ESB Toolkit 2.1 Samples

by | Dec 3, 2010 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Is anyone else wondering?

  1. If the ESB Toolkit 2.1 is designed for BizTalk 2010, why are all of the sample projects still compiled in Visual Studio 2008?
  2. Why the projects are still referring to the old .Net version (which is incorrect in this project)?

    which by changing the .Net version changes the references:

Does anyone have an idea?

(Could it be that you can use the ESB Toolkit 2.1 with BizTalk 2009?)

BizTalk on Windows 2007 Issues

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

Issues Installating BizTalk on Windoes 2007

If you get the following error: Installing BizTalk on the Windows 7 platform,

[5:02:36 PM Info SSOServerCfg] (ssoconfigobj2.cpp:5125) Returning error description: <Exception Message=”Failed to connect to the SQL database ‘SSODB’ on SQL Server ”.” Source=”SSO” HelpID=””><Exception Message=”(0x80131700)” Source=”Win32″ HelpID=””/></Exception>

1. You can use the cmd prompt or the visual studio command prompt
2. For command prompt use the following
3.Using Command prompt
a. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET \Framework\v2.0.50727\RegAsm.exe ssosql.dll
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Assembly Registration Utility 2.0.50727.4927
Types registered successfully
4. Using VS.NET
a. C:\Program Files\Common Files\Enterprise Single Sign-On> regasm ssosql.dll

If the above approach still does not resolve the issue then follow either of these steps

1. Enable TCP/IP and Named Pipes?
2. Check the account has proper rights with in the SQL Server

Announcing Silverlight 5

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

Today at the Silverlight FireStarter event we unveiled the next release of Silverlight. 


Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices.  In my keynote this morning we demonstrated a number of them, and highlighted both the developer productivity Silverlight 5 provides and the great new user experiences it enables.  You can watch my keynote here.


A Silverlight 5 beta will be available in the first half of next year, and the final release will ship in the second half of 2011.



Premium Media Experiences


We are seeing great adoption of Silverlight for premium media solutions. In the last few months we’ve seen companies like Canal+, TV2, and Maximum TV launch both live and on-demand Silverlight solutions.

Silverlight 5 will enable media experiences to go even further by adding:



  • Hardware video decode: Silverlight 5 now supports GPU accelerated video decode, which significantly reduces CPU load for HD video.  Using Silverlight 5, even low powered Netbooks will be able to play back 1080p HD content


  • Trickplay: Silverlight 5 now enables variable speed playback of media content on the client with automatic audio pitch correction. This is great for training videos where you want to speed up the trainer while still understanding what he’s saying


  • Improved power awareness will prevent screensavers from kicking in while you’re watching movies while allowing the computer to sleep when video is not playing.


  • Remote-control support is now built-into Silverlight 5 – allowing users to control media playback with remote control devices.



Application Development


Silverlight provides a rich application development environment that enables you to build great web delivered applications. 


Silverlight 5 delivers significant improvements for application development including:




  • Databinding and MVVM: Silverlight 5 delivers significant data-binding improvements that improve developer productivity and provide better Silverlight/WPF feature convergence.  Developers can now debug data-binding expressions, set breakpoints on bindings, and more easily determine errors.  Implicit DataTemplates now allow templates to be created across an application to support a particular type by default.  Ancestor RelativeSource bindings makes it easier for a DataTemplate to bind to a property on a container control. Binding in style setters allows bindings to be used within styles to reference other properties.  And a new DataContextChanged event is being introduced to make handling changes easier. Markup extensions are also now support and allow code to be run at XAML parse time for both properties and event handlers, enabling cutting-edge MVVM support.


  • WCF and RIA Services: Silverlight 5 now includes WS-Trust support.  WCF RIA Services improvements include complex type support, better MVVM support, and improved customization of code generation.  Silverlight 5’s networking stack also now supports low-latency network scenarios that enable more responsive application scenarios.


  • Text and Printing: Silverlight 5 delivers improved text clarity that enables crisper and cleaner text rendering, multi-column text flow and linked text containers, character and leading support, and full OpenType font support.  Silverlight 5 also includes a new Postscript Vector Printing API that provides programmatic control over what you print, and enables printing richer reports and documents.  Pivot functionality – which enables developers to build amazing information visualization experiences – will also be provided built-into the Silverlight 5 SDK.


  • Graphics: Silverlight 5 includes immediate mode graphics support that enables developers to take full advantage of the GPU (graphics processing unit) and enables accelerated 3-D graphics support.  This new support facilitates much richer data visualization scenarios (make sure to watch the keynote to see some really eye-popping ones). 


  • Out of Browser: Silverlight 5 builds on the out-of-browser capabilities we introduced with Silverlight 5.  Out of browser applications can now create and manage child windows.  Trusted out of browser applications can now also use P/Invoke capabilities to call unmanaged libraries and Win32 APIs.  Enhanced group policy support enables enterprises to both lock down and open up security sandbox capabilities of Silverlight 5 applications.


  • Testing Tools: We are adding automated UI testing support for Silverlight applications with Visual Studio 2010.  This makes it easy to test Silverlight applications, and automate the functionality of them.


  • Performance: Silverlight 5 support faster application startup, and provides 64-bit browser support.  Silverlight 5 also integrates with the new Hardware Acceleration capabilities of IE9, and enables hardware acceleration in windowsless mode.  


Summary

We are really excited about the great new capabilities that Silverlight 5 will deliver, and look forward to getting your feedback.  My keynote is available to watch online here if you want to see the new release in action and more information can be found on the Silverlight Website.
 
Hope this helps,


Scott



 


    StreamInsight: Where did that query result come from (using the Event Flow Debugger in LINQPad)?

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

    Occasionally, when working with StreamInsight queries an unusual result will crop up, leading to asking the rather blunt question “where did that come from?”.  Luckily the StreamInsight Event Flow Debugger has a great feature (Root Cause Analysis) that will let us examine how certain results were generated.

    If you’ve never used the Event Flow Debugger, or are having trouble working with it, please have a look through StreamInsight: Getting started with using the (Event Flow) debugger, viewing diagnostics, and exposing the management service.

    We’ll start by creating a system that produces “questionable” results, then examining it with the Event Flow Debugger.  This system will:

    • Pull in a stream of events from the Northwind OData feed
    • Look for a specific condition occuring in the Orders table (thanks to Allan Mitchell for the query idea ), using LINQPad and the StreamInsight driver to execute the query

    If you haven’t installed LINQPad with the StreamInsight driver, the step-by-step instructions may be found at StreamInsight LINQPad Driver on the StreamInsight team blog.  This tool combination makes ad-hoc querying drastically simpler, and I highly recommend dropping down the $30 for autocompletion.  Well worth it!

    With the system up and running, we’ll use the offline trace file capabilities of StreamInsight to capture events flowing through the system, then analyze the results to see if it “makes sense”.  The details of using LINQPad to pull an OData stream from the internet and query it with StreamInsight are covered StreamInsight: Reading from other data contexts into StreamInsight with LINQPad.  The trace file that I use in this blog post was generated by running the LINQ statement from that blog post.

    Capturing a trace

    We’ll use the offline trace capability of StreamInsight to figure out some root cause analysis of output events.  From the previous post, let’s track down what went into producing this output event:

    7/12/1996 7:00:00 AM +00:00

    7/15/1996 7:00:00 AM +00:00

    null

    4

    • Open up a command prompt, and navigate to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft StreamInsight 1.1\Tools directory.
    • From this directory, use trace.cmd to start capturing tracing information via trace start rootcause.etl.
    • From LINQPad, execute the query again.
    • From the command prompt stop tracing by executing the command trace stop.
    • If you observe the contents of the C:\Program Files\Microsoft StreamInsight 1.1\Tools directory the rootcause.etl file should be visible with a non-zero length.  We’ll now use the Event Flow Debugger to perform a root cause analysis.

    Using the Event Flow Debugger against a Trace file

    • Start the Event Flow Debugger (Start –> Microsoft StreamInsight 1.1 x64 (en) –> Event Flow Debugger).
    • Click on File, then on Open.
    • Browse to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft StreamInsight 1.1\Tools directory.  Select the rootcause.etl file and click Open.
    • From the Object Explorer, expand the rootcause.etl node, then the Server node, then the test application node.
    • Right-click on the IEnumerable subscription 0 query, and click Display Query.
    • If we expand the IEnumerable stream 1 input adapter, we’ll see all of the events that flowed into this query.  We’ll come back to this in a bit, but we’re more interested right now in looking at the output and determining root cause.
    • Scroll down to the OutputAdapter_Cleanse box, and expand it.  Since we’re (for this exploration) only interested in the actual output events (rather than the liveliness of the query by examining CTI’s), let’s go ahead and filter for INSERT events by adding a filter to the operator view.  This filter will be EventKind == “Insert”.
    • We’re trying to track down what went into producing a specific event, so let’s add a more detailed filter to the cleanse box.  In this case we added “&& StartTime == DateTime.Parse(“7/12/1996 7:00:00 AM”)”
    • Now that we’ve tracked down the specific event we’re interested in, let’s go ahead and see what went into producing it.  Click on the event to select it, then click Analysis in the menu, and finally click Root Cause Analysis.
    • Scroll back up to the input adapter, and we can now observe the four events that went into generated our output event!

    Takeaways

    • LINQPad, together with the StreamInsight LINQpad driver makes a great ad-hoc query and exploratory interface.
    • Use the offline trace viewing capability of the Event Flow Debugger to capture query activity and investigate how your output events came to be.
    Windows Azure – BidNow Sample

    Windows Azure – BidNow Sample

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

    If you want to dive more into Windows Azure you can have a look at BidNow. BidNow is an online auction site designed to demonstrate how you can build highly scalable consumer applications running in the Windows Azure Platform.

    When BidNow was originally released, it was a sample built using Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage, along with authentication provided via Live Id. Since the original release, a number of additional services and capabilities have been released. Consequently, BidNow now utilizes the following pieces of the platform:

    These updates not only provide important and useful capabilities, but also highlight the ways in which to build applications in the Windows Azure Platform. If you like to learn more you can read Wade Wegner’s latest post. It will show how setup a platform (what you need to install, OS, Visual Studio, SDK, Identity Framework) to make this sample run.

    My environment is as follows on a 8740w HP Elitebook, 8Gb RAM, Intel Core i7 machine:

    • Windows 7, Professional x64
    • Windows PowerShell 2.0 (already installed on Windows 7)
    • Windows Azure Software Development Kit 1.3
    • Windows Azure AppFabric SDK 2.0
    • Internet Information Services 7.5
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
    • Microsoft SQL Express 2008 R2
    • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
    • Windows Identity Foundation Runtime
    • Windows Identity Foundation SDK 4.0

    When downloading the sample you will get a zipped file and need to unpack (run it). After that you need to start ’StartHere’ (Windows Command Script). It will then show the screen below:

    BidNowSample 1

    Click next will run scan to check if all required software is installed.

    BidNowSample 2

    Click Next.

    BidNowSample 3

    Configuration of BidNow Demo starts and will setup AppFabric Labs ACS and Cache, Database (SQL Azure, SQL Express or both), blobs and certificates. During the setup you will see a couple of screens like below, where you will have to type in namespace, secret keys and so on.

    BidNowSample 4BidNowSample 5

    Steps to undertake and actions to perform are described in a wiki.

    BidNowSample 7

    After configuration is completed code can be opened through visual studio and then it simply build and run.

    BidNowSample 8

    If you that familiar yet with Windows Azure you can start by going to Windows Azure Platform Portal, where you find lots of resources like whitepapers and so on. Other important resources to look at are:

    Have fun and there are more samples to be found for Azure on code gallery.

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