Code and links from my webcast

Code and links from my webcast

by | Jul 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Thanks to those of you that attended my web cast today.  Here is the link to a book that has coverage of .NET 3.5  – http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Windows-Communication-Foundation-WCF/dp/0321440064/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215632437&sr=8-3

For learning about WF – here is the MSDN WF developer center – which is a good place
to start for info about WF – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663322.aspx

And here is the code that I used today –

WCFWFWebCast.zip
(273.37 KB)

Thanks again to the all attendees!

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BizTalk: Distinguished fields and Promoted properties – additional information

by | Jul 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Interesting information in KB:
“How to use distinguished fields and promoted properties in a BizTalk Server project” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942250
“…
  • A promoted property may not be available as a promoted property after you write a value into the message context. This situation can occur if the value that you write into the message context has the same name and namespace that was used to promote the property.
  • Properties that have a null value are not permitted in the message context. Therefore, if a null value is written into the message context, this value will be deleted.
    …”
BTW What is it “a null value”?
  • Is it <shipDate xsi:nil=”true”></shipDate> ?
  • Is it absence of the value <shipDate></shipDate> ?
  • Is it “closed tag <shipDate /> ?
  • Is it absence of the whole node?
In http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-0-20041028/#Nilswe have description of it. But frequently we’ve got different interpretation of this term. And I am not sure about interpretation in KB
And let me add one more, not obvious:
  • Distinguished fields and promoted properties have to always get Min/Max Occurs = 1. (Not 0, not “unbounded”, only 1)
Change in version 9.23.4

Change in version 9.23.4

by | Jul 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Hello,


as you already noticed probably, I uploaded build 9.23.4


This build has an important change I think which can reduce signicantly the size of produced files (history.log,html and xml) :  Indeed I keep now in this build only the name of Stored Procs found in the detailed report  “Most CPU Queries (SQL 2K5 only)” instead of the entire sp text as it was before.
In this report, for each row returned, I determine so if it a Stored Procedure and in this case I keep only its name and remove the remaining part. I think knowing the sp name is enough in this report.
However, I keep the entire SQL query if  SQL query is returned as statement instead of a stored proc


Let me know if you meet any problems with this change


thanks !


JP

Running MSBuild scripts from Visual Studio

Running MSBuild scripts from Visual Studio

by | Jul 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

<br /> Gobbledygooks · Running MSBuild scripts from Visual Studio<br />

Jul 09, 2008

MSBuild2It seems like there more build script one writes, the more often one wants to run them and it’s always a bit annoying (and time consuming) having to leave Visual Studio and start MSBuild from the command line. Brennan Stehling has a cool solution to that problem here were he sets up MSBuild as an external tool and runs it.

One problem for us was the we had our solution files in one place on the file system and our build files in a totally different place. The solution was to add the build file for the current solution as a Solution Folder (as shown in the figure below) and then set MSBuild to use $(ItemDir) as its Initial Directory. That will kick of MSBuild from the directory that the current selected Solution Folder points to and in our case that’s were the XXX.Build.Article.proj file exists.

MSBuild

Looking forward to stackoverflow.com

Looking forward to stackoverflow.com

by | Jul 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

stackoverflow-logo-250I’m really looking forward to the release of stackoverflow.com – have you heard about it? If not it’s a collaboration between Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood. Joel and Jeff are of course the two blogger behind the popular Joel on Software and Coding Horror blogs.

Joel is also one of the founders of the FogCreek Software company. FogCreek has a couple of different products but the most known is probably FogBugz which is a really cool project management/bug tracking/wiki/support tool for software development and management. At first it might not look like a very impressing tool but have a look at this presentation by Joel and I think you’ll start thinking different (I know we did and we’re now using it for both planing and managing big integrations projects).

Anyway, if you missed the story behind stackoverflow have a look here and don’t miss the podcasts that Joel and Jeff record, some of them are really cool. I know I’ve learnt a lot by just listening in to their conversations.

We not have quite a few online BizTalk communities such as the Microsoft forums, Google Groups, BizTalk Gurus, facebook (search for BizTalk related groups) and at LinkedIn (a couple of open BizTalk related groups) – is there room for another one at stackoverflow? Do we need one?