With a couple of colleagues, I have started a new project: AzureGames . I was inspired by the Microsoft Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games , and was started as a CodePlex site. We are currently flushing out the bugs for the basic platform. As we don’t have time to also write the games to host, we are looking for submissions so if you have
The Impact Javascript Game Engine comes with level editor: Weltmeister . This is primarily built with javascript but does include some php scripting. This post will hopefully save some windows developers some time getting started. There is also an open-source project available that accomplishes this without installing PHP. This accomplishes
In case this helps someone track down a silly little defect… I have an orchestration that uses an outbound map on a send port. The map had a script shape that had incorrect xslt. Simply running the Test Map would have caught this one and saved me some time. The full detail of the Exception Message (tracked via the Orchestation Debugger
Using the sequential workflow built in the previous post , we will continue the correlation example using Windows Workflow 4.0. The following illustrates the current workflow so far: The concept is the workflow instance will now wait until either an OrderApproval for the same order is received or a specified amount of time elapses. This is done by using
The following is an example of performing correlation using Windows Workflow 4.0. First create a new project based on the WCF Workflow Service Application template: Because I am interested in tracking the events in AppFabric during development, I will change the projects Web properties to host the service IIS instead of the Visual Studio Development
In a BizTalk 2006r2 solution, we encountered a build issue with BizTalk where a map that referenced a particular schema was causing BizTalk to fail to build. The symptom was that Visual Studio would continually build until it ran out of memory. The cause of the issue was tracked down to a particular service that was generated from the Entity Framework
BizTalk integration with SharePoint is … interesting. Using the Add Generated Items… Consume WCF service might result in a proxy that will not build due to a bad reference. The proxy file Lists_schemas_microsoft_com_sharepoint_soap.xsd contains the bad reference. The reference in particular is shown below: To fix the build, open the file with
Just some notes on connecting BizTalk to SharePoint’s /_vti_bin/lists.asmx">http://<site>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx webservice. After using Add Generated Items –> Consume WCF Service to create the proxy and binding you might find that when calling the service a transport level error is returned. The following illustrates a sample
I recently presented at the Auckland Connected Systems User Group . In order to prepare, I created several examples of methods of using the rules engine. The sample solution is here . Included in the sample solution are: Various Vocabulary definitions including using a function in XPath Field (TotalCostOfOrder) Various Rules definitions
I decided it was about time I presented something at the Auckland Connected User Group … Recently I have been involved with two projects where the Business Rules Engine was exposed as a WCF web service. Though this is the basis for the presentation, most of the examples will be applicable to using the BRE within BizTalk or externally. Slides