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Create a WCF-service with one method
- String SubmitAndGetXaml(string commandParameter)
  - The method loads a Xaml file with the name that is specified by commandParameter from disk

Create a WPF-Application with a main window
- The main window contains a ContentControl-control

Add a reference to the WCF-service
In the constructor call the SubmitAndGetXaml with a parameter that points to a Xaml-file in the WCF-service
Use XamlReader.Parse to parse the return value of the SubmitAndGetXaml-method
Assign the result of the XamlReader.Parse-method to the content-property of the ContentControl of the main window

To allow interaction within your dynamic loaded Xamls,…

Implement a generic button-handler with in the code-behind of the main window
Add "ButtonBase.Click='button_OnSubmit'" (where "button_OnSubmit" is the name of the generic button-handler) to the main window grid
Test if current button name is "Submit"
- If the condition is true, call the SubmitAndGetXaml and use as parameter the CommandParameter-property of the button-object

Note: This has to be done for each type of control that needs some code-behind action.

HowTo: Access Local XML-File in a ClickOnce WPF-Application

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:41:17 GMT

Create a XML-File in the Project (i.e. "myconfiguration.xml")
Mark it as "Content"
Set "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy always"
Open "Project Properties", and go to "Publish"
Open "Application Files…", and set "Publish Status" to "Include"
The you can access the file like following
- XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Load(System.IO.Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "myconfiguration.xml"));

HowTo: Create a ClickOnce WPF-Application

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:39:18 GMT

Download as PDF.

Note: This is only a sample configuration of a ClickOnce WPF-Application. There are several other settings that might be interesting to study!

Go to "Project Properties-->Signing"
- "Create Test Certificate…"

"More Details…"
- And install the certificate

Go to "Security"-tab
- Check "Enable ClickOnce security settings"
  - Choose "This is a full trust application"

Go to "Publish"-tab
- Enter a "Publish Location", i.e. an IIS application folder

At "Install Mode and Settings", choose "The application is available offline as well"
Go to "Updates..."
- Check "The application should check for updates"
  - Here choose "Before the application starts"

Go to "Options…"
- Fill in some information, i.e. like the following

Define a ".htm"-page and check "Automatically generate deployment web page after every publish

See some Videos & Feedback Links for BizTalk Server 2010 in the “BizTalk Server Team Blog”

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:56:53 GMT

Videos & Feedback on the new features of BizTalk Server 2010 - BizTalk Server Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Interestin Stuff about Large Message Transfer with WCF-Adapters from Paolo Salvatori

Sat, 29 May 2010 22:00:26 GMT

a good summary of howto deal with large messages in general and especially with WCF…

Large Message Transfer with WCF-Adapters Part 1 - Paolo Salvatori's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Walkthrough: Consume an ASP.NET WebService with BizTalk WCF Adapter

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:30:34 GMT

Download as PDF.

Preparation

Create a ASP.NET Webservice with the following interface

[WebMethod]

public BusinessObject GetBusinessObject(long id)

{

BusinessObject bo = new BusinessObject() { name = "test", credit = 10 };

return bo;

}

[WebMethod]

public string Echo(string val)

{

return val;

}

With BusinessObject is

public class BusinessObject

{

public string name;

public int credit;

}

Deploy the ASP.NET Webservice to the IIS

http://localhost/ConsumeWebserviceSolution/MyService.asmx

Test the webservice with a browser

Test Echo and GetBusinessObject

Visual Studio Tasks

Create an Empty BizTalk Project (ConsumeWebService.Schemas)

Right-click on the project and choose "Add Generated Items..."

Choose "Consume WCF Service"

The BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard starts

Paste in the URL with "?WSDL"

Now the project should look like the following

Interesting is the schema "Service1_tempuri_org.xsd". It contains the schema for the request and response of the two webmethods of our webservice

BizTalk Administrator Tasks

For testing purpose we create a BizTalk Application called "ConsumeWebserviceApplication"

Create a Receive Port within the application

Create a Receive Location for the Receive Port

Import the Binding for the WebService

Now you should have two more Send Ports

Open the properties of "WcfSendPort_Service1_Service1Soap" and go to its Filters. Set the Filter to our Receive Port name "RcvPort"

Change the SOAP Action Header of the Send Port "WcfSendPort_Service1_Service1Soap"

It is possible to define a BtsActionMapping or a static action. Here for simplicity we configure a static action "http://tempuri.org/GetBusinessObject"

A BtsActionMapping can be defined in relation to a Context Property (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743856%28BTS.20%29.aspx)

Create another new Send Port "SndPort/FILE"

Set its Filters as following

Testing

Create a Instance of the schema "Service1_tempuri_org.xsd" for the method "GetBusinessObject"

<ns0:GetBusinessObject xmlns:ns0="http://tempuri.org/">

<ns0:id>10</ns0:id>

</ns0:GetBusinessObject>

Start the BizTalk Application "ConsumeWebserviceApplication"
Copy it to the folder, that is observed by the Receive Location "RcvLoc/FILE"
As a result you should get a output file in the output path to which the Send Port "SndPort/FILE" is configured. The xml is the result of the web service method call to GetBusinessObject

Walkthrough: SQL Debatching in BizTalk (with WCF-SQL)

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:23:21 GMT

Download as PDF

Tasks in SQL Management Studio

Create a database "DebatchingSampleDb"
Create a new table "tblData" in "DebatchingSampleDb"
Create a new stored procedure "SpCountData" in "DebatchingSampleDb"
Create a new stored procedure "SpGetData" in "DebatchingSampleDb"

Tasks in Visual Studio

Create a Visual Studio Project for later created schemas
- Make it strong named!
"Add Generated Items" to the project
- Either "Add Adapter Metadata" or "ConsumeAdapterService"
"Configure URI" in the dialog "Consume Adapter Service"

Go to the "URI Properties"
- - Fill the "Server" (of the database), the "InitialCatalog" (the name of the database) and an unique "InboundId" (can be anything!)
Go to the "Binding Properties"
- - InboundOpertationType = "TypedPolling"
  - PollingDataAvailableData = "EXEC SpCountData"
  - PollingStatement = "EXEC SpGetData"
Accept your changes with "OK"

Press "Connect" in the dialog "Consume Adapter Service"
- 1. "Select Contract Type" to "Service (inbound operations)"
  2. Press "Select a category"
  3. Choose "TypedPolling"
  4. Press "Add"
  5. Filename Prefix = "DebatchingSample"
  6. Press "OK"
As a result you should have a Visual Studio Project that looks like the following

Delete the "BizTalk Orchestration.odx"

Tasks in BizTalk Administration Console

Create a new BizTalk Application "DebatchSampleApplication"
Create a new Receive Port "RcvPort/DebatchingSample"
Create a Receive Location "RcvLoc/DebatchingSample/SQL" under the Receive Port "RcvPort/DebatchingSample"

- Select Type = "WCF-Custom"
- Select Receive Pipeline "XmlReceive"
Press "Configure" the WCF-Custom

Configure "General"
- Adress (URI) = "mssql://WIN-NQDUPNWZVQ4//DebatchingSampleDb?InboundId=DebatchingSampleDb
  - Note: WIN-NQDUPNWZVQ4 is the servername of the db!
  - Note: Important is that the value of the InboundId matches with the value we specified in the "Consume Adapter Service" dialog!
Configure Binding
- Select "sqlBinding"
- InboundOpertationType = "TypedPolling"
- PollingDataAvailableData = "EXEC SpCountData"
- PollingStatement = "EXEC SpGetData"
Apply the changes with "OK"

Apply the Receive Location settings with "OK"

Create a Static One-way Send Port "SndPort/DebatchingSample"
- Configure "General" of the Send Port as "FILE" with a "PassThruTransmit"
- Configure the "Filters"
  - - Bts.ReceivePort == RcvPort/DebatchingSample

Tasks in Visual Studio

Configure "Deployment" of the project "DebatchingSamle.Schemas" to deploy to the "DebatchingSampleApplication"
Deploy the project

Testing the solution

Insert two rows into the DebatchingSampleDb.tblData

Start the BizTalk Application "DebatchingSampleApplication"

Result: There should be one file in the output folder

Tasks in Visual Studio (Changes for debatching!)

Set "Envelope" to "yes" in the schema "DebatchingSample_DebatchingSampleDb.xsd"
Set the body-node
Set ist child node to "Max occurs = 1"

Redeploy the schema!

ReTesting the solution

Insert two rows into the DebatchingSampleDb.tblData
Start the BizTalk Application "DebatchingSampleApplication"

Result: There should be two files in the output folder

New BizTalk Documenter – Release - v3.4.0.0

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:16:25 GMT

BizTalkDocumenter - Release: Documenter_v3.4.0.0

Interesting stuff about Windows Azure from Steve Marx – Windows Azure Drive

Mon, 17 May 2010 20:41:30 GMT

blog.smarx.com - Serving Your Website From a Windows Azure Drive

Mobile Services of Deutsche Post

Sun, 16 May 2010 21:55:00 GMT

Deutsche Post Mobil

Some very good articles about Windows Server 2008, especially Hyper-V

Sat, 15 May 2010 13:43:31 GMT

Windows Server 2008 - Tarek Majdalani learning Portal

Office Mobile 2010 in Marketplace

Sat, 15 May 2010 13:10:49 GMT

download Office Mobile to your windows mobile 6.5 device from here.

Cool Video about PowerPoint Streaming on Different Devices

Sat, 15 May 2010 13:04:30 GMT

SQL Azure Quick Links in SQL Azure Team Blog

Sat, 15 May 2010 12:37:12 GMT

SQL Azure Team Blog : SQL Azure Quick Links

SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine (RTM) for download

Thu, 13 May 2010 13:13:17 GMT

2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM)

Whitepaper Comparing SQL Azure vs. SQL Server

Thu, 13 May 2010 12:55:03 GMT

SQL Azure vs. SQL Server

Notepad++ Helper

Mon, 10 May 2010 22:14:36 GMT

A list can be found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Plugin_Central .

Helpers that I have tested:

ext_libs needed

Cool trick to map a local drive letter to a SkyDrive folder without third party software

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:34:22 GMT

Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive

Waiting for Windows Live Wave 4 because of the ability to store OneNote notebooks in SkyDrive

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:25:29 GMT

Getting ready for Windows Live Wave 4 - Inside Windows Live - The Windows Blog

Twitter + Email = TweetByMail

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:05:21 GMT

a cool service for everyone that has most time only access to email:

Twitter + Email = TweetByMail

Microsoft SQL Azure FAQ is available as Word document

Sun, 09 May 2010 14:52:03 GMT

Download details: Microsoft SQL Azure FAQ

Public BizTalk Server 2010 Installation Documentation

Sun, 09 May 2010 13:11:15 GMT

Download details: BizTalk Server 2010 Documentation

How to install BAM Portal on a 64-Bit environment

Sun, 09 May 2010 12:57:56 GMT

Because i just tapped into this known issue while configuring my BizTalk 2010 environment, i add a link to the article that describes what to do in this case:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560122(BTS.20).aspx

Producer for PowerPoint

Sat, 08 May 2010 14:34:43 GMT

Producer for PowerPoint for Office 2003 – 2010.

Disabling Itinerary Encryption in ESB Toolkit 2.0 (from Peter Kelcey)

Sat, 01 May 2010 15:13:55 GMT

Peter Kelcey descirbes how to disable the intinerary encryption feature of ESB Toolkit 2.0 to be able to export models without encryption. This is obvisously only a good idea on a dev machine, or if your intineraries do not contain any sensible information.

Connected Systems in the Great White North : Disabling Itinerary Encryption in the ESB Toolkit 2.0

In short terms:

open “C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0\Tools\Itinerary Designer\ruleset.config”, i.e. in Visual Studio
search for <property name="EncryptionCertificate">
comment its “validator”-subnode, that contains a validator type of “Microsoft.Practices.Modeling.Validation.X509CertificateContainerValidator”.

Be sure to restart Visual Studio, because it has to reload the ruleset.config!

AeroZoom for Windows 7 Magnifier makes a presentation mouse

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:50:06 GMT

AeroZoom for Windows 7 Magnifier makes a presentation mouse

Erstes Deutsches BizTalk Server Forum

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:43:50 GMT

BizTalk Server Forum

feedling – a feed reader that displays its items on the desktop

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:03:10 GMT

feedling | Get feedling at SourceForge.net

Windows Phone 7 Office Video on YouTube

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:51:52 GMT

Free ebook - Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:03:34 GMT

Microsoft Press : Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

LINQPad – a tool to create LINQ Queries

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:49:20 GMT

Download LINQPad

Xobni now supports Office 2010 32/64-bit

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:38:51 GMT

Xobni - Outlook Plugin to Search People, Email, and Attachments Instantly

Infos about Upgrading from SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 to RTM from Mick Breeze

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:24:54 GMT

Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/... - Upgrading from SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 to RTM

Microsoft offers for all Facebookers an Office App for creating and sharing Documents

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:14:43 GMT

Docs

Thiago Almeida about using EPM Transactions within Pipeline Components

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:16:38 GMT

Often it is necessary i.e. to archive all incoming messages within a recieve location, and only if the transaction into the message box is commited. Thiago Almeida is describing this in his blog entry:

Hooking into BizTalk’s underlying transaction in your custom receive pipeline component « Connected Thoughts – Thiago Almeida

ESB Toolkit 2.0 Architecture Poster Download

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:11:13 GMT

The poster is available here.

Richard Seroter points out to a paper about Testing Service Oriented Solutions

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:42 GMT

Interesting stuff, did not read the complete paper but Richard’s summary

Testing Service Oriented Solutions « Richard Seroter’s Architecture Musings

Info about getting WinDBG

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:01:36 GMT

Winterdom » Blog Archive » Downloading WinDBG

Mentioning again CloudCasts - Webcasts

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:56:09 GMT

Just because I read a blog entry about some new ‘BizTalk Light and Easy’ webcasts, again I want to note that CloudCasts is a great webcast portal!

CloudCasts - Webcast Yourself

MVP 2010 for BizTalk Server

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:34:43 GMT

Great news just before my holiday! I just received a mail from Microsoft. I am very proud to be again a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for BizTalk Server.

This gives me again the possibility to get latest stuff about Microsoft server products, especially BizTalk Server.

BizTalk 2009 R2 is now BizTalk 2010

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:08:09 GMT

I know that I am a bit late with this blog entry, but for completeness I want to mention this info.

I am just playing with the CTP Bits and it I think the renaming makes sense!

Windows Phone Development

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:20:31 GMT

Some infos about BizTalk 2009 R2

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:38:20 GMT

Like Paul Somers I had my fingers also on the latest BizTalk 2009 R2 bits, and I agree with Paul that BizTalk 2009 R2 goes a good step further in the right direction.

blog.paul.somers.com :: What’s New in BizTalk 2009 R2…

A very good ESB Toolkit introduction from Jon Flanders

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:30:12 GMT

Download details: BizTalk ESB Toolkit Core Components and Examples

Interesting blog about reasons to move to BizTalk Server 2009 R2

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:13:36 GMT

Reasons for moving from BizTalk Server 2006 to BizTalk Server 2009 R2.

http://blogs.digitaldeposit.net/SARAVANA/post/2010/03/04/Reasons-for-moving-from-BizTalk-Server-2006-to-BizTalk-Server-2009-R2.aspx

BizTalk ESB Toolkit Core Components and Examples from Jon Flanders

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:54:15 GMT

Download details: BizTalk ESB Toolkit Core Components and Examples

Document about using BizTalk Server to integrate SAP

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:52:35 GMT

Download details: Unleash SAP using the Microsoft Platform: Using BizTalk Server to Bring Two Worlds Together

What do you suggest? – interesting search routes

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:46:28 GMT

What do you suggest?

Sinn und Unsinn der Windows Communication Foundation – Artikel von Holger Schwichtenberg

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:06:20 GMT

heise Developer - 22.02.2010 14:05 - Sinn und Unsinn der Windows Communication Foundation

Problems with VMware USB Arbitration Service and suspend mode

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:51:10 GMT

I am running Windows 7 x64 on a HP EliteBook 8530p. After installing latest VMWare Player (3.0.1) on the machine i got heavy issues after start from suspend mode. Sometimes the os hangs when suspending, and somtimes my usb or bluetooth hardware was not working anymore.

The only solution i found after many trial error sessions was to disable the service “VMware USB Arbitration Service” in the service control manager. That’s ok for me as a workaround, but clearly not acceptable.

But my hope is that Microsoft will support x64 OS’s with Windows Virtual PC.

Windows Phone 7

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:05:39 GMT

just demoed on MWC, here is some more stuff about Windows Phone 7:

Windows Phone Newsroom: Video Gallery
First Look: Windows Phone 7 Series Hands on Demo | Laura Foy | Channel 9
Windows Phone 7 Series Demo build with Silverlight

SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Issue (5048)

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:04:23 GMT

The Installation of my standalone SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 was really straight forward until running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. I got the following error after running the SharePoint Configuration Wizard:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-WAS
Date:          15.02.2010 13:55:18
Event ID:      5048
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      WIN2K8R2-ADAM
Description:
The application '/_vti_bin/sts' belonging to site '1650856093' has an invalid AppPoolId 'SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool' set. Therefore, the application will be ignored.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WAS" Guid="{524B5D04-133C-4A62-8362-64E8EDB9CE40}" EventSourceName="WAS" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32768">5048</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-15T21:55:18.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>2734</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>WIN2K8R2-ADAM</Computer>
    <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
    <Data Name="Application">1650856093</Data>
    <Data Name="SiteID">/_vti_bin/sts</Data>
    <Data Name="AppPoolID">SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

The solution was to install the hotfix for WCF 3.5 for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Monitoring BizTalk Server with HP OpenView

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:50:57 GMT

A whitepaper about monitoring BizTalk Server Solutions with HP OpenView

Download details: Monitoring BizTalk Server with HP OpenView

Consolidated BizTalk blogs

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:37:09 GMT

BizTalk Server Team Blog

Google Buzz in Deutschland verfügbar

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:00:51 GMT

Neu! Google Buzz in Google Mail

PDF Thumbnails und Preview für 64 Bit Windows

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:44:05 GMT

WindowsBlog.at | PDF Thumbnails und Preview für 64 Bit Windows

Developing a Streaming Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:26:51 GMT

Download details: Developing a Streaming Pipeline Component for BizTalk Server

BizTalk Documenter v3.3 released

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:31:29 GMT

look at Santosh Benjamin’s Weblog for more details

BizTalk Documenter v3.3 « Santosh Benjamin’s Weblog

or download the BizTalk Documenter v3.3 at Codeplex.

For me the most interesting new feature is the “Word” output (seems to be longer available, but I did not know).

Interesting stuff about Optimizing XML Queries in SQL Server from Eric Stott

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:21:39 GMT

Optimizing XML Queries in SQL Server

Adressen von der Deutsche Post

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:13:01 GMT

Deutsche Post | Broschüre Adresskatalog 2010

Useful DOS Batch functions

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:32:37 GMT

Useful DOS Batch functions: Substring() and Length()

MobiPDFScanner - images to PDF on windows phone

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:13:29 GMT

MobiPDFScanner - images to PDF on windows phone | Best Windows Mobile Phone Apps and Games

Oh, it seems to be possible to run android on my htc touch pro 2

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:59:46 GMT

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=12647&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WmPowerUser+(WM+Power+User)&utm_content=Google+Reader

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 is available for download

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:45:04 GMT

Download details: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1

Airfoil for Windows: cool remote sound software

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:34:02 GMT

I was searching for a solution to play music from my notebook/tablet via my media center pc on my hifi sound system. And this software seems to work quite well:

Rogue Amoeba | Airfoil for Windows: Wireless Audio Around Your House

Hotfix for VS issues with BizTalk 2009 available

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:01:58 GMT

FIX: You experience various problems when you develop a BizTalk project that references another BizTalk project in Visual Studio on a computer that is running BizTalk Server 2009

Very interesting infos about BizTalk Hosts from Yossi Dahan

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:23:02 GMT

Yossi Dahan talks about hosts and their internal management in BizTalk (i.e. each host has its own queue in the message box) and the consequences. Really very interesting!

Yossi Dahan [BizTalk]: What I’ve learnt about BizTalk Hosts

BizTalk Benchmark Wizard

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:15:09 GMT

It is a tool that shows you if your BizTalk installation is performing well or not!

BizTalk Benchmark Wizard

Videos about Windows Azure

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:26:16 GMT

New Version of NMap

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:51:22 GMT

security scanner nmap 5.20

New Marketplace alternative OpnMarket

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:19:32 GMT

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/opnmarket/

nanoGroove, another Windows Mobile Client for GrooveShark

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:35:50 GMT

http://www.nanogroove.net/

Cool Collection of BizTalk Test Stuff

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:01:38 GMT

BizTalk Test Guide

SQL Azure North Europe Data Center is Online

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:26:06 GMT

since 8th of january the data center in Dublin is online.

SQL Azure Team Blog : SQL Azure North Europe is Online

Download My BizTalk 2009 Visio Shapes

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:25:16 GMT

It is always the same issue, you have to illustrate a BizTalk solution and you need always the same shapes. So some time ago I started to collect some nice shapes for illustrating BizTalk solutions.

If you need some space-saving BizTalk Visio Shapes, then try my BizTalk 2006 Shapes. But if you need some shapes that are also suitable for PowerPoint presentations, then try my new BizTalk 2009 Shapes. My way to use these shapes is to create a visio drawing to illustrate the solution. And then I copy the drawing to the resulting PowerPoint presentation.

Disabling Time Synchronization under Virtual PC

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:30:17 GMT

In Virtual PC 2007, Virtual Server and Windows Virtual PC per default the time is synchronized with the host time every 15 seconds. If you have to manipulate the time of a virtual system (for example for testing purposes), then you can change the time synch settings within the VMC-file of your virtual system. For details look at the excellent blog entry in Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Disabling Time Synchronization under Virtual PC 2007 .