BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP Available
As of two days ago (Wednesday, August 29th, 2012) Microsoft released the CTP of the new BizTalk Server 2010 R2. This new release brings us a slew of new features that I’m sure we’re all very excited...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exam 70-480 Study Guide
I’ll keep things short and sweet in this post. The content below will cover all of the sections described in the “Skills Measured” section of the Microsoft article that describes the Microsoft...
View ArticleAsync (APM) Single Threaded Consumer – Part 1
In this blog post I will discuss a set of classes that I put together that implement concepts discussed in several design patterns involving asynchronous operations and threading. Specifically, it...
View ArticleAsync (APM) Single Threaded Consumer – Part 2
This post is the second post of this two part series regarding the Async (APM) Single Threaded Consumer. Part 1 of this series was an introduction to the problem set, overall solution design, and an...
View ArticleGetting Nerdy with Workflow: Present and Future
The workflow team is taking things to the cloud. The future release of Azure Workflow 1.0 will be the next step in cloud computing. For some background information on this cloud powered topic, there...
View ArticleShrinking Dynamically Sized VHD Files
Have you ever noticed that the size of your VHD file was much larger than the actual disk space is being used? First thing you try is to use Hyper-V management tool to shrink the file. You gain some...
View ArticleSetting Up Service Bus 1.0 for Windows Server (Beta)
So, I finally took it upon myself to dive into the installation process of Service Bus 1.0 (Beta). I ran into a few hiccups, as a result of my own failure to read the pre-requisites, but for the most...
View ArticleManage Your Dev Environment With Windows 8 and Hyper-V
Managing a dynamic development environment just got easy. I’ve been using Windows 8 for almost four months now as my primary OS and haven’t turned back once. Yeah sure, the loss of a start button...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exam 70-486 Study Guide
Hello all. Recently, I wrote a study guide for the 70-480 exam (Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3). I wanted to follow that up with another study guide for 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC...
View ArticleDesert Code Camp 2012 (Web Sockets are not Just for Web Browsers)
Tomorrow, at Desert Code Camp, I will be presenting on Web Sockets. The title of the presentation is “Web Sockets are not Just for Web Browsers”. The presentation will start at 11:30 A.M. in room...
View ArticleAwesome and Free Online Learning for Microsoft Products
The efforts that Microsoft puts into providing free online training always amazes me. Beyond the huge community following that you find that includes blogs, github source code, and other online...
View ArticleFixing Broken Server 2008 VMs 0xc000000e
Occasionally after I have done maintenance to a VHD file, such as shrinking the file or other operations, upon the next boot in Hyper-V, I’m welcomed with the following message: Status: 0xc000000e...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exam 70-487 Study Guide
Hello all of my fellow certification-aholics This post covers Microsoft’s 70-487 exam: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services. I will admit that I have not been the best about finishing this blog...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exam 70-487 Study Notes
This post is related to the previous post I had that covers exam 70-487. However, the content on this post is much more thorough and provides examples for the topics that you will be tested on. In no...
View ArticleQuick Tutorial: Windows 8 C# / XAML RSS Reader
I have had the opportunity recently to work on a couple short Windows 8 projects. We opted to use the WinJS (HTML + CSS3) format to build the applications due to the short time-to-market necessary for...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012 – Update 2
A new update has been released in the past 24 hours for Visual Studio 2012! Overview A number of issue and hot fixes are included, but additionally, several enhancements were made to increase developer...
View ArticleESB Service Versioning in Neuron & WSO2
Introduction In this post, I will kick off a blog series that focuses on showing ESB by example. The term Enterprise Service Bus can mean different things to different people. I personally tend to...
View ArticleGoogle GeoLocation Service Integration with BizTalk 2013 REST
With the most recent release of BizTalk, you gain one very interesting capability: out of the box support for REST via a REST Adapter. The adapter, which is fully integrated with BizTalk Messaging,...
View ArticlePCSUG: The New and Exciting Frontier
The Phoenix Connected Systems User Group hosted Rick Garibay last month for a great presentation on Windows Azure BizTalk Services. I hope that you were able to join us for the return of our famed...
View ArticleNWVDNUG: Web Sockets are not Just for Web Browsers
Next Wednesday, I will be presenting on Web Sockets for the Northwest Valley .NET User Group. The title of the presentation is “Web Sockets are not Just for Web Browsers”. In case you miss the...
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