Winterdom

Steve Hebert comments here on his experience doing async calls to Web Services and seeing what seems like a limitation in the way the BeginXXX() methods work:"Furthermore, when you watch this run in NUnit you’ll see that it’s actually making two requests at a time (two results appear simultaneously, two...

Greg Young started an interesting discussion about Unit Testing BizTalk solutions; some good things to consider are brought on. In general, I agree with Greg that testing BizTalk solutions isn't always easy, in particular because of dependencies and because of the level at which BizTalk solutions are created (it is...

Some Biztalk links worth visiting: Doug Girard announces several new samples on the BizTalk Script resources site. Several cool samples over there, including the SSO troubleshooting tool which a lot of people will find useful. Luke Nyswonger lets us know that the BizTalk Server 2006 Core documentation has been updated...

I love Channel9; it's a great resource. I really like the interview videos, even if I just put them on the background to listen to while I work :). Here are some good Channel9 videos I've watched lately (they're not necessarily new, I just hadn't had the time to watch...

Greg Young posted a few keen realistic observations regarding the realities of Software Development Work Contracts and the use of Agile Development Methodologies. Worth reading alongside with the discussion in the comments section.

Steve Maine was kind enough to respond to my questions on how the normal Text Encoder in WCF had been enabled to support POX style interactions in a little bit more detail. Steve provided a few more details over email, so I'm reposting here a part of what he mentioned,...

I've been doing some work with NHibernate lately, and I'm pretty happy with it; it works very well over all and I haven't had any significant problems. One thing that did make it a lot easier to deal with was using Ayende's NHibernate.Generics library to deal with relations in our...

While taking some time to peruse issue #8 of the Architecture Journal (an excellent resource, by all means), I ran into Tim Ewald's and Kim Wolk's article on "A Flexible Model for Data Integration". Pretty interesting, certainly in line with some of the service versioning stuff Tim has talked about....

I've been a happy user of Virtual PC for a number of years; it has made my life a lot easier and it offers a good combination of features. But, quite frankly, I've been getting fed up with it lately. There are two basic reasons why: Performance: On my laptop...

Nicholas Allen has been writing about some of the changes in the June CTP of WCF (his blog is an excellent resource, by the way), and in entry #2 he talks a bit about some changes made to better support POX style applications in WCF. I'm very happy the WCF...