by community-syndication | Jul 19, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Microsoft will release to manufacture (RTM) Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 in the first week of August with the official release planned for September. With the majority of users eligible for a “free” upgrade to the latest version through their MSDN Subscriptions, expect to see many organizations upgrading over the coming six months!
Why not hit the ground running by having your staff up skilled on the many great new features Microsoft have included in this release. Here’s just a sample of some of the new features we cover in our TFS 2012 courses:
- A completely new web interface to help you interact with TFS
- New Agile Planning tools to help you create and manage your product backlog
- A task board to help you see the state of work in progress
- A new feedback client to help ensure continuous feedback from your stakeholders
- New exploratory testing features to help your testers create tests from exploratory testing sessions
- Storyboarding support to allow you to create professional interactive storyboards to show your stakeholders
- Support for teams within a Team Project with independent backlogs, dashboards and task boards.
- Support for testing new Windows 8-style applications
- Much, much more.
Our new range of 6 courses for Visual Studio 2012 TFS can provide your team with all the skills and knowledge necessary to make the maximum advantage from the new features in the 2012 release. Here is our line-up of new courses for TFS 2012:
- TFS 2012 Configuration and Administration
- Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012
- Test Automation, Web Performance, and Load Testing with VS 2012
- Managing Projects with TFS 2012
- ALM Solutions using TFS 2012
- TFS 2012 Developer Fundamentals
by community-syndication | Jul 19, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
We are living exciting days, but hard to keep track of everything due to all the new features, product, versions… that are announced day by day Therefore, and with some delay, here is the list of new updates available for all different versions of BizTalk Server. BizTalk Server 2010 Release in June 19, 2012 – […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
by community-syndication | Jul 19, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Kovai Limited the owner of BizTalk360 based in London, yesterday signed a strategic partnership agreement with Tallan Inc
Often times customers are bombarded with information making their life harder to decide on the right tool for their requirements. Partner organisations are the ones who work very closely with the customers, understanding their business requirements. For the past few months we were actively engaged in partnering with right organisation, who got similar vision to ours, "delivering value to Microsoft BizTalk Server customers".
As part of the journey, we are very excited to announce our new partnership with Tallan, Inc.
Tallan is headquartered in Hartford, CT, and has offices in New York, Boston, Tampa, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. Tallan provides custom application development and integration services to customers in the financial services, healthcare, retail, government, media and entertainment, and manufacturing industries. Tallan are Microsoft National Systems Integrator (NSI) and Gold Competency Partner in various competencies, especially Application Integration.
You can read the full press release.
Over the next few weeks you’ll see more such announcements from Kovai. We are actively looking for new partners around the world to bring on-board. If you work in the application integration area specializing in Microsoft BizTalk server and interested to become our partners and add value to your customers, please contact us at [email protected]
/Saravana Kumar
by community-syndication | Jul 19, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I tried to do a simple DateTime calculation in C#. What I wanted to achieve is to know how many years, months and days where between 2 DateTime variables. Or at least I thought this would be easy. Turns out there is know real out-of-the-box functionality available to handle this in C#.
The only thing available out-of-the-box in C# is using TimeSpan. Unfortuanately the only calculations TimeSpan can return is the number of days, hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. But how about the years, months and days than?
Here’s a simple method to show the possibilities of the TimeSpan:
public void PrintDateDiffUsingTimeSpan(DateTime begin, DateTime end)
{
TimeSpan span = end - begin;
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
str.Append("Total span: ");
str.Append(span.Days + " days, ");
str.Append(span.Hours + " hours, ");
str.Append(span.Minutes + " minutes, ");
str.Append(span.Seconds + " seconds, ");
str.Append(span.Milliseconds + " milliseconds");
Console.WriteLine(str.ToString() + "\n");
Console.WriteLine("Total Days: " + span.TotalDays);
Console.WriteLine("Total Hours: " + span.TotalHours);
Console.WriteLine("Total Minutes: " + span.TotalMinutes);
Console.WriteLine("Total Seconds: " + span.TotalSeconds);
Console.WriteLine("Total Milliseconds: " + span.TotalMilliseconds);
}
I ended up using a freely available .NET library called ‘Time Period’. The source code can be found here. There’s also an on line demo and documentation available.
Here’s a simple method to show some the possibilities of the TimeSpan:
public void PrintDateDiff(DateTime begin, DateTime end)
{
DateDiff diff = new DateDiff(begin, end);
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
str.Append("Total difference: ");
str.Append(diff.ElapsedYears + " years, ");
str.Append(diff.ElapsedMonths + " months, ");
str.Append(diff.ElapsedDays + " days");
Console.WriteLine(str.ToString() + "\n");
Console.WriteLine("Total Days: " + diff.Days);
Console.WriteLine("Total Weeks: " + diff.Weeks);
Console.WriteLine("Total Weekdays: " + diff.Weekdays);
Console.WriteLine("Total Quarters: " + diff.Quarters);
Console.WriteLine("Total Hours: " + diff.Hours);
}
There are much more possibilities in the DateDiff class of the Time Period library. There are even much more classes available in the library. To know more of the capabilities of this library I again refer to the documentation.
Source: http://www.itenso.com/en/
by community-syndication | Jul 18, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
by community-syndication | Jul 18, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Overview
In this post, I’ll walk you though how to create a SharePoint 2010 BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly in Visual Studio 2010.
We’re going to create an assembly that will allow us to Crawl RSS Feeds using BCS.
Creating a BCS .NET Connectivity Assembly project in Visual Studio 2010
First, create a new project selecting the Sharepoint -> […]
Blog Post by: Michael Gerety
by community-syndication | Jul 18, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Overview
The following error was received when attempting to deploy a .NET BCS Connectivity Assembly to our SharePoint 2010 Farm:
Error occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: The default web application could not be determined. Set the SiteUrl property in feature *Model Name*_Feature1 to the URL of the desired site and retry activation. […]
Blog Post by: Michael Gerety
by community-syndication | Jul 18, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Overview
While investigating how to create and deploy custom .NET BCS Connectivity Assemblies, I came across a ton of good links that helped out with some specific issues, and I wanted to share them.
Clearing BCS Service Application Database
The following link describes a method of clearing out the BCS database in order to redeploy BCS custom assemblies […]
Blog Post by: Michael Gerety
by community-syndication | Jul 18, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Donnie Berkholz of the analysis firm RedMonk recently posted an article about observing tech trends by monitoring book sales. He saw a resurgence of interest in Java, a slowdown of interest in Microsoft languages (except PowerShell), upward movement in Python, and declining interesting in SQL. While on Twitter the other day, I was looking at […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
by community-syndication | Jul 18, 2012 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Nothing quite beats a totally scripted BizTalk installation. It might not be a one click install (unless you’re using advanced tools such as the BizTalk Deployment framework) seeing as there are quite a few screens to get through in the BizTalk msi import/install wizards, but you sure can make it a brainless task. Some common […]
Blog Post by: Johann
