Martijn has a very nice pipeline component wizard for Visual Studio .NET 2003. You can download it here .

Sometimes, business applications encode their data by specifying a message type in the file's header. The body's layout changes depending on the message type. When you receive such messages in BizTalk, you are facing the problem of having to disassemble...

Yesterday, I did put the last touch to my home wireless network. Thanks to my D-LINK DI-624 and a G650 card, I have been enjoying a 108Mbps link. They do this through a proprietary extension called " Super G ". During the configuration of the network...

This weekend, the SEAFAIR took place in Seattle, WA. I enjoyed the performance of the Blue Angels over Lake Washington. I was standing on I-90, on the Seattle side of the bridge, nearby the viewpoint (Quicktime Required). Jets passed right above us and...

I have not been able to post as much as I wanted to recently. I have been working on the future of BizTalk. This includes dreaming about what would be the perfect product, discuss multiple possible feature sets, write architecture documents, implement...

Adrian, one of my co-worker, pointed out a few weeks ago that Seattle C89.5 ( Official web page ) broadcasts O-Zone, Dragostea Din Tei very often. C89.5 was recently voted best High School radio station by the New York Daily Magazine. In this paper ,...

In a previous post , I outlined the reasons why using the Office Object Model on the server is a bad idea. Some readers pointed out that third parties sell components which can understand Word/Excel/Access/Project files and convert them to XML. I personally...