July 2004 - Posts

• BizTalk Server 2004 July Help Update

  As part of our commitment to provide you the information you need. Grab it here . Feedback on this thread of additional things you would like to see in the help is welcome. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:45 PM by scottwoo | 9 Comments

• Where in the World is...

  Well after a few weeks of brilliant sunshine and lots of attention on product planning its time for me to change gears and complete my TechEd Tour of the year saving the best for last with the NZ/Australia leg. I'll be jumping on a plane for the brief Read More... Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:19 PM by scottwoo | 5 Comments

• Running VS.NET 2005 beta 1 and BizTalk Server 2004 together

  Disclaimer #1: This was smoke-screen tested only so it will have issues. If you find them then please post them in the comments on the blog to help others. Discalimer #2: Don't do this on your main development box unless you holiday here a lot , and definitely Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:19 PM by scottwoo | 6 Comments

• Example BizTalk Server 2004 Naming Conventions

  I thought you might find these useful (courtesy of Aleksey Savateyev et. al.) The table below includes prefixes/suffixes that should be used when naming BizTalk 2004 orchestration types and send and receive ports. In addition, each prefix must be followed Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:42 PM by scottwoo | 11 Comments

• Xmas is here: Pipeline Component Wizard, Promoting Properties, BizTalk Help File Generator. SOA whitepaper, AB's win :)

  The AB's were dominant, like I haven't seen in a long-time from a possession perspective, but the slippery pill really caused havock and their finishing was a little poor. Next up SA at Jade stadium. I'll be in Australia and NZ for TechEd July 31-August Read More... Posted Monday, July 19, 2004 9:44 AM by scottwoo | 3 Comments

• Gregor Hohpe on Enterprise Integration Patterns with BizTalk Server 2004

  In case you have been living in a cave or something Gregor Hohpe is the author of this ground-breaking enterprise integration patterns book. Ok, the book is cool because it defines a framework and syntax for describing integration patterns which has been Read More... Posted Friday, July 16, 2004 11:04 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• BizTalk Server Training

  We are making progress at scaling out the training. Any gold certified partner has access to 5 day course materials through www.msptr.com . If you provide training and want to let people know then go ahead and add to the comments of this thread. I'll Read More... Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:02 AM by scottwoo | 13 Comments

• Debugging adapters hints

  Seeing as though I just worked through this one-off. Adapter don't need to be in the GAC for the run-time to find them (we do a look-up on the registry key). Adapters DO need to be in the GAC for VS to find them when debugging so make sure you “GAC” Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:04 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Got a mainframe to connect to?

  Then check out the new HIS 2004 web-cast series. Modelled on the BizTalk Server 2004 series we ran earlier in the year you can learn how to bi-directionally plug into CICS and IMS applications, grab data from DB2 and expose it to the .NET Framework, use Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:05 AM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• Adapter Framework Wizard Update etc.

  I just uploaded a fix to the “installation doesn't compile the base classes” problem referred to in the comments on my last blog entry. Go ahead and download from the new file with a new name from the link in my post below. Everyone should Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:43 AM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Announcing: VS.NET Adapter Framework Wizard Sample and Socket Adapter Sample

  How about a little: File-New-BizTalk Server Adapter Framework Wizard inside VS.NET This wizard makes it super easy to getting started with the adapter base classes by stepping you through the creation of both receive and send-side adapters in C# including Read More... Posted Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:17 PM by scottwoo | 27 Comments

• Martijn's Blog

  Martijn has a bunch of interesting BizTalk things on his blog including a modification to the file adapter sample to support regex. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:08 AM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Thanks for coming along to TechEd EMEA/Uniform Seq Convoy Sample

  I had a lot of fun chatting with many of you. I've had several requests for the uniform sequential convoy sample (which shows you how to create a singleton orchestration controller that limits instantiations of child orchestrations to a set number using Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:51 AM by scottwoo | 3 Comments

• Complete Integration PAG featuring BizTalk Server now on line

  David Trowbridge just dropped me a line giving me heads-up that the complete Integration Patterns PAG is now online. Of course there will be an upcoming printed version but you can read it all here . Reading the final copy I learned something. I never Read More... Posted Friday, July 02, 2004 5:23 AM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• It's all about adapters (part #1: Adapter Development Whitepaper)

  You know the pesky code that talks to all variety of entertaining back-end systems and applications. Today we bring you (direct from a key developer on the adapter framework itself) a super cool whitepaper on the ins and outs of adapter development. Great Read More... Posted Friday, July 02, 2004 4:34 AM by scottwoo | 4 Comments