Winterdom

The inevitable happened, I guess. After years of putting it off, I finally took my first MCP exam. The victim? 70-230 "Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000, Enterprise Edition". Old, but certainly more entertaining than doing C# exams :) At least I passed the exam ;) </p>...

Yesterday, I was looking for an utility to calculate a CRC value for a set of files I needed, and ran across FSUM; a very nice [free] command line utility that can calculate checksum values for a file (or a set of them) using any of 13 different algorithms: MD2,...

Christian Weyer just announced the release of WSCF 0.4. This is very exciting for me, not only because of the new features it brings to the table (the WSDL wizard rocks!), but also because I was lucky enough to be allowed to try early copies of the tool, and immediately...

While searching for a few things this morning, I ran into an older post from Christian, pondering whether Indigo was supposed to be the next version of COM+ or not. This, of course, has been discussed quite a bit in posts from others like Don [2] and Richard. What did...

Scott Hanselman has a great entry on unit testing ASP.NET code by using Cassini. Way cool Scott, this is definitely a cool trick to keep in mind! humm... I wonder how cool it would be to be able to just do it using Http.sys instead... </p>

I hadn't looked at FXCop in a while, and decided to check it out again (in part because I'm setting up a new set of build tools for our project including things like CruiseControl.NET). Wow, FXCop has improved a lot since then. I do have a problem with it, though,...

Many people have commented on the release of TestDriven.NET, including Sam and Scott. I tend to agree that it is a cool tool, and the integration with the IDE is very impressive. One thing I'd like to see, though, is a more visual form of feedback. While output to the...

While looking through some of my project directories today, found a few old samples I had written years ago. For the sake of it, decided to upload some of them to my dev section, although at this stage, I doubt anybody cares about it ;)

I totally love it that Tim Ewald now has the time to post more to his blog. I enjoy reading what he writes quite a lot. In particular, I love it how he approaches things I've been pondering on for a while and helps me clearly understand that I really...

Last week, while trying a few things at work with BizTalk server, we managed to get something up and running that I hadn't quite seen explicitly presented anywhere: using BTS as a router on an HTTP Request/Response escenario. <img src="/weblog/images/HttpRouter.gif"/> </p> Basically, it consisted of an Request/Response Receive Port hosting...