by community-syndication | May 14, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
While putting together a POC, I wanted one side of my parallel shape to only pick up pdf documents when the file was not marked as an error from the HL7 pipeline marking the message with a parse error:
But how could I access it?
You need to reference the following assembly in your project:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft BizTalk 2009 Accelerator for HL7\Bin\Microsoft.Solutions.BTAHL7.HL7Schemas.dll
Once you do that, you can add the following filter:
by community-syndication | May 14, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In addition to now having WF 4 offered as a private on-site course, we have several upcoming public offerings of our Double Feature course which has been updated to .NET 4. I’m excited to be teaching the course at the end of July in Boston and to cover the new features in WCF including configuration enhancements and REST improvements. The bigger change, of course, is the entirely new WF 4 programming model. In these open enrollment classes, we will be covering the new programming model, activity development and the runtime services such as persistence and tracking. We’ll also cover the convergence of these two technologies in Workflow Service and the new message correlation capabilities introduced in .NET 4.
So, if you are interested in an intense week of training in the Boston (July 26) or SoCal (Oct 11) area on these two great frameworks, register or save a seat before the classes fill up!
by community-syndication | May 14, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’ve been trying out Pivot in the last few days, downloaded from here. Pretty amazing thing, crossing the power of DeepZoom with structured information. I can’t help but imagine the application of these technologies to information stored in business databases, intranets, or even as a navigation metaphor in your computer/file system or code. There will be a Silverlight version this year, and there’s an Excel Add-In to generate the custom Xml that feeds the system.
by community-syndication | May 14, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As reported by IASA, the Certified IT Architect at the Professional Level (CITA-P) has now replaced Microsoft’s Certified Architect (MCA) program. The information about the new certification can be found here.
A curiosity: %u00abIn the six years of the MCA program, 113 solutions and infrastructure architects completed the certification. The CITA-P adoption path has been much quicker as 23 IT Architects have already gone through the certification. With the MCA grandfathering, upcoming boards scheduled in Ireland, India, and the US, IASA expects to double that number this calendar year.%u00bb
by community-syndication | May 13, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman]
23 months after the original post on Generating Deterministic GUIDs, I still find myself doing it fairly often and still using the same code (MD5 may not be suitable for secure scenarios, but it’s fine for generating GUIDs for normal development use).
This post contains a Silverlight widget which generates GUIDs for you on the fly:
Hit GUID to get a random GUID (from a call to Guid.NewGuid()), or enter text in the box to generate a GUID from the MD5 hash of its contents. It’ll ask you for permission to use your clipboard, and if you agree the GUID it generates will be pasted into the clipboard.
The code (VS 2010) is on github here: Silverlight Guid Generator.
Not much to it, only noteworthy point is that Silverlight doesn’t have a native MD5 provider, but there’s an implementation of the algorithm on MSDN Code Gallery – Silverlight MD5 – which is correct and produces the same hash as the provider in the full .NET framework.
by community-syndication | May 13, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman]
Can’t see a genuine use for this, but I got the idea in my head and wanted to work it through. It’s an extension to the idea of duck typing, for scenarios where types have similar behaviour, but implemented in differently-named members.
So you may have a set of objects you want to treat as an interface, which don’t implement the interface explicitly, and don’t have the same member names so they can’t be duck-typed into implicitly implementing the interface. In a fictitious example, I want to call Get on whichever ICache implementation is current, and have the call passed through to the relevant method – whether it’s called Read, Retrieve or whatever:
A sample implementation is up on github here: PassthroughSample.
This uses Castle’s DynamicProxy behind the scenes in the same way as my duck typing sample, but allows you to configure the passthrough to specify how the inner (implementation) and outer (interface) members are mapped:
var setup = new Passthrough();
var cache = setup.Create(“PassthroughSample.Tests.Stubs.AspNetCache, PassthroughSample.Tests”)
.WithPassthrough(“Name”, “CacheName”)
.WithPassthrough(“Get”, “Retrieve”)
.WithPassthrough(“Set”, “Insert”)
.As<ICache>();
– or using some ugly Lambdas to avoid the strings :
Expression<Func<ICache, string, object>> get = (o, s) => o.Get(s);
Expression<Func<Memcached, string, object>> read = (i, s) => i.Read(s);
Expression<Action<ICache, string, object>> set = (o, s, obj) => o.Set(s, obj);
Expression<Action<Memcached, string, object>> insert = (i, s, obj) => i.Put(s, obj);
ICache cache = new Passthrough<ICache, Memcached>()
.Create()
.WithPassthrough(o => o.Name, i => i.InstanceName)
.WithPassthrough(get, read)
.WithPassthrough(set, insert)
.As();
– or even in config:
ICache cache = Passthrough.GetConfigured<ICache>();
…
<passthrough>
<types>
<typename=“PassthroughSample.Tests.Stubs.ICache, PassthroughSample.Tests“
passesThroughTo=“PassthroughSample.Tests.Stubs.AppFabricCache, PassthroughSample.Tests“>
<members>
<membername=“Name“passesThroughTo=“RegionName“/>
<membername=“Get“passesThroughTo=“Out“/>
<membername=“Set“passesThroughTo=“In“/>
</members>
</type>
Possibly useful for injecting stubs for dependencies in tests, when your application code isn’t using an IoC container. Possibly it also has an alternative implementation using .NET 4.0 dynamic objects, rather than the dynamic proxy.
by community-syndication | May 13, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I was pushing data from a SQL table to an Informix table using an openquery statement in a trigger and would get the following error.
Msg 7343, Level 16, State 2, Procedure MyProcedure, Line 166
The OLE DB provider “Ifxoledbc” for linked server “INFORMIX” could not INSERT INTO table “[Ifxoledbc]”.
The following is an example of the T-SQL I was trying to insert. Its been generalized.
insert into openquery(INFORMIX,'select column1,column2,column3,column4,column5,column6,column7,column8,column9,column10,column11,column12,column13,column14,column15,column16,column17,column18,column19,column20,column21,column32, column33 from mytable')
Values ('somedata'
,'somedata'
,'anumber'
,'anumber'
,NULL
,'2010-03-16 00:00:00.000'
,'1'
,NULL
,NULL
,NULL
,'2010-03-17 19:00:00.000'
,'aname'
,'B%u00c3KER'
,'an address'
,NULL
,'acity'
,'astate'
,'azipcode'
,NULL
,NULL
,NULL
,NULL
,'astatuscode')
I narrowed it down to value:’B%u00c3KER’. I did a little more testing and Informix won’t accept the following characters.
I grabbed this table from the following link.
http://www.addressmunger.com/hex_ascii_tables/
Does anyone know why Informix won’t accept these characters? I don’t have access to the informix side of things, and I have only an basic knowledge of Informix so input on this problem would be nice.
by community-syndication | May 13, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I recently had an opportunity to attend the Microsoft Canadian Leadership Summit in Redmond and thought I would share some of my findings. The Leadership Summit allows Microsoft Canada to invite key customers and partners to discuss technology trends that are relevant to the Canadian business climate. Below is a recap of some ad hoc notes that I made through-out the presentations.
Why use Microsoft products?
- Standardization allows you to reduce costs
- Flexibility is required to change directions as the economy demands it
- Microsoft technologies allow you to manage costs and have agility
- Microsoft provides building blocks that allows you to fill the gaps between legacy applications, 3rd party and core Microsoft offerings no matter whether they are on-premise or in the cloud.
Pressures continue to Intensify
- New generation of workers
- Security and Compliance continues to be a challenge as more and more integration occurs
- Mobile and Distributed Workforces are increasing in numbers
- Innovate without additional resources
Consumerization of IT
We use to go to work to have a more advanced IT Experience
- Fast network download speeds
- Stable email environments
Now people at home have more IT capabilities at home than in the office
- Video conferencing
- IM
- Facebook
- Wireless Access points
Customers can use Microsoft products to provide a balance between improved collaboration while implementing security and management of those services. Some examples of these technologies include the Social networking features in SharePoint 2010 and Office Communication Server (OCS).
The Cloud
- Decision to move to the cloud should be a business decision and not a technology decision
- Need to trust in enterprise-class services that Microsoft provides
- Delivering consistent connected experience across devices (PC, Mobile phone, Laptop, Consumer devices)
- Microsoft has had success with a lot of large “house hold” companies moving their assets to the Azure cloud. Announcements will be made shortly
- Understanding Canadian Federal and Provincial privacy laws continue to create challenges
Low Cost Computing
- More companies are able to leverage low cost platforms for mission critical applications. Windows Server is an enterprise ready OS that is much more affordable than other enterprise offerings. Migrating your traditional AIX/Oracle environments is feasible , and achievable , on the Windows Platform
- Technology exists to maximize the efficiency of your IT infrastructure
- Take advantage of new ways to acquire and deliver technology
Microsoft’s Commitment to Customers
- Over 1 Billion active Windows Users
- 500 Million Office users
- $9.5 Billion invested in R&D
- Long Term, tenacious and Partner-Centric
Business climates are changing faster than they have before
- Every minute on YouTube, 24 hours of video is uploaded by users
- Starbucks – Office Online
- Growth through stores
- More cross selling and up selling
- needed to extend technology into the store level
- Microsoft Online Services – Email and SharePoint Team sites available to 19000 employees in-store to allow employees to collaborate on how to grow the company$
Deep investments in infrastructure
- $2.3 Billion invested in cloud infrastructure
- Geo-replicated data to multiple data centres
- public and private cloud flexibility
- 30 000 engineers working on cloud services
Microsoft’s Commitment to services excellence
- Financially backed uptime guarantees
- SAS 70 and ISO 27001 compliant
- carbon footprint innovation
- Rapid innovation model
Office 2010 launch
Some key features:
- Ignore conversation – will remove current user from all future Distribution Lists emails and place related emails into the deleted folder
- Pictures of email recipient, from “My Site” show up in the bottom of compose email message
- click on the picture and you see additional context from Facebook, LinkedIn and SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 Search –
- refined search and meta data
- filter by author, date and other meta data
- Specify content in links i.e. PowerPoint
- Preview slides before opening document
- People Search
- PowerPoint over the web
- high fidelity without the need of Live Meeting
- SharePoint – My Site
- status updates, similar to Facebook
- tagging competencies allows you to easily search and identify an expert in the related competency
- Post on “Note board’ – much like Facebook’s “wall”
- Enriched Org chart including pictures and metadata
- surfaced using Silver Light
- Improved Blogging capabilities
- Tags and Notes
- tag pretty much anything in SharePoint – blogs, documents which create a Tag Cloud
- follow tags via newsfeed
- Offline capabilities – use SharePoint workspace
- SharePoint 2010 wide scale adoption – early adopters include:
- Global Crossing
- Sony
- Associated Press
- Six Flags
- Telus
- Constellation Energy
- Energizer
- 8.6 Million Beta Downloads
- 80 % Beta users encouraged others to download
- 450 Customers in early adoption program
- Edmonton Oilers (Professional Hockey) use SharePoint to collaborate on potentials players by aligning video with meta data and statistics
- Player Dashboard
- Current prospects
- Player video page
- Oiler organization feels that SharePoint 2010 is very intuitive and straight forward to use
- leverage messaging and collaboration features
- 1000 Microsoft Partners are developing SharePoint 2010 solutions
- 20 000 Microsoft Partners partners trained
- 500 000 developers are using SharePoint
Microsoft Online Services
Why Customers are embracing the cloud:
- Reduce CAPEX & OPEX
- Predictable & Pay per use subscriptions
- Focus on Market differentiation
- Energy Efficiency
- Latest versions with no server upgrades
- Choice, Flexibility and Resource Agility
- Merger, Acquisition and Divestitures
- Up and Running quickly
Interesting quote from a Gartner reference":
“By 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT Assets”. Quite frankly I have a hard time believing this statement.
Microsoft Azure data canters include: Chicago, San Antonio, Northern Virgina, Dublin, Amsterdam, Singapore
No plans for Canada to have a data centre
- Concerns about privacy and laws due to provincial jurisdiction
Customers moving to cloud
- McDonalds
- Rexel
- Staples
- Eddie Bauer
- Phillips
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Blockbuster
Microsoft Online Services
- 40 million Online paid seats
- more than 5oo government agencies
- Over 50% of the fortune 500
- 9000 business customers
by community-syndication | May 13, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This post discusses how to fix a broken Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) installation following an install of Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer.
by community-syndication | May 13, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Invoking Concurrent programs and working with BizTalk Oracle E-Business Adapter In my current project I had to call a concurrent program in the Oracle E-Business Suite which would generate a report of all the employs payroll of the month. We were automating the payroll process in our organization and the whole solution involved getting and […]
