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Starting to look out for any news on MSMQ and Windows 8
Udi Dahan briefly chats about MSMQ on his blog and provides a useful link: Microsoft has put MSMQ in the Developer Preview of Server 8 (as Brian Buvinghausen has written here). There’s good news on...
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Syncronize IIS servers in a web farm to enable ETags
It’s known that on web Farm using of eTags under IIS doesn’t work properly unless all servers are synchronized.http://support.microsoft.com/?id=922733 suggests to synchronize the ETag values on all...
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Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 2
In the last post I showed how to create the skeleton of a pipeline components, add it to the toolbox, integrate it into a BizTalk app and deploy & test it. This time I’ll go over working with the...
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Installing and Configuring PeopleSoft Adapter for BizTalk Server 2010
Architecture of PeopleSoft Adapter: The BizTalk PeopleSoft Adapter is based on the BizTalk Server Adapter Framework. More info: How the Adapter Is Designed: The Adapter Framework. The PeopleSoft...
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Of Image Exif, PropertyItem and reflection
As documented here on MSDN the PropertyItem object does not have a public constructor. What to do then when you want to add a property to an image, using Image.SetPropertyItem(..) method? This post...
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Determine the Security Account that IIS Uses to Run My Web Site
It's important to understand the account that IIS is running under when you need to make changes to the security settings. If, for example, your Web application writes to files or to a database, you'll...
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Project Novus–Progress Update
Its been a few weeks since I talked about my Windows Phone project. I bunch of things have happened during this time. I finished my primary requirements and began paper mock-ups of the screens. I say...
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Automatic roll-out if IE8 and IE9
The roll-out of the latest IE (either IE8 or IE9 depending on the operating system) as an important security patch started this month for users in Australia and Brazil according to the Windows blog at...
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Creating a custom BizTalk 2010 pipeline component–Part 3
I hadn’t intended for there to actually be a part 3 to this series, but I realized that I failed to talk about how to get the xml back into the message once you’re done messing with it. You have to...
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Using LINQ to Twitter in Windows 8 Metro Apps
While the title of this post suggests focus on LINQ to Twitter, it also indicates that I’ll be discussing how to build a Windows 8 Metro application. The application itself will display a list of...
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Stratified controls, Rule and Meta-rule or Logix and MetaLogix.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Chris malavarca who is an account executive for Matalogix. The name Metalogix immediately brought me to think about language and meta-language, rule and...
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February 2012 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Presentation
So here is try number two. Mother nature got the best of us last month with the threat of icy roads on our presentation night. Ruben Rotteveel has been gracious enough to reschedule his discussion of...
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Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings
When you place a Visual Studio solution into TFS or pull it down for the first time a default working path is set in the workspace mappings. There are times when you need to point source code to a new...
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C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Implicit Zero To Enum Conversion
C# is a wonderful language for modern programming. While everything in C# has a reason and a place, occasionally there are things that can be confusing for a developer who isn’t aware of what is...
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Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic
I have seen a number of questions lately regarding how SQL Azure handles throttling and how to determine why the throttling occurred. Sometimes those questions are followed by another question asking...
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A job at Microsoft?
It’s been a while since I blogged about my experience going through the interviews for a permanent position as a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. It was tough to hear that I did not get offered the...
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Prairie Dev Con West–MS TechDays Sessions Posted!
They’ve arrived! Microsoft is bringing a number of sessions from their popular TechDays events to Prairie Dev Con West in Calgary and they’re now posted on the site! In addition to fantastic...
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set jqueryUI ThemeRoller cookie
Seems to me that all users prefer a different color scheme for the web apps they work on. With jQueryUI, the themes are available and can be chosen with the themeswitcher gadget. Howerver, out of the...
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Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic
I have seen a number of questions lately regarding how SQL Azure handles throttling and how to determine why the throttling occurred. Sometimes those questions are followed by another question asking...
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APress Deal of the Day - 28/Jan/2012 - Beginning Silverlight 4 in C#
Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430229889 is Beginning Silverlight 4 in C#"Discover the tools needed for Silverlight 4 development, the roles each plays, and how...
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