Winterdom

It has been brought to my attention that a hotfix has been released for the BizTalk Server 2009 developer tools that should fix the problem I mentioned a few months ago with referencing WCF services within the same BizTalk project as the orchestration that uses them. I haven’t tried it...

I’ve been noticing some oddities in how Visual Studio 2010 RC handles Custom ClassificationFormatDefinitions when multiple extensions are interacting together. It it hasn’t been fixed already, then I guess it’s already too late for it to matter, but I still wanted to bring it up just to know if it’s...

Both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 have a rather annoying issue relating to how XAML is highlighted in the Text Editor. I’ve complained in the past that the XAML designer team introduced a separate set of classifications (i.e. options in the Fonts and Colors dialog) to configure how XAML code...

Windows 7 has some nice and very welcome functionality for attaching/detaching VHD files so that you can access files in them directly from the operating system, which is something I’ve been finding very useful when working out of my laptop. Unfortunately, it’s a bit of a drag to have to...

Following the release of Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate, I installed it on one of my laptops. I ran into some minor issues with the Silverlight dev tools SDK, but I hear they’ve been resolved for RTM. Other than that, it seems to be working fine. I’ve already updated my...

Jeffrey Knight was kind enough to point out a small missing thing in the expressions for built-in variables in my modified syntax file for PowerShell scripts for Vim. I’ve now updated the syntax file in my github repository following Jeffrey’s suggestion and also fixed another related issue while at it....

On the topic of debugging skills, there are many things said and to be said, but I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on a few skills I believe BizTalk developers should develop to solve problems on their solutions effectively (in no particular order): Trace the execution of BizTalk...

Yesterday afternoon I kicked off the update to Karmic Koala (9.10) on my trusty Dell Latitude D820 laptop that was running Ubuntu 9.04. The update took a long time (mostly due to the servers getting hammered) and, overall, worked just fine. I did have to struggle with a couple of...

After repaving my desktop machine (which is my main work machine) with Windows 7, I tried the Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 RC to run the few Virtual PC-based Virtual Machines I still use occasionally. It worked, though I didn’t bother installing the updated integration components (formerly known as...

I’ve been fooling around a bit with the new Beta 2 build of Visual Studio 2010, so I’d thought I’d share a few comments about my general experience with the IDE, focusing mostly on the code editor. What I like After fooling around with my Windows configuration, font rendering on...