BizTalkGenerateStrongName Redux

BizTalkGenerateStrongName Redux

by | Apr 24, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’ve been traveling the world (ok technically traveling to Redmond, London or Dublin)
teaching BizTalk Server 2006 R2 training.  I have some interesting posts planned
around the technology in R2 – this post is about a tool I built quite a while ago
– and that Carlos Medina improved.  I’ve been doing demos around BizTalk and
one of the tedious things I find when developing with BizTalk is that there isn’t
anyway to “auto-sign” a BizTalk project.  If you’ve ever seen me demo BizTalk
– I always at some point create a BizTalk project – and I have a tool under the Tools
menu in Visual Studio which autogenerates a .snk file and puts in the proper path
to that file in my project settings.  Another thing I’ve done since building
that tool is work alot with vsi files in Visual Studio (template files) which allow
you to package up a addin, template, or macro into a nice easy to install package. 
So here is the latest BizTalkGenerateStrongName code as well as a vsi.  Just
download and double-click the vsi – and you should get a new tool the next time you
open Visual Studio.  Highlight your BizTalk project in the solution explorer
– then hit the BizTalkGenerateStrongName command under the Tools menu.  Enjoy.

BizTalkGenerateStrongName1.zip
(60.61 KB)

biztalkgeneratestrongname.vsi
(19.88 KB)

 

BizTalk Internet Services on the Horizon – What’s coming next….

by | Apr 23, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

With BizTalk 2006 R2 rounding the corner into the home leg, the folks in the CSD (Connected
Systems Division – Biztalk, .NET, WCF, WF) have been very busy!!
🙂

We’re looking down the telescope at BizTalk ‘vNext’.

It’s current name is ‘BizTalk Internet Services‘ which offers a bunch
of services for the ‘cloud’ (aka internet based wcf services). My personal favourite
is the relay service.

Alot of functionality that previously existed in BizTalk has been pushed down into
the .NET framework 3.x/4.x (WCF Services etc.)….allowing the BizTalk team to focus
on some really cool new BizTalk features.

Here’s an email I got earlier from Marjan from MS.

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As you may have heard, for the past year the Connected Systems Division has been incubating
a set of building-block services that will shape the next generation of application
development.  On Tuesday the 24th, we will open the incubation
of BizTalk Services to the public by inviting developers from all over the
world to use the services and provide feedback. 

BizTalk Services will be available via labs.biztalk.net. 
(UPDATE: OPENS 24th Tues – US TIME)

What are BizTalk Services?

These services, which have been in internal incubation for the past year, represent
hosted versions of some technologies developed in the Connected Systems Division. 
Included in this set of services are:

o Message routing – think of this as firewall friendly B2B messaging (Available now)

o Simple publish/subscribe event brokering – Pub/Sub at Internet scale (Coming soon)

o Simple federated identity and access control  (Available now)

o Workflow processes – Simple templates for cross-organization integration and the
orchestration of business processes interacting with multiple services (Coming soon)

Some fantastic MOSS erorr messages

by | Apr 23, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Through the MOSS/WSS v3.0 TAP program and the early betas, there was a whole bunch
of ‘debug’ type messages being logged.

I’ve always loved the MOSS/WSS V3.0 log files – under …\12\Logs\…. as there’s
some very funny error messages. Here’s such one

04/23/2007 04:50:51.09 w3wp.exe (0x152C) 0x1650 Windows
SharePoint Services General 8l1n High An SPRequest object was not disposed before
the end of this thread. To avoid wasting system resources, dispose of this object
or its parent (such as an SPSite or SPWeb) as soon as you are done using it. This
object will now be disposed. Allocation Id: {65D8E0A2-C330-418A-8871-C597A7C612C9}
To determine where this object was allocated, create a registry key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared
Tools\Web Server Extensions\HeapSettings. Then create a new DWORD named SPRequestStackTrace
with the value 1 under this key.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code named “Orcas”!!!

by | Apr 23, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

The next version of Visual Studio, Microsoft%u00ae Visual Studio%u00ae code name “Orcas” has been released by Microsoft on April 19th, 2007.Visual Studio code name “Orcas” is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. Beta 1 consists of multiple releases including, Visual Studio Professional Edition, Visual Studio Team […]

My two weeks in Ireland are winding down

My two weeks in Ireland are winding down

by | Apr 22, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

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I’ve spent the last two weeks
in Ireland doing training on R2 for BizTalk team.   Had
some very interested students – especially in the EDI and RFID areas. 

I also got to spend some time with the MS
and community people here – just great people – always up for a pint.  Thanks Clare, Rob,
and Philip McKeown
(you should really blog there Philip) for taking me out to the smallest pub in Dublin.

BTW
– Clare I found out was at least partially responsible for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRW-vqh49Bw –
this may not be work safe in all parts of the world so be careful – I do love Podge
and Rodge though)