I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB configuration tool. They kept receiving a rather puzzle error messages which stated: “The type initializer for ‘EsbConfigurationTool.Helper’ threw an exception. You must have Microsoft ESB Guidance installed...

The webcast that Ofer and I ran last week “Improving Business Agility with the Enterprise Service Bus”  went quite well (at least that’s the feedback we heard from those of you who attended.) For those of you who couldn’t attend and those of you who just want to view this at a later date, the On...

Welcome to #8 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you haven’t already seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration Composite Itinerary and Dynamic Mapping Itinerary Resolution in the Bus Dynamic...

Since I started releasing the ESB Toolkit how-to videos, I’ve had several people ask me for the source code for all of the components I demo’d. Well, it took me way to long to get them packaged up, but here they are finally. I’ve packaged up everything that I used during the demos and it should be fairly...

Welcome to #7 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here 1) Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration 2) Composite Itinerary and Dynamic Mapping 3) Itinerary Resolution in the Bus 4) Dynamic Itinerary...

Welcome to #6 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here 1) Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration 2) Composite Itinerary and Dynamic Mapping 3) Itinerary Resolution in the Bus 4...

Update: After I posted this originally, I was notified that my video did not contain any audio! Therefore, it was probably difficult to understand what was going on :) I've recreated the video and replaced the old one so that the video and audio are both working. Cheers Welcome to #4 in my series of...

Hi folks Here's video #3 in my "ESB Toolkit How To" series. In the last video ( found here ) we built out a complex itinerary that implemented dynamic mapping and dynamic routing. We also saw how to use the resolver mechanism to retrieve service information from a UDDI version 3.0 server. At the end...

Hi everyone, it was quite a long time since I posted the first "How-to" video ( found here ), but I have finally completed the second one. In this demo, I show you how to do a number of new things to create an itinerary that compose three services together into a single composite service How...