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Oh BizTalk, why dost thou mock me?
08 November 09 10:37 PM | Johan Hedberg | 1 comment(s)

In any given integration project many different parties are involved. In some cases these parties have standard endpoints against which BizTalk operates and sometimes these endpoints are built as you go in the participating systems to meet a new demand...

Filed under: WCF, SOA, .NET 3.5, BizTalk Server 2009, Development

Contruct ChannelFactory takes too long with config
15 October 09 09:14 PM | Johan Hedberg | 5 comment(s)

Recently we experienced an issue with a service where the first call took a long time to complete. Subsequent calls would complete fine and fast, but the first call took a long time. Using Service Trace Viewer told us that the problem lay at constructing...

Filed under: WCF, .NET 3.5

How-to: Get status from a windows service?
07 December 08 11:28 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

I was asked: "How can I call into a Windows Service to get it's status?" A little more background said that status was to be retrieved by clients (a website) on the same machine. My response was to use WCF with the NetNamedPipeBinding. Since...

Filed under: WCF, .NET 3.5, Download

Getting up to speed with .NET 3.5
13 October 08 09:47 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

If you haven't had the opprtunity yet to dive into the .NET Framework 3.5 there is a training kit from Microsoft covering the enhancements to the Framework. There is also this other training kit that covers a larger part of the .NET 3.0/3.5 Framework...

Filed under: .NET 3.5, Learning

LINQ Material
22 May 08 08:40 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

The presentation made available for download through this post is in swedish. The code however is "international". First of I would like to list what I think are two of the best getting started with LINQ resources available online. The free...

Filed under: LINQ, .NET 3.5, Download

LINQ in BizTalk - Follow up
16 May 08 05:08 PM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

I've previously posted my ideas about using LINQ in BizTalk . At that point it was just theories, and following the links in the comments section of that post I wasn't the first to have them. Thanks to the red bits/green bits approach BizTalk...

Filed under: BizTalk, LINQ, .NET 3.5, Download

BizTalk Server 2006 R3
23 April 08 07:19 AM | Johan Hedberg | with no comments

Official news about the next release of BizTalk Server has been released on Steve Martins blog here with follow ups on the BizTalk Server Team Blog here and of course followed by other comments around the connected systems blogosphere. It's been expected...

Filed under: BizTalk, SOA, .NET 3.5, News

LINQ in BizTalk?
01 April 08 11:01 PM | Johan Hedberg | 4 comment(s)

Intriguing title, and I think it can be done. It might not be practical, not yet. We'll get there eventually. But for now... There are ways to utilize many of the C# 3.0 features in 2.0 , even extension methods , and there is even a LINQ library that...

Filed under: BizTalk, LINQ, .NET 3.5