Winterdom

I'm glad someone else brings this to the table. John Cavnar-Johnson puts it very nicely, and I totally agree with this. This is a topic I have to battle constantly both within our organization and with our customers on our consulting sessions. I've said it in the past and I'll...

I'm not a java guy (meaning I haven't done any serious java development in a few years, and my professional focus is the MS platform at this time), but I've found the discussion around Spring that Ted Neward has been having with other fellows in the Java camp to be...

Way cool, the Journal 5 is out (as others have reported)! I've enjoyed a lot reading through every one of the previous edition and this one (what I've been able to read so far) is quite interesting, as well. One minor comment guys: The quality of the images in the...

Well, as many others have reported, the new names for Indigo and Avalon have been chosen: Windows Communications Framework and Windows Presentation Framework, respectively. Not to pick on you guys but for such cool and exciting products to get such uninspiring names is just a shame. Besides this, who in...

This is just way too funny and too cool to miss it: http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/

Robert Hurlbut talks here about Paul Fallon's comment that Enterprise Services will get Transaction Promotion and Delegation support. I agree this is great news. I'm already very excited about System.Transactions, as the API is extremely nice, and we're planning on using it for the project we are about to begin...

As some people have mentioned recently, one of the new features in BizTalk Server 2006 (aka PathFinder) is routing of failed messages. This is a very cool new feature because it gives you the possibility of using the standard Pub/Sub mechanism exposed by BizTalk to handle failed messages (either because...

If you are calling a Web Service from a BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestration, you might have encountered cases where the WebServices takes too long to execute and BizTalk times out the request, and perhaps you've wondered how to instruct BizTalk to wait just a little bit longer. As it happens,...

Today I sat down and ported one adapter we had built for one of our customers from BizTalk Server 2004 to the BizTalk 2006 CTP. I am glad to report that it worked pretty much at the first tried. I just took the solution, upgraded it in VS 2005, recompiled...

Today I went with some of my colleages to diagnose a problem that was popping up at a customer site during deployment of a BizTalk Server 2004 solution. In this particular scenario, BizTalk was installed in a dual node configuration, with one server containing the BizTalk databases and the other...