by community-syndication | Jun 2, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Are you going to be at TechEd this week? I’ll be delivering an expanded
version of the talk I gave on May 15 at the last Twin Cities BizTalk User Group.
The talk (mostly demos!) is all about achieving unattended deployments with BizTalk
using Team Foundation Server (with TFS Deployer.)
The session is on Wednesday at 12pm, titled “SOA07–TLC –
Automated Remote BizTalk Server Deployments with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation
Server” in Green Theater 2. (That’s a mouthful…)
See you there!
by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release. One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.
The SP1 release of Visual Web Developer 2008 Express adds support for both class library projects as well as web application projects (previously only web site projects could be used with it). This new support is useful in itself, as well as in enabling both ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight project support with VWD Express. If you install the Visual Web Developer Express SP1 Beta you can start using ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 with it immediately.
Important: ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 does not require SP1 to be installed if you are using Visual Studio 2008. ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 will work with both VS 2008 and VS 2008 SP1 just fine.
You can learn more about the new VWD Express support for ASP.NET MVC from the VS Web Tools team blog here. This post also includes a free web download that provides ASP.NET MVC Test project support for NUnit-based unit tests. You can use these NUnit project templates with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as with Visual Web Developer Express 2008.
Hope this helps,
Scott
by community-syndication | Jun 1, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I was cracking into getting my machine setup for a Silverlight project that I’m working
on and came up with the above error.
Now….I admit….running x64 Windows 2008 on my Fijitsu Laptop mighten be the best
combination given the huge support for my laptop drivers that I have.
I installed all the new(er) Silverlight 2.0 Beta bits from http://silverlight.net (VS2008
Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Bits) and opened up my VS2008 seeing all the new Silverlight
project types – cool! (I thought)
Each time I either created or opened an existing project – boom!
up came the error.
So I figured the installation didn’t complete properly………after running/re-running/uninstalling/installing
countless times the error was still there!!!!
My one solace and saving grace was running the following command line:
devenv /setup
……”I’m on my way, on my way to happiness today…..ah huh ah huh ah huh”……..
🙂
by community-syndication | May 31, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
You gotta love this. Its like buses. You wait for one forever and then two come along at the same time. No sooner had i finished looking through StyleCop, I happened to go over to the Visual Studio Gallery (this is different from the MSDN Code Gallery) and came across the CodeStyleEnforcer. Downloads can be […]
by community-syndication | May 31, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
A friend alerted me to the fact that StyleCop (formally named Microsoft Source Analysis for C#) is now available in the public domain and can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery . Its beenused as an internal tool in Microsoft for a long time.
It differs from FxCop which is targeted at compiled assemblies while […]
by community-syndication | May 31, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
It’s been a while since I’ve postedsome BizTalk coding tidbit… Busy times!
I often have to set the value of an elementunder a message’s repeating node with the same value. Of course, normally you’d use a map, but what if the value isn’t in the source message? The last time I ran into this was in […]
by community-syndication | May 31, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
For the next release of adapter pack, we are adding 2 new adapters — Oracle EBS and SQL. In addition, we are also enhancing support for the existing OracleDB adapter. We are planning to add support for the following:
– UDTs
– Table Types
– Boolean types
We would like to hear from you about any other specific features that you may want in OracleDB adapter. Please do let us know if you’d like to participate in the TAP program.
by community-syndication | May 30, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I had discussed the design of our integration layer in an earlier post and Stuart commented asking if we implemented the messaging layer using messaging only or if we needed to implement orchestrations. As i started writing the response, it got rather long so i decided to make it a full fledged post. So here […]
by community-syndication | May 30, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In dealing with some EDI data, I came across some data that was invalid
In a file we had a large number of COB segments that looked like this:
COB*U*1234567*01*1
There are supposed to be 3 elements in the COB, so I hacked away at it for a while and came up with this command
Find COB^*U^**^*01^*1
With COB*U*00000000000*1
(the ^* means don’t use the expression * to mean all characters, actually look for * in the data, except where it says ^**^* where there is a *, but consume all data until you find the next *)
But I was not satisfied; I wanted the value from COB02 in the result.
To consume data into a ’variable’ you use the following syntax
Find COB^*U^*^(*^)^*01^*1
With COB*U*^1*1
the ^(*^) loads whatever is between ^(^) (in this case *) into a variable, and because it is the first one, the output you specify is ^1
So in theory I could have this syntax
Find COB^*U^*^(*^)^*01^*^(*^)
With COB*U*^1*^2
The resulting output would be
COB*U*1234567*1
by community-syndication | May 30, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Next week marks the start of TechEd US in Orlando, which is always a fun conference to be at. I’ll be there, presenting a session on Friday in the SOA track: “Technical Drilldown into Microsoft’s ESB Guidance”. The SOA track is packed with great sessions, this should be a really good TechEd. If you’re going the following week to TechEd IT Pro, Allan Naim of Microsoft will be doing a session on the ESB Guidance.
Hope to see you at TechEd Developer, I’ll be there all week, hanging out, seeing old friends, and also helping out at the MSFT booth.
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