, improved IT and developer efficiency, and self-service BI. To experience the launch virtually, please visit the SQL Server 2008 R2 Digital Tour at www.sqlserverlaunch.com.”
