I a previous post I described a way to deal with untyped messages in the Business Rule Engine. This allows for flexibility in scenarios where you want to use a single set of rules (lets call it an “untyped policy”) on multiple types of messages.
Untyped policies work great when tested directly in the Business Rules […]
This is a follow up post to my previous post on this topic. The method described in that post doesn’t seem to work when the policy is called from an orchestration. For more background information see this blogpost.
I this post I will use the exact same sample as in the previous post. These are the […]
I’ve really enjoyed my time here in Dubai for the first-ever TechEd Middle East. Pooya Darugar, my track owner from the local Microsoft office, told me that this was actually the first “paid” technical conference to be held in the area, so it was a pretty major undertaking.
They had an excellent turnout, somewhere between 1600-1800 attendees, and even had folks showing up on the last day with money to get in. Suffice it say, the show was a great success.
Amory Somers Vine and the rest of the conference organizers did a fantastic job. And a special thanks to Pooya for doing another first-class job in running my tracs and taking care of us while we were here – I know everyone appreciated it. Kudos to the whole Teched ME team.
I delivered 5 presentations during the show on various connected systems topics and I participated on a panel discussion with Scott Hanselman, Hammad Rajjoub, and Ronald Sunarno on the last day:
Demos: you attended any of my sessions, you can download my demos here.
Pluralsight sponsored the show by providing all Teched ME attendees with a free 1-wk pass to the Pluralsight On-Demand! .NET training library. As an attendee, you should have received an activation card with the rest of your materials – don’t forget to activate it right away. If you can’t find the card, just contact us, and we’ll send you one.
Thanks to everyone for a great week – gotta run – just have one extra day in Dubai to do some sight seeing, and eat a little more of the wonderful local food!
In the past I have published overview tables of BizTalk version numbers. I used to publish a new table whenever a new version or service pack of BizTalk server was released.
I wanted to do the same after the release of SP1 for BizTalk server 2006 R2. Unfortunately it appears that the version number is not […]
I wrote a very simple PowerShell script which allows you to easily determine the installed BizTalk version and service pack level.
You cannot just look at the version number anymore because it seems SP1 of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 does not update the version number. This means the version numbers for BizTalk 2006 R2 without and […]
I came across this handy tool to identify which process is causing the Copy-Paste malfunctioning
GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip (4.08 kb)
Welcome to the first of many posts around BizTalk Server 2009 R2, the latest version of BizTalk Server that is scheduled for release later this year.
As many times before, CODit is again part of the TAP (Technology Adoption Program). In this serie, I will create a post for each new feature in this version.
This post will probably the less interesting one: installation and configuration 🙂
The 2009 R2 version can be installed on the latest available platform: Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and .Net 4.0. Therefore, I decided to take the latest available releases for all these products and install them on my Virtual PC.
Windows Server 2008 R2.
First issue: the Windows Server 2008 R2 version will only be available in a x64 build. While this makes perfectly sense (who configures a 32bit server nowadays?), it raised an issue for me.
I am using Virtual PC as the virtualization software on my development laptop. But VPC does not support hosting x64 operating systems. Microsoft makes this only available through Hyper-V. But since I am testing on my laptop, I don’t want to install Hyper-V, which would make me lose my ‘stand-by’/’sleep’ features.
Therefore, the only options left were VMWare or Sun VirtualBox. I decided to take the last one.
After the installation of Windows, it became clear that a lot of the Windows 7 UI features made it in the Windows 2008 R2 release, which is cool.
SQL Server 2008 R2.
For installation of SQL Server, I installed the November CTP release. Installation went smoothly. New features like StreamInsight and Master Data Services are not available through the standard setup wizard. They need to be installed through a seperate MSI on the DVD.
Visual Studio 2010.
Installing the 2010 RC version of Visual Studio went fine, during the deep-dive sessions we had in Redmond, we already had a chance to play with it, so nothing shocking here…
BizTalk Server 2009 R2.
In the setup features, there are no new features available at first sight:
I closely followed the installation of BizTalk Server and there was only one thing that looked new to me: we finally have a download/progressbar for the prerequisites cab. I know of too many customers who just stopped the installation of one of the previous versions of BizTalk, while it was downloading the cab-file. Finally we have visibility on this:
The configuration of BizTalk hasn’t changed at all. No new features or sub-features are available in the Configuration Wizard. So, next thing after install will be to find out where the new features like the settings dashboard and trading partner management will be…
Part 2: the new and enhanced BizTalk mapper.
Just a small reminded for myself. When you are using Publish/Subscribe EventAggregation mechanism provided by PRISM along with Unity to resolve types. It’s important to specify the Action method on subscribe to be public.
Example:
TextChangedEvent evt = eventAggregator.GetEvent<TextChangedEvent>();
evt.Subscribe(OnSubscibeForNewText);
///
///
public void OnSubscibeForNewText(string payload)
If it’s not public, Unity will have issues resolving the type and you’ll see an exception as shown below
Attempt by method ‘Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Events.DelegateReference.TryGetDelegate()’ to access method ‘ModuleA.ViewModel.ModuleAView2VM.OnSubscibeForNewText(System.String)’ failed.
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Here we are at the 18th interview in my riveting series of questions and answers with thought leaders in the “connected technologies” space. All the MVPs are back from the recently MVP Summit and should be back on speaking terms with one another. Let’s find out if our interview subject, Mikael H%u00e5kansson, still likes me […]