May 2008 - Posts
From Todd van Nurden:
Hi BizTalk Fans,
Its finally Spring here at BizTalk Hotrod HQ and Issue 4 has finally been put to bed! In this issue you’ll see that we’re continuing our expansion into WF (Windows Work Flow) and WCF (Windows Communications Foundation). Why, you ask, would we do this? Well BizTalk is the future! And we want to bring our .NET friends into the BizTalk fold and as you’ll see BizTalk continues to expands its process server capabilities across the Microsoft platform. We’ve also expanded our coverage to include folks new to BizTalk Server so check out Sal’s “In the Beginning” article
As always we’re looking for new ideas and new authors so if you’re interested please contact us.
Oh we’re also considering a BizTalk Hotrod Resource issue that would include articles by BizTalk software partners as well as links to all the coolest BizTalk Content on the web. So if you have content that we should link to or publish let us know.
As always thanks for the support!
http://cid-b6c859f7a5f75e63.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Q2FY08_biztalk.pdf
Enjoy
-Todd
It's that time of the year again! This Thursday the Microsoft Developer Days 2008 will be held in the RAI in Amsterdam. The annual event for Microsoft developers with national and international speakers. I like the DevDays for mainly 2 things: 1) Networking with other developers, old colleagues, etc 2) Get an overview of the latest and greatest tools and products in one day.
What makes a good session is mainly the speaker and of course the subject. In this blogpost I'll make some recommendations for the sessions on Thursday based on my personal experience with speaker or subject and interests.
First of course the key-note by David Platt. I've never seen David speaking so I can't comment on that. But the subject of his presentation "Why software sucks?" sounds promising:)
Session 1(10.50-12.00 a.m.): I would recommend to go for the presentation of Christian Weyer (Internet Service Bus) or Ingo Rammer (Advanced debugging). Both are great presenters from the same company(Thinktecture), but I like the subject of Christian more.
Session 2(1.30 - 2.40 p.m.): In this timeframe again 2 presenters of the same company(U2U), Patrick Tisseghem and Peter Himschoot. I know both guys only from their active blogging. I think I will go for the presentation of Patrick, building RIA's for WSS and MOSS. I you're more of data dude then I would recommend the presentation on ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Session 3(3.00 - 4.10 p.m.): Again we see the same presenters(Christian and Ingo) in this timeframe. I think Microsoft didn't want to spent too much on different presenters:) But I can live with that, because Ingo and Christian are great guys! The words "in action!" in the title of Christian's presentation in combination with 2 great techniques WCF and WF, make me choose that presentation. May I also recommend the session of my colleague Pieter de Bruin around testing with Visual Studio Team System. Good testing is still a major issue on lots of projects!
Session 4(4.30 - 5.40 p.m.): Guess who we see back in this timeframe?? ....Right! The two presenters from U2U:) I will switch presenters and will choose for Peter Himschoot this time. I would like to know more about REST in combination with WCF.
In between the sessions I'll probably be around the Avanade stand or walking around.
Have fun! See you at the DevDays!
This will be my first post on K2 [blackpearl] and certainly not my last one! I really like the product and I see more and more demand around the globe for the product.
At the end of last year and the beginning of this year I did a project with K2 [blackpearl] for a major energy and petrochemicals company. During that project I came across some issues with K2 [blackpearl]. I'll post the issues and the solutions over here so that other people can benefit from it.
Issue 1: When trying to deploy I received the following message:
You need to define an Environment for this project before you can deploy. Please define one before you deploy.
I did run the config manager again. After that I couldn't open new or existing projects.
Message: The project file *.k2proj cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation..
Solved by re-installation of K2 components.
Issue 2: I received the following message: SmartObjectServer Exception: Error Receiving Buffer
workaround: open the main Project file (.kprx) with a plain text editor (like Notepad) and look for lines
in the "Datafields" area where the <Description> tag spans over more than one line and please
correct them by putting the whole tags and content in a single line, example:
<Description>your text</Description>
Following the workaround caused the deployment wizard not to start occasionally. Rebooting the
system helps, but takes time.
Due to the fact that it was about 27degrees yesterday my girlfriend, daughter and I went to a recreational lake in the Centre of Holland called Henschotermeer.
The sky was blue and no clouds, but suddenly there was some kind of tornado a few honderd meters away from us. Some airbeds went up into the sky about a mile high.
It's also in the news on one of the most popular blogs in Holland, read it here. And from that article you can also watch some pictures.
Tonight at 11p.m., if I'm not mistaking the timezones, Brian Loesgen from Neudesic will present a webcast on the ESB Guidance.
I believe the session will be recorded so you can also view it at a later stage.
Details:
Title
Introduction to Microsoft’s ESB Guidance
Description
The Microsoft ESB Guidance uses Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to support a loosely-coupled messaging architecture, and extends the functionality of BizTalk Server to provide a range of new capabilities focused on building robust, connected, service-oriented applications that incorporate itinerary-based service invocation for lightweight service composition, dynamic resolution of endpoints and maps, Web service and WS-* integration, fault management and reporting, and integration with third-party SOA governance solutions.
This webcast will be an introduction to Microsoft’s ESB Guidance. The goal of this session is to explore the architecture of Microsoft’s ESB Guidance 1.0, and explain how it can be applied to create ESB-based business solutions. We will examine the core components of the ESB Guidance, as well as the built-in extensibility points.
Agenda
· Business drivers behind an ESB (Why do I care? Why do I want to do this?)
· Architectural overview (What’s in the box? How does it work?)
· Demos
Meeting Details
Friday May 9, 2008, 1:00-2:15pm Pacific GMT -8 (75 minutes)
Call for audio: 866-500-6738 or +1-203-480-8000, passcode: 221223#
Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=BTSBAG&role=attend&pw=35DKTQ
For years I used Killerblog the blog engine created by Alex Thissen. As Alex decided to stop with further development of Killerblog, I decided to switch to another blog engine.
I switched to bloggingabout.net because that suits my needs best. I want to thank Alex for his support throughout the years! And I want to thank Dennis van der Stelt for helping me get up and running with Bloggingabout.net
My blog here @ Bloggingabout.net will have focus on K2 Blackpearl, BizTalk, SOA, RFID, general .NET stuff and also my personal journey through life.
As follow up on my previous post regarding the new capabilities in BizTalk Server 2006 R3 the following question may rise:
What’s with UDDI, doesn’t Windows server 2008 have UDDI?
As part of this next BizTalk Server release, Microsoft will be transitioning the packaging/distribution of Microsoft’s UDDI capabilities from Windows Server over to BizTalk Server. Given the close relationship of web service registries with metadata repository technologies, it makes sense to more closely align the distribution and evolution of Microsoft’s registry/repository functionality. As a result, Microsoft will be deprecating UDDI v2 services out of the next major version of Windows Server, and offering an enhanced registry (UDDI v3 compatible) with BizTalk Server’s next release. (Current UDDI v2 customers will be receive guidance on how to move to UDDI v3 capabilities in a straight-forward manner.) This enables a core foundational element of your SOA infrastructure, and helps prepare for some of the forthcoming modeling and repository investments planned in the “Oslo” wave of products.