Blog Post: Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Nicholas Hauenstein
We would like to congratulate Nicholas Hauenstein, the most recent addition to the Visual Studio ALM Rangers! Nick was nominated for his subject matter expertise and contribution to the ALM community....
View ArticleBlog Post: Delay activity in Workflow foundation
The Delay activity in Workflow Foundation can be used in many scenarios, but the most likely use is in a composite operation, where you want the execution to wait for a response and cast a failure if...
View ArticleBlog Post: Announcing BizTalk Server 2013 Virtual Labs
QuickLearn is pleased to announce the availability of two hands-on labs that you can run from within your BizTalk Server 2013 Beta virtual machines running on Windows Azure.These labs, originally...
View ArticleBlog Post: Difference between Simple and Advanced BizTalk Application...
What is BizTalk Application Monitoring? When you have set of application running in your BizTalk environment, you will be interested to keep an eye of the health of the application(s). The health of...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft Research Mobile Backend as a Service: Introducing...
Microsoft Research(MS Research) is an infinite source of technical innovation. Because of my academic background, I am constantly following the new MS Research projects and drawing ideas and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Interacting with Clouds From Visual Studio: Part 2 – Amazon Web...
In this series of blog posts, I’m looking at how well some leading cloud providers have embedded their management tools within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In the first post of the series, I walked...
View ArticleBlog Post: Announcing the first release build of the BRE Pipeline Framework
About a month ago I announced the release of the beta installer for the BRE Pipeline Framework. Since then I have been hard at work trying to get the framework up to scratch with the goal towards...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using the HL7 Accelerator, MLLP & ESB Toolkit in BizTalk 2013 to...
BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 extends the capabilities of BizTalk Server for health care providers. Health Level 7 (HL7) is an industry-standard application protocol for electronic data exchange of...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk 2013: Swift Adventures
While getting my BizTalk SWIFT environment prepared on BizTalk, I decided to test the waters by running through the Tutorial – big trouble in little Sydney resulted. While the tutorial is...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Summit 2013 – London. The story of the day
It’s a great feeling when you successfully execute something after months of work. That’s exactly how we feel after BizTalk Summit 2013, London event after 5 months of preparation. I thought I’ll...
View ArticleBlog Post: Exploring BizTalk 2013 Beta – Connecting a DB2 Adapter to V10 DB2...
One of our customers has started an on a project to upgrade their DB2 version 9.1 database running on Solaris to DB2 version 10.01 running on Linux. We currently use BizTalk DB2 adapters to get and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Extending the BRE Pipeline Framework to conditionally add...
A colleague of mine was implementing a system which required a generic XML on ramp that accepted messages from a variety of trading partners. He quickly encountered the age-old problem of not so...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Summit London 2013 – The experience
The BizTalk Summit 2013 in London was a huge success. Saravana Kumar from BizTalk360 did an outstanding job organizing this event with Microsoft. Over a 140 attendees, more than 70 different companies...
View ArticleBlog Post: Debugging pipeline components and other .NET components executed...
I have seen a lot developers struggle with debugging pipeline components and other .NET classes that get executed by BizTalk host instances. I have also often heard statements claiming that these sorts...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Summit 2013 London – The story
128 attendees, more than 70 different companies across 16 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Replacing an existing TFS user workspace
I recently ran into a situation where I had “inherited” a laptop from a previous developer on a project. This laptop was on the customer’s domain, and had been configured for source control using Team...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk 2013 Hands on Day–Auckland, NZ–9th Feb 2013
The 1st of the BizTalk Saturday – BizTalk 2013 Hands on Days has been scheduled for Auckland, NZ on the 9th of Feb 2013, thanks to the hard work of Nikolai Blackie, Principle Architect Adaptiv...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure Service Bus EAI EDI Labs April Release – How can I...
After talking about Windows Azure Service Bus EAI EDI Labs or Windows Azure BizTalk Services over the 11 months all over around Europe I decided that my last session was last Wednesday, 16 January in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Assessing Fringe User Features
If you are a UX designer, you have undoubtedly been at a client gathering requirements when they say the magic words, “There are some users who will want to do that, but they’re only a couple of...
View ArticleBlog Post: Great start to 2013, another BizTalk Event in Amsterdam
It’s only a week since our big BizTalk Summit 2013, London event. Today I’m here in Amsterdam presenting in another BizTalk Event sharing the stage with Richard Seroter and Steef-Jan Wigger. The event...
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