I enjoyed giving my first presentation at the DevDays. I hope you did as well!
The first part of my sample source code is available. (The demo about using Itineraries in BizTalk ESB Guidance 2.0)
The second part (EDA in action) will come tomorrow.
If you’ve got any questions feel free to drop me a note.
You can get the sample code here: Sourcecode
TechEd is in its 10th year and is positioned to be the best yet!
Teched is starting to sound like the super bowl in the USA.
However…. be sure to take advantage of the Super Early Bird offer
In general terms, I’m liking the Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 experience quite a bit; there are lots of goodies in there. The Text Editor shows a lot of promise, though it’s still a bit on the buggy side .
I’ve noticed something that’s nagging me a bit, and that’s full line highlights when you’ve […]
Have you tried Bing yet?
Ok – during these more challenging times (who doesn’t love trying to get that Suduko
puzzle of life out).
Breeze went into bat for you – my passion and first love (or should I second love
– my wife could read this) – the Student!!
Microsoft and Breeze Partner to bring you
Microsoft and Breeze are bringing you this special SharePoint Training offer during
June & July only. This is part of a campaign to help businesses use their existing
Microsoft technologies to gain business efficiencies during these economic times.
Being better connected internally as well as externally can save businesses’ time
and money. I will show you how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help you
achieve just that as SharePoint 2007 has some features we think you shouldn’t live
without!
I will focus on delivering a ’real world’ experience as well as having a strong training
component. The things I instruct on have to work for me in the field as well!
This four day, intense workshop is designed for IT Professionals and Developers
needing effective skills transfer for the new products and technologies delivered
with Microsoft Office 2007.
You will have the opportunity for ‘hands-on’ experience to Develop, Customise and
Integrate solutions on the Office 2007 Platform as well as gain experience from the
field.
This course has been heavily subsidised by Microsoft at a cost of $1300 ex GST
(RRP $2480 ex GST) and is filling up quickly. For more information and registration
go here:
https://www.microsoft.com.au/events/register/home.aspx?levent=344938&linvitation
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Note – Microsoft Partners can use their Readiness training $$ towards this course.
Chances are you’ve got the technology, got the MOSS environment and now needed to
extend and explore.
What a great dealI’ve still kept my first born 😉
See you there
Mick.
Last month Microsoft announced its first-ever Azure Developer Challenge. Since then, we’ve received strong interest and several questions about the competition.
The question I most frequently receive is, “Why is the Azure Dev Challenge open to US residents only?”
I am pleased to announce that starting today the Azure Developer Challenge is open to developers outside of the US. Without starting to sound like a lawyer, there were legal and regulatory considerations that took us a little bit longer to resolve for international. We now have those worked out and can’t wait to see your applications. See my previous post for more info on getting registered.
Seperately, we received questions about interopoerability and the use of existing code. Specifically… “Can we use jQuery?” the answer is yes.
Experiment, have fun, and send us feedback about your experiences during the process of submitting an entry for the competition.
Remember, the deadline to submit contest app entries is June 18 for US developers. Developers outside the US have until July 9th to submit their application. So hurry up and go to www.newcloudapp.com to get started today! To follow the contest chatter on Twitter, search for “#newCloudApp”.
One of the cool new releases coming out this year is a small download manager – the Microsoft Web Platform Installer – that makes installing and configuring web server and web development stacks really easy. It is a free tool that you can download from the www.microsoft.com/web site (here is the direct link to the installer – choose the 2.0 version). It works with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
The Web Platform Installer provides an easy way to quickly install and customize all the software you need to develop or deploy web sites and applications on a Windows machine. The tool automatically analyses what your system currently has installed, allows you to easily mark additional components to be added, and then automates installing them all at once when you click the install button (saving you from having to manually install each one yourself).
For example, you can click the “Web Server” section above to customize the individual IIS web server modules installed on the box. This includes both the built-in IIS modules that ship with Windows (like the directory browsing module), as well as additional modules available as separate downloads. Below I’ve selected two additional modules – the Application Request Routing and URL Rewrite modules – to be installed:
The URL Rewrite module is a free Microsoft module that enables you to publish custom URLs from your sites and optimize them for search engine optimization (SEO). You can enforce SEO rules (consistent casing, embedded keywords, etc) and customize how your site looks from an external perspective however you want (the admin tool will even help guide you to write the regular expression rules):
The Application Request Routing is a free Microsoft module that supports forward-proxy style scenarios, and enables dynamic load-balancing of requests across multiple web-server machines (allowing you to scale out, move machines behind DMZ firewall scenarios, and bring machines in and out of a farm for maintenance without disruption).
In addition to URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing, there are dozens of other web server modules you can select that enable WebDAV, Secure FTP, automated deployment, remote database management through the IIS admin tool for hosted scenarios, media server streaming scenarios, and more. You can also install framework additions like ASP.NET MVC, .NET 3.5 SP1, SQL Express and associated SQL administration tools, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, and more.
The web platform installer also integrates with the new Windows Web Application Gallery now online: www.microsoft.com/web/gallery
This gallery allows you to easily install existing web applications onto your server. The gallery contains a variety of popular .NET open source applications (like DotNetNuke, ScrewTurn Wiki and Umbraco CMS) as well as PHP open source applications (including WordPress and Drupal). You can easily browse and install them using the Web Platform Installer as well (just click the “Web Applications” tab and check the applications you want to install):
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In addition to downloading the application, the web platform installer will create a new site/application root and configure the appropriate site settings and optionally install the database.
If you haven’t downloaded the Web Platform Installer yet I’d recommend taking a look at it. I think you’ll find it makes it much easier to configure and get a box up and running, and makes it much easier to find and install the various components of the Windows web server stack, as well as find and install applications to use on top of it. Overtime you’ll see us ship more and more functionality this way.
You can download and start using the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta today. We’ll ship the final release of it this summer.
Hope this helps,
Scott
This blog post introduces the Project and Item templates for Workflow 4.0. It also clarifies as to how the Workflow 3.0 templates are still available for users to create projects and then upgrade them to the 4.0 Framework.
We are putting in a deep though into what kind of templates do users want? Do they help users get kick started with the kind of application they typically want to create? How much setting changes the user might have to do for his applications? Is it an accurate reflection of the OM? Do we have too many/too less templates? So what do you think? What would you prefer to see/not to see? Are the names intuitive enough? Please let us know so that we can update them in time for the VS 2010 release.
Thanks,
Kushal.
Continuing on the theme of Workflow 4.0 blog, this blog post talks about the enhancements and features provided for debugging in Workflow 4.0.
The blog post talks specifically dwells into the seamless debugging between the Xaml view and the Designer view of the Workflows. Most of the features provided in Workflow 3.0 Debugging re still provided as well. Also, please be on the look out for the blog post as to how you can use the DebugService now public in Workflow 4.0 for creating tools like Simulators, Monitoring and Re-hosted Debugging.
Thanks,
Kushal.
For all those interested in BizTalk 2009, I will be delivering the 1st 2009 Developer training on the 15th of June for Stargate. The Quicklearn BizTalk Developer Immersion course will be run in the Stargate Offices in Richmond, Victoria, if you are interested in signing up for the course please visit: http://www.stargateglobalconsulting.com/courses/pages/outline.aspx?ID=11
Please note: the BizTalk Developer Immersion course covers both BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2009, the labs for the course can either be done using BizTalk 2006 R2 or BizTalk 2009.