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Message Filters and Queries

BizTalk Blogs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Since a message filter and message query share a similar heritage, let's start by looking at the conceptually simpler message filter APIs. You probably haven't seen message filters before unless you've gone out of your way to explore everything Read More......(read more)

Issues with REST Programming Code Zip on my server? Want it? Comment here...

BizTalk Blogs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:36:00 GMT

One of my MSFT buddies pointed out, when trying to download my REST with WCF 3.5 sample code zip file from my server , that it was corrupt. I have replicated the issue but don't know what it is. The zip is valid on my machines but becomes invalid Read More......(read more)

Slides and demos from SOA/WF/WCF talk at Oredev

BizTalk Blogs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:17:50 GMT

Thanks to everyone who came to my SOA with WF and WCF talk at Oredev The slides are here SOA-WCF-WF.pdf (278.79 KB) and the demos are here ServiceComposition.zip (107.08 KB) Read More......(read more)

Dev Connections Las Vegas - The Code

BizTalk Blogs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:34:34 GMT

I recently presented at Dev Connections in Las Vegas - a few of my favorite WCF-related topics including routing, performance and scalability, and federated security of course! This post contains links to the latest code samples that I demonstrated in Read More......(read more)

Bank of America Deploys RFID in Data Centers

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:53:59 GMT

Bank of America details our their RFID plans. They are also leveraging our RFID capabilities. :) There's very little in the way of good news coming out of the financial services sector these days. But William Conroy, head of Bank of America 's Read More......(read more)

Wells Fargo Banks on RFID

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:41:27 GMT

Another great case study from one of our customers. :) Nov. 19, 2008—Tracking thousands of assets in a typical banking data center, and ensuring that laptop computers leaving a building are authorized to do so—and are with the properly authorized Read More......(read more)

Screencast: Creating activities in Windows Workflow Foundation

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:27:10 GMT

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up as of last week. In this session, I discuss the basics of creating custom leaf activities including how to use Dependency Properties to make your properties bindable Read More......(read more)

Screencast: Using the WCF Send activity in Windows Workflow Foundation

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:51:17 GMT

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up as of last week. In this session, I discuss the basics of using the Send activity to consume a service from a workflow using WCF. I extend the workflow created in the Read More......(read more)

MSDN Developer Conference - Jan 13 in Minneapolis

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:18:16 GMT

For those of you in the Twin Cities area that missed the PDC , don't fret, we've got the highlights for you. The MSDN Developer Conference is coming to Minneapolis on Jan 13 with a full day of Azure , WPF/Silverlight, and coverage of "Oslo" Read More......(read more)

Step by Step: Working with Content Based Correlation in Workflow 4.0

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:12:09 GMT

Don't miss the screen cast video on this same subject available at Content Based Correlation in Workflow 4.0 Content based correlation is used when you send a message out of a long running workflow and need to get a response back later into that same Read More......(read more)

Future of Correlation Examples

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Last time I talked about how WCF 4.0 standardizes many different types of correlations using a query mechanism and promised to go into more detail today. You might already be familiar with the message filter engine in WCF 3.0. If you haven't seen Read More......(read more)

Xbox 360 NXE - Forget Games, The Xbox is a Media Center

BizTalk Blogs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:58:37 GMT

What's all this talk about gaming on the Xbox 360? I can't remember the last time I actually played a game on the thing, but I can say that both The Wife and I use it daily. I'd even say she uses the Xbox 360 more than I do. She plays music Read More......(read more)

WF 3.5 SendActivity with ChannelManagerService followup

BizTalk Blogs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:07:03 GMT

Here's a short video on how to use the WF 3.5 SendActivity with the ChannelManagerService to populate named Endpoints. It also shows how to "subvert" the SharePoint WF Runtime to add custom services, including the ChannelManagerService Read More......(read more)

Speaking at SOAWorld 2008

BizTalk Blogs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:04:00 GMT

In a few hours I will be speaking at SOAWorld about REST and WS-* in the enterprise. The session provide a pragmatic view of the best practices customers are following in order to adopt the REST model in the enterprise and its coexistence with WS-* services Read More......(read more)

What books should I buy for CSLA .NET?

BizTalk Blogs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:17:58 GMT

As the Expert C# 2008 Business Objects book becomes available (now in alpha ebook form, and in paper by the end of this year), I'm getting more questions about what book to buy for different versions of CSLA .NET, and for different .NET technologies Read More......(read more)

Future of Correlation

BizTalk Blogs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

One of the topics that you'll hear a lot about for asynchronous and decoupled programming in WCF 4.0 is correlation. Correlation is a relationship between one message and another message or one message and a piece of state. With synchronous programming Read More......(read more)

I'm on MSDN's Endpoint.TV

BizTalk Blogs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:06:46 GMT

During a recent trip to Redmond, I was interviewed by Ron Jacobs for his Endpoint.TV series. I had just been shown a bunch of new things, was full of excitement, and we had a great chat about models, clouds, workflow... all my current hot-buttons :) http Read More......(read more)

Teched EMEA 2008 Wrap-up

BizTalk Blogs — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:56:42 GMT

I had a great time at Teched EMEA last week in Barcelona. I gave several talks on emerging technologies in the Connected Systems space and had a great time interacting with everyone at the show. This is always one of my favorite conferences of the year Read More......(read more)

Microsoft UK SOA & BP Conference 26 November 2008 in Reading

BizTalk Blogs — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:38:00 GMT

Microsoft UK is hosting their third annual SOA and BP Conference on 26 November on the Microsoft Campus in Thames Valley Park at Reading from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. This year's keynote speaker is Massimo Pezzini, a Gartner Fellow, who will be reviewing Read More......(read more)

Framework Training Kit Preview

BizTalk Blogs — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Last week a preview training kit was posted for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0. A training kit is a collection of presentations, labs, and demos that broadly demonstrates the features of a product. This training kit focuses on these upcoming Read More......(read more)

Controlling authentication with the WF 3.5 SendActivity

BizTalk Blogs — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:30:36 GMT

Someone emailed me a question about whether or not you can specify credentials when using the OOB SendActivity in WF 3.5 because they heard that you had to write a custom activity to accomplish this. You do not have to write a custom activity. Read More......(read more)

Windows 7 Developer Guide released

BizTalk Blogs — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:51:18 GMT

Also on Code Gallery, in addition to the Vista Bridge , you can find an interesting bit of guidance for those developing Windows 7 applications. This is 43 pages of "what is special about Windows 7" written for developers. Curious about touch Read More......(read more)

BizTalk vs Dublin - Do Not Get Confused

BizTalk Blogs — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:55:48 GMT

I was reading an interesting blog post today called Will Dublin Replace BizTalk? It got me thinking more about this and I wrote up the response below. I would love to hear other peoples comments and thoughts on this. I see a clear separation on when you Read More......(read more)

Webcast: Food traceability application from Lowry, Zebra & Microsoft

BizTalk Blogs — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:16:41 GMT

What you will learn? Unique ways RFID can improve supply chain effectiveness How complete solutions from trusted sources can improve your bottom line Who should attend? Those interested in learning about RFID applications in the supply chain Read More......(read more)

Update on the GDR that is coming for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

BizTalk Blogs — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:56:33 GMT

As I've you've probably heard, we are working on an update for .NET3.5 SP1 and its 2.0/3.0 sub-components which will contain fixes for the small number of bugs reported by customers since the release of 3.5 SP1 this summer. More information regarding Read More......(read more)