BizTalk & Development Thoughts
This is a blog about my experience with development specially for BizTalk ...
TCP CICS transactions integration and automated rollback
Introduction Integrating BizTalk applications with Mainframe programs can be done using many...
Date: 01/12/2015
Writing a custom HostApps ESB adapter provider to integrate ESB toolkit with a Mainframe
Adapter provider framework is how the ESB toolkit configures the off-ramps to send requests using...
Date: 01/10/2015
Using Host Integration Server COBOL Import Wizard
Introduction Host Integration Server allows application integration with the Mainframe system using...
Date: 06/07/2014
Host Integration Server 2013 TI Assembly GAC deployment Walkthrough
Introduction Host Integration Server (HIS) is used to integrate with Legacy Host technology. One of...
Date: 05/27/2014
SharePoint Provider Hosted App Walkthrough: Part 2 Dig deep
Introduction In the previous post here I showed how to write a new provider hosted App using a step...
Date: 03/31/2014
Small tip: Where is the XSD Definition Tab in Visual Studio 2012 with Host Integration Server 2013
Today I faced an issue that took me some time to figure out with Host Integration Server 2013....
Date: 01/07/2014
Using an IIS hosted MEX endpoint with an in-process WCF receive location in BizTalk Server
Introduction Receiving messages and requests using WCF endpoints and receive locations is a very...
Date: 12/28/2013
Integrating Apache ActiveMQ with BizTalk Server 2013 using WCF-WebHTTP adapter and REST API
Introduction In this blog post I will present a very simple solution to integrate with Apache...
Date: 12/11/2013
Creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V: Part4 Configuration Revisited
In part 1of this series I showed you how to configure the virtual storage required for the cluster....
Date: 12/04/2013
BizTalk Cop installation and configuration for VS 2012
I faced a requirement today that I need to enable some BizTalk best practices and create a custom...
Date: 08/17/2013
SQL 2012 Unattended installation & Configuration file creation
Introduction In many cases you might be faced with a requirement to perform an unattended SQL Server...
Date: 07/30/2013
Fixed: BizTalk 2013 BAM Portal configuration problem
The Problem When configuring BizTalk Server 2013 RTM on a multi-computer environment you might face...
Date: 07/28/2013
Fixed: BizTalk 2013 BAM tools configuration problem
The Problem When configuring BizTalk Server 2013 RTM on a multi-computer environment you might face...
Date: 07/26/2013
Securing Dynamic Data ASP.NET SQL Azure Published Web Site with ACS and Facebook as an Identity Provider
The Scenario I wanted to implement an Azure web site that is using the Azure Access Control Service...
Date: 04/27/2013
SharePoint Group Calendar, Adding default users
The Problem One feature of SharePoint is to create a calendar and make it a group calendar. This...
Date: 04/09/2013
A Small trick: How to extract a BizTalk BAM definition from an Excel sheet without installing Excel client
This is a small trick that I have been doing for sometime now and wanted to share. The scenario is...
Date: 02/25/2013
How to configure SQL Database mail so send emails using Office 365 (Exchange Online): A walkthrough
Introduction SQL Server has a feature called database mail. This feature allows the database server...
Date: 02/25/2013
SharePoint Provider Hosted App Walkthrough: Part 1 Preparation
SharePoint and office development model is changing to a new App model. This is the new development...
Date: 02/24/2013
Create a password dialog for Visual Studio deployment project
Introduction Most of us have worked with Visual Studio deployment projects to create...
Date: 09/19/2012
Hyper-V Physical to virtual: Moving a natively booted VHD to be a real virtual machine
Introduction I had a requirement to migrate an existing native boot Windows Server 2008 R2 machine...
Date: 08/07/2012
ADFS 2.0 Client Certificate Authentication using test certificates
Introduction I was developing a WCF based solution that required services to be authenticated using...
Date: 08/03/2012
HIS hidden gem: Disable BiDi reversal
Recently I was working on a very complex integration project using BizTalk Server 2010 stack. This...
Date: 05/26/2012
Solved: Moving SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows between Sites
In man occasions you would be faced by the need to move workflows you developed using SharePoint...
Date: 04/22/2012
Creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V: Part3 the Active/Active Configuration
In part 1 of this series I showed you how to configure the virtual storage required for the cluster....
Date: 04/18/2012
Creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V: Part2 the Clustered Instances
In part 1 of this series I showed you how to configure the virtual storage required for the cluster....
Date: 04/10/2012
Creating an Active/Active SQL Cluster using Hyper-V: Part1 Virtualized Storage
Introduction In this series of posts I will walk you through the processes of creating an...
Date: 04/10/2012
Solved: How to move a Hyper-V virtual machine without Exporting it first
So you have created many virtual machines in Hyper-V manager and suddenly you want to move one of...
Date: 03/14/2012
My Hello Azure Service Bus WCF Service–Step by step guide
This is the first post in a series to take you through my learning experience to using the Windows...
Date: 12/23/2011
Implementing a message pass-through WCF Behaviour (Router WCF service)
I recently came across a requirement to implement a Windows Communication Service that acts as a...
Date: 12/20/2011
Streamed XPath Extraction using hidden BizTalk class XPathReader
Usually when writing custom BizTalk pipeline components you find yourself wanting to extract...
Date: 12/20/2011
BizTalk ESB: Step by Step Walkthrough Creating a Custom Orchestration Service
Introduction The BizTalk ESB toolkit is an implementation of an enterprise service bus messaging...
Date: 11/16/2011
Extracting BizTalk Messages Content using XPath in Custom Pipeline Components
Introduction You find yourself writing custom pipeline components in nearly all BizTalk related...
Date: 11/16/2011
BAM portal customization (Websites customization)
Introduction Although the requirement I had was to add a custom page and customize the BizTalk BAM...
Date: 11/16/2011
ESB 2.1 Portal minimal access configuration (Kerberos)
This post will detail how to configure the ESB management portal on a multi-machine environment with...
Date: 11/15/2011
Linking ListViewWebParts in Sandbox environments
Problem Statement You have a requirement to display two list view web parts of two SharePoint lists....
Date: 10/23/2011
NullReferenceException when trying to get the AdapterReceiveCompleteTime property
So you are implementing a custom BizTalk tracking solution using the BAM APIs. In this solution you...
Date: 10/22/2011
Customizing the fields on the User Information Page
SharePoint has a built in functionality to display the user information for any user that has a user...
Date: 09/13/2011
A ListDefinition with custom forms
Writing a custom ListDefinition is something all SharePoint developers phase more than once in a...
Date: 09/05/2011
SharePoint Fixed issues when stopped SENS service
Now I faced this solution many times now and for many problems that I faced so I decided that I...
Date: 06/21/2011
ASPNET_SETREG does not care about your password–Or DOES IT
If you are developing an ASP.NET application and required to have the password placed in the...
Date: 05/21/2011
A Very Easy Method to Configure NLB for BAM Portal
There are already several standard and well documented methods for creating a NLB cluster for BAM...
Date: 05/21/2011
Implementing Dynamic Authorization for a WCF service using SQL providers
Using the ASP.NET SQL membership provider to authenticate and authorize calls to WCF services is not...
Date: 05/11/2011
Writing an IIS 7.5 Auto Start Provider
In IIS 7.5 there is a new feature called the auto start provider. This feature allows you to load...
Date: 05/11/2011
Reading item attachments programmatically (SPFile.OpenBinary Exception)
This is a small issue that I faced the other day and wasted several hours of my time. The scenario...
Date: 02/27/2011
Installing BizTalk 2006 R2 on a Windows 2008 R2 Server With .NET 4.0 installed
Today I had for specific reasons to install the older BizTalk 2006 R2 on a Windows 2008 R2 server....
Date: 02/16/2011
SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service: Part 4 Configure UPS Synchronization Sources
In the previous post I showed you how to deploy the BCS model for the Employee WCF service. In this...
Date: 02/06/2011
SharePoint 2010 User Profiles Service: Part 3 Adding WCF BCS Model
In the previous post I described the exact scenario I am trying to implement and detailed how to...
Date: 02/06/2011
SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service: Part 2 Developing the WCF service
In this post I will start talking about using the UPS and how we can use that to connect to two...
Date: 02/05/2011