Stephen Kaufman's WebLog

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Creating Azure VM's with the REST API

There are many ways to create virtual machines in Azure. Of course the Azure Portal is the easiest...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/30/2013

Presenting at the BizTalk Summit 2012

As many of you know, the BizTalk Team is putting on a BizTalk Summit. The BizTalk Summit 2012 is a 2...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 12/05/2012

Blob Storage and Shared Access Signatures

I am working on a project where we are uploading client files to Azure Blob Storage.  Blob...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/15/2012

Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus–Part II

In the previous post I covered the Messaging Channel group of patterns. In this post, I will cover...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/16/2012

Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus

For years we have all utilized Gregor Hohpe’s Enterprise Integration Patterns book (and the web...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/16/2012

Services Hosted in Windows Azure Service Bus

In my last post, I talked about the BizTalk AppFabric Connect for Services functionality for...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/20/2012

BizTalk AppFabric Connect For Services

Last week I spoke at the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting.  The title of my...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/20/2012

Can you move a Virtual Machine from VirtualPC to Hyper-V?

I was recently asked if I could help move a virtual machine that had been setup and running in...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/18/2012

Composite Applications

It has been a long time since my last blog post.  It certainly hasn’t been for a lack of...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/16/2011

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting–March 17th, 2011

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 17th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/16/2011

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting – September 16th, 2010

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 16th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/10/2010

Storing Application Configuration Information in SSO

For those using BizTalk, we have long had the need to store configuration information in a central...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/31/2010

Using The Windows Server AppFabric Cache with ASP.NET

It appears that I have lost some of my blog posts. I am reposting this blog post which originally...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/30/2010

Tagging Objects in the AppFabric Cache

In two of my previous entries I outlined functionality and patterns used in the AppFabric Cache. In...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/22/2010

Pre-Populate the AppFabric Cache

When I start talking to people about the caching functionality that is part of Windows Server...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/07/2010

Interview on Endpoint.TV

Danny Garber and I were interviewed for Endpoint.TV on Windows Server AppFabric and our upcoming...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/01/2010

Calling PowerShell from .NET

I have been working with Windows Server AppFabric caching lately and have found it to be very...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/31/2010

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting - March 11th, 2010

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/10/2010

Pro Windows Server AppFabric Book

I have been spending my free time working on my next book. Danny Garber and I are co-authoring this...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/18/2010

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting - January 21st, 2010

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 21st please join us for the Twin Cities...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/14/2010

AppFabric and BizTalk

There have been lots of questions lately about AppFabric (code named Dublin). These questions have...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/23/2009

Follow Up from TechEd Europe

Paolo Salvatori and I delivered a session titled 'Customizing and Extending the BizTalk WCF...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 11/20/2009

Speaking at TechEd Europe 2009

I will be speaking at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin Germany November 9th through the 13th. I will be...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/12/2009

The Architecture Journal - Edition 21

I co-authored an article titled 'Design Considerations for S+S and Cloud Computing' in this months...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 10/11/2009

StreamInsight

You are probably asking what is StreamInsight. Well, it is the platform for performing Complex Event...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/30/2009

WCF: Did you know?

Did you know that when doing contract first development and utilize a Boolean data type with a...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/12/2009

WSE, DIME; WCF, MTOM; OH My!

I was recently working on a proof of concept where we needed to interface to a repository that...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 07/20/2009

Exposing Custom WCF Headers through WCF Behaviors - Part 3

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Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 06/24/2009

Exposing Custom WCF Headers through WCF Behaviors - Part 2

In part 1 we covered how to create a custom behavior to inject header data into the dynamically...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 06/11/2009

Exposing Custom WCF Headers through WCF Behaviors

Since the WCF Publishing Wizard in BizTalk does not support adding custom headers defined at the...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/29/2009

Pro BizTalk 2009 Book

I have just submitted my chapters for the new Pro BizTalk 2009 book from APress. You can also find...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/07/2009

I will be speaking at TechEd 2009

I will be speaking at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles. I will be presenting two sessions and doing demos...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/18/2009

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group - March 19th, 2009

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 19th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/16/2009

Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Changes

The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group is changing to become the Twin Cities Connected Systems User...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/10/2009

BizTalk Hotrod Article Published

The latest edition of the BizTalk Hotrod magazine was just released. They are currently going...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 02/18/2009

Mapping a Repeating Source to a Delimited List

My last couple of projects have been very interesting, challenging and a lot of fun. My current...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 02/01/2009

Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - January 15th, 2009

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/08/2009

I will be speaking at the Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference

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Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 01/08/2009

Multi-Value Key for a Dictionary

I have a situation in which I need to cache lookup data from a database tables that will be used in...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 09/29/2008

More Information on Processing MSMQ Messages in FIFO Order

In two of my previous posts I talked about processing MSMQ messages in FIFO order with WCF. The way...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/20/2008

More Information on UpdateGrams

In previous blog posts I have mentioned this large project that I am working on. This project has...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 08/20/2008

Validating Schemas During Runtime

I recently came across an interesting scenario. In my application, we are transforming multiple...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 07/18/2008

Software Development Meme

Well, it would appear that I have been 'tagged' to answer a few question on how I got started in...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 06/24/2008

I will be speaking at TechEd 2008

I will be presenting at TechEd 2008. This will be my fourth time presenting at TechEd conferences....

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 05/19/2008

System Center Operations Manager and BizTalk

The SCOM 2007 BizTalk Management Pack has finally been released. The Management Pack is a complete...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/22/2008

I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group

I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group April 3rd 2008 on Team Development and Testing....

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 04/03/2008

Matching the BizTalk Service Name with its PID

I have been working with pipeline components quite a bit recently and when I try to attach to the...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/21/2008

Removing XML elements from an input document (with large message support)

In my last post I talked about taking an XML message and stripping out elements. In that post I used...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/21/2008

Removing XML elements from an input document

I am working on a BizTalk application where we are processing messages from a Point of Sale (POS)...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 03/02/2008

Processing multiple queues in FIFO order with WCF

In my previous entry on Processing FIFO MSMQ Messages using WCF I said that I would cover processing...

Author: Stephen Kaufman Date: 02/20/2008

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