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1 of 16798 | Announcing BizTalk Workflow Services - We released BizTalk Services R12 Release today. R12 contains the first public release of BizTalk Workflow Services. Please read Clemens' announcement post here for more detailed information on R12's BizTalk Worklfow Services and major changes to the Messaging and Identity BizTalk Services in R12. Please go to workflow.biztalk.net and try the service today! Any feedback and comments are welcomed. Thanks, --Moustafa...

2 of 16798 | Balisage 2008 Conference in Montreal Continues Extreme Markup Tradition - "Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference" continues the popular Montreal series (formerly "Extreme Markup Languages") under a new title "Balisage." Organizers have published the complete program for the main conference (August 12-15, 2008) and for the "International Symposium on Versioning XML Vocabularies and Systems" (August 11). Topics: Semantic Web, ontology design, schema mashups, constraint management, topic maps, annotating overlap, digital libraries......

3 of 16798 | Biztalk pour les éditeurs - Introduction - Cette présentation est la première d’une série qui aura pour objectif de vous faire découvrir les bénéfices qu’un éditeur peut tirer de Biztalk Server. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 offre une infrastructure capable de connecter les applications existantes (quelle que soit la plateforme) et de constituer, d'exposer et de consommer de nouveaux services. C’est un outil qui permet donc aux éditeurs d’intégrer leurs applications dans des architectures SOA et et ainsi assurer l’interopérabilité de leurs outils au sein d'une plateforme unifiée. De plus, il existe une vaste gamme d'adaptateurs de technologies et d'applications pour BizTalk Server. Grâce à une pri......

4 of 16798 | CreateXmlInstance() with Multi-Root Schemas - The DocumentSpec class in the Microsoft.BizTalk.Component.Interop namespace of the Microsoft.BizTalk.Pipelines assembly is commonly used in custom pipeline components (particularly assemblers in disassemblers) to represent a compiled BizTalk schema (a document specification). This class has one interesting method: CreateXmlInstance(), which can generate an sample instance XML based on the associated schema [1]. Recently I saw a question in the BizTalkGurus forum about how to use this functionality if you had a schema definition with multiple potential root elements. Turns out its pretty easy, once you understand how DocumentSpec works and how......

5 of 16798 | Getting Started with Ajax - The start of 2005 saw the rise of a relatively new technology, dubbed “Ajax” by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. In a nutshell, it is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest() object to communicate with server-side scripts. It can send as well as receive information in a variety of formats, including XML, HTML, and even text files. Ajax’s most appealing characteristic, however, is its “asynchronous” nature, which means it can do all of this without having to refresh the page. This allows you to update portions of a page based upon user events and provides one of the cornerstones of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) referred to in discus......

6 of 16798 | Getting started with AJAX using PHP : Tutorial - AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. Any server side technology that supports JavaScript also supports AJAX. AJAX is a browser technology, and is therefore independent of web server platforms. In this article we will learn about what AJAX is, how it works, and how can we use AJAX with PHP. Please remember, AJAX is not a programming language, so you don’t have to learn any new technology. AJAX can be implemented by using existing standards (JavaScript and XML) in a different way. If we are using PHP or any server side technology and need to extract data from storage on a server (eg a database or a file), we will have to make an HTTP request (either POST or GET) to get the dat......

7 of 16798 | Google’s Flash Indexing Disaster - On July 1st, Google announced that, using technology provided by Adobe, it had enhanced the Google Search Engine to index the text embedded within Flash movies. What followed was bad advice from Google, second-guessing by web developers, and finally a few straight answers. Google’s initial announcement was so incredibly vague as to render it all but useless. Developers came away knowing that Google was doing something different with their Flash content, but that’s about it. While Google’s Dion Almaer suggested that search engines have always been black boxes and that it was up to us to discover what had changed through testing, just about everyone else was crying foul. Google’s credibility ......

8 of 16798 | Introducing Asynchronous Java Script and XML (Ajax) in ASP.NET - One of the most important challenges web application developers face is the requirement for a fast and responsive user interface. AJAX was primary designed and developed with the intent of providing a fast and responsive user interface to address these challenges. According to Enrich Peterson, “AJAX-enabled pages provide a slick, responsive user experience, making web-based applications function more like desktop-based ones”. This article guides the reader through this new technology, its features, benefits and applicability in web application development. This is the first in the series of articles on Ajax (and more specifically ASP.NET AJAX). Although Ajax is independent of ......

9 of 16798 | Links for 07-15-2008 - Eric White on Linq and Open XML. Eric White has been posting some great code samples lately, including a sample of functional programming with the Open XML SDK, how to transform flat data into a hierarchy with Linq, and a set of blog posts on Writing robust Linq to XML code that performs well. Orcmid on Interop. Like Eric, Dennis Hamilton has been blogging prolifically this summer, with a series of posts in the last week on interop topics: Interoperability: The Experience of It , Interoperability: No Code Need Apply?, and Interoperability: What's the Self-Interest?. PowerShell and Open XML. A few recent posts on working with Open XML documents from PowerShell scripts: Julien Chable ......

10 of 16798 | Ordina organises the first annualy international SOA Symposium for practitioners in Amsterdam - In early October 2008 the first annualy international SOA Symposium will be held in the Amsterdam Arena. A lot of international speakers will be there, amongst them Thomas Erl and Brian Loesgen!There are 40 speaker sessions across the following 10 tracks: - SOA Architecture & Design - Service Modeling & BPM - SOA & Business - SOA & REST - SOA & Web 2.0 - SOA Governance - SOA Programming - SOA Innovations - SOA Infrastructure & Technology - SOA Project Delivery & Methodology Post-conference there will be three five-day certification workshops: - Certified SOA Consultant - Certified SOA Architect - Certified SOA Analyst The workshops are organised by SOASCHOOL.com.The symposium and the worksh......

11 of 16798 | Static Code Analysis and Custom FxCop Rules for Enterprise ASP.Net Development - Over the last couple months I've been doing a bit of work with FxCop and Static Code Analysis.  If you remember playing with FxCop back in the day, it was a cool tool to check for possible design, localization, performance, and security issues with your .Net code.  But, for most of us, that's where things stopped, playing with a cool tool and then forgetting about it.  Sure, Microsoft built it into VS 2005 as Visual Studio Code Analysis, but still most developers forget about it, and never turn it on.  Well, I've been on a Continuous Integration kick for over a year now (with CruiseControl.Net or TFS 2008, depending on the client), and it is easy to an things like FxCop ......

12 of 16798 | The OpenOffice Project has posted the second beta of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. - The OpenOffice Project has posted the second beta of OpenOffice 3.0, an open source office suite for Linux, Solaris, and Windows that saves all its files as zipped XML. Relative to beta 1, this seems to be a bug fix release....

13 of 16798 | Use PowerShell to Secure and Sign Open XML Documents - Julien Chable written a concise post on using PowerShell and Power Tools for Open XML to secure and sign Open XML documents.  He also has a short, useful intro to creating a PowerShell profile.  One more thing, Julien has joined the Power Tools for Open XML v-team.  Makes me happy.  Welcome, Julien!...

14 of 16798 | W3C Publishes Approved TAG Finding on Associating Resources with Namespaces - W3C has published "Associating Resources with Namespaces" as an Approved TAG Finding from the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG). The document addresses the question of how ancillary information (schemas, stylesheets, documentation) can be associated with an XML namespace. It offers guidance on how a namespace document can be optimally designed for humans and machines such that information at the namespace URI conforms to web architecture good practice....

15 of 16798 | WCF extensibility webcast recording and demos - Thanks to everyone who attended to my MSDN WebCast about WCF extensibility and special thanks for the great feedback. The recording is now available on MSDN and you can download the samples here ....( read more )...(read more)...

16 of 16798 | BizTalk User Group Meeting - July 17, 2008 - July 17, 2008  - BizTalk User Group Meeting Location:  Microsoft Office Presenter: Andy Morrison, Randall McClure, Krishna Velesetti and Jeff Dreke  Title: BizTalk Table Topics For the July BizTalk User Group we're going to try a different format.  Digineer will be leading "table topic" discussions on the following topics: ·  R3/Oslo/Futures: What does it mean for BizTalkers? ·  WCF Adapters/WCF Line of Business Adapter SDK ·  Operations and Deployment ·  ESB/Patterns The "table topics" will be lead by discussion leaders who will be moderating the conversations - as an attendee you'll be participating and driving the "table topic" discussions. Bring your questions, opinions, ......

17 of 16798 | CalDigit ships RAID card - CalDigit is shipping a Mac Pro-compatible RAID card that uses mini-SAS connectors....

18 of 16798 | Checklist for Reviewing Services for SOA Compatibility - I’ve got SOA on the brain lately.  I’m in the process of writing a book on building service-oriented solutions using BizTalk Server 2006 R3 (due out right around the product release), and, trying to organize a service review board at...(read more)...

19 of 16798 | Data Access - Approximate strong classification behaves identical to strong classification restricted to a subset of all classes. Considering the fact that A way to get some of the features of dynamic layout from a layout that was created in absolute coordinates is to scale the UI. In retrospect, sometimes business components need to retrieve information from external sources in order to do their work. The internal mechanisms of what allows user-mode debugging to work have rarely ever been fully explained. Approximate explanative classification behaves identical to classical explanative classification to which a set of classes is added. In the absence of any specific knowledge, most prefetching sc......

20 of 16798 | How much CPU should a WS framework consume? - While profiling a CXF based web service implementation I noticed that a large percentage of CPU time is used by CXF and not by the business logic ...

21 of 16798 | Mid to Senior Level Developer Needed: Bartlesville, OK - As President of the Bartlesville .NET User Group I get many people asking me if I know of people looking for jobs.  I have decided to start posting the positions on my blog as well hoping to help the companies in Bartlesville find skilled developers.  Description:  Seeking one mid to senior level developer for a local Bartlesville company (not ConocoPhillips).  This position will revolve around Windows Forms and Applications development with a focus on mobile devices.  The right person for this position will thrive in a smaller team atmosphere.  They will need to be versatile and able to 'hit the ground running.'  Experience with the following technologies is a must, C#, SQL server 2000/2......

22 of 16798 | Product Blog update: Switching from Salesforce to Highrise, Outpost to bring Basecamp to iPhone, Backpack Journal is "fan-frickin-tastic," etc. - Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog: Highrise Why The Demo Coach switched from Salesforce to Highrise “To my surprise, Highrise turned out to be an amazing SAAS, which allows us to have basically the same functionality as Salesforce. The biggest differences to me is that the user interface is much more enjoyable to work with and the cost is a fraction of what I am used to paying for CRM.” Basecamp Coming soon: Outpost will let you manage Basecamp projects on your iPhone Outpost (coming in August 2008 from Morfunk) promises to let you manage your Basecamp projects on your iPhone: “Take notes away from the office. Delegate tasks from the train. Ch......

23 of 16798 | Authentication in web services using C# and Kerberos (POC) - This article is considered a proof of concept article (POC) to explain how Kerberos authentication can be implemented to authenticate requesters when they need to request a web service. ...

24 of 16798 | BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide + MsgBoxViewer - Microsoft has published a few days ago a new guide around optimization of BizTalk Server performance. This is a lengthy guide (over 200 pages), but it has a lot of very interesting information, some of which you can't find anywhere else, and there's...(read more)...

25 of 16798 | Collaboration Technology Interest Group (aka: Week3) - July 16 - This is a friendly reminder that this Wednesday, July 16th, from 9:00 – 11:00am the first Collaboration Technology Interest Group (aka: Week3) session will be held at the Maple Grove Community Center.  We have had a good number of registrants, but have plenty of spots open.  Free Wi-Fi is available.  For more information continue reading or click here to learn more. This event is free and space is still available, you may visit the registration page by clicking here. July 16- Collaboration Triage - “Five areas that will benefit from collaboration technology.” Join Virgil Carroll from High Monkey Consulting on July 16 to learn how you can evaluate five key areas of your organization that......

26 of 16798 | HTML 5 data- elements to store private values - John Resig goes into more detail on the HTML 5 data- elements that gives developers a valid place to store metadata: This allows you to write valid HTML markup (passing an HTML 5 validator) while, simultaneously, embedding data within your page. A quick example: PLAIN TEXT HTML:   class="user" data-name="John Resig" data-city="Boston"      data-lang="js" data-food="Bacon">   John says: Hello, how are you?   Which you can get at via some simple code: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var user = document.getElementsByTagName("li")[0]; var pos = 0, span = user.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];   var phrases = [   {name: "city", prefix: "I am from "},   {name: "food"......

27 of 16798 | PDC 2008 - The PDC 2005 was the best conference I ever attended. Seeing WF and WCF for the first time, as well as the DSL Tools and lots of other stuff, plus the several contacts I did while there, helped understand what was to come in technology, and this help...(read more)...

28 of 16798 | Scalability: I Don't Think That Word Means What You Think It Does - Via Mark Pilgrim I stumbled on an article by Scott Loganbill entitled Google’s Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed which contains the following excerpt The best way to explore Protocol Buffers is to compare it to its alternative. What do Protocol Buffers have that XML doesn’t? As the Google Protocol Buffer blog post mentions, XML isn’t scalable: "As nice as XML is, it isn’t going to be efficient enough for [Google’s] scale. When all of your machines and network links are running at capacity, XML is an extremely expensive proposition. Not to mention, writing code to work with the DOM tree can sometimes become unwieldy." We’ve never had to deal with XML ......

29 of 16798 | Silverlight Cream for July 14, 2008 -- #324 - Fons Sonnemans with RollMenu, Frank LaVigne with Community Megaphone SL Map, Martin Mihaylov on LINQ to XML in SL2, John Stockton with What is Silverlight, and How to Learn it, Felix Corke on Designing a SL2B2 skin, Michael Washington with Silverlight Notepad, Michael Scherotter with IE8 Forward/back in SL2, Expression Blend Team resource links for VSM, and Tamir Khason on Actual Width/Height. Yes boys and girls, this is what happens when you take a weekend off from blogging ... so I'm posting this during lunch to be able to catch the late work this evening. Jesse Liberty has a couple good posts about his Over the Top Twittering and how to drive yourself crazy or out of time with We......

30 of 16798 | Taking Interop services down - The web services interop registration service I setup many moons ago has faithfully been chugging along, but i think its time has come to an end, i'll be taking it down sometime next week....

31 of 16798 | XML makes you stoopid! - Everyone is missing the forest for the trees on Google Protcol Buffers not using XML....

32 of 16798 | Low Cost Hardware Platform for .NET Micro Framework - USBizi - GHI Electronics (known from the great Embedded Master™ module) have announced the USBizi module for the .NET Micro Framework. The module is really small and costs only $99 for a single unit. As it is the smallest .NET Micro Framework system it keeps all the unique features Embedded Master has, like USB host and FAT file system. Key Features: Software: Micro Framework 2.5 (3.0 soon) USB Host (MS, HID, Printer and more) FAT File System Peripherals (SPI, PWM...etc.) Hardware: 72Mhz ARM7 Processor USB Host/Device Plenty of Digital I/O Interrupt Inputs SPI (8/16 bit) I2C 4 UART 2 CAN Channels 4 10-bit Analog Inputs 10-bit Analog ......

33 of 16798 | PipelineTesting code now on GitHub - I just pushed all the source code for my BizTalk 2006 PipelineTesting library to GitHub. I'll keep this public repository updated whenever I make any changes to the library, so if you're interested in keeping track of the code or forking it, this should make it a lot easier. You can find the clone URL for the new repository is: git://github.com/tomasr/pipelinetesting.git Enjoy! BizTalk Server 2006, PipelineTesting ...

34 of 16798 | PowerShell and SSIS - Up until now, most of my use of PowerShell has been against SSAS, but I recently had a need to setup a number of SSIS packages for some relatively large CSV files. My problem was that the CSV files had about 125 columns and 120 of them (10 years of monthly figures) need to be inserted into Numeric(18,5) columns in SQL Server. However the connection manager auto-detected these columns on my flat file connection manager as DT_FLOAT. Changing these columns to DT_NUMERIC and setting the scale to 5 quickly proved to be tedious. So I fired up PowerShell Analyzer and started poking around. Unfortunately I soon found that the combination of SSIS and PowerShell proved to be a little problematic. I t......

35 of 16798 | GHI Electronics with Touch Screen Support - Embedded Master Module is adding support to TFT LCDs. The new version is based on LPC2478 processor with built in LCD controller. The module includes a 0.5mm 40 pin connector for LQ043T3DX02 or LQ043T1DG01 TFT displays from Sharp. These color TFT LCDs are 480x272 and are compatible with LCDs used in PSP from Sony. Using any other TFT LCD is possible as well. The new board will have 70 pins instead of 60 with more Analog inputs and PWM pins. New board is backward compatible as far as the old pins. All new pins are on the extra added space, total size 1.55x1.8 inches.   ...

36 of 16798 | BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 announced at WPC - This week I returned to my home state of Texas to attend the Worldwide Partner Conference. Returning to my home state didn’t get me back to speaking in my southern-drawl, but it did get me speaking with partners about something we are both excited about...(read more)...

37 of 16798 | BizTalk Namespace Issue - Here is a little gem that I have come across recently...  I have only confirmed this in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you create a receive shape with a filter expression of (BTS.Operation=="somevalue") and your namespace contains BTS. then you will get a build failure similar to: The type or namespace name 'Operation' does not exist in the namespace 'Spike.BTS' (are you missing an assembly reference?) It appears that during compilation it is trying to resolve the BTS.Operation in the project assembly.  I was surprised by this one and have created several projects in the past with BTS. in the namespace without encountering an issue. To illustrate, I created a proje......

38 of 16798 | Google hates XML - Goolge does not know how to use XML - in fact it seems the HATE it....

39 of 16798 | Moustafa v2.0 and Labs.BizTalk.Net - Hello World!   Its been few months since I wrote last time. I’ve been super busy over the past few months working various efforts.   In late 2007, we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5. The release contained significant WF framework and tooling enhancements and some WF Rules enhancements based on your feedback. After shipping VS 2008 and .NetFx3.5, I worked in what I used to refer to as v.Next of workflow. This v.Next got formally announced in November and this is what we ended up calling "Oslo". In short, Oslo brings modeling mainstream. Oslo bits are getting hardened by the hour and is going to be great.   I worked on the Oslo Workflow bits for a coup......

40 of 16798 | Returing Objects using JAX-WS - Hi,<br><br>I need some help in returning objects using JAX-WS on serverside. I could write simple JAX-WS programs returning basic data type. ...

41 of 16798 | So You Want to Use a ServerContext in an Event Receiver...Too Bad... - I was playing with the ItemUpdated Event in a Document Library Definition File using VSEWSS.  I stepped into the filed like a good little girl using the w3wp.exe process.  Guess what the ServerContext is null, so I can't use the UserProfileManager...I found this little MSDN Post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3273163&SiteID=1.  It turns out there is a bug in the ServerContext, which is a little bizarre considering you can do SPContext.Current.Web/Site...I guess it's time to use the webservice to update user profiles: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms544240.aspx.  You have to love the random bugs:)  Sometimes I wonder if MOSSLover is a appropriate...Maybe......

42 of 16798 | Verity Snob: How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer - If you have time to step away from the iPhone, have a little giggle as "Verity Snob" has a piece on How to be an instant Web me-2.0 developer that includes the documented Web version numbers: Web 1.0: Programming model equivalent to that of a slightly up-market 3270 terminal. Forms are filled in with the sequence: tab tab tab tab tab tab bonk. Web 1.00001: The beginning of the rich web experience: the first ever, primitive Javascript code fragment is written. It generates an unwanted popup, and snaffles your credit card details. Web 1.1: No visible difference from Web 1.0, apart from IE showing the text 'Javascript error' in its status bar. Web 1.2: Standard buttons are upgraded with smart......

43 of 16798 | xmlroff 0.6.0 released - Version 0.6.0 of xmlroff has been released; it is an open source XSL-FO implementation. Changes include a more flexible BSD-based license, PNG graphics support in the Cairo back-end, and improved documentation....

44 of 16798 | A successful approach to SOA: Change one thing - Many of us did it, made one New Year Resolutions to many at the Millennium and didn’t managed to succeed in any of them. I tried to give up smoking, losing a bit of weight, drinking less beer, save up to buy a house and learning to drive. A lot of change there, to much infact, so unsurprisingly I failed. A common story. 8 years later, all those things on the list are (more or less) achieved and how I did that was by concentrating on fixing one thing at a time. Again unsurprisingly, psychologists have been giving us this advice for sometime. In the UK one of our major high-street brands, Boots, turned it into a successful marketing campaign. So why in business should this truism be any di......

45 of 16798 | BizTalk HL7 MLLP Adapter Key Settings - A couple of Key registry settings for the HL7 adapter that I thought I'd jot down onto my online diary. Some tweaks to apply under heavy load to the HL7 adapter Create the registry key MLLPSendFlushTimeout Create new registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Accelerator for HL7/Version 2.0 with following details: Name : MLLPSendFlushTimeout Value : 0 Set MaxReceiveInterval to 50 ms Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Expand Databases node and select BizTalkMgmtDb database. Expand Tables node and open table adm_ServiceClass. Set the value of MaxReceiveInterval to 50ms corresponding to the Name=Messaging InProces......

46 of 16798 | BizTalk: Interview Skill measurment - This is a Part 4 of the Interview articles. Part 1: " BizTalk 2004, Questions for interview without answers " http://geekswithblogs.net/LeonidGaneline/archive/2006/05/22/79267.aspx Part 2: " BizTalk interview questions and principle "...(read more)...

47 of 16798 | BizTalk: Interview: Skills measurment -  This is a Part 4 of the Interview articles. Part 1: "BizTalk 2004, Questions for interview without answers" http://geekswithblogs.net/LeonidGaneline/archive/2006/05/22/79267.aspx   Part 2: "BizTalk interview questions and principle" http://geekswithblogs.net/LeonidGaneline/archive/2007/07/03/113663.aspx Part 3: "WCF: Questions for studing and interview" http://geekswithblogs.net/LeonidGaneline/archive/2008/01/07/wcf-questions-for-studing-and-interview.aspx   Please, mark your skills in the table.  I completely understand that nobody ever tried ALL the BizTalk features.         Name                                                      Number of the Projects      Months       ......

48 of 16798 | Facebook Thrift, Google ProtoBufs, and Interop - Dare had an en-pointe analysis of the emergence of various new non-standarcd communications protocols, such as Facebook Thrift and Google Protocol buffers, and how they compare to the standards-based comms protocols like RSS, ATOM or even WS-*.  Dare correctly points out that these tools can be useful if you tightly control the endpoints involved in the communication, and, if you're certain the set of communicating endpoints will never expand to include anything you don't tightly control (acquisition? partner?).  After one is accustomed to fire and police protection, and very smooth roads, and storm sewers that keep the roads clear when it rains, it can be easy to......

49 of 16798 | Sending Flat File Payload in a SOAP Message - So we have a project were pieces of data are sent to an external party.  This party exposes a “service” to accept the data.  However, the “service” takes in a few pieces of metadata, and then accepts a comma-delimited string of values as the actual payload.  Ugh.  Ignoring the questionable design, how would I take what was originally XML content, turn it into a delimited structure, and then jam it into the outbound SOAP message?  Let’s see how we’d do that in BizTalk Server.  What I’ll show here is how to call the flat file assembler pipeline from an orchestration, and use a custom component to yank out the flat file content and put it into an XML element. First, I need some schemas.  I’ll ......

50 of 16798 | AnyType in WSDL generated with EJB3 based services - Folks,<br><br>I am trying to created a ESB with Routing Service.<br>I have one Order object which has list of orderLineItems. When i create EJB3 ...