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1 of 133 | Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Mar 2009 CTP released - A new CTP version of the SharePoint project and item templates for Visual Studio 2008 are available. Remember that an CTP version is still in development, so Microsoft Support doesn’t officially support them. Download VSeWSS v1.3 March 2009 CTP from the Microsoft Download Center.   Error logging The descriptive error’s, which I blogged about in “Getting the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 CTP to work on Windows Server 2008”, are better documented now. VSeWSS creates a log file with debug information, e.g. why the deployment of a web part has failed. Some example errors that VSeWSS shows you are: The feature name WebPart1 already exists in SharePoint. You ne......

2 of 133 | WCF -> JSON Serialization woes and a solution - I'm working on improving the performance of my current web application project at various points. As I had already planned for a WCF interface for third-party use, I thought I'd utilise that, exposing objects as JSON-serialized strings usable by jQuery/ASP.NET AJAX. Little did I realise that when I was coming up with my Data Framework (I chose Entity Framework) I should have thought about aspects at the other side of my project such as the User Interface as well as the more obvious aspects of scalability, performance in relation to a pragmatist view of what is needed in the "real world" (therefore, nHibernate is out). My WCF service had an exposed service that would retu......

3 of 133 | WCF Exception: "There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection" - I'm beginning to see why people dislike WCF.  I'm working on using WCF to feed an AJAX TreeView, and demos of it are FAST. However, in my debugging on my dev server I bumped into the exception: "There can be at most one address per scheme in this collection" The posters at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/9e248455-1c4d-4c5c-851c-79d9c1631e21/#page:1 seem to be most vocal about the definiciencies of WCF in this respect - and they'd be right. What were Microsoft thinking? Most web applications need to respond to at least two domains to overcome the vagaries of user-inputted URLs, eg: www.myapp.mysite.com mapp.mysite.com my......

4 of 133 | Best developer tools - Because of the nature of my work, coaching people on-site and training people in classes, I talk to a lot of developers and managers about the way people work. Unfortunately a lot of companies still don’t unit test their software and don’t setup an automated build. At times that’s specifically what we at Class-A are hired for. But if it’s not, we try to convince our customers that they gain by working with these practices. Most companies want to professionalize and create better (quality) software. But for some reason, this can’t cost them anything. And I’m not talking about development time or learning curve, that’s a different story. I’m talking about the licensing cost of the tools you ......

5 of 133 | Getting the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 CTP to work on Windows Server 2008 - January 2009 the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group announced the Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3 (VSeWSS). Previous VSeWSS versions were not out-of-the box installable on x64 machines, therefore I blogged about Installing Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services on 64-bit machines. It’s great to see that x64 support has been added to version 1.3. The complete list of new features are: Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be used. Separate build commands for package, deploy and retract are added Command line build, package and retract commands are ......

6 of 133 | Free download... Fnmstudios: Utilities - I have created a windows forms application for my own use a long time ago, since then I have added some features every now and then when needed. A little while ago I decided to give these utilities away for free on my website . At current the Utilities are some rudimentary tools which can be compared to a swiss army knife. So what does it do...It does the following things: Lightweight Codegeneration (based on The World's Simplest Code Generator ) Encode / Decode: HTML, XML, URLS Regex Search...(read more)...

7 of 133 | BizTalk HotRod number 5 is now online ! - Topics covered : Application Servers: BizTalk vs. Dublin Unit Testing in BizTalk Server 2009 Monitoring a WCF Service Using BAM: A Walkthrough Operations Management for BizTalk Governing the SOA Runtime with AmberPoint BizTalk monitoring and exception handling from any desktop Add Governance to BizTalk with SOA Software So lots of interesting stuff again !. Go to the site of BizTalk HotRod and download your copy >> here <<...(read more)...

8 of 133 | Now that BizTalk Utillities is out of business It's time .................. - BizTalk Utillities used to have a very nice suite of solid adapters. For some reason, Pieter van de Merwe has stopped his business. We tried for months to get into contact with him to no avail. We called all the possible phone numbers we could find and finally we got somebody on the line. It was not Pieter himself but someone else working there in the same office. This person mentioned that he believed that BizTalk Utillites were no longer available as a product. This answer in combination with our...(read more)...

9 of 133 | [BizTalk Server 2006] Inserting parent-child records in SQL Server using stored procedures - Last week I was working on a proof of concept regarding BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Part of the concept was writing records in a database with a parent child relationship. I knew the classic way of doing this by using an orchestration to write the parent and then a while-loop to write all the child records. But actually I'm not very fond of this solution because it is a lot of work for using some standard functionality. In my situation I had to use the Identity of the just inserted parent record for the child records, so I Googled a bit to find the best way to do that. I came along this post, which uses update grams, but I was looking for a way with stored procedures to fix this. l also fo......

10 of 133 | Podcasts all about SharePoint: SharePoint Pod Show - When travelling by car I have my radio on or listen to podcasts. A few times a month a group of SharePoint enthusiasts make podcasts on SharePoint related topics and post them on the SharePoint Pod Show website. It’s an easy way to learn more about SharePoint technology, real world SharePoint implementations and non-standard SharePoint things to know.   Take a look at the SharePoint Pod Show website and subscribe to the show. All SharePoint Pod Shows thus far: SharePoint Skills and Areas of Focus in a Crappy Economy-Episode 15 A Real World Globally Distributed SharePoint Implementation-Episode 14 Leveraging the SharePoint Platform, Development tools and Approaches-Episode ......

11 of 133 | REST: ASP.NET MVC vs. WCF REST vs. ADO.NET Data Services - On the .NET platform we have several possible solutions to build a RESTful services. Three of them are: ASP.NET MVC (see Omar’s example) WCF (see WCF REST Started Kit) ADO.NET Data Services (which is build on top of WCF RESTful services API) I have tried to figure out when to use which solution to build a RESTful service. Conclusion: I could not find a reasonable set of rules to determine which technology to use. Maybe this will be a start: ASP.NET MVC gives full control of your implementation of the RESTful service, but you have to build much plumbing code yourself. WCF REST provides REST functionality (including RSS and ATOM) out of the box. There is no need to do the......

12 of 133 | Excellent post about BizTalk Protocol Transition - Today I found an excellent post about BizTalk Protocol transition by Paolo Salvatori . It's absolutely worth reading if you have to work with Webservices / Single Sign On. He covers 3 scenarios: Scenario 1 – Messaging Only Scenario with a SOAP Receive Location Scenario 2 – Messaging Only Scenario with a WCF-Custom Receive Location Scenario 3 – Orchestration with an Inline Send Port Have a read of the post >> Here <<...(read more)...

13 of 133 | ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP2(January) Released - The Patterns & Practices team released CTP2 of the ESB Guidance 2.0. You can get it here. What's New in the January Release? This is the second CTP release of the Microsoft ESB Guidance 2.0 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009. It incorporates several modifications and additions compared to the October 2008 CTP release. The following list summarizes these changes. New Features and Components New core features. This version includes the following new core features: UDDI 3.0 Resolver UDDI 3.0 categorization schemas LDAP Resolver WCF-Custom Adapter Provider SMTP Adapter Provider New and Updated Samples SSO Configuration Provider Sample SQL LOB Adapter Sample Chan......

14 of 133 | WCF Test Harness: DynamicProxyFactory - This is in response to a post on CodePlex in regards to how to retrieve the metadata of a service.  I based this on a WCF Sample create by Vipul Modi. DynamicProxyFactory In the WCF Test Harness solution, the DynamicProxyFactory class is used to generate a proxy class based on a metadata enabled service.  The class performs the following: Downloads Metadata - uses the System.Web.Services.Discovery.DiscoveryClientProtocol to retrieve the metadata Imports Metadata - uses the System.ServiceModel.Description.WsdlImporter to extract the bindings, contracts and endpoints Creates Proxy - generates the proxy code Writes Proxy - writes the code into memory Compiles - compiles the proxy......

15 of 133 | BizTalk Server 2009 beta documentation - If you're interested in the beta documentation for BizTalk Server 2009 beta, you can find it here....

16 of 133 | BizTalk Server 2009 beta and “The project type is not supported by this installation” - Right after BizTalk Server 2009 beta was announced I worked on a virtual PC image to check this new stuff. I installed Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and of course BizTalk Server 2009 beta. When I tried to create a new Empty BizTalk Server Project in Visual Studio I ran into the exception "The project type is not supported by this installation". I thought it had something to do with my installation so I tried again and again with different settings, but with no result. I couldn't find much about this error on the internet so I suspected it to be my issue only. It must be something with Visual Studio so I tried a different version, the trial versio......

17 of 133 | .NET Framework Evolution Map - Since the release of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 I have noticed that not only users but also IT people, even developers get confused about how and what to install  on a new system. I mean they think that .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 are decoupled from .NET Framework 2.0 and they download the installers for Framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 without realizing that they are reinstalling the same components and wasting time, particularly on enterprise scenarios. Take a look at the following table: The header row is labeled with the .NET Framework releases and the first column is labeled with the 3 main components or axis of a .NET Framework release. The table will help you analyze the evolution o......

18 of 133 | Snipped Designer for Visual Studio 2008 - Finally there is a great snippet designer add-in for Visual Studio. The Snipped Designer for Visual Studio 2008 is available for free on CodePlex. I have used version 1.1 some time and it works great.   The Snippet Designer features: A Snippet editor integrated inside of the IDE. Access it by opening any .snippet file or going to File -> New -> File -> Code Snippet File It uses the native Visual Studio code editor so that you can write the snippets in the same environment you write your code. It lets you easily mark replacements by a convenient right click menu. It displays properties of the snippet inside the Visual Studio properties ......

19 of 133 | The foundations of architecting Service Orientation - A lot has been said about the foundations of Service Orientation. But still, way to often I see people deciding to use SOAP/XML and thinking they are doing Service Orientation. You might recognize the following examples I see as getting Service Orientation wrong: Services are very technically oriented: service-designers know they should do something on business alignment, but say that the business doesn’t get it and using web service standards is the best we can. Services are point-to-point interfaces: ‘services’ are designed on the fact that some information needs to go from system A to system B and therefore a service needs to be created. They then call the service something like ......

20 of 133 | Restarting my blog - I haven’t been blogging for over 2,5 years (except for one off topic post). This was partly because I didn’t bother, but the main reason was that I didn’t have a goal, a story I wanted to tell the world. I’ve been doing a lot of stuff around integration and SOA/BPM, ranging from guiding BizTalk development to developing an enterprise integration strategy. 2008 to me was the year I dived into the theory of architecting and architecture on one side and understanding the core foundations of Service Orientation and Business Process Management on the other side. On the theory of architecting I was greatly inspired by the work done by the Software Engineering Institute. I dived into Software A......

21 of 133 | BizTalk Server 2009 beta and ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP are public! - Last night the good news of BizTalk Server 2009 beta being public received me, finally! Also the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP was released, with system requirements like Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1  :-) To be complete, I also noticed a new release of BizUnit 3.0 now with support for creating test cases via an object model and reading test cases from an Excel sheet. So how about that? A lot of cool BizTalk news! I know I have something to do the coming weeks....

22 of 133 | WCF Test Harness: Creating a Stub Service - The following steps can be performed to create a stub service based on the service contract downloaded and compiled in Add a New Proxy via URL: Select the menu option Show Hosting Window on the Host menu.  This will bring up a non-modal dialog that can be used to manage stubbed services.   Select the Add Service Contract menu option on the Host menu of the Hosting Window: In the dialog, enter in a unique name for the service, select a service contract, and provide an address for the service: Next, click Create Stub to generate an implementation of the service contract: This will generate a metadata enabled service endpoint at the address specified.  Click the Start......

23 of 133 | WCF Test Harness: New Release - I've created a new version of the WCF Test Harness including some bug fixes and the ability to create a mock host.  This is a stubbed service based on a  loaded service contract.  This is very limited and its main purpose is to illustrate what is possible.  If this proves to be useful, I'll flush it out and work on its limitations and spend some time on the GUI. Note: This replaces the previous version and is not compatible with the previous version (including the SampleHost.exe). With this new release it is possible to perform the following: First create a new client configuration and proxy by following: Add a New Proxy via Url. Add a new test case and ver......

24 of 133 | Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint - For the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010, new tools for SharePoint development have been announced. The Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint will contain the following features: Server Explorer for SharePoint viewing Lists and other artifacts in SharePoint directly inside of Visual Studio Windows SharePoint Services Project (WSP file) Import to create a new solution Added a new web part project item and showed the Visual web part designer which loads a user control as a web part for SharePoint Showed adding an event receiver for SharePoint and using the wizard to choose the event receiver and to just create a source file with that event receiver. Added an A......

25 of 133 | Deploying ClickOnce applications automated using FinalBuilder - Remark : If you’re not using FinalBuilder but plain MSBuild, you can most likely benefit from the tutorial below as well. In this tutorial I’ll try to explain what I’ve done to automate the build for a ClickOnce application. I’m using FinalBuilder because this is the best tool I know to automate your build. What MSBuild requires you to do in huge XML files, FinalBuilder lets you do in an excellent GUI where you can set breakpoints, step through, etc, etc. I’ve used it since ages and can’t live without it anymore. So should you! ClickOnce uses two manifests, the application manifest and the deployment manifest. I won’t go into details, read more here on MSDN. Visual Studio normally does al......

26 of 133 | Introduction to Geneva - Using passive federation - Using Geneva in for authentication in your website is called "passive federation". It relies on other factors like redirection and javascript to perform it's actions. "Active federation", like you can do in services or smart clients, can implement the WS-trust protocol directly. For more information read this excelent white paper by Keith Brown. In my previous post, I explained how to set-up a Geneva server, that we're going to use in this scenario. We're going to use a sample application that is present in the "Samples"-folder of the Geneva Framework, the "Simple claims-aware web application using managed STS". This site contains no more ......

27 of 133 | Introduction to Geneva - Setting up the server - Last week at TechEd I followed a couple of presentations on Geneva, the project that used to be called Zermatt. Geneva is a series of components that will make it a lot easier for developers to work with identities within their applications. It's build up from three components: Geneva Server: a security token service (STS) that will be responsible for supplying the identities. Geneva Framework: a new part of the .NET framework that will handle all of the plumbing in dealing with these identities. Geneva Cardspace: the client technology that will make it easier for users to reduce and handle the identities that they have to use. The are a couple of things about Geneva that make it ver......

28 of 133 | WCF Test Harness Guide updated - I've added a new page to the Guide: Adding a New Proxy via Assembly.  ...

29 of 133 | First CodePlex Project: WCF Test Harness - I've just published my first CodePlex project: WCF Test Harness.  This is a testing utility I have been working on for a while now and I thought it could be helpful for others. I wrote a short Overview and I plan on adding additional information depending on interest....

30 of 133 | TechEd 2008: Claim-based Identity: "Geneva" - Technorati Tags: TechEd 2008,Geneva I have visit two sessions about “Geneva”. One done by David Chappell and one by Vittorio Bertocci. Geneva (previously “Zermatt”) is the claim-based identity platform Microsoft is working on. In a claimed-based platform, you need 3 things: A Security Token Service (STS) that provides tokens (with claims). Read here about tokens and claims. An identity library An identity selector Microsoft provides us with “Geneva” server (STS), “Geneva” framework (identity library) and “Geneva” Cardspace (identity selector). The best thing is that the platform supports open standards WS-Trust and SAML (2.0). This is great news, because with support for t......

31 of 133 | TechEd 2008: “Dublin” - Technorati Tags: TechEd 2008,Dublin Mark Berman provides the demos about “Dublin”. Dublin is a set of extensions on top of Windows Application Server (WAS), that helps to host and monitor WF and WCF services. With Dublin developers don’t have to care about the infrastructure to host WF and WCF services. It is simply some configuration within WAS to host these services. With providing WF persisting, “Dublin” makes your WF application very scalable. There is no relation with the Azure platform at the moment. Dublin is not a replacement for BizTalk server. You need BizTalk server as a integration solution for LOB applications (f.e. mainframe). Dublin is only about hosting WF and WCF ser......

32 of 133 | TechEd 2008: A first look at “Oslo”, “Dublin” and WF 4.0 - Technorati Tags: TechEd 2008,Oslo,Dublin,WF This session, done by David Chapell (very good and humorous speaker), does not have any demos. But, David explains very well what Oslo, Dublin and WF is all about. The three technologies can be used together or separate of each other. WF is all about workflows (sequential or state machines). Dublin is an extension on Windows Application Server to host WF and WCF services. Oslo is the new modeling platform. With WF developers are able to create long-running applications. To enable this long-running feature, WF persist the state of the running Workflow. WF makes it also much easier to do activities in parallel. WF 4.0 comes with a new designer, n......

33 of 133 | TechEd 2008: Introduction to the Azure platform - Technorati Tags: TechEd 2008,Azure As an introduction, James Conard provides us with four demos that use the Azure platform. The first demo shows a ASP.NET application that will be deployed on the azure .NET Services component of the Azure platform. To deploy the ASP.NET application, there is a special “Azure” deployment project provided in the Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2008. The project builds a package that can be uploaded to the Azure platform. The package exists of a zip file with ASP.NET application bits and a package configuration file. Within the platform the package is deployed on one or more Windows Server Virtual Machines. For what I have seen this is very simple to achieve. I......

34 of 133 | Joining TechEd 2008 -   This will be my first time blogging. To start, I write about the interesting things I will see at the TechEd 2008 conference in Barcelona.   After the PDC two weeks ago, the sessions here in Barcelona will cover most of the stuff that was presented at the PDC. I will try not to duplicate what others have blogged already. I will focus on the architecture and SOA sessions. I think those sessions will cover the new “Dublin”, “Oslo” and “Azure” stuff presented on the PDC....

35 of 133 | Ramp Up learning program - Ramp Up is a new learning program on the MSDN website.  About Ramp Up: IntroductionTake the Next Step on Your Career PathRamp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. Join Ramp Up (it's free!) and help advance your career - click on a track now to start! BenefitsTake the Next Step on Your Career PathRamp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, wit......

36 of 133 | The good and bad news of the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP announcement - Let me start with the good news, the Microsoft announced the long expected version 2.0 of the ESB guidance. The present version is about a year old (November 2007) so it was time the lessons of the 1.0 version would result into a 2.0 version. Also some people doubted that Microsoft would invest into a second version of the guidance because it was quiet for some time. However on CodePlex the team announced a follow up already in July. How about the bad news? Well, the bad news is that it is only available for Micrsoft BizTalk Server TAP customers, at least for now. This CTP is targeted for BizTalk Server 2009 so I guess that it will take some time before we can play with it since BizTalk Se......

37 of 133 | WCF and http (gzip/deflate) compression and Silverlight - The last couple of days I've tried to see if it was possible to make use of standard http compression on WCF services as I had very good experiences with WSE and even asmx webservices that used http compression to save bandwidth - but more important - and have better response times for large xml messages. Tracing request/response with Fiddler I created a small test project containing a contract and both a client and a service based on that contract and launched fiddler. I discovered that WCF does NOT add the Accept-Encoding: header with gzip and/or deflate values. So I fired the request again from fiddler but now I manually entered the Accept-Encoding header and the result was not compr......

38 of 133 | Entity Framework Futures - A bit late, but it was still in my drafts folder, I just had to finish it. Timothy Mallalieu presented the session on the future of Entity Framework. The Data Platform We have so many data storage options and so many needs for data. Normal data access Users and applications get data from the database via frameworks or libraries Integration/aggregation sync We get data from the cloud, services, databases, etc. Reporting Reports get data from a data warehouse Management, deployment, policy & security We have metadata stored in XML, databases, etc. Models and workflow We have all kinds of models and workflows needing data. The ......

39 of 133 | “M” and MService - I’ve been talking to people and perhaps here on the blog that during the Doug Purdy talk they showed a demo of MService where, with a few lines of code, a REST enabled WCF services with WF activities was created with only so few lines of actual code. service Service {   operation PhotoUpload(stream : Stream) : Text   {     .PostUriTemplate = "upload";       index : Text = invoke DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString();     filename : Text = "d:\\demo\\photo\\" + index + ".jpg";     invoke MService.ServiceHelper.StoreInFile(stream, filename);     
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40 of 133 | “Oslo” repositories and models - Just saw Chris Sells show a session on some other expects of Oslo that wasn’t introduced yet. It was again stated that the repository in Oslo is a normal SQL Server database. All your models are just SQL in the database and everything is designed for extensibility. Some of the core features are: Repository capabilities Repository features are built on SQL Server Repository install also runs on useful features, e.g. replication and mirroring Repository features are: Catalog Secure views Auditing Versioning Claims-based security, etc The Oslo SDK provides tools to ......

41 of 133 | "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience - Together with Alex Thissen, Paul Gielens, Marco Stolk and Dries Marckmann we’ve been reflecting our thoughts on “M”. Right now we’re all at another Oslo talk about Quadrant. Why “Quadrant”? As more software becomes more model-driven, the volume of data in the system grows We need a tool that lets people query, update, and visualize that data in ways that make sense for the task at hand. What is “Quadrant”? “Quadrant” is a tool for interacting with data Flexible, focused design surfaces Default experiences over arbitrary data Rich declarative customization “Quadrant” is completely data-driven, every bit of data in SQL Server. “Quadra......

42 of 133 | Best PDC session so far : Lap around “Oslo” - I’m at the “Lap around ‘Oslo’” talk together with Alex Thissen and Paul Gielens. This is by far the best session I’ve seen so far! The talk began about models. We were looking at modeling and modeling domains, but what is a model? We have… Drawings Models used to communicate with others, for example DataFlow or Use Case. See UML as Sketch. Model-Assisted Models used to understand or manipulate code, for example StaticStructure or Sequence Model-Driven Models executed by runtimes directly, for example HTML, CSS, XAML, BPEL According to Douglas Purdy, Don Box says we’re on a 30 year journey and we’re 15 years in. We had COM(+), .NET 1.0, Web Services, .NET 3......

43 of 133 | PDC – first day - Key Note session I don’t know what it is with Americans. At some point they are very independant but on another side not.            When we arrived at the KeyNote hall, thanks to the helpfull personel, we were confronted with enormous screens. Two screens left and right of the center stage which also has a screen at the background. Hugh. To give you an impression of the scale I took a picture of Ray Ozzie performing on the center stage. Right after Ray announced Windows Azure some Indian took over and he had the strangest combination of suit and (red) shoes.     After that some o......

44 of 133 | Visual Studio Team System 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010: already in love with all the new features! - An exhausting day at PDC... Here are the sessions that I did: Keynote: Windows Azure Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features WF 4.0: A first look   I really love the new features of VSTS and TFS; I can hardly wait to start using them...   I will not go into a lot of detail here, instead I will highlight a couple of the main features and hope it will incourage you to go and view the session online.   Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 Cameron Skinner put it real nicely with 4 key points all getting rid of th......

45 of 133 | Microsoft products and development posters - Last year I've come across a lot of posters related to .NET / Office / SharePoint development. They give you a nice overview of the development possibilities of each related product. This post contains a list of those posters.  SharePoint posters See the SharePoint Community Portal Stsadm parameters poster for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: JPG format (1,214 KB) PNG format (861 KB) Visio format (769 KB) Stsadm parameters poster for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: JPG format (944 KB) PNG format (719 KB) Visio format (578 KB) Record Repository: Using Record Repository Features in Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and SharePoint Server 2007  2......

46 of 133 | Excellent post of Charles Young about Dublin and BizTalk - I was reading the post of Charles Young about Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference? I can only say, it's really worth a read, and after reading it, you will probably know you will still be doing BizTalk and XLANG for a long time. The goodies mentioned in the article that come with BizTalk will just not be available for WF for a long long time to come. COme on have read of the article here: Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference?...(read more)...

47 of 133 | PDC - After some considerable time I'll try start blogging again.Especially because I'm going to the PDC and there is a lot of stuff writing about. So, as a start, I'll try to attend the following sessions: "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience "Oslo": Repository and Models "Oslo": The Language "Rosario": A Sprint with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio An Introduction to Microsoft F# ASP.NET and JQuery Deep Dive: The New Rendering Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Developing for Microsoft S......

48 of 133 | How to expose an old style WSDL with the schema's included from BizTalk 2006 R2 with a WCF adapter - It is really nice to have WCF around. With WCF you are ready for the future. Unfortunaltely this is only true in a Microsoft landscape. The new style WSDL with the schema's no longer included is one of those enhancements that should be really nice. Unfortunately there are tons of software out there that cannot handle the default WSDL behaviour of a WCF service. Below is a picture of the default WSDL behaviour. And this is not the behavoiur old clients like. So we have to modify the WSDL that's...(read more)...

49 of 133 | The underlying connection was closed... again? - First of all: this is my very first blog post, on my very first blog. I'll probably have a lot to learn about blogging, and I hope any readers (a.k.a. you) will give me constructive feedback which will help me improve my writing skillz. I'm currently not too happy about the layout (too white, and too orange) but I may fix that later. Though I've recently learned, that there are people who like it :)   So, the underlying connection was closed, again. Those of us who have been consuming webservices from a .NET application, will probably have seen the error message "The Underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send." (or a receive).......

50 of 133 | PDC 2008 : Sessions & hard drive - I just got a question from Dries which sessions I intend to visit during the PDC. Although there isn't a final list yet and especially tracks and times are still missing, I do have some favorites. I'll post the list below for no reason at all, just that PDC is going through my mind like 24 hours a day right now. Besides LittleBigPlanet by the way, although they are hard to match together. Anyway, the list is quite large and I hope I don't have to choose between 3 or 4 sessions held at once. I'm extremely interested in Oslo and the new programming bits, .NET 4.0 and especially the CLR and type advances and of course the next version of WCF with the new modeling extensions pre......