Add existing project from web drama

Are you tired of dealing with the drama regarding adding an existing project from web in Visual Studio? If so read on, because if you follow these steps tightly you’re ready to go in a minute, or … well, faster then figuring this one out yourself Open your solution in Visual Studio and choose Add > Existing Project From Web Type the url to your site, e.g. http://localhost/YourSite This is the important part: in the open file dialog, instead of browsing to the project file, type the full url to your project file, e.

Saturday, November 18, 2006 Read

Developing for Vista Media Center

Aaah! I’ve read some very good news today. For some time now, I’m looking into developing plug-ins for XP Media Center, but I dislike the way it works. It looks like with Vista all my dreams will come true! For XP one could develop plug-ins in the form of simple HTML pages, so it would always look as if the plug-in was bolted onto the side. Vista, in return, makes use of the eXtensible Markup Language defined with Windows Presentation Foundation.

Monday, March 13, 2006 Read

HTML Generator Stylesheet for BizTalk 2004 Maps

Almost every BizTalk artifact is beautifully documentable, especially using the BizTalk Documenter. One thing that’s always hard to document are the maps. Finally someone came up with a solution and that someone is Steve Hart. The HTML Generator Stylesheet for BizTalk 2004 Maps is an XSLT which transforms the data of a map into viewable HTML. Although the approach is a good one, I’m not really sure about the added value.

Friday, March 3, 2006 Read

Increase XSLT performance by using xls:key

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Friday, March 3, 2006 Read

DevDays 7 & 8 March

This March the DevDays are coming to Amsterdam and I will be there to speak on BizTalk Server 2006 together with collegae Matt Joe, who is flown in from Seattle. I will be doing some demos involving BAM and in-order processing. Matt will also be accompanying Dennis Mulder in a very promising talk on Windows Workflow Foundation. Last but not least my manager Edwin Jongsma will enlighten everyone on the subject of Software Factories (Domain Specific Languages).

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Read

BizTalk Load Generation Utility reloaded

The BizTalk load generation utility, originally released by Microsoft several months ago, was quickly removed from their downloads page for enhancement. The enhanced version is now available for download here. The interesting part is that this tool works with the Performance Tester Tool of Larry Beck (see post below).

Monday, February 13, 2006 Read

BizTalk Performance Tester released

Better late then never, but about a month ago Larry Beck released the completed version of the BizTalk Performance Tester (BTSPerfTester). This application is intended to provide developers with an easily implemented and predictable method of determining the maximum sustainable throughput of their BizTalk solutions. You can get it from his blog here.

Monday, February 13, 2006 Read

Suppress XML documentation warnings for a project

When I turned on the feature to output an XML documentation file when building my project I’m confronted with a load of warnings that the XML documentation is missing for some method. While it’s nice to see these warnings I didn’t want to see them anymore without lowering the warning level. So I searched the net and found a way to suppress these warnings: Go to the properties of your project.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Read

Identify node type in XSLT

For a BizTalk solution I needed to write some custom XSLT. In the XSLT I needed to determine the node type and according to the type execute a specific piece of XSLT. Unfortunately it’s not very easy to get the node type in XSLT. It took me a while to find this post which explains a solution for this. Maybe it could help you out. http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200312/post00260.html

Monday, January 9, 2006 Read

Happy new year!

From this place I would like to wish both readers of this blog a happy new year. My target for 2006 is to grow this blog and hopefully more people will read it.

Monday, January 2, 2006 Read