Stephen Kaufman's WebLog

As many of you know, the BizTalk Team is putting on a BizTalk Summit. The BizTalk Summit 2012 is a 2 day pre-release event to prepare for the launch of the next version of BizTalk Server. Activities at the summit will include a Keynote by Scott Guthrie...

I am working on a project where we are uploading client files to Azure Blob Storage.  Blob storage is perfect for this type of application and uploading them with public access is the default behavior.  Therefore any anonymous client can read...

In the previous post I covered the Messaging Channel group of patterns. In this post, I will cover the Message Routing Group patterns. This group contains: Content Based Router, Message Filter, Recipient List, Splitter, Aggregator, Resequencer, Composed...

For years we have all utilized Gregor Hohpe’s Enterprise Integration Patterns book (and the web site ).  Many of these patterns, if not most, are well known and there are many resources out there that talk about how these patterns can be implemented...

In my last post , I talked about the BizTalk AppFabric Connect for Services functionality for BizTalk.  As you start to make your services accessible through the cloud you may find that you hit an error when you try to access the endpoint. ...

Last week I spoke at the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting.  The title of my presentation was Integration with Windows Azure – Connecting to the Cloud.  During my presentation I talked about ways to expand on-premise applications...

I was recently asked if I could help move a virtual machine that had been setup and running in VirtualPC and move it to run under Hyper-V.  The answer is yes it can be done.  Movement from Hyper-V to VirtualPC is not as easy (and many times...

It has been a long time since my last blog post.  It certainly hasn’t been for a lack of content but it is amazing how fast time flies when you are busy.  I have been spending a lot of time lately working on composite applications and will be...

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 17th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. Andy Morrison will...

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 16th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. Eric Kraus...

For those using BizTalk, we have long had the need to store configuration information in a central location that is shared between each of the distributed BizTalk instances.  BizTalk itself uses SSO for all of its internal configuration information...

It appears that I have lost some of my blog posts. I am reposting this blog post which originally appeared back in May. Did you know that you can use the AppFabric Cache with ASP.NET? AppFabric Cache provides an ASP.NET session state provider. There...

In two of my previous entries I outlined functionality and patterns used in the AppFabric Cache. In this entry I wanted to expand and look at another area of functionality that people have come to expect when working with cache technology. This expectation...

When I start talking to people about the caching functionality that is part of Windows Server AppFabric I am usually asked "What is the AppFabric Cache?" The MSDN page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790954.aspx provides a great overview...

Danny Garber and I were interviewed for Endpoint.TV on Windows Server AppFabric and our upcoming book. The interview has been published and is now available. Check it out at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-Pro-Windows-Server-AppFabric...

I have been working with Windows Server AppFabric caching lately and have found it to be very impressive. The more that I work with it the more that I can see areas that it can be utilized. One of the things that will become quite evident as you start...

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. I...

I have been spending my free time working on my next book. Danny Garber and I are co-authoring this book from APress. The book will be available this spring and should coincide with the release of AppFabric.

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 21st please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. This months meeting...

There have been lots of questions lately about AppFabric (code named Dublin). These questions have centered around why Microsoft needs another middle tier solution and will AppFabric replace BizTalk. Lets take a look at these questions as well as two...

Paolo Salvatori and I delivered a session titled 'Customizing and Extending the BizTalk WCF Adapters' and Paolo has created a number of fantastic blog entries around this subject. His latest entry goes through much of the content that was delivered in...

I will be speaking at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin Germany November 9th through the 13th. I will be presenting two sessions. My first is a 'Deep Dive with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Development Platform' and my second is 'Customizing and Extending...

I co-authored an article titled 'Design Considerations for S+S and Cloud Computing' in this months Architecture Journal. I co-authored this along with 8 other architects at Microsoft. They were Fred Chong , Alejandro Miguel, Jason Hogg , Ulrich Homann...

You are probably asking what is StreamInsight. Well, it is the platform for performing Complex Event Processing (CEP) from Microsoft. Actually to quote exactly what it is - it is a " platform for the continuous and incremental processing of unending sequences...

Did you know that when doing contract first development and utilize a Boolean data type with a default value (lets just say the default value was set to true), WCF will not serialize out the default value in the message. WCF will only serialize out the...