Blog Post: MVC4 Makes it Easier to Create Desktop and Mobile Web Applications
Last year I wrote an article that expressed the importance of developing not only desktop solutions but mobile ones as well. Since then it has become increasingly important to present not only to a...
View ArticleBlog Post: SP2013: Adding an Embedded Yammer Feed to SharePoint
While setting up a new SharePoint solution one of the requirements was to embed a Yammer Feed. So I followed the help document only to have an unusual situation: 1) the feed wouldnt render in browse...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tricks for Deleting Windows Azure Virtual Machines via the REST API
While I call this post “tricks” for deleting a Windows Azure Virtual Machine it really is not a trick. It does require a little deeper understanding of how Windows Azure creates and hosts Virtual...
View ArticleBlog Post: Adapter Behavior for BizTalk Saturday–BizTalk Hands on Days
If the install for the labs did not complete, you will need to add the following line to the "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config" in the Here is the text of the above...
View ArticleBlog Post: Creating a MessageBox On-Ramp for the ESB Toolkit in BizTalk 2013
In an environment where Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit is deployed, a BizTalk receive location responsible for receiving ESB-destined messages is referred to as an "on-ramp." In the receive location you...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using EDI Bridge to exchange B2B messages in Windows Azure Service...
My last demo will be an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Demo: This demo intends to show how to configure trading partners, agreements and the creation of EDI Bridges to process and exchange EDI...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk and Rest Example from BizTalk Saturday
This is one of my demonstrations from BizTalk Saturday at Auckland on 9/02/2013. This event was organised by Bill Chestnut and Nikolai Blackie. I was asked if you could use the same ReST send adapter...
View ArticleBlog Post: SP2013: Updating a List using REST in OData format from JavaScript
After wrestling with this tonight for sometime I’ve finally cracked it. SP2013 RTMed and alot of the sample code fails due to the fact that you need to now add ‘..;odata=verbose’ onto pretty much...
View ArticleBlog Post: Refactoring BizTalk Maps the Smart Way – Part 2
In the previous installment of this series on refactoring BizTalk maps I discussed how you could take the easy road to ensure your maps work when the target namespace of your schema changes, or if the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day will take place in Casa do Infante...
We’re still finalizing some of the arrangements (site and registration process), but today me and the team behind the preparation of this event, we visited the event location for the first time… and I...
View ArticleBlog Post: XMLPolling with the WCF-SQL adapter only returning the first...
Of late I have been working on a BizTalk project that requires me to pick up XML data from a queue type table in a SQL Database. The table in question contains records which contain some metadata...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure Virtual Machine and Virtual Hard Disk Management...
Did you know you are charged for a Windows Azure Virtual Machine every hour it is deployed even if it is not running? I would guess many people are not using their Virtual Machines at night when they...
View ArticleBlog Post: First set of videos from BizTalk Summit 2013, London
I probably don’t need to give any introduction about "BizTalk Summit 2013, London", one of the biggest BizTalk Server recently we conducted along with help of Microsoft product group and Microsoft UK....
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server: White Paper Gallery
I’ve just found this page, it regroups a lot of white paper about BizTalk...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tracking export/import tool for BizTalk 2009
Ever needed to quickly look at or change tracking setting in BizTalk? The tool described in this post will make it all that easier.
View ArticleBlog Post: Good Design is Accessibility.
Introduction Accessibility isn’t always about aria roles and text to speech, it’s often about simply good design. There is a range of disabilities that need to be considered when working with the web....
View ArticleBlog Post: Unable to configure BAM Tools
While installing BizTalk 2010 in a multi-server configuration (one server for BizTalk, a different server for SQL), I received the following error while attempting to configure the BAM Archive...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 Windows 8 application is available in the app store
We released the first version of BizTalk360 Windows 8 application back in December 2012 with minimal set of functionalities. We didn’t promote the release and kept it more like our private release...
View ArticleBlog Post: South FL Code Camp Slide Deck
Thanks to everyone who attended my session about building large-scale solutions in Windows Azure. Everything you saw was based on the lessons we learned when building our KidoZen ( www.kidozen.com )...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day | 14th March 2013 – Oporto, Portugal...
We are really excited to announce all the arrangements for Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day is been finalized and the registration process is finally online here: http://obid.devscope.net/ The Event This...
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