Darren Jefford
Solution Architect, Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft UK
BizTalk 2004 Pipelines
Mike has got a great blog about the differences between the PassThru and XML pipeline in BizTalk...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/01/2004
MSMQT: Debugging and Getting hold of malformed messages
So, I was discussing previously how MSMQT works with relation to BizTalk when malformed messages...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/31/2004
MSMQT, Transactional Queues and Xml Validating Pipelines
I’ve spent a bit of time recently debugging and trying to figure out a number of weird...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/31/2004
What is MSMQT?
So, What is MSMQT? I (stupidly as it turns out) just thought it was a new revision of MSMQ shipped...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/31/2004
Suspended Messages
I’ve been working with a customer recently around a new BizTalk 2004 project, they raised a...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/30/2004
BizTalk 2004 Web Services
BizTalk 2004 has great Web Service support; you can create an orchestration as usual and then expose...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/30/2004
AWOL
If I’ve got any readers left, then you’ll have noticed I’ve been very quiet...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/30/2004
Virtual PC: Keyboard stops working intermittently ?
I’ve been working with Virtual PC 2004 for a while now, I’m spending almost all of my...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 02/02/2004
Biztalk 2004 Generic Adapter Framework
I’ve been living in Biztalk 2004 space for the last few weeks and must say I’m...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 01/27/2004
Win32 to .NET Framework Map
Morgan on my team spotted this new addition to the MSDN site, it’s a map of Win32 APIs to .NET...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 01/26/2004
JIT Debugger Dialog
An interesting question came in last week around how to get around the “annoying”...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 01/18/2004
Trying out NewsGator
Mike pointed out NewsGator which I hadn’t really looked at before, but it looks great –...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 01/18/2004
New Year, New Blog Home
Please update your Blog Aggregrator links, my blog is on the move to: https://blogs.msdn.com/darrenj...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 12/30/2003
New Year, New Blog Home!
My blog is moving from GotDotNet, as are most of the Microsoft Bloggers, so please update your links...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 12/30/2003
The PDC notes I wish I'd taken
Tim Sneath (also from Microsoft UK) has posted a flurry of blog entries covering each session...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 11/04/2003
Didn't make it to the PDC?
You can order the Conference DVD that contains the videos of all the sessions and presentations from...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 11/02/2003
Longhorn Community Resources
Since the PDC lots of community newsgroups and discussions have opened up to discuss the Longhorn...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 11/02/2003
Great Indigo Introduction Article
https://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/01/Indigo/default.aspx
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 11/02/2003
Doug Purdy: XmlSerializer
GGGGrrr, I was looking forward to this session big time, but the room was full 5 minutes befehand so...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/29/2003
Remoting and EnterpriseServices: Indigo, Don Box
I was in the first Indigo session by Don Box on Monday, as ever a superb talk but I struggle to...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/29/2003
PDC PreCon - Web Services
[ BlogX has been playing up and this is the second time I've written this :-( ] I went along to Don,...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/29/2003
PAG Logging Application Block based on EIF
A new PAG Application Block is about to be released, which is built on and extends the Enterprise...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant
I've had a play with this ASP to ASP.NET migration assistant and it does exactly what it says on the...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
Unicode and Character Sets
Fascinating, and very well written. Well worth a read :-) The Absolute Minimum Every...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
Encrypting Credentials in your XML config files
I came across this a while back, but lots of people aren't aware of it. If you want to specify...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
If your flying to the PDC from Heathrow on Friday..
Leave Early! https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=110427...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
PDC Fever
In the last few weeks the lid has opened slightly internally on all things Longhorn, Indigo,...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
PDC Sessions
The PDC site doesn't have a great search tool for looking at the sessions, and if you want to print...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
System.Web.Mail and Authentication
A question came up recently on how to send email from .NET, System.Web.Mail offers a nice...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/22/2003
PDC Bloggers
Check out https://www.pdcbloggers.com, Should be an interesting resource for those not going to...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/15/2003
Getting the paths for "Special Folders"
I've been cutting some code today (for once!) and I needed to find out the location of the users "My...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/27/2003
Off to the PDC
Looking forward to the PDC already, lots of interesting stuff will be unveiled for the first time -...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/22/2003
Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Information on Microsoft's "Virtual Machine" technology seems to be appearing now, we've got some...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/22/2003
Call Dispose on your ServicedComponent's (please)
My last blog entry pointed at a Enterprise Services FAQ which mentions that you should call .Dispose...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/22/2003
Enterprise Services FAQ
Mike just pointed me at this superb Enterprise Services FAQ, it's a really good collection of some...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/22/2003
Going to be a father again...
Looks like Lucy is going to have a baby brother or sister soon! God it's going to be mad with...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/22/2003
Back blogging
Been really busy recently, but never fear I'm back blogging again...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/22/2003
Side by Side
I've been looking into a tricky requirement today... Two applications have been developed over time...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/31/2003
Developer Tools Roadmap
Microsoft have just released the Visual Studio Roadmap details covering Whidbey and Orcas, you can...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/30/2003
Who?
Who is Darren Jefford you might ask, well that's a good question :-) I work as an Application...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/21/2003