by community-syndication | Dec 11, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In this WCF screencast, I'll show you how to configure bindings on your WCF endpoints, which will allow you to customize the precise communication details you wish to support on your WCF services.
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by community-syndication | Dec 11, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I recently published a free video on Configuring bindings in WCF.
In this WCF screencast, I'll show you how to configure bindings on your WCF endpoints, which will allow you to customize the precise communication details you wish to support on your WCF services.
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by community-syndication | Dec 11, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
We ordered Jon Flanders new RESTful.NET book from Amazon US. It was a tough choice. The local supplier had it on their site, but stated that it would take 26-40 business days to deliver. Amazon UK was slightly better, but not by much since at the time…(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 11, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Dublin’s application server incorporates a series of runtimes services that complement the runtime behavior of a WCF service host on areas such as lifecycle, persistence, message routing, etc. Among those services, the forwarding services provides high…(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
1. Protest in Auburn over a football coach draws more than an anti-war protest
2. Despite all the economic, environmental and social woes in the world, top press outlets still have the time to cover Oprah’s weight and giant feats of agriculture
3. Sun talks about the importance of the client and escaping the browser
Please feel free to add your own.
by community-syndication | Dec 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Following on my previous post on how to append records to existing (looping) records I am following up on that with a solution, or pattern as that's a word in high fashion, for how to use a second message as a lookup table to merge or enrich data…(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Since last Monday BizTalk 2009 is released for Beta testing. (BizTalk Server Team Blog newspost ) Also ESB Guidance 2.0 has been released CTP. So stay tuned the coming weeks for more information about this new release.
What’s new in BizTalk 2009
- Support for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – take advantages of the latest developer tools.
- Support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 – full support of Hyper-V, and increased performance and scale.
- EDI – enhanced out of the box support for the most commonly used EDI schema and trading partner management tools.
- Simplify development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information (RFID Mobile).
- ALM – new support is provided for Team Foundation Server (TFS), allowing development teams to leverage the integrated source control, bug tracking, support for team development, Project Server integration and support for automating builds via MSBuild.
- Enhanced Developer Productivity – improved underlying project system enhances debugging support for artifacts, pipeline components and orchestrations, and enables support for unit testing.
To get the new bits from BizTalk: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218
To get the new bits from ESB 2.0: http://www.codeplex.com/esb
by community-syndication | Dec 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Does BizTalk Server maps have patterns? What are patterns? Wikipedia states that it's a pattern if "…it happens 5 or more times…" and that a design pattern in computer science "…is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring…(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
A friend recently asked me about retrieving the policy number and returning it to the orchestration.
Here is the official response:
The Policy() object has properties MajorVersion and MinorVersion. However, the Policy object is not exposed by the CallRules shape, so you would have to write some code in order to get it.
by community-syndication | Dec 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Yesterday I installed the latest public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 (the artist formerly known as BizTalk Server 2006 R3), and thought I’d share the latest visuals and features. Note that you shouldn’t expect any particularly revolutionary things here, as a core aspect of this upgrade is bringing BizTalk into alignment with the most current […]