Speaking at Dutch BizTalk User group - Almere, Netherlands

Posted at: 6/28/2011 at 12:24 PM by saravana
Tomorrow I'll be presenting BizTalk 360 to the Dutch BizTalk user group at Almere. I need to thank the organisers especially Randal van Splunteren, Steef-Jan Wigger, and Charles Storm for making this happen. Randal has already raised the bar and increased the expectations by his blog post . Steef... [More]
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Marriage between BizTalk360 and Azure AppFabric Service Bus - Result: Birth of http://demo.biztalk360.com

Posted at: 6/27/2011 at 7:12 AM by saravana
This is an open invitation for all of you to access/manage one of our test BizTalk environment, running in our premise protected by NAT/Firewall. http://demo.biztalk360.com Note: The first time loading will take sometime, once the SilverLight application is downloaded, it will be quick. Why do ... [More]
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Understand Azure AppFabric Service Bus Pricing

Posted at: 6/23/2011 at 6:56 PM by saravana
Note: This is not a definitive guide, this is just my understanding based on the research I've done and based on response I received from the Microsoft Azure support centre for some of my queries. If you are planning to use AppFabric Service Bus, there are 3 different charges you need to be aware o... [More]
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AppFabric Service Bus : net:pipe needs to be specified error.

Posted at: 6/23/2011 at 6:17 AM by saravana
I'm in the process of hosting my WCF services in IIS/Windows Server AppFabric, whenever I saved the web.config file I can see the following exception in the EventViewer. WebHost failed to process a request. Sender Information: System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/61308... [More]
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ESB Toolkit installation: OLE DB error

Posted at: 6/22/2011 at 7:09 PM by saravana
When you try to install the ESB toolkit BAM definition file Microsoft.BizTalk.ESB.BAM.Exceptions.xml you might encounter this error OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Cannot open database "BAMStarSchema" requested by the login. The login failed.; 42000. Errors in the high-level relat... [More]
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BizTalk360 - License relaxation for evaluation/trial

Posted at: 6/22/2011 at 6:26 AM by saravana
One of the common requests we received recently from customers was to relax the licensing rules for evaluation purposes. The original design didn't allow installing Standard/Enterprise edition on a Microsoft BizTalk Server Developer edition machine. This imposed a serious problem, the customer can o... [More]
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Azure AppFabric Service bus, Silverlight Integration - End-to-End (walkthrough) - Part 2

Posted at: 6/17/2011 at 1:19 PM by saravana
Introduction In part 1 we setup the scene by creating a simple Silverlight/WCF application. In that application the Silverlight application is initialized, it made a call to the underlying WCF service operation "GetWelcomeText" and displayed the text on the UI. We used the basicHttpBindin... [More]
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Azure AppFabric Service bus, Silverlight Integration - End-to-End (walkthrough) - Part 1

Posted at: 6/17/2011 at 1:03 PM by saravana
Introduction In this article we are going to see the end to end integration of Azure AppFabric Service bus and Silverlight. First we are going to create a very basic "Hello World" Silverlight application that interacts with a WCF operation called "GetWelcomeText" and displays th... [More]
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Silverlight - Breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols loaded for this document.

Posted at: 6/17/2011 at 5:12 AM by saravana
Just a quick tip, when you are trying to debug a Silverlight application by putting break point in the Silverlight code and you see the message "Breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols loaded for this document." with a hallow icon and warning symbol. The reason for this is, Silve... [More]
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Sorting out AppFabric Service bus, Silverlight and Clientaccesspolicy.xml issue -hidden gem in Azure AppFabric SDK CTP 2.0

Posted at: 6/16/2011 at 3:38 PM by saravana
By default Silverlight applications are allowed to access resources (services) only from the location from where they originated. From Silverlight 2.0 support was included to access services from a remote server (cross-domain), as long as the remote server allows the Silverlight application to acces... [More]
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