Biztalk Adapters

101 of 1205 | Update to /dev/null R2 Adapter - Antti Somersalo brought to my attention that there was a bug in my R2 version of the /dev/null adapter. The bug manifested itself when you tried to export the bindings of any BizTalk Application that used the adapter in one of its send ports, failing with an ArgumentNullException. The problem was simple: The adapter management class was returning null from the GetConfigSchema() call. Fixing it was just as simple: Just change the implementation so that it returns an empty Xml schema: public string GetConfigSchema(ConfigType configType) {    return @"<schema xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'/>"; } ......

102 of 1205 | Attunity connectors for Oracle and Teradata are now available - The high speed connectors for Oracle and Teradata are now available for download.   Supported versions Platforms Oracle 9.2.0.4 or higher x86, x64, ia64 Teradata 2R6.0, 2R6.1, 2R6.2 and 12.0 x86, x64 Attunity has done a great job putting these together, and from what I’ve seen, the performance is really impressive. Be sure to check them out!...

103 of 1205 | BizTalk Server 2009 – What’s new - BizTalk Server 2006 R3 is now renamed to BizTalk Server 2009. BTS2006 R3 had considerable new features due to which Microsoft decided to make it as a major release and renamed it to BizTalk Server 2009. It will be released H1 2009. First community technology preview (CTP) is already delivered to selected customers. Another CTP will be released later this year.   Obviously, latest version of BizTalk Server will enable customers to take advantage of the latest Microsoft technologies. At the same time there are many enhancements and new features scheduled with this version.   So, what’s new in BizTalk Server 2009! Here are some of major features:   Platform support: -          Support ......

104 of 1205 | Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services - If you are looking for Free Software and Online Services then this resource guide should help point you in the right direction.   If you are looking for general information about Microsoft products and software I recommend visiting the main site Microsoft.com    You should refer to the appropriate licensing agreement, terms of use or contact Microsoft if you require further information or clarification. Please note that this page won’t be updated.   When Microsoft announces any changes to this information updates please check out this post to see updates, this post gives you all current links. These resources may also be of use: Full Trial Prod......

105 of 1205 | Zune Installation in my Boxster - Following the recent success in using a Zune for the kids to watch movies in the family vehicle, I decided it was time to update the music system in my car. I was a very happy customer of a Kenwood Keg which had been professionally installed in my Boxster years ago, but frustrations with that system, combined with my new-found Zune-love led me to an upgrade path. Out With The Keg The Kenwood Keg was a great hard-drive based system in its time (I think I got mine in 2003) and I got the 20GB system along with a new Kenwood head unit to drive it, speakers and a sub woofer. The original Boxster head unit (a CDR210) had no provision for aux-in (did anything in 1997?) though could connect to an......

106 of 1205 | Microsofty Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal / Role Centers - Deployment Tips-n-Tricks - 2 - For tips 1-7 , refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/solutions/archive/2008/06/23/microsofty-dynamics-ax-2009-enterprise-portal-role-centers-deployment-tips-n-tricks-1.aspx  (8) Report Deployment is giving below error"The following components have not been installed or are not configured correctly.AL.exeMicrosoft Domain-specific Langugage Tools..." You need to install VS 2008 or the VS 2008 Shell. If you install VS 2008 that should be good enough. If you want to install the minimal component required, then You can get VS Shell atVS Shell - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ACA38719-F449-4937-9BAC-45A9F8A73822&displaylang=enWindows SDK (contains AL.exe) - http://ww......

107 of 1205 | /dev/null Adapter on GitHub - I’ve just uploaded the source code for my old /dev/null BizTalk Adapter sample on GitHub , which is where I’m posting all my utilities, libraries and tools now. The repository contains both the original version of the adapter, as well as the special BizTalk...(read more)...

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109 of 1205 | BizTalk Server 2009 announcement - I'm a bit late because of my extended bout of 100% travel, much of it disconnected, but I thought I'd do a post about this anyhow because it is a very significant piece of news. Microsoft has announced that what was previously being called BizTalk Server 2006R3 has been renamed to BizTalk Server 2009. Why is this announcement important? Because, if you've been following my blog and others, you know that Oslo and a wave of other technologies is heading towards us, and that there will be a first-release of some of this at the PDC in October. Many people are probably wondering: what does this mean to existing BizTalk customers? Are their investments protected? Is there a migration path? Is m......

110 of 1205 | Nothin' but .net: Days 4 - Gotcha! You thought that was a typo, didn't you? I really intended to write "Days 4". I learned today that it's important to communicate your intent by naming your methods correctly. So I'm trying to express clearly in a fluent interface that this fourth session ended on a different day than it started. If you didn't catch the typo, you're probably suffering the same sleep deprivation as I am. Today was absolutely brutal. Let's just start by enumerating the intended agenda for todays: ORM infrastructure Query object End-to-end functionality of our first three pages. Things I understood today Express the intent without revealing the mechanics. Make it work first, t......

111 of 1205 | How on Earth Didn't I know about this Stuff 2: Free Dynamics in Focus Sessions - Today I found out about the below Free Live meetings sessions that the Microsoft Dynamics in Focus team are running a couple of times a week. They Look great – and cover CRM, Axapta, GP & Navision – so see if there's any topics that apply to you and register by clicking on the Register Now button below. The next session on the 9th of October is on Mobility in the Dynamics product suite & sounds like its going to be a great session. And being a live meeting session, you can log in & listen where ever you are! What a great idea! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft is conducting a series of free information sessions delivered through the ......

112 of 1205 | Learning Rails - Part 2 - I wanted to make this a series about Rails and about Ruby. To that end I'm going to write a series of entries on building an MVC application. As I said in the previous post I am a Ruby and Rails neophyte, so I'll be learning as I go along, regard this as a developer's journal. The aim being that you can learn from the mistakes that I make. If this really gets going I also hope to do some screencasts along the way. What am I going to write - a blog of course (is there any other sort of web app out there today :) ). I chose blogging software because Everybody understands what a blog is, so no trying to figure out the behaviour It gives me a chance to play with different form......

113 of 1205 | SQL Server Data Services connectors now on Codeplex - When I was visiting the SSIS development team in Shanghai a couple of months ago, we started working on a side project to create Source and Destination components for SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). We developed them as samples, and I was surprised at how popular they became internally. David Robinson beat me to the announcement, but after months of delay, I’ve finally been able to get it all together and publish the project on Codeplex. If you’re interested in the source code, I particularly like the way we got around a limitation in the Destination. SSDS currently supports a “batch” query mode for retrieving multiple entities (“rows” in relational terms) – you can pull back up to 500 e......

114 of 1205 | Support for SAP Queries in the SAP ADO.NET Provider - In the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2, we are adding support for execution of SAP Queries. A brief one liner on SAP Queries – you can use the SAP GUI designer to create something similar to a “SQL Query” (similar to how you would do it in Microsoft Access) by graphically selecting the tables you’re interested in, the columns, the input parameters, the sort order of the result set, etc. You can execute the query from the SAP ADO Provider, using syntax like: EXECQUERY QueryName @P1=Parameter1Value, @P2=Parameter2Value, @USERGROUP=UserGroup [, @WORKSPACE=’X’] @Pn refers to the nth selection field specified during the creation of the Query. @USERGROUP (mandatory) refers to the User Group associated wi......

115 of 1205 | When do I use the Legacy Network Apater - When you configure a new VM you have the option to add a "Network Adapter" or a "Legacy Network Adapter". Wich one should you use? The Legacy Network Adapter emulates a real Hardware NIC and chances are good that your guest already has a driver and can use it right away. It is also the one that supports PXE Boot, as the most PXE Loaders support this real Hardware. The default Network Adapter is a synthetic device not found as real hardware. It is much faster, however it requires drivers that are usually not included in any OS today. You need to add them by installiing the Integration Components (IC) on a supported Operating System. For Windows these ICs can be eas......

116 of 1205 | Microsoft Employee Transportation - Starting on October 6th the Microsoft Connector bus service will expand its number of lines. In the days of crude oil prices of $120 per barrel and more it is time to think about alternative ways of getting to work. While telecommuting is certainly a great way so save gas and protect the planet, it does not always work. There are plenty of times you must be on campus or in the office to do work, meet in person or attend labs. Microsoft acknowledged these facts and – as part of our employee benefits – offers a private transportation service. I personally have used the “Microsoft Connector” only a few time before I moved closer to the main campus here in Redmond. Now I can ride my bike to w......

117 of 1205 | Debatching Sql receive adapter resultsets - I spent Friday with a client advising them on some basic design principles, specifically around the use of the Sql receive adapter. It was a fairly simple scenario - extracting data from a SQL Server database, then processing the output messages with some very simple orchestrations. It seemed fairly obvious to me that the easiest way to process the data was to split the output from the receive ...

118 of 1205 | Delivery Notification Doesn't Appear with Specify Now Binding - Now, I don't pretend to understand this, so if someone can enlighten me, I would appreciate it :)I have a web port type defined in orchestration to a OneWay web service. When I create a port based on the web port type and I select Specify Now in the port configuration, then the Delivery Notification property doesn't appear. If I go into the port properties window and change the binding to Specify Later, the Delivery Notification property appears! Change the binding back, and it disappears again! Eh?My guess is that the delivery notification property is implicitly set when using the SOAP adapter (which is the default using a web port type and specifying the binding in the orchestration),......

119 of 1205 | Getting started with NUnit and BizUnit - When it comes to testing your BizTalk applications, NUnit and BizUnit are often used. Where NUnit is a unit-testing framework for .NET languages, BizUnit can be used for testing your BizTalk 2004/2006 solutions. This article describes which tools need to be installed and helps you to setup your first test project.What is NUnitAs stated, NUnit is a unit-testing framework for .NET languages. The test cases you create with BizUnit are added to and executed from the NUnit user interface. The results from the test runs can be viewed in NUnit as well.What is BizUnitThe test cases you need to test your BizTalk solutions are created with BizUnit. Although you need to create a Class library in Visua......

120 of 1205 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 19-9-2008 - Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 19th September 2008.  Key ones include Infrastructure Development & Operations • Microsoft Network Monitor 3.2 • Installation of Fedora Samba for Windows Active Directory Compatibility • Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) Archive • Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview Solutions & Solution Development • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer Evaluation VPC Image • Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) • Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 • Windows Internet Explorer......

121 of 1205 | One more thing - When using the Sql adapter to receive batches of data, a couple of handy hints: 1. Use a stored procedure. It allows you more control and security, and abstracts the underlying table structure. 2. Always add a parameter that allows you to restrict the size of the output (using SET ROWCOUNT). This allows you to control the flow of input messages - if there's a chance that your sproc is going to ...

122 of 1205 | SSDS and SSIS…like peanut butter and jelly - Hey All, One of the great things about SSDS is that we belong to a rich family of products. One of those products is SQL Server Integration Services – everybody’s favorite ETL tool. Well, thanks to some hard work by Matt Masson and his team, we now have an SSDS Adaptor for SSIS. You can now use SSIS to take data from virtually anywhere and pump it into or out of SSDS. This is one of the things I showed during my TechEd talk, but now you can try it for yourself. Matt has posted to source and binaries over on CodePlex. Enjoy!!!!...

123 of 1205 | Two great articles about the Oracle adapter - Last week I had to help a collegue with the Oracle adapter. To get started I used the following 2 articles:Richard Seroter's Walkthrough Wilfried Mausz's Oracle adapter demoThese two articles and some general BizTalk knowledge helped me to understand most of the Oracle adapter in very little time.Sharing knowledge rocks! Thanks guys! ...

124 of 1205 | XML Explicit and SQL receive adapter - Following on from my theme of 'hacking' around the limitations of the various wizards / auto-generated artefacts in BizTalk, here's an excellent posting on how to consume xml produced from SQL Server using XML EXPLICIT rather than XML AUTO.10:22 AM 3/31/2005...

125 of 1205 | Another Commerce Server Training Event - Last October I hosted a Training Event here in LA and was very successful. People from all over the world came and were very happy with the results. Due to popular demand I am hosting another event. This will also be held in LA. Training Event Training event is scheduled for Mon 11/17/2008 and ends Fri 11/21/2008. This is 5 day deep dive into Commerce Server starting daily 9-5 PM. On Friday we may end early. Cost of the event is $2495.00 per student. There is how ever a group discount. To register please follow this link Commerce Server Training site. Commerce Server Los Angeles Training Experience What you will learn systems Catalog, Orders, Profile, Marketing and Data Warehouse. We will a......

126 of 1205 | RTM of Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V Now Available - After a short delay, the RTM build of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V can now be downloaded from connect.microsoft.com (You need to register for this - but registration is free and easy). These integration components contain some critical features: High performance I/O drivers for networking and disk (both IDE and SCSI) for Linux under Hyper-V. An integrated video / mouse driver for Linux under Hyper-V. The kernel "Hypercall adapter". A number of people have asked me what this last item is, so let me explain.  Hyper-V and Xen (an open source hypervisor based virtualization solution that you are probably aware of) have very similar architectures - des......

127 of 1205 | How to Programmatically Install A Windows Service (.NET) on a Remote Machine (with or without Dependencies) - Part One - Sometimes there is no good way to do things on remote computers except through something as low level as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).  Installing a service is a great example of this. Fortunately for us, Jared Boelen has already figured this out.  I recommend reading his posts on how to do this. We are not going to get into the actual MS Build Task that he put forth this time, just the code that would allow you to install a service remotely. NOTE: This is based heavily on Jared's code for Installing Services Remotely. In fact most of it is reused albeit renamed and commented (I took out some of the comments for readability of code). I also updated the service installer so th......

128 of 1205 | How to Programmatically Install A Windows Service (.NET) on a Remote Machine (with or without Dependencies) - Part One - Sometimes there is no good way to do things on remote computers except through something as low level as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).  Installing a service is a great example of this. Fortunately for us, Jared Boelen has already figured this out.  I recommend reading his posts on how to do this. We are not going to get into the actual MS Build Task that he put forth this time, just the code that would allow you to install a service remotely. NOTE: This is based heavily on Jared's code for Installing Services Remotely. In fact most of it is reused albeit renamed and commented (I took out some of the comments for readability of code). I also updated the service installer so th......

129 of 1205 | I’m a PC, Do you have a problem with that? - I am a PC guy, I always was, for me PC gives more freedom, you can do whatever you like, build the craziest machine you think it is good for you, and you will never be over priced, with PC you are always in control, if you want to add more capacity, just go and buy a new hard drive, if you need more gaming capabilities upgrade your display adapter, more memory, get a new memory stick, as simple as this, you can make your machine evolves easily with your needs, if you want your pc to become a business machine you can, a gaming platform you can, a parent machine you can, you can find a pc from $100 to thousands of dollars depending on your needs, and for sure you can have fun building your ow......

130 of 1205 | Beware the shocking iPhone 3G power adapters - Apple on Friday said it recalled (actually it’s an “exchange”) every power adapter that shipped with the 3G iPhone. In a statement Apple said: Apple today announced that under certain conditions the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter’s metal prongs can break off and remain in a power outlet, creating the risk of electric shock. Apple has received [...] ...

131 of 1205 | Apple issues safety alert for iPhone 3G power adapter - Apple is exchanging the ultracompact USB power adapters included with iPhone 3Gs. ...

132 of 1205 | Sony debuts new iPhone/iPod-compatible sound systems - Sony has introduced four new speaker systems designed to work with iPhones and iPods with dock connectors. ...

133 of 1205 | What's next in Biztalk ? - The next version of BizTalk, the much talked BizTalk 2006 R3 will now be called BizTalk 2009. This is to be released in the first half of year 2009. CTP is already released to selected customers and a broader CTP would be released later this calender. Check out the press release from Oliver Sharp (GM BizTalk Server) here. Some of the new features in BizTalk 2009 are new and enhanced LOB adapters for Oracle E-Business Suite, SqlServer, mobile RFID platform and management tools, enhanced B2B capabilities for EDI, AS2, SWIFT and ALM integration with TFS and VS, ESB Guidance 2.0. Future versions of BizTalk would be integarted with WF. However existing XLANG orchestration e......

134 of 1205 | Get your Beta bits – and check out Photo Gallery programmability - The teams just shipped some beta bits for Mail/Messenger/Photo Gallery/Movie Maker/Writer/Toolbar/Family Safety and Outlook Connector – whoa! (check out liveside’s photo gallery post) Lots of stuff. My favorite bit though, is a programmability scenario enabled in the new Photo Gallery client; essentially you can use the power of photo gallery for tagging, fixing, stitching, pumping into photosynth, people tagging etc. and then publish that photo along w/ metadata TO YOUR OWN APP! check out the post here....

135 of 1205 | Scaling Heavy Network Traffic with Windows - Under Windows Server 2000 and 2003 (RTM), the interrupts from a single network adaptor (NIC) cannot be handled by multiple CPU Cores. A Deferred Procedure Call (DPC) call gets scheduled to run as a consequence of the NIC firing an interrupt. The DPC will deliver the received packets from the NIC to the networking subsystem of the OS. The NIC driver will block interrupts from the network card until the DPC has been handled. If your system makes heavy use of network bandwidth, sending all interrupts and DPC to one CPU may overwhelm the system and cause a bottleneck. In extreme cases the system may even become unresponsive as the amount of DPC traffic consumes all CPU cycles. One workaround, ......

136 of 1205 | Windows Live Wave 3 Beta Downloads - The beta downloads for the new Windows Live Wave 3 applications are here. This includes new versions of: Messenger Mail Writer Photo Gallery Movie Maker Toolbar Family Safety Microsoft Office Outlook Connector To give you an idea of what’s new in some of the products: The look and visible features have been updated in all of the products, but the ones that are most noticeable are Messenger, Writer, and Mail. There are a lot of new features in Messenger, but some noticeable ones are that “Shared Folders” in Messenger have been replaced with “Online files”, which is your SkyDrive account. Also, the status indicators in Messenger have changed. You now h......

137 of 1205 | <$100 .NET Micro Framework Development board! - Check out this low cost .NET Micro Framework board from GHI Electronics - The GHI web site also contains a video of the board being used to play a .MP3 file from a USB stick - pretty cool!   The board is listed at $99, and has the following hardware and software features. Software: Micro Framework 2.5 and 3.0 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 Output 4-bit SD Memory Interface (uSD connector) PWM Low Power and Hibernate Modes -40 to +85 Operational Lead Free ......

138 of 1205 | Building Enterprise Mashups using RSSBus: Part IV - We conclude this series of blog posts by demonstrating how to take a set of feeds, and mash them up into a single RSS feed using RSSBus. If you’ve been following this blog series, you’ll know that I was asked by my leadership to prove that RSSBus could generate a 360° view of a “contact” by (a) producing RSS feeds from disparate data sources such as databases, web services and Excel workbooks and (b) combining multiple feeds to produce a unified view of a data entity.  Our target architecture looks a bit like this:   In this post, I’ll show you how to mash up all those individual feeds, and also how to put a friendly HTML front end on the resulting RSS data. Building the Aggregate Feed Fir......

139 of 1205 | Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta 2 now available! - Microsoft has just released the Beta 2 version of the Outlook Connector – an add-in that puts your Windows Live Hotmail data in Outlook. While Beta 2 does not introduce new features, it provides several improvements aimed at making synchronization with e-mail, contacts, and the free Windows Live Calendar Beta service more robust. If you want to know more about the benefits of connecting to the Windows Live Calendar service, I recommend you read the original Outlook Connector Beta 1 blog post here. Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta 2 is also available as part of the Windows Live Beta, a collection of free Windows Live services and applications, available here. In light of some customer f......

140 of 1205 | DotNetNuke, ASP.NET and SEO - One question I get asked a lot by managers, clients and other associates is: "Why is clean markup important? Search engines just see the text, right?" Lots of people don't understand the benefit of table-less designs. Now there are thousands of lectures all across the Internet explaining why CSS is better, so I'm not going to start another one here. However, I am going to discuss what the legal and marketing impacts are on having a proprietary, out-of-date design. CSS is designed to separate presentational instructions from the actual content of the page. This makes the design easy to maintain and/or re-write if necessary - the CSS Zen Garden is the best example of this I've come across s......

141 of 1205 | Licensing and Packaging Improvements for Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Since Business Ready Licensing (BRL) was introduced two years ago, we have continuously evaluated our pricing model. We have analyzed your feedback and found that with some adjustments, it is possible to improve and strengthen our Business Essential Edition (BE). Through extensive feedback from the channel and market, we found that it is time to adjust the BE edition in order to: - Create a more competitive offering for BE in its target market - Make a clearer licensing model by fine-tuning the existing BE edition and streamlining the model for licensing access to any version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV   A More Competitive Offering We have received strong and consistent feedback r......

142 of 1205 | Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Bug fixes - I promised I'd publish the list of Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 bug fixes and here they are.  I've attempted a new twist this time and included information about how we found out about the bug.  I figured you might be interested in seeing how many of them come from you.  It's also interesting to see how many come from our own internal dogfooding efforts.  The counts break down as follows: Count Source 227 Total bug fixes 87 Customers 62 Testing 38 Development process 30 Dogfooding 2 Other   A......

143 of 1205 | Building Enterprise Mashups using RSSBus: Part III - In the first two posts of this series, I looked at how to aggregate data from multiple sources and mash them up into a single data entity that could be consumed by an RSS client.  In this post, I will show off the new SOAP Connector from RSSBus. Earlier in this series, I talked about mashing up data residing in databases, Excel workbooks and existing web services.  In my scenario, I have an existing web service that returns a set of master data about our customers.  This includes contact details and which sales reps are assigned to this customer.  Let’s see how I can go about calling this service through RSSBus. Building an SOAP Feed First of all, let’s take a look at what parameters are a......

144 of 1205 | Sonnet offers Pro Dual CF Adapter ExpressCard/34 - Sonnet Technologies' new ExpressCard/34 lets MacBook Pro users transfer data faster from CompactFlash cards. ...

145 of 1205 | Bookshelf - [warning: you won't find any useful identity related info in this post]   I recently moved to a new apartment, and while unboxing the books I had to decide on a criteria for shelving them in our wonderful black billy. Hierarchies sucks, because they force you to choose a single criteria for slicing your data: but with physical objects, it's hard to use tagging :-) I decided to dedicate one shelf to the books that had the most influence on my past & recent development: and I'm going to spend some of this Saturday night writing it down here. I excluded all the classics from school time, you won't find "The Prince" or "The Divine Comedy" in this list but that do......

146 of 1205 | EF POCO Adapter updated (v1.02) - I've just posted updates to EF POCO Adapter (v1.02) which resolves a couple of issues spotted by users: Detached proxies (created by EFPocoContxt.CreateObject<T>) as well as proxies in the Added state were failing on property navigation. This has been fixed, and the property navigation doesn't attempt the load in one of these states. Thanks to Corey Gaudin for reporting this. GetAdapterObject() was failing for proxies created with CreateObject<T>. This has been fixed by ensuring that adapters are always cached whenever proxies are present. As a side effect of this change, DetectChanges() should be a bit faster, as we don't have to walk object state manager anymore. Thanks to Co......

147 of 1205 | ATTO intros quad-channel 8Gb Fibre Host adapter - ATTO Technology's new Fibre Channel host adapter is billed as the industry's first 8Gb model. ...

148 of 1205 | Commerce Server 2007 Training Resources. - One of the questions I am commonly asked is "Where can I learn more about Commerce Server?". I mentioned this topic briefly on my post Starting to look at Commerce Server. So if you're new to Commerce Server where can you start? The first place I would start is the Commerce Server Developer Center on MSDN. The documentation for Commerce Server 2007 covers a lot of the basic concepts and ideas that you will need to know around the main Commerce Server Systems. Introducing Commerce Server 2007 Then we can start to look at the concepts of each of the Commerce Server 2007 systems. Concepts of the Catalog System Concepts of the Inventory System ......

149 of 1205 | Linux Integration Components Now Posted! - While I'm recovering from the Virtualization Launch Event here in Bellevue yesterday (you can view the keynote sessions and all the breakouts here), there's even more Hyper-V news to share. My colleague Patrick O'Rourke had posted previously on this, but I'm proud to announce - The final version of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V have been released! Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. These components take advantage of the new high-speed bus, VMBus, which was developed for Hyper-V.Hypercall adapt......

150 of 1205 | Announcing the release of the Solution Connector for Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 on MSDN Code Gallery - The Solution Connector for Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 has been released on MSDN Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PPSSolutionConnector This solution starter was created to support both the Capital Planning & Investment Control for Federal Government (CPIC) and Innovation Process Management (IPM) solutions. In these solutions projects and ideas are captured in SharePoint and at a specific point in the workflow  pushed to Project Portfolio Server 2007 (utilizing the new web-service) for analysis. The Solution Connector is an ASP.NET web service and .NET class library which provides a set of methods for programmatically creating, updating or deleting ......