WSCFblue v1 has been a really successful project and we’ve had some great discussions on the forums, feature requests (most of which we have been able to provide) and so on. For a long time the team has been thinking about the next generation of WSCF tooling, taking what we have now to the next […]
Welcome to the 20th interview in my series of discussions with “connected technology” thought leaders. This month we have the distinct pleasure of harassing Aaron Skonnard who is a Microsoft MVP, blogger, co-founder of leading .NET training organization Pluralsight, MSDN magazine author and target of probably 12 other accolades that I’m not aware of. Q: […]
In a BizTalk environment it is sometimes necessary to create a custom adapter to implement functionality that is not available with the out-of-the-box adapters. This article will handle a small part in the process of implementing your custom adapter, the deployment part. Also, this article only applies to adapters that use strong named assemblies. Using […]
In a previous post I wrote about an AS2 problem that I encountered after renaming the BizTalk Groupname. In this post I digg into another AS2 problem, this time related to context properties. Lately I have been asked to reconfigure an AS2 configuration to send messages with a predefined filename. This is easily done by […]
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:
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
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.
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.
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]
Data Web Control Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0: Scott Mitchell has a good article that summarizes some of the nice improvements coming to the ASP.NET 4 data controls.
Refreshing an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel with JavaScript: Scott Mitchell has another nice article in his series on using ASP.NET AJAX that demonstrates how to programmatically trigger an UpdatePanel refresh using JavaScript on the client.
ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics and Introduction: Scott Hanselman delivers an awesome introductory talk on ASP.NET MVC. Great for people looking to understand and learn ASP.NET MVC.
ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips: Another great talk by Scott Hanselman about how to make the most of several features of ASP.NET MVC 2.
ASP.NET MVC 2 Html.Editor/Display Templates: A great blog post detailing the new Html.EditorFor() and Html.DisplayFor() helpers within ASP.NET MVC 2.
MVCContrib Grid: Jeremy Skinner’s video presentation about the new Html.Grid() helper component within the (most awesome) MvcContrib project for ASP.NET MVC.
Code Snippets for ASP.NET MVC 2 in VS 2010: Raj Kaimal documents some of the new code snippets for ASP.NET MVC 2 that are now built-into Visual Studio 2010. Read this article to learn how to do common scenarios with fewer keystrokes.
Turn on Compile-time View Checking for ASP.NET MVC Projects in TFS 2010 Build: Jim Lamb has a nice post that describes how to enable compile-time view checking as part of automated builds done with a TFS Build Server. This will ensure any errors in your view templates raise build-errors (allowing you to catch them at build-time instead of runtime).
VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters for VB, C#, F# and C++: Keyboard shortcut posters that you can download and then printout. Ideal to provide a quick reference on your desk for common keystroke actions inside VS 2010.
My Favorite New Features in VS 2010: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that summarizes some of his favorite new features in VS 2010. Check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 blog series for more details on some of them.
6 Cool VS 2010 Quick Tips and Features: Anoop has a nice blog post describing 6 cool features of VS 2010 that you can take advantage of.
SharePoint Development with VS 2010: Beth Massi links to a bunch of nice “How do I?” videos that that demonstrate how to use the SharePoint development support built-into VS 2010.
How to Pin a Project to the Recent Projects List in VS 2010: A useful tip/trick that demonstrates how to “pin” a project to always show up on the “Recent Projects” list within Visual Studio 2010.
Using the WPF Tree Visualizer in VS 2010: Zain blogs about the new WPF Tree Visualizer supported by the VS 2010 debugger. This makes it easier to visualize WPF control hierarchies within the debugger.
TFS 2010 Power Tools Released: Brian Harry blogs about the cool new TFS 2010 extensions released with this week’s TFS 2010 Power Tools release.
What is New with T4 in VS 2010: T4 is the name of Visual Studio’s template-based code generation technology. Lots of scenarios within VS 2010 now use T4 for code generation customization. Two examples are ASP.NET MVC Views and EF4 Model Generation. This post describes some of the many T4 infrastructure improvements in VS 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.
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
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