Winterdom

Irena Kennedy posted a lengthy entry on choosing the right integration technology from the growing stack of frameworks and servers Microsoft Offers. Included in the entry as candidates are: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS), SQL Server Replication, MSMQ, BizTalk and WCF.  Plenty of good stuff...

Like Jeff Lynch, I've been running the Virtual PC 2007 lately since my Vista RTM install. In general terms, it works just as well (or just as fair, more likely) as Virtual PC 2004. Like Jeff, I've always had the problem with the Centrino chipsets issues in Virtual PC (though in...

Richard Seroter has posted a quick guide on the BizTalk 2006 R2 Beta 1 installation, showing a few of the new features included. Pretty cool stuff. Meanwhile, Jesus Rodriguez posted a cool overview on how to use the WCF adapter in R2 to invoke a WCF service using the NetTcpBinding....

I've been trying out the XPS reader in Vista lately to see how much I like/don't like the new document format. The format itself seems to be just fine, I really have no problem with it. But the reader in Vista just sucks; it leaves a lot to be desired....

Looks like we'll now have to invent a whole new term: Hanselmanning a site :-) Just a small link in Scott's piece on programming fonts to my entry on Inconsolata pushed up my traffic yesterday enough for it to surpass even a regular weekday's traffic. Event today it shows. Not...

Gregory Van de Wiele, a fellow BizTalk MVP, wrote to me a couple of weeks ago with some good information on how to catch XML Schema errors thrown by the XML Disassembler Component in a BizTalk pipeline when using my BizTalk PipelineTesting library. Here's the scoop: In order to find...

I've been using Vista as my main OS now for an entire week, and things have been somewhat better than what I expected. No crashes so far, and almost all seems to work just fine. A few things things I've noticed: Coming out of hibernate feels a bit faster than...

Somehow, I ended up with a window in Vista looking like this: No idea what I did, but the window was not resizable at all, so no way to restore it to it's original size. Funky! Technorati tags: Vista

I like to use an extended desktop on my laptop for some presentations: extending my desktop along the main LCD and the external projector. It usually worked very well, until Vista. I noticed today that on vista, extending the desktop itself works just fine, and the new tools to manage...

I used to be an EMusic subscriber for a long time and enjoyed it very much. However, I unsubscribed a while ago because I wasn't finding too much music I liked (though there seems to be quite a bit of new music since then) and because I was at one...