by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I've updated the Blogical SFTP Adapter previously released to codeplex by Mikael to include a couple of new features that have been requested and developed for or by customers or community. The abaility to leave files on the source server and rename…(read more)
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Thanks to everyone who came out early on Sunday morning to hear my sermon on REST
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Here is the code and the slides:
rest
(2).pdf (1.42 MB) CodeCampREST.zip
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Check out my new book on REST.
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
One of the most important aspects of attending conferences for me is the networking opportunities. As I am currently an MVP in BizTalk Server, still a fairly minority technology, it’s usually only at these events that I get to meet up with the people who really know the technology (apart from the BizTalk User Group Sweden of course). There are quite a few of the MVPs and “influencers” out this year, and I’m looking forward to catching up on old times and having intelligent and informed discussions about what’s hot at PDC.
I’d been wanting to go to “Magic Mountain” on Saturday, so I was overjoyed when Johan Lindfors suggested I hook up with a few of the guys from Microsoft Sweden and head up there. On the way up there we had a very interesting discussion on BizTalk vs. Dublin, which will be a very hot topic at this PDC.
Johan, despite heavy peer pressure, decided to play caddy with the backpacks and water bottles whilst we took to the rides. We bought an $80 “Thrill Pass” that allowed us to push in at the front of the, sometimes two hour, queues for most of the big rides (a very very un-Swedish thing to do, we recovered our Karma somewhat by giving them away to a group of kids when we left so they could get a few hours use of them), and managed to get round all the coasters except X2 (I really wanted to, but the “Thrill Pass” didn’t apply there) and Viper. Tatsu was the best, with Goliath a close second. We took Tatsu again for the last ride, everything started OK, but leaving the station someone hit the emergency stop, and we were left hanging face down, just outside the station for 20 minutes whilst security chanced an intruder around the area under the track. Luckily we were only 5 feet above the ground; it could have been 170.
PDC Top Tip #1: Network with Microsoft People
They know all the best events and parties at the conferences, and have a lot of inside info on the latest technology.
Later on I headed to the Sheraton down-town and met up with Yossi Dahan, who had just arrived on a flight from the UK. We had a long chat about the current status of “Oslo”, and our expectations for the PDC, and also the “Dublin vs. BizTalk” discussion. Yossi started with BizTalk about the same time as I did, about five years ago, and we chatted on the evolution of BizTalk from an almost unknown project that most people could not install, to a mature and comprehensive integration platform that drives the heart of some of the world’s largest companies. An interesting discussion to have with nine hours jetlag after a couple of beers.
Robert “Boss” Hogg joined us on the way between his room and dinner with some other UK people, it was great to see him again.
PDC FAQ 01: Will “Dublin” replace BizTalk
The short answer is “No”, at least not for a long time. I could spend a couple of pages trying to justify this argument, but Charles Young has posted the best overview of this on this, and there is no way I could come close to explaining it as well as he does. As far as existing customers and developers are concerned, after PDC it will be BizTalk as usual for the foreseeable future. It’s a real shame Charles is not in town for PCD, I think Microsoft should have flown him out and had him on the “Ask the Experts” booth to address the BizTalk related questions.
If you are at PDC, head for the Palermo Party tonight, it sounds like the place to be. I’ll be the guy with the “Bloggers Guide to Oslo” t-shirt, so feelfree to introduce yourself if you have any Oslo and related questions.
Don’t forget to check BloggersGuides.net daily for links to the best news and blogs regarding Oslo and related stuff. I have Camtasia on my laptop, so I may even have a chance to get a webcast done if I can get my hands on those bits
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Even though I had a non upgradable seat on QF93, it turned out to be a good flight, the plane was only about 2/3 full and I had an empty seat between myself and Adam Long (CTO @ QSR) who I ran into at the airport waiting for the flight to leave and ended up setting next to on the flight.
I then arrived a my hotel at 9:00am and was plesently suprised when they said the my room was ready for me, I was then off to the convention center to register, a quick process since not many people were arriving as early as I did.
PDC sessions start tomorrow, so check back from my daily updates.
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Just a quick update, that several of the micro-finance loans I made as part of the GiveCamp Kiva team have recently made their first payment back, which allowed me to begin to re-invest most of those funds in another loan. I’m backing the Yon Dial 2 Group, from Senegal. Here are their details:
Palmarin (http://www.sem-fund.org/palmarinfr.php) is a village rich in fruits and vegetables. Nevertheless, lack of structures specialized in transformation incite people to import fruit and vegetables juices at very high cost. This why this group of women, confronted with difficulties in conserving and disposing of fresh products (cabbages, tomatoes, carrots) are seeking a Kiva loan to create a local fruit and vegetable transformation unit. They will sell the transformed products to touristic businesses and meet a large customer demand.
Remember if you’ve like to become part of the GiveCamp lending team at Kiva and help make a difference around the world for less than the cost of a video game, then check out the team here.
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In this week’s installment of the WCF screencast series, you'll learn how to configure WCF service references in Visual Studio 2008. First, I'll show you how to update a service reference after the service developer makes changes, and then I'll show you where the service reference is stored and examine the code.
Then you'll see how to configure the service reference to customize various client-side code generation settings that come in handy for collections, asynchronous calls, and reusable types.
Previous WCF Screencasts (RSS for all posts in the series)
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Welcome back to the WCF screencast series! After a spending four weeks covering WF topics, we return to WCF for the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series. In the coming month, we’ll be covering topics around the calling of WCF services.
This week I'll guide you through how to create your first WCF client application that consumes an existing WCF service (see the previous WCF screencasts below for more details). You'll see how to add a service reference to the client project using the WCF service's Metadata Exchange (MEX) endpoint, which generates the service definition and contract, and then we'll use those generated artifacts to actually invoke the service operations.
Previous WCF Screencasts (RSS for all posts in the series)
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As part of Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series, my colleague and friend Matt Milner has been busy building the "getting started" videos for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). They've already published four on Channel9 endpoint.tv in case you missed them.
Here are some quick links for those interested:
- Your first sequential workflow
- Your first state machine workflow
- Running workflows in your .NET applications
- Using persistence services in WF
There will be more coming within the next few weeks.
by community-syndication | Oct 26, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As part of Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series, my colleague and friend Matt Milner has been busy building the "getting started" videos for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). They've already published four on Channel9 endpoint.tv in case you missed them.
Here are some quick links for those interested:
- Your first sequential workflow
- Your first state machine workflow
- Running workflows in your .NET applications
- Using persistence services in WF
There will be more coming within the next few weeks.
by community-syndication | Oct 25, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Apparently the CSD/BizTalk Product Group are conducting a survey on the BRE to analyse its usage. I guess this is an opportunity to contribure to the future of this component so it would be useful for BizTalk and probably WF people to take this
https://live.datstat.com/MSCSD-Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=BRE_Usage_Survey_Blog
