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Azure: Azure 1.7 SDK tid bits
Hi folks, you've probably heard a fair bit about the make over of Azure into 'Azure 2.0' (the SDK is still 1.7) There's some great new tools within VS.NET to manage your environment better, even a...
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BizTalk Mapper Patterns: Calling an external assembly from Custom XSLT in...
This topic is not new in my blog, I’ve already talked about this in the past: Calling an external assembly from Custom XSLT – Custom Extension XML (Grid Property) however, I decided to revisit this...
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BizTalk 2010: Bootcamp - Sydney - Coming up.
Hi folks, What a great time we're in at the moment. Cloud(s) are knocking a the door, local devices, windows 8 etc. No complaints from me that this world is getting more and more connected. To maintain...
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BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to Map Hierarchical Schema to a Name Value Pair
In this new mapping pattern I want to show you how can you transform an hierarchical schema into a Name/Value Pair record. The first thing we need to know is how I can read the name of the element from...
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BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to Map Name Value Pair to a Hierarchical Schema
In my last mapping pattern post, I explained how and described the pros and cons of four methods to accomplish a mapping from hierarchical schema to a name value pair… so the logically next step would...
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My latest MSDN/TechNet Activities
Last couple of months I have written and edited a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki. The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community (like myself, Tord Glad Nordahl,...
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Training Resources for BizTalk Developers and BizTalk Administrators...
Sometimes people want to start learning BizTalk and don’t know where to start and it is very normal to see a lot of people asking this question, which leads me to always be looking for this...
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BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to map values from a repeating node into a...
Well, I decided to take a few minutes of my vacation to play a little with … BizTalk, renew some knowledge, answer a few emails and maybe try to answer some questions on the forums. This exercise (or...
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Azure: 6 weeks of Azure–let the games begin
Day #1 has been officially launched for the 6 weeks of Azure Program. Rocky & Christian at Microsoft are busy combining a great community effort with help from myself & Mahesh, Bill Chesnut and...
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HTML: The Very Basics
The language of the modern web is HTML5. It’s a great thing. You probably don’t understand why yet, but you will. Our most basic page: That’s really boring, you might say. Well yes, it is. If you...
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Browsers: The Very Basics – Part 1
Brief (but required) history lesson: Back when IE had 90% or so of the market share, browsers were essentially an enigma. It was hard to know exactly how things worked. Now that open source browsers...
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Browsers: The Very Basics – Part 2
Error handling: One of the reasons that HTML standards are so important is because HTML is a language that has historically been written with a lot of errors and now has many different versions. One of...
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User Expectations vs. Creator Perceptions
Creating successful user experiences is an art. A lot of art involves taking advantage of the way that the brain processes information. The most successful designs (user experiences or otherwise) are...
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Block vs. Inline Elements: The very basics
A lot of confusion surrounds the concept of block and inline elements, and its not unusual for this confusion to persist indefinitely. I’m hopefully going to clarify this tiny but influential...
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Local Windows Azure: Integrate, Innovate & Australia just got smarter
Well folks I’ve been greeted with the news that Microsoft Windows Azure will be in 2 geo-replicated places here on Australian soil, coming ‘shortly’. As an Azure MVP & from Breeze (a leading...
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BizTalk Training – Orchestrations – How to Call Orchestrations developed in a...
In the past I developer a demo on “How to Call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application” that you can read here and download the source code from Code Gallery here. This...
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The Joys of Printing from the Web
Print style sheets, should in theory, be simple. You strip out the complicated junk from your page, and format it a little better for a piece of paper. Right? Wrong. Print style sheets are a pain in...
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Summary of my contributions on MSDN Code Gallery and TechNet Gallery in the...
We are getting close to the end of another year and this is the right time to do a personal end-of-year review and make some work/life balance. To do some of your own personal planning for the year...
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BizTalk Mapper Patterns: Automatically Link The Record Elements By Structure,...
Exchanging or routing messages between existing applications, systems or external partners is one of the many common scenarios in Enterprise integration solutions. And sometimes they are build base on...
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MABS EAI Bridge LoB Lookup (Part 1 of 2)
Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services (MABS) has a lot to offer for companies looking for a PaaS Middleware solution. EAI bridges provide B2B communication as well as LoB access functionality for EDI, XML,...
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