August 2004 - Posts

• Of competition and distractions

  I'm in process of buying a house so I'm a little all over in the place with lots on my plate. Having said that: I want to thank everyone who entered the competition. It was great to see so many entries - in particular on the last day :) The judges are Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:08 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Heading: Tidbit on BAM

  I was sitting through a very very early review of potential next generation product features yesterday (no I can’t tell you which except they were cool) when I learned something that I didn't know which applies to the current version of the product. Let’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:04 AM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• Revamped BPI MSDN Developer Centre

  There are a number of documents, samples, and various tidbits that get posted to this blog and eventually some of them make it to MSDN. Today we relaunched the MSDN developer centre at http://msdn.microsoft.com/bpi with updated content across the board. Read More... Posted Monday, August 23, 2004 2:26 PM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• Martijn keeps doing cool stuff with the Pipeline Component Wizard

  Version 1.3 now includes support for VB pipelines (see the previous post for the starting point) and a bunch of other stuff. Now all we need is a VB adapter wizard. Read More... Posted Monday, August 23, 2004 9:50 AM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• Blog Post #100: I believe; VB Pipeline component, Enhanced Validator, NACK processing, Envelopes Samples

  Not quite a year ago I was talking to Rebecca Dias and she pretty much twisted my arm into getting one of these new fangled blog things. Frankly, I was a little nervous about the whole thing - I never went through the "keep a diary" phase as a kid. Well, Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 1:39 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Timing is running out on the competition

  Only 12 or so days to go but your odds of winning good money are high. Get those entries in! Read More... Posted Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:20 AM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• What's valid and what's not in the Orchestration expression shape?

  “if” and “while” statements are handled by the decision shape – you cannot put an “if” or “while” into an expression shape. Ternary ops are not supported (viz., ?:). Comments work fine, but you need at least one statement in the expression box. Simple Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:04 AM by scottwoo | 5 Comments

• Using XPath inside expression shapes in orchestration

  These tend to be pretty useful for finding data inside a message without loading the message into the DOM and breaking streaming. Check out an example of how to do this here . This example also has debug writes in it which is a simple but useful technique. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:58 AM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• That can't possibly be my problem - I'm not using SSO

  I've had this conversation in email with a few people so I thought I'd have it with everyone. Even if you don't use the SSO functions provided in BizTalk Server your BizTalk Server is still using SSO. Ok, so that sounds a little counter-intuitive but Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:17 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• September BizTalk Server MVP Nominations Open Today

  The Business Process and Integration Division is looking for industry leading experts in BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and Host Integration Server. We are looking for individuals to nominate as candidates for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program. Read More... Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 5:24 PM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• Book Update

  Chapter 7 is now in! - which means that all the writing for the book is complete (yippeee). I'll let you know when I get an update on the publication date but at least the most variable time part is now done. Read More... Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 8:12 AM by scottwoo | 4 Comments

• New on MSDN TV: Take the BizTalk WSE 2.0 Adapter for a spin

  Go ahead and check it out here when you have a spare 20 minutes. Of course the WSE 2.0 adapter technical preview is still available - go to www.microsoft.com/biztalk and follow the instructions to get to betaplace off the link. Thanks to Erica W for her Read More... Posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:49 PM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• BizTalk Server Book Table of Contents

  Here's what you'll get. Still no ETA on the final publication date. Just need to get the final chapter (7) in, complete some more reviews and go through the publication process. Table of Contents (subject to minor tweaking): Preface Part I: Introducing Read More... Posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:32 AM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Rules Engine .NET FW SP1 fix

  Installed Windows XP SP2? Installed the .NET FW 1.1 SP1? (which if you were install inside Microsoft came as part of Windows XP SP2 install, but externally it will be a separate download available shortly.) If you did install the .NET FW 1.1 SP1 then Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:51 PM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• More cool stuff from Martijn - Suspended Queue Listener Service

  If you need to watch messages that make it into the suspended queue and want to “do something“ with them then you'll find this super helpful. Thanks Martijn. Read More... Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 4:24 PM by scottwoo | 1 Comments