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Blog Post: Poor, confused C# compiler
The C# compiler is a pretty good thing, but it has limitations. One limitation that has given me a headache this evening is its inability to guard against cycles in structs. As I learn to think and...
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Blog Post: BizTalk Message Archiving
Recently at the BizTalk Summit in London I was asked a question about Message Archiving from BizTalk and one of the most common solutions to this is the Message Archiving Pipeline Component which was...
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Blog Post: 1 Year On – BizTalk Memes
When I started blogging a year ago I had no idea how much it would help me progress my own learning, and how rewarding a hobby I was going to gain. If not for the feedback and interest in my blog...
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Blog Post: Refactoring BizTalk Maps the Smart Way – Part 1
On the very first BizTalk project I worked on, refactoring was a really bad word that almost brought our Gantt chart to its knees. As with many agile projects, evolving requirements required changes to...
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Blog Post: BAM Portal – Service Unavailable 503 Error
We got caught with this error recently when built a new BizTalk server. Every time we tried to browse to the web portal we got a 503 error and the application pool would stop. We could restart the app...
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Blog Post: BAM_AN packages not executing by SQL jobs
I recently hit an issue with the BAM_AN packages executed through a SQL job failing with the following message. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at…....
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Blog Post: SQL Server Compact 4.0 Tooling in Visual Studio 2010
I developed a program which uses SQL Server Compact. Initially it was developed creating SQL Server COmpact 4.0 databases. Now after reinstalling my laptop, I tried to open the database, but it...
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Blog Post: Using ASP.NET SignalR to Publish Incremental Responses from...
While in Europe last week presenting at the Integration Days event, I showed off some demonstration of cool new technologies working with existing integration tools. One of those demos combined SignalR...
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One of our potential prospect (a big Aircraft manufacturer) is evaluating BizTalk360 for their BizTalk Server monitoring requirements. We been working with them for few weeks helping them on the proof...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: SB-Messaging
In previous two posts on the new adapters available with BizTalk Server Bus I discussed both the Relay adapters: BasicHttp and NetTcpRelay. The Relay is one of the capabilities of the Windows Azure...
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Blog Post: 200 Million Workers Want Windows 8 Tablets, Not iPads
I have installed windows 8.... I installed the enterprise edition, as I wanted all the good stuff and I had a single key allocated to me for this. It was a lot more difficult than I would have thought...
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Blog Post: BizTalk file mask difference for windows 7 and windows server 2008 r2
Problem When defining a file mask for a specific extension for a file receive location on BizTalk, there’s a difference in which files will be processed depending on the installed OS. For example, a...
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Blog Post: Understanding Content Based Routing in EAI Bridges
As I promised, this will be my second demo about Windows Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI Labs – April 2012 release This second demo is a Customers Orders Routing scenario and intends to show some of the...
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Blog Post: Service Bus Notification Hubs-Part 4 The Solution
It has been fun discovering Service Bus Notifications. I have received some good feedback over Twitter recently and have also shown my demo to some colleagues over the past week with some great...
View ArticleBlog Post: Invoking a web service returning ISO-8859-1 encoded data with...
The TextMessageEncodingBindingElement of WCF supports only the UTF-8, UTF-16 and Big Endean Unicode encodings. If the web service returns response in some other encoding e.g. ISO-8859-1 need to be...
View ArticleBlog Post: Rule “FusionActive Template Library (ATL)” failed at SQL Server...
When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on an Azure VM, you might come across the error: Rule "FusionActive Template Library (ATL)" failed. There are two corrupt manifest files blocking the installation.
View ArticleBlog Post: Regular vs Threshold Monitoring alarms in BizTalk360
In BizTalk360 you can setup monitoring in two different modes, either to receive regular periodic updates about the health of the system or updates based on threshold violations. Example: A receive...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Colin Meade
A few weeks ago I presented at the London BizTalk Summit 2013. During this event I met a few BizTalk professionals face to face, which I interviewed in the past for these community series. I for...
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Blog Post: WPC HIPAA Database Toolkit for BizTalk
Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/wmichel/archive/2013/02/06/wpc-db-toolkit.aspxI created a post on the WPC HIPAA DB Toolkit for Microsoft BizTalk. The post provides an introduction to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Java 7 File IO using FileVisitor
This blog post is inspired by a problem a friend of mine was having. See… he’s got this rash… -kidding. He’s got a ton of movies, music, and books on his hard drive, and he frequently rearranges the...
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