As some of you may know, BizTalk Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) activities can be populated from outside of BizTalk solutions. Say you have a large solution where you want to monitor the full lifecycle of certain data. For example, you have prospective customers arriving in an Excel file that is imported into SQL Server via […]
In my previous post I extolled the virtues of Sun’s desktop virtualisation software, VirtualBox. One thing niggled me though – I couldn’t easily expand a Virtual Disk Image (VDI) and was regularly reaching the space limits of the modest 20Gb disks I was creating; I needed an easy way of expanding disks before I could […]
Here are the samples from the BizTalk User Group meeting last Monday.
Here is the demo code , and presentation (in swedish) from the BAM talk I gave at the BizTalk User Group Sweden event on the 20th. Thank you all who attended, and to Precio for hosting it. Please contact me with any questions you might have about the…(read more)
I had the pleasure of presenting at both the Minneapolis and Omaha Heartland Developers Conference this year. This is a great conference in the central region where national and regional speakers participate to create a great conference offering. I did a presentation on BizTalk Services in both cities and the slides and demos have been posted so you can download and play with those. You'll need to setup a account and update the configuration files with your username and password. The SDK is also available on the site when you sign up for an account. http://labs.biztalk.net/
In Omaha, I also did a presentation on Windows PowerShell for .NET Developers. In addition to the slides and the sample cmdlet, I've included my PowerShell profile with the functions showing some usage of script to convert Word and PowerPoint files to XPS or PDF and the zip related functions (thanks to David Aiken for the originals).
Finally, the IIS Snap-in that I showed with the provider can be downloaded from http://www.iis.net. This only works with IIS 7 on Vista or Server 2008.
For those that attended, I hope you enjoyed the talks and have fun with the samples. For those that didn't, check out HDC next year!
In writing my book, I’ve had a chance to compare the two BizTalk service generation wizards, and I now remember why the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard (ASMX) drove me nuts.
Let’s look at how the WCF Wizard and ASMX Wizard take the same schema, and expose it as a service. I’ve purposely included some complexity […]
I’m delighted to report that Microsoft is currently asking for responses to an on-linesurvey on the use of Microsoft BRE – delighted because it indicates that serious thought is being given to the evolution of this technology. If your organisation uses MS BRE, do please take a few minutes to provide feedback.
The survey is at: https://live.datstat.com/MSCSD-Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=BRE_Usage_Survey_Blog
The only issue I would highlight is that the survey deals mainly with present and past use of MS BRE, and not about how its use could be extended in the future.
A couple weeks back I answered some interview questions regarding my impressions of Microsoft’s Oslo. One of my answers found its way into an article you can read on ComputerWorld entitled Microsoft eyes Oslo as game-changer for application development. It’s a good article with some interesting perspective. You’ll find my quote on page three. I […]
I’m an avid user of virtual machines, primarily for development work on the desktop, but also in the Enterprise. For desktop virtualisation I’ve tried them all – Microsoft’s Virtual PC, VMWare Server and I’m now hooked on VirtualBox, Sun’s open-source offering to the gods of virtualisation. The performance is excellent, it ‘feels’ like a stable […]