London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th

by | Aug 2, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

The (awesome) UK developer community is holding an all day event with me in London on August 13th.  The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden).  The website for the event is here.

Content

The event will be a packed day of presentations covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight for Windows Phone 7.  Below is the list of talks:

VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 (90 minutes)

A demo heavy talk that covers some of the new features and capabilities within Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4, and how you can best take advantage of them.

ASP.NET MVC 2 (90 minutes)

A demo heavy talk that covers using ASP.NET MVC 2 with Visual Studio 2010.  We’ll spend 90 minutes building a new ASP.NET MVC 2 application starting from File->New Project, and explain the core concepts behind ASP.NET MVC, as well as how to take advantage of the new features shipped with ASP.NET MVC 2.

Windows Phone 7 Development (90 minutes)

In this session we’ll take a look at Windows Phone 7 and the developer ecosystem, from the capabilities and unique features of the platform to the development frameworks and tools you have at your disposal. Along the way we’ll build a simple application or two and explore how people can buy your finished masterpiece.

Web Development Futures: ASP.NET MVC 3, SQL CE and IIS Express (90 minutes)

In this session we’ll covers some of the new web technologies shipping in the near future.  Learn about some of the improvements coming with ASP.NET MVC 3, the new “Razor” template syntax, “Code-First” EF4, SQL CE and IIS Express.

Registration

The event is free and only has a few hundred seats – which means they will likely fill up fast (likely in a few hours – or even minutes – if past history is any indication).  So if you want to attend I recommend signing up quickly.

Registration will open tomorrow (Tuesday August 3nd) at 2pm (UK time).  The website for the event and registration is here.

Hope to see some of you there!

Scott

CodePlex Sftp adapter – New release

by | Aug 2, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I got great feedback from many users, and have made some updates to the bLogical adapter:

Disabling the connection pool (only used for send ports)

Some SSH servers can not handle the connection pool very well. This can also be a problem if there is a limit set to number of connections a certain user can have. So I’ve been asked for the possibility to disable the connection pool for send ports, and this can now be done by setting the SSH Connection Limit to "0" in the admin console or BTSNTSvc.exe.config.

Logging and tracing

A much more verbose tracing as been added. If you care to save the trace info to file, you can use the TraceListener (System.Diagnostics):

  1. Enable Tracing in the port configuration.
  2. Open the BTSNTSvc.exe.config (or BTSNTSvc64.exe.config) file and add the following in the Config section: 
    <system.diagnostics>
  <trace autoflush="false" indentsize="4">
    <listeners>
      <add name="BTSListener" 
           type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" 
           initializeData="bLogical.Shared.Adapters.Sftp.log" />
      <remove name="Default" />
    </listeners>
  </trace>
</system.diagnostics>

Public key authentication

There was a problem using identity file authentication as the password was sent as an empty string. This works for some but not all servers. The new version always set the password to null, which should work for all servers.

Macros

%UniversalDateTime% added to the list of supported macros

Misc

  • temp folder and remote permissions no longer required properties.
  • Empty files are no longer picked up or processed.

 

Special thanks to John Vestal at CSC and Antti.

Download the adapter from CodePlex