Writing BizTalk context properties to a message from a WCF service using behaviors

by community-syndication | Apr 24, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

The new WCF adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2 offers a lot of new possibilities. One of those is to write data to the BizTalk Message context properties directly from an exposed WCF Service. A practical use of this technic could be to write the username from the Windows credentials of the calling client into the […]

Why Safari May Become the Browser of Choice!

by community-syndication | Apr 24, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

If you're a web designer, web developer or just someone that keeps up with the latest "Web 2.0" technologies, you know that a lot of progress is being made by ALL the major browsers to become "standards compliant". You also know that the Web Standards Project has created a number of "Acid" tests that help all the browser developers ensure that their browser works as "expected". If you're an experienced web designer or developer, you probably use several different browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Camino, Safari, etc.) to test your sites against everyday.

What you may not be aware of is some of the very "advanced" features Safari (WebKit actually) has in the works which may well change the way we think about developing Web 2.0 applications.

1. Web Fonts
   
2. Client-Side Database Storage
   
3. CSS3 Transforms
   
4. CSS3 Animation
   
5. SVG Support
   
6. CSS Gradients
   
7. CSS Box Shadow
   
8. And Many, Many More…
   

If you look at any one of these new features individually, they are very cool! If you look at integrating these new features together, you begin to see the potential for replacing today's Javascript (Ajax) "eye-candy" with native browser rendering support!

And why you ask, is WebKit (and Safari) pushing these advanced features out the door so quickly?

Safari on iPhone!

Starts you thinking, doesn't it!

Currently listening to: Eric Merienthal's "Just Around the Corner"

Upgrade Windows SDK link

by community-syndication | Apr 24, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

If you are reading the upgrade documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=df2e8a88-fb23-49a4-9ac7-d17f72517d12&displaylang=en

(Upgrading to BizTalk Server 2006 R2 from BizTalk Server 2006.doc)

“To apply the HIPAA33ForR2.mst transform”

You can download the Windows SDK from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=75636

That link doesn’t work, you need to go here and choose the right environment:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb980924.aspx

Thanks windows SDK blog for the quick turn around!

Consuming RESTful services from BizTalk Server using AtomPub

by community-syndication | Apr 24, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

In a previous post I explained the importance for traditional integration servers and ESBs to embrace REST as one of the architecture styles used to interact and expose resources. For the simplicity of this post (and to avoid starting a religious war…(read more)

BizTalk RFID goes Mobile!! My Smartphone is getting a make over!

by community-syndication | Apr 24, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

BizTalk RFID ‘v2’ is in early TAP (Technology Adopter Program/phase) and runs on Windows
Mobile Devices…pretty cool!

Now Microsoft have moved RFID not only into the common household framework, but also
provided the reach with Mobile devices.

Rather than in the classic RFID model where tags move and Readers are *fixed*. We
now can have Readers that move and tags that are *fixed*.
(lots of ideas for this one!)

Check out a stream of RFID ‘stuff’ from YOUTUBE

RFID goes Mobile…

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What is RFID….

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Future Supermarket!

BizTalk 2006 ‘R3’….starts to form

by community-syndication | Apr 24, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Christmas has gone, Easter too…..but here’s something to smile about. There’s some
HUGE things cooking on the horizon in the land of BizTalk.

We want SQL2008….we want VS2008 and we want the world of connectivity to/from BizTalk
to be *easy*. Also as BizTalk RFID goes mobile….we want to go there too! Control,
manage, deploy/stop/start processes etc etc.

Here’s a start….

Steve Martin (heads up the Connect Systems Division – CSD at Microsoft in Product
Management) spilt the beans and let me tell you….when are the betas coming out!!!!!!!

http://blogs.msdn.com/stevemar/archive/2008/04/23/biztalk-server-platform-updates.aspx

Enjoy

Ron Jacobs Video on SOA Platform of the Future

by community-syndication | Apr 23, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Registering Null Adapter on 64-Bit Machines

by community-syndication | Apr 23, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Shashikant Raina was kind
enough to share with me an issue he ran into while trying my /dev/null
Adapter for BizTalk Server on a 64-bit machine:

After creating the adapter registry keys using the included .reg file, he noticed
that the adapter would not appear listed in the BizTalk Administration Console when
trying to add the adapter to BizTalk.

Here’s how Sashikant fixed it:

On 64 bit machine, when you simply click on a registry key file (i.e NullAdapter.reg)
it creates entries in default registry editor on that machine. When you then go to
Biztalk admin and try to add Null adapter, you can’t see it is an option from list
of available adapters to add.

Reason, bring that the entries were created in the wrong registry editor (64 bit).
To get the correct registry entries, run this registry file

using regedit.exe located in \Windows\SysWOW64 on the 64 bit machine.

This will create Null adapter entries in 32 bit editor. You can then go to Biztalk
admin and add the null adapter.

So if this happens to you, just make sure the registry entries are imported into the
right place!

Thanks Shashikant!

Did Microsoft make an Announcement about a new Product Release?

by community-syndication | Apr 23, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I think a new product was announced today, had some ‘R3′ designation or something – don’t have a clue what it was…

SharePoint – Sample Service Level Agreement (SLA)

by community-syndication | Apr 23, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

This is a very basic sample of a service level agreement for SharePoint.  This would be more typical of providing an SLA to an internal department of an organization. Providing an SLA to an external party would probably include an additional set of items around penalties, charges, terms of use etc.