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  • Difference between Apply to each and For each actions
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• December
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2013
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  • Move your development VM to Azure
2012
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  • Preparing for 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Metro style Apps using C#
  • Preparing for 70-485: Advanced Metro style App Development using C#
2011
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  • Advanced MVVM: Doing visual states properly
• January
  • Using the Sync Framework on Windows Phone 7
2010
• November
  • WCF RIA Services OData endpoint does NOT support update or LINQ
• December
  • Building a location aware Windows Phone 7 application
2009
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  • MCE Guide Editor source code
2008
• November
  • Building Vista Media Center Add-ins (Dutch)
  • Honk twice if you see us!
• October
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• July
  • BizTalk Server capabilities poster
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  • Released: BizTalk Server 2006 extentions for WF
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• February
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2007
• June
  • DevDays 2007, were you there?
• May
  • First release of MCE Guide Editor
• February
  • .Net Magazine article published online
• January
  • Accessing flat file content in orchestration
  • BizTalk Adapter whitepaper
  • BizTalk shell extension
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  • MCTS BizTalk Server 2006
  • Pipeline Testing Framework for BTS06
  • Playing Blog-Tag
  • Storing configuration inside SSO database
  • Using BAM API to create related activities
2006
• November
  • Add existing project from web drama
• March
  • Developing for Vista Media Center
  • HTML Generator Stylesheet for BizTalk 2004 Maps
  • Increase XSLT performance by using xls:key
• February
  • BizTalk Load Generation Utility reloaded
  • BizTalk Performance Tester released
  • DevDays 7 & 8 March
• January
  • Happy new year!
  • Identify node type in XSLT
  • Suppress XML documentation warnings for a project
2005
• November
  • Access message properties inside custom pipeline component
  • BizTalk Server 2006 CTM Released
  • BizTalk's sexy new XSLT mapper
• October
  • BizTalk 2006 Beta 1
  • BizUnit 2.0 released
  • Joining the overloaded web-log community
  • Workflow designer will substitute orchestration designer in BizTalk vNext
• December
  • Load XmlSchema's from BizTalk assembly

Workflow designer will substitute orchestration designer in BizTalk vNext

I heard it from collegues who went to the PDC a couple of weeks ago. But I heard it myself at the BPI & Workflow conference earlier this october. The new workflow designer that Workflow Foundation features will substitute the good ol’ orchestration designer in BizTalk vNext. This means that in the near future BizTalk Server and Workflow Foundation will grow to each other and will make a very strong team in delivering high available and reliable business solution.

Monday, October 24, 2005 Read

BizUnit 2.0 released

A few weeks ago Kevin Smith (UK MCS Service Line Architect) released the second version of BizUnit. BizUnit is a framework for the automation of functional and regression testing of BizTalk solutions. Just think of NUnit ;). The .MSI can be downloaded here: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/bizunit It has a number of enhancements over the previous version that you can read about here: http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinsmi/archive/2005/07/17/439728.aspx. BizUnit can be used in conjunction with Jason Births ‘Orchestration Profiler’ to ensure that a solution has an adequate level of test coverage allowing it to be deployed with confidence.

Monday, October 24, 2005 Read

BizTalk 2006 Beta 1

I don’t believe any of you guys missed this, but about two months ago Microsoft released the first Beta of BizTalk Server 2006. Boy what a lot improvements are in the package. Here a short list of new or altered features: Much easier installation (next, next, finish) Single mmc for all your administration needs Easy creation of deployment packages (MSI generation) Single-touch developer deployment In order message processing Subscribe to and handle suspended messages Browse button for file locations (yeah, it still wasn’t there!

Monday, October 24, 2005 Read

Joining the overloaded web-log community

Today I joined the web-log community and will, as many others, post my personal opinions and findings on various subjects, but specificly BizTalk Server. I’m an Avanade consultant working in the Netherlands and specialized in business process integration using BizTalk Server. This means a lot of information on this blog will be about BizTalk. Aside from that I’ll also keep you updated on some of my hobby’s like Windows Media Center, XBOX360 and whatever else comes to mind.

Sunday, October 23, 2005 Read