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17301 of 19643 | BizTalk seems to be hot at Tech-Ed - Just came across this post on the newsgroups. 15 Sessions and 7 Labs dedicated to BizTalk, including at least 4 on BTS 2006. Mmm, last year I needed to perform on a chair to get a Tech-Ed ticket, I wonder what they make me do this year ;-)....

17302 of 19643 | Give Us Your Feedback on WSE and Indigo - Some of you may be familiar with the MSDN Product Feedback Center that has been used to allow the users of the Visual Studio 2005 betas to file bugs and submit product suggestions.  Our general plan is that this capability will be provided for any number of developer products, but we are rolling this out slowly as we build the infrastrure and communication channels with the different product groups within Microsoft. Well, we have recently rolled out the capability for folks using Web Services Enhancements and Indigo to take advantage of the Product Feedback Center.  Not only can you submit bugs or suggestions on these products, you can also provide your 2 cents on which bugs are the most im......

17303 of 19643 | Give Us Your Feedback on WSE and Indigo - Some of you may be familiar with the MSDN Product Feedback Center that has been used to allow the users of the Visual Studio 2005 betas to file bugs and submit product suggestions.  Our general plan is that this capability will be provided for any number of developer products, but we are rolling this out slowly as we build the infrastrure and communication channels with the different product groups within Microsoft. Well, we have recently rolled out the capability for folks using Web Services Enhancements and Indigo to take advantage of the Product Feedback Center.  Not only can you submit bugs or suggestions on these products, you can also provide your 2 cents on which......

17304 of 19643 | Indigo CTP now publicly available - The Avalon and Indigo CTP is now generally available....

17305 of 19643 | Indigo Software Design Review Online - Gene Webb, Microsoft developer evangelist, has posted the recorded LiveMeeting Indigo SDR (Software Design Review) dry-run videos and slides. And as if that weren`t enough, you can see Steve Swartz, Indigo Architect, give an intro to Indigo on MSDN TV. I remember a day when SDRs were deep, secret mojo that even folks that knew about them were special, let along actually attending them. Now, we`re posting them on the internet. I love my company. [from Aaron Skonnard]...

17306 of 19643 | Kenny has a blog - Kenny Wolf, one of the Core Messagingfolks hereon Indigo, now has a blog....

17307 of 19643 | KennyW joins the ranks of Indigo bloggers - Kenny Wolf, from the Core Messaging dev team, has started blogging. This is good news for anyone who`s interested in low-level Indigo networking and tranport/channel internals. I`ve already learned a ton from Kenny about asynchronous network programming, I/O Completion Ports in Windows, and how Indigo deals with network resources for maximum scalability. I`m sure his blog will prove to be equally enlightening. Check out his Indigo-specific RSS feed here. Subscribed. ...

17308 of 19643 | Multimodality: Simple Technologies Drive a New Breed of Complex Application Input - Much like traditional mobile applications, multimodal applications?which allow user input through a variety of methods, including voice and motion?have already put down deep roots in the global marketplace. Wise developers will stay on top of this trend as well as the development of the XML-based languages that facilitate multimodal input. ...

17309 of 19643 | Namespaces in BizTalk - BizTalk Server uses the root node and the namespace to identify schemas when processing messages. When you create a schema and generate an instance, you will see the namespace as ns0 such as: ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalkSample.Schema1"> ID>ID_0ID> ns0:Root> Root> ID>ID_0ID> Root>http://localhost/post.aspx" Reason: This Assembler cannot retrieve document specification by using this type: "Root".What BizTalk is stating is that it cannot determine which schema to use because there is no namespace specified. We ran into this problem because we had several schemas that all had the same Root, but we had to remove the namespaces because the backend system would not accept the XML. So what i......

17310 of 19643 | New Blog - BizTalk Server Performance & Stress Team! - Hey check out the new action from the BizTalk Server Performance & Stress Team! http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkperformance/ The first blog dives into understanding the throughput and capacity of BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 and how to monitor and observe your system behavior.  Looks like they plan to provide a host of entries on optimizing, tracking, adapter performance details, host configuration, and lots more!...

17311 of 19643 | Options for integrating Python with Flex - I love Python. Yesterday I read an article on how Python is making its way into the enterprise. There was a question on Flexcoders on how to integrate Flex with Python. With my limited knowledge of server-side Python, here`s a list of options: 1. Access your Python modules as web services. [...]...

17312 of 19643 | Performance Blog - Pretty much everyone should read Wayne`s first posting in the new BizTalk Server 2004 performance blog. He spends lots of time on stress and perf of the product so read and learn....

17313 of 19643 | Scheme, Sencha, and SOAP - Joe Duffy has a nice post on processing SOAP and XML in Sencha.He also points (indirectly) to the SXML spec. I had no idea that someone had taken the time to write down this old chestnut.Nice....

17314 of 19643 | WS-I Sample Application 1.1 Early Access - WS-I Sample Application 1.1 EA is available for download. This version is a rewrite of the Sample Application 1.0 using JAX-RPC 2.0 Standard Implementation EA. Post comment (0)...

17315 of 19643 | A complete list of all the MSDN BizTalk 2004 Web Casts untill now... - When you have nothing to do or time left , and want to know something more about BizTalk 2004 check out one of below 17 Microsoft Web casts. This is a list of the MSDN web casts Im aware of :)). Have fun....  MSDN Webcast: Extending Mainframe Applications using BizTalk Server 2004 and Host Integration 2004May 24, 2004Paul Larsen, GROUP PROGRAM MANAGER, MicrosoftThis webcast demonstrates how to integrate your existing IBM mainframe assets with new enterprise solutions based on BizTalk® Server using Host Integration Server 2004. HIS provides the key enabling technologies you need to extend your IBM network, security, messaging, data and application systems running on these IBM host computers.......

17316 of 19643 | From the mail: BRE (Rules Engine) question - I am not Rules Engine guy, but I`ve checked with them, and here it is: Hi, how could I implement a rule like this in the BRE of BiztalkServer2004 (not splitting it, into separate rules): 1)IF (condition1)THEN (action1)ELSEIF (condition2)THEN (action2) Answer: Has to be separate rules:IF (condition1)THEN (action1)IF NOT(condition1) AND (condition2)THEN (action2) 2) IF (condition1) THEN         IF (condition2) THEN (action2)         IF (condition3) THEN (action3)   END IF Is there any way to call a rule within another one  Answer: No, one rule cannot directly call another rule. IF (condition1) AND (condition2)THEN (action2)IF (condition1) AND (condition3)THEN (action3) OR IF (condition1)T......

17317 of 19643 | Indigo and J2EE. Interop - We will attend WS-RM/WS-SC interoperability workshop next week. This event and actually few other things (for example take a look at how powerful WSDLs Indigo has, state of WS-Addressing, different service models, different emphasis on MEPs?) reminded me that really seamless interoperability is still a challenge. From Indigo perspective, the J2EE approach to web services looks like a dinosaur (perhaps......

17318 of 19643 | New version of AJAX Wrapper for .NET - A new version of the AJAX Wrapper DLL is available online for free at http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/download/ajax.zip. For demonstration I have added a new sample (including source code of sample project) that will show how to use the AJAX Wrapper DLL in you projects: http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/csharpsample/default.aspxhttp://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/vbnetsample/default.aspx Now, the AJAX Wrapper DLL is working with VB.NET, C# and any other .NET language. Firefox, Mozilla and Internet Explorer are supporting XmlHttp request, and there is no need to adapt Javascript code. You can now use bool, int, string, xml and your own classes as return value. If you return your own class......

17319 of 19643 | Some of the events I will be speaking in the Second Q of this year - Singapore is a hotbed for a lot of great technology conferences this year. I am invited to present in quite a few of them this year. Of course, most of these presentations are very centered around XML Services, Service-Orientation and Distributed Systems. These are a couple of the events that I will be presenting in the second quarter of this year. I am looking forward to SDA.NET Conference 2005 as I will be presenting a couple of sessions on _Indigo_ and I am also very excited to have 2 mysterious internationally-renowned speakers (whom I will disclose later) whom will be presenting alongside me as well. All 3 of us will be bringing Indigo to the plate during......

17320 of 19643 | Store Excel Formulas in SQL Server DB - Two of my colleagues, Sergei Gundorov and Clark Hamilton, have been busy, busy, busy. They did a three-part series of articles on Excel, and the third one is perhaps their best: Part 3: Replicating Excel 2003 Formulas to SQL ServerThe basic gist is using hidden XML mapped cells via metadata to store formulas for import or export. It`s a very clever idea. You`ll need to read parts 1 and 2 to fully grasp the situation, but I recommend you set aside a few minutes and dig in. Recently, Scoble blogged about disclosing any deals you have that influence your blog (Scoble: for the life of me, I can`t find the post right now). The last thing I want is Scoble and the blog avatars coming down on me, s......

17321 of 19643 | Thats it! I`m moving to New Mexico... - El Defensor Chieftain: Community CalendarIntroduction to XML, 5:30 p.m. Speare 116. "XSLT Extensions: An Extended Case Study." Free class.In regards to my decision to head southwest if this is the last post I ever make to this blog I`m guessing my Socorro County/Bill Gates/Microsoft/Area 51/Roswell Alien conspiracy theory was right on target... but with classes like this being offered for free I simply have to take the risk. Wish me luck :)Adding a bit of interest......

17322 of 19643 | The onRequest() method and Event Gateways - DON`T USE IT! :) now, why. (Straight from the live docs article on the onRequest() method in Application.cfc) "Do not implement the onRequest method in any Application.cfc file that affects .cfc files that implement web services, process Flash Remoting or event gateway requests; ColdFusion MX will not execute the requests if you implement this method." Why Im not too sure, but I think Sean Corfield is blogging about this as I type this up, so ill just link to his when he is done :)...

17323 of 19643 | Understanding BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 Throughput and Capacity - By Wayne Clark What is Sustainable Of primary concern when planning, designing, and testing business solutions built on BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 is that the solutions must be able to handle the expected load and meet required service levels over an indefinite period of time.  Given the number of solution architectures, configurations, and topologies possible on BizTalk Server 2004 SP1, there are many things to consider when evaluating a proposed or existing deployment.  The purpose of this, our inaugural BizTalk Performance blog posting, is to provide guidance on: Understanding BizTalk Server SP1 throughput and backlog capacity behavior and how to observe the behavior of your system. Cri......

17324 of 19643 | Understanding BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 Throughput and Capacity - By Wayne Clark What is Sustainable Of primary concern when planning, designing, and testing business solutions built on BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 is that the solutions must be able to handle the expected load and meet required service levels over an indefinite period of time.  Given the number of solution architectures, configurations, and topologies possible on BizTalk Server 2004 SP1, there are many things to consider when evaluating a proposed or existing deployment.  The purpose of this, our inaugural BizTalk Performance blog posting, is to provide guidance on: Understanding BizTalk Server SP1 throughput and backlog capacity behavior and how to observe the behavior of your system. Cri......

17325 of 19643 | Understanding BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 Throughput and Capacity - By Wayne Clark What is Sustainable Of primary concern when planning, designing, and testing business solutions built on BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 is that the solutions must be able to handle the expected load and meet required service levels over an indefinite period of time.  Given the number of solution architectures, configurations, and topologies possible on BizTalk Server 2004 SP1, there are many things to consider when evaluating a proposed or existing deployment.  The purpose of this, our inaugural BizTalk Performance blog posting, is to provide guidance on: Understanding BizTalk Server SP1 throughput and backlog capacity behavior and how to observe the behavior of your system. Cri......

17326 of 19643 | Welcome to the BizTalk Product Group Performance Team Blog! -   Have you ever had a question about the performance of BizTalk that you couldnt find an answer to  That is why we, the product team responsible for performance and stress testing BizTalk, are launching this blog!   As we work with customers on BizTalk solutions to meet their performance requirements, we gain more and more insight into BizTalk behavior and common customer questions and issues. We want to share with you these findings on a regular basis.  Come to this blog for answers as we regularly provide information on selected topics that address the most commonly asked customer questions and issues.     We want to make sure the information we provide is useful and meets the n......

17327 of 19643 | Welcome to the BizTalk Product Group Performance Team Blog! -   Have you ever had a question about the performance of BizTalk that you couldnt find an answer to  That is why we, the product team responsible for performance and stress testing BizTalk, are launching this blog!   As we work with customers on BizTalk solutions to meet their performance requirements, we gain more and more insight into BizTalk behavior and common customer questions and issues. We want to share with you these findings on a regular basis.  Come to this blog for answers as we regularly provide information on selected topics that address the most commonly asked customer questions and issues.     We want to make sure the information we provide is useful and meets the n......

17328 of 19643 | Welcome to the BizTalk Product Group Performance Team Blog! -   Have you ever had a question about the performance of BizTalk that you couldnt find an answer to  That is why we, the product team responsible for performance and stress testing BizTalk, are launching this blog!   As we work with customers on BizTalk solutions to meet their performance requirements, we gain more and more insight into BizTalk behavior and common customer questions and issues. We want to share with you these findings on a regular basis.  Come to this blog for answers as we regularly provide information on selected topics that address the most commonly asked customer questions and issues.     We want to make sure the information we provide is useful and meets the n......

17329 of 19643 | You might be an XML geek if... - you find this thread on XML-DEV hilarious. [Via Chris Ferris`s weblog] Nobody expects the RESTifarian Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and tedium ...tedium and surprise.... our two weapons are tedium and surprise...and an almost fanatical devotion to Roy Fielding...Right!...THREE weapons!...   ...

17330 of 19643 | URI Construction versus Hypertext Navigation - My latest XML.com column is up, Constructing or Traversing URIs."REST is defined by four interface constraints: identification of resources; manipulation of resources through representations; self-descriptive messages; and, hypermedia as the engine of application state." [Roy Fielding]Of the four interface constraints of REST, the last one, `hypermedia as the engine of application state`, is the least utilitzed. This article builds the concept from the ground up, and then applies it to the design of our Bookmark Web Service. ...

17331 of 19643 | A complete list of all the MSDN BizTalk 2004 Web Casts untill now... - When you have nothing to do or time left , and want to know something more about BizTalk 2004 check out one of below 17 Microsoft Web casts. This is a list of the MSDN web casts Im aware of :)). Have fun....  MSDN Webcast: Extending Mainframe Applications using BizTalk Server 2004 and Host Integration 2004May 24, 2004Paul Larsen, GROUP PROGRAM MANAGER, MicrosoftThis webcast demonstrates how to integrate your existing IBM mainframe assets with new enterprise solutions based on BizTalk® Server using Host Integration Server 2004. HIS provides the key enabling technologies you need to extend your IBM network, security, messaging, data and application systems running on these IBM host computers.......

17332 of 19643 | A little history - Before I joined Indigo in 2001, I worked on Office for the Macintosh. So it was really easy to describe my job to my Mom. Explaining what I do as the tech lead for Transports and Channels takes a little more time. For while she`s familiar with Word and Outlook, if [...]...

17333 of 19643 | Catch the Indigo SDR Online - Apparently the Indigo team did a dry-run of the SDR content before the event and the presentations are now online. Gene Webb has provided links to all of them here. Thanks Mujtaba!...

17334 of 19643 | Introducing the blog (and myself) - Welcome to my brand new blog! this is my first post, so I`ll try to set the expectations and introduce myself first. What you can expect from here:I`ll post about BizTalk and integration stuff, such ideas related to BPM, EAI, SOA, etc., and probably about some other technologies (.NET, Yukon, SOAP/WSE, messaging, etc), as I fight them everyday. My posts will be based on my own experience, and they will be intended to provide ready-to-use information for the everyday work. Who am I:I`m a Technical Consultant. I`m somehow specialized in BizTalk Server and EAI/BPM projects, but you can find me involved in stuff related to .NET Framework, SQL Server (starting to study Yukon right now!), design ......

17335 of 19643 | Perl, PHP, Python - Weak on Web Services - SearchWebServices.com discusses a Burton Group report that says the P-languages are weak in their support for Web Services compared to Java, C# and C+......

17336 of 19643 | Reminder: Loosely Coupled Messaging in SOA Using WSE 2 - We have a fantastic talk scheduled for the next meeting of Beantown.NET on April 7th. Knowing Jim as well as I do, I am sure (and I have encouraged him to) dip into WDL First! as well. Please RSVP here. Pizza will no longer be available to those who do not RSVP. Abstract: Messaging is at the heart of SOA architectures and WSE 2.0 gives us a rich set of classes for implementing Message Exchange Patterns.  Many applications need to enlist a service whose response is longer lived than the connection.  We will cover various Message Exchange Patterns (MEP’s) and show the usage of WS-Addressing, WS-Messaging, WS-Secure Conversation and MSMQ as an intermediary....

17337 of 19643 | Transforming XML: Using Stylesheet Schemas - In this month`s Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme asks what a DTD or schema for XSLT stylesheets can add to your XSLT development and deployment. ...

17338 of 19643 | Working Draft: SVG`s XML Binding Language (sXBL) - 2005-04-06: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a third Working Draft of SVG`s XML Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements outside the SVG namespace. The group welcomes comments and seeks feedback on three issues outlined in the status section. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)...

17339 of 19643 | WSE now enabled on the MSDN Product Feedback Center - Plenty has been written in blogs about the MSDN Product Feedback Center which enables you to report issues in a product directly to the respective product team. Now Web Service Enhancements (WSE) in its multiple forms has been added to the list. If you want to get the attention of the WSE product team on an issue or a suggestion to improve the product there is nothing better than through this feedback center. There is even a category for the forthcoming WSE 3.0 Beta. Use it to its full force....

17340 of 19643 | XQuery as Perl for XML - New bunch of XSL/XQuery working drafts has been published, some in Last Call. Now it`s 12 documents, including a new interesting one. Changes are mostly minor though so if they wouldn`t get another zillion of comments (do many realize than by posting a comment, even about a small typo to W3C they effectively defer the spec), we probably will see the very first Candidate Recommendation in a couple of months. I bet it will be XSLT 2.0. It`s always fun to read official W3C announces - the people writing them have good sense of humor. The previous time they have called XQuery "an XML-aware programming language" and Mike Champion (one of Microsoft representatives in W3C) said he wants t......

17341 of 19643 | 05 Apr 2005: On Release Dates - Loved the article of Joel on Picking a Ship Date. As usual, he has various entertaining stories to make his point. Both Red Hat and SUSE have their Linux distributions shipping every six months (Fedora Core and SUSE Professional) which in my opinion burns too many developer cycles on testing, quality assurance and documentation. Except for a few fairly obscure developer features each distribution is hardly distinguishable from the previous version. Maybe its a good thing that these features are released on a six-month based schedule, but in my opinion they are not as important as they used to be. In the early days of Linux the the a.out to ELF migration or the libc5 to glibc migration w......

17342 of 19643 | 05 Apr 2005: On Release Dates - Loved the article of Joel on Picking a Ship Date. As usual, he has various entertaining stories to make his point. Both Red Hat and SUSE have their Linux distributions shipping every six months (Fedora Core and SUSE Professional) which in my opinion burns too many developer cycles on testing, quality assurance and documentation. Except for a few fairly obscure developer features each distribution is hardly distinguishable from the previous version. Maybe its a good thing that these features are released on a six-month based schedule, but in my opinion they are not as important as they used to be. In the early days of Linux the the a.out to ELF migration or the libc5 to glibc migration w......

17343 of 19643 | April 2005 SQL Server Webcast Series - Discover how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers database developers the optimal combination of a tightly integrated development and data management platform. The rich and flexible programming environment in SQL Server 2005 allows you to leverage your existing skills and utilize familiar tools to build robust, secure, scalable applications. Register today to learn how the integration of the .NET Framework in SQL Server 2005 provides several major benefits, such as an enhanced programming model, enhanced safety and security, user defined types and aggregates, and a common development environment that integrates database development into the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment. ......

17344 of 19643 | April 2005 SQL Server Webcast Series - Discover how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers database developers the optimal combination of a tightly integrated development and data management platform. The rich and flexible programming environment in SQL Server 2005 allows you to leverage your existing skills and utilize familiar tools to build robust, secure, scalable applications. Register today to learn how the integration of the .NET Framework in SQL Server 2005 provides several major benefits, such as an enhanced programming model, enhanced safety and security, user defined types and aggregates, and a common development environment that integrates database development into the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development environment. ......

17345 of 19643 | BizTalk Server Adapter for Indigo CTP build snapshot available - We have been collaborating with  regional director Morten Abrahamsen (aka Morty) on an Indigo Adapter for BizTalk Server.  He made the first snapshot publically available on his blog here.  Currently working functionality includes: TCP, HTTP, Named pipes, basic transport (request/response and combinations), Windows Security, and reliable messaging.    Note this is for the adventurous explorer only at this point and please do read the disclaimer below very carefully: N.B. The adapter is NOT supported, and will NEVER be supported on BizTalk Server 2004 because it requires an unsupported configuration for BizTalk Server 2004, namely running on the .NET Framework 2.0.  BizTalk Server 2006 will ......

17346 of 19643 | DataPower Joins BEA Partner Program to Secure and Accelerate BEA Hosted Web Services - DataPower will combine DataPower`s wirespeed XML-aware hardware with BEA`s enterprise infrastructure software to ensure that enterprises can deploy powerful Web Services applications without authorization and audit concerns or XML performance bottlenecks....

17347 of 19643 | Indigo is ready to Ascend - I`ve been extremely busy lately splitting my time between preparing for our new Applied BizTalk course, writing some BizTalk-related articles, working on various consulting projects, and digging more into the depths of Indigo. Like several others, I spent last week at the Indigo SDR/Ascend in Seattle. Omri provides a nice summary here of several technical features/discussions that highlighted the SDR. I`m not going to try to duplicate that or provide a thorough technical summary, but I wanted to share several general observations on the current state of Indigo:Clean factoring. I`ve attended every Indigo SDR from the beginning, and the programming experience has improved with each event. The......

17348 of 19643 | Indigo live on the Product Feedback Center - Just thought I`d throw this out there: the Microsoft Product Feedback Center is now set up to take suggestions and bug submissions related to the Indigo CTP bits. Issues reported here get funneled into our bug database right alongside issues reported by our internal QA teams. So if you have an issue or suggestion that you want us to track, this is the place for it. Just make sure you choose "Indigo" in the Product/Technology dropdown when you enter your issue. ...

17349 of 19643 | Make empty elements with XSLT - I`ve been working with a lot of XSLT recently related to our BLDoc project. In the case of one of the translations, I had a need to create a resulting document that used only empty XML elements, such as:

17350 of 19643 | Neward on XSLTO and aspects - Imagine my shock when I read Ted`s post explaining that my recent XLSTO work meant I was embracing aspect-oriented programming, something I walked away from after spending years with COM+. He argues that: But the brutal truth is, what he`s done--the execution of code in response to what amounts to a pointcut (through an XML document instead of through a programming model)--is quintessentially an AOP concept. I`m not up on my aspect terminology, so I don`t know if it`s me unknowingly adopting aspects or Ted knowingly adapting aspects to make them more useful. In any case, I built XSLTO because I had an XML language for scripting SQL server. I was taking XML input documents, transforming them......