Patrick Wellink

Go get it, SP1 for BizTalk

Code generation Tools for .NET

I had a google search and here are some results :

DeKlarit 3.0 looks pretty promessing..
I know Clarion from a couple of 10 years back.( it was awesome then....kind of Text bases .Net) 
Ironworks looks nice too(sample screenshot here)
TCDesigner looke nice too...

A longer list can be found here...

Is there anybody with experience with one of these tools ?????

Rad Race I don't Get it, Please help.....

Ok, I have some thoughts about the RAD race......

I always thought that the .Net framework was one of the best, easisest (when using Vb.Net), fastets, most reliable framework around.

I also thought that Java People's most important tool was NotePad ( yes a top MS Product), this prooved to be correct....

I also thought that we could beat those Oracle Guys by miles, because, according to the Sales Material of MS Visual Studio, it is the fastest developing tool around....

So some questions I don't know the answer to :

1. Is there something like a nice Designer tool for .Net that will generate code like Oracle Designer..
2. Do we have any experience with it....... and why not.....
3. Was there EVER a kind of investigation if a Codegen tool would be usefull to us (and thus to the customer)

See... I hate to be in the loosers corner..... and those Oracle Guys Kicked some serious MS-Ass, I believe we were only a little bit more successfull then the Java Guys....

Do I ( a true MS-SQL Believer) have to switch to the Oracle camp now ?????? or are we gonna kick some ass next year with a lightning fast codegenerator ( equal in functionality to Oracle Designer).

Haben sie das schön Geschnapt

Look/Listen here to see wat became a number one hit in Germany.
Just click on execute, then hit the play button to hear the song......

Biztalk Service pack is nearly there......

Wanna kwo what they are gonna fix.......

Click here to read the list

I was surprised to read an issue with the file adapter and messages larger then 100 K

Wich Document definitions are depoyed in a BizTalk Environment

At the customer site we got an error sending a document.
Everything worked fine using the PassThru pipeline but when we used the XMLSendPipeline we got the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: BizTalk Server 2004
Event Category: BizTalk Server 2004
Event ID: 5720
Date:  13-1-2005
Time:  9:53:26
User:  N/A
Computer: ROS38
Description:
There was a failure executing the send pipeline: "Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLTransmit" Source: "XML assembler" Send Port: "FILE://F:/BizTalk/00030959_CIR.xml" Reason: This Assembler cannot retrieve document specification by using this type: "onderneming".

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

We had to find out wich Document definitions are deployed in BizTalk. The Easiest way to do this is to use the following query  :

use BiztalkMgmtDb
select msgtype,clr_typename,clr_assemblyname,clr_namespace from bt_documentspec
order by msgtype

Experience Media Center Yourself......

I was amazed to find this on the internet.....

It really shows pretty well how a Media Center PC works

( link is updated )

Escher for Real.....

If  you ever wondered if all those crazy things of Mr Escher could exist.....

Stop wondering and have a look here.....

Build your own Media Center Plugin

Did you ever wonder how to build a Media Center Plugin ?

Have a look at this and buildyour own....

Possible way to pass object(state) between ASP.NET pages

I just came across this very simple solution to pass object state between asp.net applications. I Don't know if it is a good way of pasing objects between pages or if there is a better solution. But this one seems pretty straight forward.