Blog Post: Microsoft Integration MVP
Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I am so pleased to announce the new MVP Category. Microsoft Integration MVP I have always been doing integration, for the last...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 5 Sending...
What are Service Bus Sessions? Service Bus Sessions are actually a rather broad subject as there are a few different scenarios in which they can be used. At its simplest description I consider...
View ArticleBlog Post: Installing Windows 8 using USB
When you buy a netbook it’s most likely there won’t be DVD drive. So it’s getting more important to have the ability to install a OS from a USB device. In the past it’s was a real pain to get the USB...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Ritu Raj
The BizTalk community series blog posts have been running for a number of months now. Since January I have introduced 20 BizTalk community members. Yet there are a still more stories to follow the next...
View ArticleBlog Post: Error on attaching DB
When trying to reattach a database I kept getting following error: In the SQL log I could find below error. The same error was given when trying to attach the DB with a T-SQL statement. Msg 5120, Level...
View ArticleBlog Post: 256 Worker Role 3D Rendering Demo is now a Lab on my Azure Course
Ever since I came up with the crazy idea of creating an Azure application that would spin up 256 worker roles to render a 3D animation created using the Kinect depth camera I have been trying to think...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Map Testing Framework – usage and examples
The out of the box unit test framework for BizTalk maps leaves a lot to be desired. Effectively a Visual Studio map unit test is the equivalent of choosing to validate your map, which involves running...
View ArticleBlog Post: Calling a WCF-WSHttp service from SOAPUI
SOAPUI is a great free tool that helps you to frame up request messages generated based on a service’s metadata and use them to call on HTTP based SOAP services as well amongst other advanced features....
View ArticleBlog Post: Working with Azure Virtual Network Preview
Published by: Bill Chesnut One of the preview feature that Microsoft release in June 2012 was the Virtual Network Preview, before this the only choice for connection your Azure services to your...
View ArticleBlog Post: How To Create a Base Disk or Image in Windows Azure Virtual...
The Windows Azure Storage API now have the ability to do cross account, asynchronous blob transfers. This means it is no longer required to download the blob in order to upload it to a different...
View ArticleBlog Post: Introduction to Azure Service Bus in the Preview Portal
Published By: Bill Chesnut Recently Microsoft has added the Service Bus to the Preview (new) Portal and has added several new features, I will provide you with an introduction to the portal and the new...
View ArticleBlog Post: Streaming messages from ASP.NET to BizTalk
For a recent project I needed to send messages to BizTalk through an ASP.NET application. This blog post contains a streaming approach using the net.tcp WCF binding. Code and screenshots provided.
View ArticleBlog Post: Exception handling in BizTalk orchestrations explained
When creating BizTalk orchestrations, we also have some building blocks available to do exception handling. In this blog I'll try to give a very brief explanation of the available building blocks for...
View ArticleBlog Post: NodeJS and Windows Azure: Using Service Bus Queues
I have been doing a lot of work with NodeJS and Windows Azure lately. I am planning to write a series of blog post about the techniques required build NodeJS applications that leverage different...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure: Windows Workflow Manager 1.0 RTMed
Great news – Jurgen Willis and his team have worked hard to bring Microsoft’s first V1.0 WF Workflow Hosting Manager. It runs both as part of Windows Server and within Azure VMs also. It also is used...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure Service Bus - Authorization failure
I fell into this trap earlier in the week with a mistake I made when configuring a service to send and listen on the azure service bus and I thought it would be worth a little note for future reference...
View ArticleBlog Post: Installing Windows 8 on MacBook Pro experience
I started using MacBook as my main laptop since 2007, the moment Apple announced their switch to Intel based processors and started supporting running windows on Mac. It’s the perfect hardware you can...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to Map Hierarchical Schema to a Name...
In this new mapping pattern I want to show you how can you transform an hierarchical schema into a Name/Value Pair record. The first thing we need to know is how I can read the name of the element from...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 articles–Table of Content
Since the launch of BizTalk360 BETA back in early 2011, we have written lot of blog posts showing various capabilities of BizTalk360. The problem is, the articles are spread all over the place and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Importing two schemas of the same namespace in BizTalk
It’s a common practice to reuse schemas and types within your BizTalk solution. Lately, I’ve encountered an issue regarding this. Here you can find a simplified example and a solution to the problem.
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