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1 of 18325 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 3-10-2008 - Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 3rd October 2008.  Key ones include Infrastructure Development & Operations • Hyper-V Server 2008 Getting Started Guide • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 - English • Branch Office Infrastructure Solution for Windows Server 2008 Solutions & Solution Development • Requirements Management with Visual Studio Team System White Paper • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (August 2008) • Modifying Messages with the WCF Adapters • Web Platform Installer Beta Security, Policy & Compliance • Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 • Microsoft Application......

2 of 18325 | Microsoft announces "Dublin" - Microsoft will be presenting some very interesting stuff at the PDC this year. One of the much-anticipated Oslo-related messages came last week, ahead of the conference, with the public announcement of "Dublin", an Application Server and host for WF / WCF applications.  And get this: There will be CTP BITS available for .NET Framework 4.0 and Dublin at the PDC! Essentially, Dublin offers significant feature additions to the WAS (Windows Process Activation Services - remember?) that ship with Server 2008 and Vista, and will include functionality that previously was only available in Microsoft's messaging platform, BizTalk Server. Undoubtedly this is great news for anyone who has been develo......

3 of 18325 | Moss Camp and Cloud Camp Coming to Chicago! - Cloud Camp on 10/21/08 CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.  Register at this site today!...(read more)...

4 of 18325 | SDC Day 1 - SO Workflows and WPF Interop - Gave two sessions yesterday at the Software Developers Network conference (aka SDC) in Netherlands. First was on using WF as a service technology. I talked about where WF fits into a SO architecture, as well as SO tenets, WF capabilities for services, and then of course, several demos of how to use it. I showed simple use of Send/Receive activities, how to split out the context instance ID from the proxy so it can be handed off to multiple clients, and how to make callsbacks from one workflow to another with service calls. You can grab the slides and demos for Developing Service Oriented Workflows here:  Slides   Demos Second session was on Windows Forms......

5 of 18325 | Silverlight Cream for October 06, 2008 -- #389 - In This Issue: Dhiraj Gupta, Peter Brombert, Bill Reiss, Jesse Liberty, Mike Snow, Terence Tsang, Lee, Karl Shifflett, and Tamir Khason. Karl Shifflett reports a very long weekend and an update to XAML Power Toys: XAML Power Toys 3.1.0.2 Has Silverlight 2 Support!. Tamir Khason reports Silverlight Bidi Controls Library RC0 and movement from Beta 2 to RC0 , and everything is on CodePlex! From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight Min-Map Dhiraj Gupta has the beginnings of a mind-mapping tool... tak a look at this.. it's pretty interesting. Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - Doing Data Part IV: Browser / Cookie Interaction I don't know what was going on, but I wasn't getting the updates on Pete......

6 of 18325 | Snap Shot of BizTalk 2006 Solutions For MQSeries - I wanted to create a  snap shot of BizTalk 2006 solutions for MQSeries.  The two options we have can be confusing, so hopefully the information below will add some clarity.   BizTalk WebSphere MQ Adapters BizTalk Server 2006 we only use: 1)      MQSeries Server Adapter 2)      MQSeries Client Adapter                                    Base Client – Transactions not supported              &......

7 of 18325 | Updates for AJAX in IE8 Beta 2 - Sunava Dutta here, a program manager focused on improving AJAX in the browser! Now that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out, I want to write about some of the latest rounds of enhancements we’ve made. As many of you may recall, back in March we discussed a set of developer experiences in AJAX across scenarios such as client-side cross-domain data access, local storage, and navigation state management among many others. The good news is our team has been working since Beta 1 to tweak and update our implementations based on feedback from developers (thanks for your contributions!) and ongoing updates to the W3C standards drafts on which most of these implementations are based or have been submi......

8 of 18325 | Virtual Earth 6.2 Technical Webcast On Demand - I uploaded my webcast into our SkyDrive service and have posted it here for your viewing pleasure. Check out my blog post from last week for the download details for the samples from this webcast. Also I should point out that we have updated the WCF contracts for our staging service so if you are using the samples you should delete and recreate the service references for all of the services in these samples so that they won't throw exceptions. Enjoy....

9 of 18325 | Web part zone adapter - A lot of people working with public facing web sites and SharePoint 2007 have discovered that the web part zone makes it virtually impossible to have a WCAG complient site, in other words to have a page layout which doesn't use HTML tables for layout purposes. The only possible way to change this is to make a web part zone adapter which renders the web part zone in a DIV based layout instead. The only downside to this approach is that this will break the javascript the zone uses to drag and drop web parts. This downside can be minimized if you only apply the adapter when the page is rendered to the end user, which means when the page is not rendered in edit mode. By doing this the javascrip......

10 of 18325 | activating fEATURE FOR eACH mYsITE sITE COLLECTION - Recently I had to get a feature activated over all 800 MySite of a Farm. The approach I choose was to generate an xml list of all the MySIte URL's in my farm and use a Windows application to read the XML file and generate the appropriate activation script. a) The step to get all the site collections within the WebApplication hosting MySite is to run the command of stsadm -o enumsites -url http://moss:34078/ >C:\MySiteList.XML . This xml file would include the URL of all mysites in an XML Node. b) Assuming all your mysites are under http://moss:portnumber/sites/personal/, the next thing you need to do is simply load the XML File in an XML domdocument and generate the appropriate activat......

11 of 18325 | Astoria & IIS , HTTP 400 Bad Request on Posting Large Payloads to an astoria service - We’ve seen this in the labs and also reported by our customers on the forums, If you try to post  a large amount of data to an astoria data service , you might receive a response code Http 400 Bad Request even though the response data is valid. An ADO.NET Data Service sits on top of Windows Communication Foundation , although most of the required plumbing is hidden away from you  ,  you can still see the effects in scenarios such as this . Why do I get a generic 400 Bad Request in this case ? When the request size ( including headers ) exceeds 64 K ( 65536 bytes ) , WCF chokes on the request as this request size is greater than the limit on the maximum size of the......

12 of 18325 | Call for Review: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0) is a Proposed Recommendation - 2008-10-06: The SYMM Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0), pronounced "smile." SMIL 3.0 allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author may describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. SMIL 3.0 is a modular XML application: its components may be used in other XML formats. SMIL also defines mobile profiles that incorporate features useful within the industry. Comments are welcome through 6 November. Read more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. See also W3C......

13 of 18325 | Career 2.0 Starts Monday, October 6th 2008 - I made a comment about this in a prior post, but it was really long and wordy so unless you read right to the end you would have missed the announcement. So I figured I’d post a little ‘update’ to fill everyone in on what’s been going down. Over the last seven years I’ve worked for numerous small companies here in Winnipeg. I’ve been part of some interesting projects, had some successes, some failures, and a lot of lessons learned. I’ve tested the waters of independent consulting and had great success with it. But now I’m at a point where I need to look at the next 5 to 10 years of my life and where my career fits in: what environment do I want, what technologies excite me, knowing my s......

14 of 18325 | Common Problems Composing Security with Streaming - Security and streaming are two features that often do not get along with each other. Although the concepts are not inherently in conflict, their implementations often do things that cause problems for the optimal execution of the other. You may have seen that the message security channel, like the reliable messaging channel, in its native mode likes to buffer messages. This is because signing is one of the aspects of message security. The message signature is typically computed based on the contents of the message to allow detection of any changes. Although you could still achieve some benefit from streaming on the network and on the client, buffering of the message requires storag......

15 of 18325 | Entity Framework mapping scenarios - One thing I like to get across when I talk about the ADO.NET Entity Framework is that in V1 the Designer does not support all the capabilities of the underlying Entity Data Model (EDM) – and hence you will sometimes need to “roll up your sleeves” and start editing the underlying XML files (CSDL, MSL, SSDL) that make up an EDM. There is a document which will help if you find yourself needing to do this - Entity Framework Supported Mapping Scenarios. Summary: This white paper enumerates the supported mapping scenarios in Entity Framework. It also mentions important design considerations for store schema in order to deal with advanced mapping scenarios. The paper covers off a vari......

16 of 18325 | Enumerating Embedded Resources - On a recent project I used a resource file to store a collection of XML schema files. When validating my XML, I needed to add all the schemas to my XmlDocument object. Instead of hard-coding each schema file's name, I decided to load the resources programmatically. Here's a snippet of the code I ended up with: XmlSchemaSet schemaSet = new XmlSchemaSet(); Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); ResourceManager resMan = XmlSchemaResources.ResourceManager; foreach (string resource in assembly.GetManifestResourceNames()) {     if (resource == string.Concat(resMan.BaseName, ".resources"))     {         ResourceReader resReader = new ResourceReader(assembly.G......

17 of 18325 | Events This Week – October 6th, 2008 - Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP Main Meeting: ASP.NET MVC - This session will introduce attendees to the new ASP.NET MVC framework while building a real-world application. "Separation of concerns" will be discussed as the Model, View, and Controller concepts will be explained. The MVC framework enables unit testing of the presentation layer which will be emphasized throughout. The presentation will start with an application that follows the traditional post-back model and, over the course of the presentation, convert this application to the MVC framework. This will give ......

18 of 18325 | Head in the cloud - I have recently been invited to join the Microsoft Cloud Advisory group and have just spent the last week at an SDR getting to understand all the wonderful cloud stuff. Unfortunately I'm under NDA until PDC but it is looking good. On the topic of the cloud and BizTalk I came across a blog by Lori MacVittie (http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/10/06/how-microsoft-is-bursting-into-the-cloud-with-biztalk.aspx) that really has got it all wrong. The blog talks about BizTalk activities in the cloud and orchestrations and on but has missed the point completely. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom named their cloud messaging and workflow technologies BizTalk Services. In fact ......

19 of 18325 | 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)...

20 of 18325 | Interested in Performance? - Distributed applications are tricky. The internet is a fickle beast that will lost data at will and run counter to many intuitions. Getting distributed applications to run smoothly and performant at scale is particularly difficult.  There isn’t a single "go fast" silver bullet, rather it’s more of an art. At PDC this year you’ll have a great opportunity to learn about the Zen of WCF Performance and Scale at Nicholas Allen’s lunch session. Enjoy! ...

21 of 18325 | Managing Web.Config Customizations - I'm back after a long hiatus - international relocations tend to consume a lot of your free time - so it's time to start dusting off some of the many learnings I've had over the past few months... One important topic I've encountered with my current and previous customers is how to manage web.config updates when deploying customizations. If you've been playing around with the Solutions framework, you're probably familiar with the ease of adding SafeControls entries to your web.config via your solution definition file, but what about all those other configuration settings that inevitably come up with SharePoint customizations? In my research, I found three tactics for implementing gen......

22 of 18325 | MSDN TechDays is Coming to Dallas! - Are you ready for a GeekFest?  We’re pulling out all the stops to make the next MSDN event a memorable one!  MSDN TechDays is a three-day geek-out covering a variety of topics for ITPros, Developers and Architects.  We’re holding the first ever MSDN TechDays on November 18-20 at the Dallas Convention Center.  Here’s an overview of the topics, and some links where you can register to attend. PLEASE NOTE that each day is considered a separate event.  Make sure you register for ALL the sessions you plan to attend as registering for only one event does not mean you’re registered for all the event. TUESDAY The agenda on Tuesday features presentations from our local c......

23 of 18325 | Multiple ways to Poll (Receive Location in BizTalk) in the SQL Adapter - In this post, I outlined the ways in which stored procedures can be executed using the SQL Adapter. Similar to the methods described there, are very similar methods for polling on the inbound side. (I won’t mention the advantages/limitations/workarounds here, since there are very similar to those mentioned in the other post). 1. The first method for polling, manifested as the “Polling” operation in the Metadata Search/Browse tool. At runtime, the SQL statement specified in the “PollingStatement” binding property gets executed, and the result sets returned (we support multiple result sets being returned) are surfaced as System.Data.DataSet[] (an array of datasets). NOTE – in order to let the......

24 of 18325 | Neues Futter für unseren Applikationsserver - Das Windows Server Betriebssystem ist seit der Version Windows NT 4.0 mit Option Pack 3 ein Applikationsserver der verschiedene Funktionalitäten zur Verfügung stellt. Sei es Message Queuing, Object Pooling oder einfach nur verteilte Transaktionen. In der jetzigen Version Windows Server 2008 und dem .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 gibt es eine Reihe von Technologien die ein Entwickler nutzen kann um verteilte Anwendungsarchitekturen zu entwickeln und zu betreiben. Mit der Software Modellierung die im Rahmen der Einführung von “Oslo” einen großen Einzug in die Entwicklerlandschaft halten wird, erhält auch das Windows Betriebssystem weitere Verbesserungen und Neuerungen im Bereich “Applica......

25 of 18325 | Not Writing Code is Great - I love writing code. Sometimes, though, not writing code is even better. Less code written means less to test, less to maintain, less to document etc etc. Ben Vincent, Lead Program Manager for Windows Live Calendar, likes to spend his free time pretending to be a developer ;-) Actually, he's going a pretty good job because his pet project, Tassography.com, is looking pretty good in it's latest release. I've been giving Ben some feedback on his code and what's particularly nice is when you can review someone's code and say "hey - that's good code, but why not throw it all away?" In Ben's own words... Thanks to Martin Peck a friend in the UK, I have rewritten the XML layer to speed up the l......

26 of 18325 | Partial Projects - The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release introduces two new ways on how to share information between projects, partial projects and composite projects. This blog post will go in to how to use partial projects, composite projects will be discussed in a later post. When we started talking to existing users of the current database project system and the use cases involved it became clear that many had a need to share actual implementation between different database projects. One common scenario we were confronted was is what I will call the "baseline" project. All projects derive from a common set of objects inside a base project. Some users solved this by cop......

27 of 18325 | Q&A: Can I use LINQ with .NET Framework 2.0? - This question from one of my MSDN sessions has stumped me for a while. I know the new language features in Visual Studio 2008 (e.g. LINQ!) are compiler magic which ultimately spits out CLR 2.0 code – but what about the supporting assemblies? Hence… I parked it. Then… I stumble across a solution. LINQBridge (from the author of the excellent LINQPad) is a small 60KB assembly that when combined with the multi-targeting capabilities of Visual Studio 2008 gives the ability to write code which does LINQ to Objects (not XML or SQL) but runs fine on a machine with just the .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Very clever....

28 of 18325 | SDN Conference Day #1 - (Sorry A blog post in Dutch about a software conference in the Netherlands) Vandaag (Maandag 6 okt) waren we met z'n 3 afgereist naar het pittoreske Noordwijkerhout waar de SDN Conference werd gehouden, oftewel SDC. Op de SDC waren sessie over bijv .NET, Information worker, DotNetNuke, Delphi, Database, Architecture en User eXperience. De sessie waar ik vooral naar toe was gegeaan waren de .NET/Architecture sessies. Voor vandaag stonden voor mij de volgende sessie op het programma. Ik zal niet te diep op de sessies ingaan: Sessie NE.19 Introduction to ASP.NET MVC door Alex Thissen Deze sessie ging over het nieuwe door Microsoft ontwikkelde framework om webapplica......

29 of 18325 | Silverlight 2 RC0 + ADO.NET Data Service + Entity Framework - Qualche giorno fa discutevo con un amico sulle seguenti problematiche: Qual è il modo migliore da Silverlight 2 di fare una chiamata verso un servizio che espone dei dati provenienti da un database ? Voglio poter serializzare le entità del mio modello dei dati ? Sì, ma non solo, voglio serializzare l’intero grafo di una relazione master/details. Devo costruirmi tutto a mano ? Ok ,vediamo una possibile soluzione che adotta l’uso di ADO.NET Data Service (DS) e ADO.NET Entity Framework (rilasciati con la RTM della SP1 di Visual Studio 2008) e la RC0 di Silverlight 2, in quest’ultima versione, da poco rilasciata, sono infatti state aggiornate le librerie client che consentono di lav......

30 of 18325 | SMIL 3.0 Reaches Proposed Recommendation - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (or SMIL) 3.0 has now become a proposed recommendation at the W3C. SMIL hasn’t been widely used, but some of it is widely supported thanks to ACID tests that had the browser vendors put it in. 3.0 has the following goals: Define an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL, an author may describe the temporal behaviour of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen. Allow reusing of SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages, in particular those who need to represent timing and sync......

31 of 18325 | The 70-503 exam (WCF) - Today I passed my first .NET 3.5 exam: the 70-503 (Windows Communication Foundation Application Development) exam. It wasn't easy and I can say that I was lucky: I've got only one question regarding WCF and COM+ (which I did not learn it at all for this exam). I've got a lot of configuration questions and how to configure by manually editing the config files or at run-time. I had previous hands-on experience on .NET 3.0, I also took the Microsoft Learning collection 6461 (to refresh my knowledge)....

32 of 18325 | The W3C EXI Working Group has published the last call working draft of Efficient XML Interchange. - The W3C EXI Working Group has published the last call working draft of Efficient XML Interchange. Nothing significant has changed. It's still binary goop....

33 of 18325 | Top WF/WCF Sessions in PDC2008 - There are still 21 days to go until the PDC. Are you excited to attend those fascinating technical sessions? You might have noticed that we have the following interesting sessions for WF/WCF as part of .NET Framework 4.0: ·       WF 4.0: A First Look (Kenny Wolf) ·       WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0 (Ed Pinto) ·       WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities (Matt Winkler) ·       Microsoft .NET Framework: Developing RESTful Services (Steve Maine) ·       Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Us......

34 of 18325 | VSTS workshop training (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth) - Readify, one of our partners here in Australia is offering a one day workshop focusing on Team Foundation Server, Agile Development and technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, LINQ and others.  The training is not free but it will be delivered by excellent MVP's - so I have no doubt its a worthwhile investment.  Here are the dates/locations: SYDNEY: Thursday 30 October 2008, 8:30am – 5:30pm | Cliftons, 190 George Street, Sydney   MELBOURNE: Friday 31 October 2008, 8:30am – 5:30pm | Cliftons, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne   BRISBANE: Friday 7 November 2008, 8:30am – 5:30pm | Cliftons, 288 Edward Street, Brisbane   PERTH: Tuesday 11 November 2008, 8:30am ......

35 of 18325 | Zeyad Rajabi Talks about the Open XML SDK V2 - Zeyad is one of the Open XML document format program managers within the Office division, and has started a series of posts on the Open XML SDK V2.  His first post on the Open XML SDK V2 tells you want it is (and what it is not), why you would want to use it, provides a number of important links related to the SDK, and describes the important scenarios that the SDK addresses.   Zeyad and I will be presenting together at PDC 2008 on the Open XML SDK....

36 of 18325 | Anders Hejlsberg Talks about C#, Mentions Dynamic Language Features for C# 4.0 - In a must-read October 1, 2008 interview with Computerworld, Anders Hejlsberg talks about the history of C#, the motivations behind some of the language design decisions, and mentions that the C# team is looking at supporting dynamic programming. From the article: “I think that C# is becoming one of the first widely adopted multi paradigm programming languages out there. With C# you can do object oriented programming, you can do procedural programming, now you can also do functional programming with a bunch of the extensions we’ve added in C# 3.0. We’re looking at C# 4.0 supporting dynamic programming and so we aim to harvest the best from all of these previously distinct language categ......

37 of 18325 | Microsoft SQL Server Data Services (SSDS): First Contact - I have been reading about cloud computing quite a bit.  I found that Microsoft is doing something really interesting under the code name "Sitka" (there is now a public beta, so the code word is no longer internal). Sitka, or SSDS, is cloud entity storage that offers SLA features to include massive scale, availability, performance, and security.   To read more about it, take a look at this.  Sitka is named such either because of a place in Alaska or because of this restaurant, located in Seattle. I signed up for the beta and went to work creating a simple application that will create an entity in an authority and container I specify.  An authority is the......

38 of 18325 | MSDN Tiki Hut Shows in South Florida this week, Miami, Boca and Ft Myers with Russ Fustino and Jeff Barnes! - .NET Tiki Hut MSDN Roadshow - Miami (10/6) - Boca Raton (10/7) - Ft Myers (10/8) - more info at http://www.dotnettikihut.com   Event Dates and Registration Monday, October 06, 2008 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM University of Miami - School of Business Storer Auditorium 5250 University Drive Coral Gables, Florida 33146 Register NOW: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032389186&CountryCode=US Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Spanish River Library 1501 NW Spanish River Blvd Boca Raton Florida 33431 Register NOW: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032389330&CountryCod......

39 of 18325 | Ports Company tracks forms and business processes with InfoPath - An Australian InfoPath case study has been published on microsoft.com: Microsoft Case Studies: DP World Their solution uses SharePoint, InfoPath, CRM and Nintex workflow (a workflow tool that sits on top of MOSS and WF to provide WYSIWG workflow creation). An interesting benefit they saw from automating their forms processes is decreased insurance liability: “Ultimately, this lowers our insurance risk, especially when you consider we are talking about roughly 50 cases per day,” says Wheeler. “There is a cost gain in the efficiency with which we log and track all damaged container cases, and we can reconcile claims much faster. And if lawyers need to track through events, then we can ......

40 of 18325 | The IE8 IEAK - Hi All, Back in June, James Pratt and Jane Maliouta alluded to IEAK improvements for IE8. Today, I will be talking about the work we have done in this area. Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8 Beta IEAK8 Beta is now available publically for everyone to try. To give you some background, the IEAK allows you to deploy customized packages and manage IE settings post deployment within corporations and among Internet Content Providers (ICP) and Internet Service Providers (ISP). For instance, Acme Corp could use IEAK to create a custom IE package for their employees that has Acme favorites, search providers, home pages, Web Slices, Accelerators, and more. We simplified creating, deploying ......

41 of 18325 | Update on Wednesday's User Group Meeting - The guys from K2 have provided some more detail on what they will be showing us during the User Group meeting on Wednesday: Home Improvement Retailer – Integrated Sales Order Solution. Charles (Sales Officer) creates a new sales order. Customer data is received from SAP using BizTalk. (Using BizTalk SAP Adapter) Charles submits the order. K2 uses BizTalk to do a credit check on an IBM server. (Using BizTalk Host Adapter for IBM DB2) Based on the data received from the IBM server an approve...(read more)...

42 of 18325 | EWS Programming # 1 : Creating my first Exchange Web Services client application in C#.Net - Please find my first web service client that i tried couple of months earlier that creates an e-mail item in the Sent Items folder. You can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to create a simple Exchange Web Services client application like this. 1: using System; 2: using System.Net; 3: using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates; 4: using System.Net.Security; 5: 6: // The ExchangeWebServices namespace was created by using Visual Studio // 2005 and the Add Web Reference wizard. 7: using ExchangeWebServices;...(read more)...

43 of 18325 | ExecuteT4Template MSBuild task: Updated - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] As Cory pointed out, my original task to execute T4 templates under MSBuild (replacing property markers in the T4 script with evaluated values from the build, see: An MSBuild task to execute T4 templates), fails under MSBuild 3.5. This is down to a change in the object model in the framework. All the useful classes are internal and all the useful properties are private, so they have to be reflected over - which makes my code brittle. I've updated the task as part of a set here: Sixeyed MSBuild tasks, and it now works with either MSBuild 2.0 or 3.5. Another update will be coming soon, to allow you to use named item group values, as well......

44 of 18325 | Extracting XML and SQL Bulk Updates using LINQ to XML and LINQ to SQL in .NET 3.5. - Extracting XML and SQL bulk updates using LINQ to XML and LINQ to SQL in .NET 3.5....

45 of 18325 | Home Energy Comes One Step Closer - At the IDC Energy and Utilities Forum in Milan a couple of weeks ago I offered a presentation on the connected home. During my presentation I spoke about key enablers of the connected home and devices that make it easy to form a home area network (HAN) for energy efficiency and other home automation functions. The future home may be have a full array of sensors that discover each other (securely) and then form a network in conjunction with software in the home and cloud services, thus creating the home operating system. While the full manifestation of this vision is years off, Web services on devices may be a key component of this transformation. Feng Zhao of Microsoft Research has been wo......

46 of 18325 | Host and Workflow: Two Worlds to Communicate IV - Part IV: Organisation of the communication classes: Communication manager, wca.exe utility and Wwca.exe windows front-end for wca.exe...

47 of 18325 | Host and Workflow: Two Worlds to Communicate. Part V - Part V: Intercommunications with a Workflow instance using Correlation parameter....

48 of 18325 | IE8 Rocks! Creating Custom Accelerators - Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is currently available.  If you haven't downloaded it yet, you can find it here.  I have been using it for about two months now and I am really enjoying some of the new features.  One of the features that I find particularly interesting is Accelerators. Here is a brief introduction about what Accelerators are (taken directly from the IE8 site): Accelerators give you ready access to the online services you use everyday—from any page you visit. Now you can simply select some text and then click on the blue Accelerators icon. For example, you may be interested in the location of a business featured on a webpage. In the past, you would need t......

49 of 18325 | Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 e o modelo ESB - Enterprise Service Bus. - Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Essa semana tive uma bela discussão sobre SOA - Service Oriented Architecture - e o posicionamento do Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (ou "BTS" para simplificar) nesse tipo de cenário. Se você tem acompanhado nossos papos sobre SOA aqui no blog, sabe que existem diversas questões que precisam ser tratadas para a construção de uma boa arquitetura de serviços. Latência, interfaces, proxies, protocolos, segurança, composição de aplicações, workflows, etc., são algumas das questões conhecidas. Para entender como o BTS está relacionado ao assunto, vejamos um desenho básico sobre seu funcionamento: A figura acima representa o fluxo de mensagens do BTS, onde pipes d......

50 of 18325 | Project Server 2007: PSI – Getting 401 Errors from IIS? - This was a problem that had several of us racking our brains earlier this week and all the usual reasons of lack of permissions in PWA, missing setting the credential properties on the web service were found not to be the cause – Colby Africa had found a KB that sounded very similar and we had an answer.  See Colby’s posting at his new blog site http://blogs.msdn.com/colbyafrica/. This same problem then appeared through an e-mail contact from my blog so thanks to Colby I could give a quick answer!  In this customer’s case the issue was due to host headers being used – KB 896861 saved the day. Technorati Tags: Project Server 2007,IIS...