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How to Encrypt SQL communication on the wire
A lot of applications are moving to the cloud. The Iaas model provides a great way to lift and shift...
Author: SanketBa Date: 11/20/2018
Managing VC++ legacy within your Enterprise
Firstly, let the title of this blog post not fool you. VC++ is very much alive. Take a quick look at...
Author: SanketBa Date: 07/16/2018
API Management: Quota versus Rate Limits
Azure API Management provides really good capabilities for usage throttling. This is useful in...
Author: SanketBa Date: 11/02/2017
ASP.Net Session Swapping – Why it happens and what can be done about it?
Referring my recent post from the Premier Developer Blog. Kernel Cache is a powerful and well-known...
Author: SanketBa Date: 03/07/2017
Auto-Start your ASP.Net apps
Moving to the .net paradigm a decade ago, the JIT compiler has always been a nasty part of most of...
Author: Sanket B Date: 01/30/2012
Availability, Scalability and DR for BizTalk Server
Recently, I had to talk to a customer of mine explaining setting up of optimal BizTalk...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/11/2011
Hotfix for assembly reference issues with BizTalk Projects in Visual Studio 2009
When working with a BizTalk solution, I ran into these issues a lot of times. The orchestrations in...
Author: Sanket B Date: 08/05/2010
ESB Toolkit 2.0 – Unable to add new itinerary
So here is what happened. On a 64 bit Windows 2008 server, I got the required BizTalk & Visual...
Author: Sanket B Date: 04/08/2010
Quick Tips: DTA DB Purge without Archiving
BizTalk provides an out of the box job that can be configured to archive and purge BizTalk...
Author: Sanket B Date: 06/06/2009
Required NTFS permissions for BizTalk File Adapter connecting to network share
When connecting to a network file share using BizTalk File adapter, you might've noticed that just...
Author: Sanket B Date: 06/05/2009
Trouble setting the BizTalk Backup Job?
Recently, I faced some of the issues below when configuring BizTalk Disaster Recovery at one of my...
Author: Sanket B Date: 06/05/2009
IE8: Web Slices – Keep yourself updated!
Another amazing feature that IE 8 has pulled out of the hat is – the Web Slices. Today, a very...
Author: Sanket B Date: 02/04/2009
Need a list of server patches?
Most of the Windows machines use the automatic updates to install the latest updates from Microsoft....
Author: Sanket B Date: 01/30/2009
The Bloggers Guide to "Connected Systems"
There is a new bloggers guide recently published by Alan Smith. This guide provides a good overview...
Author: Sanket B Date: 01/06/2009
BizTalk 2006 R2 Pre-requisites CAB Files
I had earlier compiled this list for BizTalk 2006 pre-requisites CAB files here. Now that we have...
Author: Sanket B Date: 08/15/2008
India to introduce Mobile Number Portability
In a landmark decision for the Indian telecom industry, the Department of Telecom has decided to...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/13/2007
Understanding window handling of IE Modal Dialogs
One of the things that I was working on in last couple of months was to do with Internet Explorer....
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/28/2007
I am Alive
Well, just if some of you are wondering about what happened to the mere insignificant mortal who...
Author: Sanket B Date: 08/22/2007
Consuming webservices from within BizTalk
BizTalk 2006 allows some really good interacting with webservices. If it is a simple webservice, we...
Author: Sanket B Date: 03/31/2007
Creating public orchestrations
I am currently working on one of the Biztalk projects that contains a lot of lengthy orchestrations....
Author: Sanket B Date: 02/19/2007
Adding Environment Specific Binding Files from Command Prompt
Biztalk 2006 provides the btstask utility to carry out most of the deployment operations from...
Author: Sanket B Date: 02/13/2007
Alice in Wonderland
I just love what technology has done to our lives. I had never in my life thought that I would be...
Author: Sanket B Date: 01/31/2007
What to and what not to do with your MessageBox database server.
The BizTalk Core Engine Team has compiled an excellent list of things that you can or cannot do on...
Author: Sanket B Date: 01/12/2007
Publishing Biztalk Orchestrations as webservices
When developing Biztalk applications that are exposed as webservices, it becomes quite a tedious job...
Author: Sanket B Date: 01/02/2007
Biztalk Assembly Deployment goof-up
This, to me, seems a rare scenario that you might encounter. But if you are using the "ReDeploy"...
Author: Sanket B Date: 12/26/2006
Commerce Server Bloggers from MS Global Services
Amit Agrawal & Sathish CG, the Commerce experts from MGSI, have recently started blogging. Now,...
Author: Sanket B Date: 12/09/2006
Resolving "Unknown Errors" when working with Commerce Server Profile Adapter
Most of the times, when you encounter an error interacting with Commerce Server Profiles Adapter,...
Author: Sanket B Date: 12/09/2006
Associating Multiple Credit Cards when creating Commerce Server Profile using the Commerce Server Profile Adapter for BizTalk
When dealing with Commerce Server integration with BizTalk 2006, one of the requirements that I...
Author: Sanket B Date: 12/09/2006
Correction: "Updates Overwrite" property of Commerce Server Profiles Adapter
A couple of days ago, I had blogged here about an error on the Commerce Server Profiles adapter....
Author: Sanket B Date: 12/09/2006
Solving the error when updating Commerce Server using the Profile Adapter
When dealing with Commerce Server Adapters for BizTalk, you might face an issue where the Profile...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/13/2006
Understanding Persistence Points in Biztalk Orchestration
Often ignored, but a really important point when designing orchestrations is of course the...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/12/2006
Synchronizing machine time with domain controller
Sometimes when joining a machine to a new domain, you might get an error saying "The time on your...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/02/2006
Supporting mixed content messages with BizTalk
Ocassionally, when dealing with Xml messages from third party systems, your Biztalk solution might...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/01/2006
Naming the lines in a Biztalk map
When using the Biztalk mapper, most often than not you would need to resort to functoids. When...
Author: Sanket B Date: 11/01/2006
Biztalk 2004 SP2
BizTalk 2004 SP2 can now be downloaded from -...
Author: Sanket B Date: 10/29/2006
My new articles published
Since my last post regarding my articles, there have been a couple of things that I was working...
Author: Sanket B Date: 10/18/2006
Wanna learn .Net? Enroll today in the .Net University
Yes, its there now. Learning .Net just as a curriculum. The .Net Univerisity provides online...
Author: Sanket B Date: 10/15/2006
Just a word about DPAPI
An obvious question after my last post is of course - What is DPAPI? Beginning Windows 2000, the OS...
Author: Sanket B Date: 10/13/2006
SecureString
.Net 2.0 has come up with hordes of exciting new features. It's quite difficult to look at them all...
Author: Sanket B Date: 10/06/2006
My Technorati Profile
I just created my Technorati Profile here.
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/18/2006
Biztalk Property Promotions
This is one of the fundamental topics when using the Biztalk Server. However, it seems also one of...
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/16/2006
Where is Tim Hibbard?
With a stunning combination of the GPS technology with ASP.net, AJAX and map services, EnGraph has...
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/15/2006
BlogCamp - Indias Biggest Blogging Unconference
Finally, Indian bloggers are getting into the groove with its rising impetus in the blogging arena....
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/08/2006
Vista Release Candidate is done
The Vista Release Candidate is finally there. If you are a TechBeta or a TAP participant, you can...
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/01/2006
Some nice quotes related to computing
Correct is better than fast. Simple is better than complex. Clear is better than cute. Safe is...
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/01/2006
Introducing CCF
Recently, I had published an article regarding CCF with PC Quest (an IT magazine in India). The...
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/01/2006
Live Local - stuffed with cool features
(Click on the image for a larger view) One of my friends just told me about a cool new Live Local...
Author: Sanket B Date: 09/01/2006
CCF Webcast (for Developers) by Herb Fickes
While trying to find a couple of other things about CCF, I got to this MSDN webcast today. Its a...
Author: Sanket B Date: 08/30/2006