Miguel Campos Blog

Videos on Biztalk ESB

Some videos on Biztalk ESB:

 http://blogs.msdn.com/pkelcey/archive/2009/08/05/esb-toolkit-how-to-video-7-a-sharepoint-adapter-provider.aspx

WCF Delegation

Found a paper on WCF impersonation and delegation:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mfinley/archive/2009/09/01/using-wcf-to-communicate-between-asp-net-website-server-and-app-server-using-impersonation-and-delegation.aspx

Interesting links on Code Reviews and Pair Programming

http://anarchycreek.com/2009/05/26/how-tdd-and-pairing-increase-production/

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2008/12/16/how-my-team-does-agile.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/tomholl/archive/2009/01/06/the-joy-of-code-reviews.aspx

Migrating to Windows 7 from previous Windows versions (XP, ME, 98, 95)

Well ... it seems a lot of people wants to be able to migrate easily from versions prior to Vista.

Recently Laplink released a related produc:

http://laplink.com/media/press_releases/pressreleases_0022.html

Since I have not tested the product, I cannot endorse it (the lawyers will no let me anyway), but I guess it will be valuable to several people.

Interesting MS Online Services articles

Found a couple of articles. The first one articulates the value of MS Online Services, while the second describes how to use the management tools.

 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cloud-computing-bpos,2313.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/microsoft-mos-bpos,2357.html

Hyper V R2 RTM

One hidden gem in today's RTM announcements (which focus on Win 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) is Hyper-V:

Why ? Read: 

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-hyper-v-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx

Azure pricing model announced today

For details go to:

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx

Info on Office and SharePoint 2010

Here is some information regarding Office and SharePoint 2010:

 http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/07/13/announcing-sharepoint-2010-technical-preview.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2010office/Default.aspx

Using Web Parts to call WCF from inside MOSS

Found this interesting post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/steve_fox/archive/2009/07/08/wcf-services-and-sharepoint-integrating-sharepoint-web-parts-and-wcf-services-hosted-in-iis.aspx

Search federation in Windows 7

Some Windows 7 demos present how you can integrate other sources to be search providers in Windows 7. This is called search federation.

Here are some links:

• Technical docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd742958(VS.85).aspx
• Implementer's Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c709a596-a9e9-49e7-bcd4-319664929317&displaylang=en&tm

Web Services interoperability resources

One topic I was asked this week isrelated Web Services Interoperability, where I used the following links to understand the current state regarding WCF:

• Use BasicHTTPBinding http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.basichttpbinding.aspx
• Review the .NET Stock Trader sample (includes interop with WebSphere and Oracle Application Server and Web Logic): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx
• Must take into account that not all tools are able to parse WSDL from WCF: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/cweyer/archive/2007/05/10/414840.aspx
• Sun is working in a project for WCF compatibility:  http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/glassfish/ProjectTango/
• Found a third party blog: http://www.kevingao.net/wcf-java-interop
• Found tools to help with Contract First Design: http://wscfblue.codeplex.com/ and http://www.thinktecture.com/resourcearchive/tools-and-software/wscf/wscf-walkthrough

Windows XP mode in Windows 7

Excellent news: 

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/04/24/secret-no-more-revealing-virtual-windows-xp-for-windows-7.aspx

PDC 2008 Videos

Here are two ways of accessing videos and presentations from the PDC 2008:

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

PDC 2008 Goods

Habib is putting together a great list of where to download things related to PDC 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/habibh/archive/2008/11/03/where-to-download-the-goods-for-pdc-2008.aspx

Interesting info on Oslo and Dublin

You may want to check:

Oslo Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx

Workflows, Services and Models

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd200919.aspx