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With the announcement of BizTalk Server 2013 Beta Microsoft also announced the next minor version of the ESB Toolkit: v2.2 My experience with the previous versions of the ESB Toolkit was that the installation procedure was complex hence preventing people...
This week Microsoft released the first public downloadable beta of BizTalk Server 2013, which is scheduled to be released H1 2013. Curious about the changes in the installation procedure, I decided to grab a Windows Server 2012 VHD , Visual Studio 2012...
I'm working on some system engineering documentation for my current customer and of course I’m using the BizTalk Server 2010 Operations Guide as a reference for this. One of the tools is the BTSAssemblyChecker tool which is mentioned here " Checklist...
This story starts in December 2008, but I found out only last June….. Back in 2008 Patrick Smacchia of NDepend contacted me via my blog to ask me if I was interested in testing NDepend, but unfortunately I wasn’t notified of his message....
Every experienced BizTalk developer knows that the SSO store is a good place to safely store configuration information. It is secure, distributed and can be updated without having to dive into configuration files (but too bad the host instances have to...
More than two years ago I wrote a blog post about deploying WCF services using a Web Setup project. Back then it wasn’t an easy task to get services deployed using it. Especially the UI customization of the installation wizard dialog gave me some...
With this blog post I hope I can save others some time and besides that it is also nicely stored for me in case I need it again. For my current project I’m building some WCF services. One of the requirements is to have a MSI to hand-over to the system...
While browsing the WCF SDK I found two great tools: Microsoft Service Configuration Editor Microsoft Service Trace Viewer The configuration editor helps you with the confguration files that you need with WCF. It simplyfies editing those files significantly...
While playing with WCF I ran into someting when I wanted to host the service in IIS. I created a 'service.svc' in a folder, added a web.config, created a bin folder to put the assembly in, and added a website to that folder in IIS. According to the MSDN...
The last couple of days I had a big fight with the web browser control that ships with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET framework 2.0. I was using the 'DocumentText' property to display some HTML in the control, but for some dark reason it refused to do...
Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July 2006 and it just has released a new minor version of the popular debugging tool Debugview . It includes support for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit now. You can get it here .
While I ran FxCop over someone else's code it pointed me to a String method I didn't know about: IsNullOrEmpty . This method is new in .NET 2.0 and FxCop supplies the following description with it: "To test for empty strings, check if String.Length is...
Intellisense doesn't always shows all options available to a control...
While looking around for possible hosting options for ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 I ran into the following: https://www.hosting.com/hosting/microsoft/microsoft-hosting.asp They offer a kind of experimental (beta plan) hosting for only $1 and no monthly...