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Developing BizTalk Server 2010 solution for integrating with PeopleSoft...
In this post we will see few of the initial steps for developing BizTalk Solutions for integrating with PeopleSoft Enterprise Systems using PeopleSoft Adapter. In order to proceed further, you must...
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BizTalk 2010 Dynamics AX 2012 - Errors in the guidance document
Working though the white paper Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012: Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 to exchange documents with Microsoft Dynamics AX I came across an issue with incorrect information in the...
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Developers need to understand interfaces, interfaces, interfaces!
I come across this problem a lot. I often get work to fix problems that largely stem from bad interface design. Architects know how important interfaces are whether they be WSDL, C# interfaces, stored...
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On the Utility of Visual Basic and Haikus
I was working with some sample code which unfortunately was in Visual Basic. After working on translating the Visual Basic to a language that doesn't suck (anything else is better) for about 20...
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Converting Hyper-V to VMWare
Our company is standardizing on VMWare for a number of reasons. I won’t list them here, but wanted to write about a problem that I had using VMWare Standalone Converter version 5.0 to convert Hyper-V...
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Who Follows Coding Standards?
 Standards You've probably done it. I know I have and I'm not too proud to admit that I've stepped outside the lines a time or two and not followed my company's coding standards to a T. Have you...
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APress Deal of the Day - 22/Feb/2012 - Expert F# 2.0
Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430224310 is Expert F# 2.0"Expert F# 2.0 is about practical programming in a beautiful language that puts the power and elegance of...
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Nivo Slider In SharePoint 2010!?!
 A little while ago I was part of architecting and leading a project for http://hub.united.com and one of my very talented ex-coworker was in charge of doing most of the branding. He incorporated the...
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Staff of Geeks will be in London in March
John and I will be making a visit to the UK in March for a week and we are very excited. If we have any London based bloggers or readers, please let us know if you would be up for a gathering while...
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Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary
Using locks to implement a thread-safe collection is rather like using a sledgehammer - unsubtle, easy to understand, and tends to make any other tool redundant. Unlike the previous two collections I...
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An Open Letter to Mint.com
Windows Phone has now been out for just over a year and Mint.com has had four active threads on their support forums for almost the same amount of time (here, here, here, and here). Out of the four...
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Can Frameworks and Samples Mash Up?
In the development of line-of-business (LOB) applications, there has long been a certain tug-of-war between tools that automate development, or frameworks that accelerate it, on the one hand; and the...
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BizTalk Amazon S3 Adapter
A few days ago I read an article by Richard Seroter comparing the different cloud storage options and comparing Windows Azure and Amazon S3. I commented on his blog about how Id like to see companies...
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Query Performance Logging with MiniProfiler
I have started to experiment with MiniProfiler to log our query performance. We currently use a mix of pure SQL and Entity Framework, since we need Fulltext search some pure SQL is unavoidable....
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Why no flash on Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod?
A good article by the man himself as to why Flash is not supported on iPhones, iPads and iPods, at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flashBut there is also a long history between Apple and Adobe...
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BizTalk Server 2010: Problems casting XML documents to BizTalk Messages
While coding a very simple orchestration in BizTalk Server 2010, I ran into the dreaded "cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Xml.XmlDocument' to '<message type>'" issue. I've seen this happen...
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BizTalk 2006 & 2009 hotfix for EDI leap year date errors
Microsoft has released a hotfix to fix a date problem in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 & 2009 when processing EDI files where a data element contains a leap date. BizTalk Server 2006 and 2010 are not...
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C#/.NET Little Wonders–The List<T> Range Methods
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past...
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Considering the behaviour of your dependencies and not just the interface to...
I have been wanting to talk for a while about the approach we take to analysis of an application we are about to integrate with. In the past I have seen a lot of cases where analysis is undertaken by...
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Type initializer for [ClassName] threw an exception
I was helping a coworker with some code changes on a windows console application, when suddenly the entire program refused to load:The type initializer for [program] threw an exception.was thrown at...
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