Blog Post: Viasfora v1.2 Released
Viasfora version 1.2 has been released! Most of the work on this released went into significantly improving the performance of the extension, particularly around Rainbow Parentheses and the Keyword...
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Blog Post: How Do BizTalk Services Work? I Asked the Product Team to Find Out
Windows Azure BizTalk Services was recently released by Microsoft, and you can find a fair bit about this cloud service online. I wrote up a simple walkthrough, Sam Vanhoutte did a nice comparison of...
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Blog Post: BizTalk and WCF, Consuming a WCF Service, Part 4 – Exception Handling
This is the last post in a four part series looking at BizTalk and WCF. Here are the previous three posts: Part 1 - A Look at the Service to be Consumed Part 2 – The BizTalk WCF Service Consuming...
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Blog Post: 休暇中に被害に遭わないために ～お休み前のセキュリティ チェック
今年の年末年始は大型休暇になる方もいらっしゃるのではないでしょうか。特に一斉休暇となりオフィスからひとけがなくなることからも、セキュリティに気を付ける必要があります。「休み中に自分のPCがウイルス感染して、踏み台に利用され会社の情報が漏えいしてしまった・・・」なんて事になりたくありませんよね。そのためには、休暇の前に、自分の使っているPC環境をぜひ確認しておきましょう。 休暇前のセキュリティ...
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Blog Post: サポート終了後の Windows XP、マルウェア対策ソフトが動いていれば安心？
よく、「サポート終了後の製品でも、マルウェア対策ソフトを実行していれば大丈夫？」とのご質問を受けます。答えは No なのですが、今日はマルウェア対策ソフトだけでは不十分である理由をお話します。リアルタイム保護が有効なマルウェア対策ソフトを実行していても、マルウェアには感染するマイクロソフトの調べでは、リアルタイム保護が有効なマルウェア対策ソフトを実行しているシステム (下図 1 の...
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Blog Post: BizTalk Mapper Patterns: Automatically Link The Record Elements By...
Exchanging or routing messages between existing applications, systems or external partners is one of the many common scenarios in Enterprise integration solutions. And sometimes they are build base on...
View ArticleBlog Post: Sentinet – Service Virtualization Part 2
In my previous post I introduced the follow up of Microsoft Services Engine, Sentinet from Nevatech. I discussed the deployment of Sentinet on a single machine, which I am going to use for further...
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Blog Post: Using the WSS Adapter Provider from the ESB Toolkit Extensions in...
By default the Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit does not provide the functionality to send a message to Windows SharePoint Services. Luckily you do not have to create a custom Adapter Provider for this...
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Blog Post: Favorite Books and Blog Posts of 2013
The year is nearly up, and it’s been a good one. 30+ posts on the blog, job changes, 4 new Pluralsight courses, twice-monthly InfoQ.com contributions, graduation with a Masters Degree in Engineering,...
View ArticleBlog Post: IClassifier and IDisposable
I’ve been troubleshooting some issues with Viasfora and noticed something that I definitely was not expecting: It appears that if you implement an IClassifier extension, and also implement IDisposable,...
View ArticleBlog Post: 2013 Recap
Dear friends of BizTalk360! It’s the last day of 2013. I blocked few hours in my calendar particularly to write this blog post. I guess it’s important to take a look at what we have done in 2013. You...
View ArticleBlog Post: Utilizing Promoted Properties within Receive Shape Filters in BizTalk
Receive shape filters using promoted properties can provide great flexibility as to what messages your orchestration is subscribed to. Though, that flexibility also introduces some difficulty when...
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Blog Post: Awarded as Microsoft Integration MVP 2014
Thanks Microsoft for another wonderful start of New Year. I’m delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2014. It’s always nice to wake up after a long night...
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Blog Post: 2013–Year in Review and looking ahead to 2014
With 2014 now upon us I wanted to take some time to reflect on the past year. It was an incredible and chaotic year but it was also a lot of fun! Here are some of the things that I was involved in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Don’t Miss Early Bird Registration for the BizTalk Summit in London
Time is running out on the early bird registration for the BizTalk Summit in London. For those of you who have not heard about it, the BizTalk Summit 2014 in London will be held March 3rd and 4th. It...
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Blog Post: Notes From The Road: 2013 in Review
2013 was a remarkable year for me where many things happened, I had the pleasure to meet and become friends with excellent people and great professionals. BizTalk Innovation Days more active… One of...
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Blog Post: BRE Pipeline Framework Example – Promote Distinguished Properties
While exposing a REST service from BizTalk I wanted to quickly change some distinguished properties to promoted properties . Rather than roll my own pipeline component I decided to to try out the BRE...
View ArticleBlog Post: Pretty QuickInfo Tooltips and VS Themes
A Visual Studio Extension can extend quick info tooltips by implementing the IQuickInfoSource interface (and a few other things). Most of the samples implement the AugmentQuickInfoSession() method by...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 – Thanks 2013, time to give back
As the company grows I personally wanted to make sure we give something back to community. We started this tradition last year by donating $1625 to Great Ormand Street Hospital. Today we donated $2125...
View ArticleBlog Post: 2013 recap! What happend?
I’ve had the grudge to write this blog post, you may ask why and I’ll tell you. So much happened last year I don’t even know where to start… But I’ll try. Last year January 1st was one of my happiest...
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