2/25/2010 Why is my WCF RIA Service, Types or Properties not visible to Silverlight Client

Posted at: 2/25/2010 at 1:09 PM by saravana
Properties missing on the client side: For people coming from SOAP/WSDL services background will find it hard to grasp some of the concepts of WCF RIA service initially.  Say for example if you got an web service operation similar to this on your .asmx or WCF service public Employee GetEmployee() when you generate the proxy classes, the client side will be able to view all the properties of the type Employee.  Example: emp.Manager //Complex type emp.Fi... [More]
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2/25/2010 My Silverlight Adventure

Posted at: 2/25/2010 at 7:22 AM by saravana
My latest technology adventure area is Silverlight (3 and 4), WCF RIA Services, PRISM, MEF and Unity. We are using them internally to build a rich portal across our Business Application on top of BizTalk BAM data. For the past few months I'm going through tons of reading materials to familiarise myself with all these stuff. Lot of times I've done circles, coming back to the same material again and again to clarify few things. Things have changed drastically in the last few years, if you have don... [More]
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2/23/2010 Microsoft BizTalk Server vNext (after 2009 R2) - Feature Request

Posted at: 2/23/2010 at 5:33 PM by saravana
I opened up a thread in StackOverflow for this, here is the link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2320274/microsoft-biztalk-server-vnext-after-2009-r2-feature-request and here is the text "All, This post is not a question; it's more of asking for feed back and future request. The product team is always looking for feed back to facilitate the future direction of the product. Some of us as BizTalk Server MVP's/partners get that privilege to work with the product team closely to give our... [More]
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2/18/2010 MVP Summit - Incredible Experience - Day 2

Posted at: 2/18/2010 at 12:44 PM by saravana
I'm right now on the MVP Gloabl summit 2010 at Redmond. There are various technical advantages being an MVP, you are always in constant touch with the product team, you get access to certain confidential information under strict NDA, basically Microsoft tries to keep you on top of the game on whatever ways possible. Apart from the technical advantage the another key aspect for me is, it provides me a great opportunity to meet people from around the world who are experts (world leaders) in t... [More]
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Posted at: 2/17/2010 at 3:37 PM by saravana
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2/12/2010 Monitoring BizTalk Server with HP OpenView

Posted at: 2/12/2010 at 1:29 PM by saravana
Every BizTalk solution should have some kind of monitoring in place. I remember the phrase having a BizTalk environment without monitoring in place is like driving a car without a dashboard. The best option will be to use SCOM (Microsoft System Centre operation manager) to monitor BizTalk server, since you will get out of the box SCOM packages with prebuilt rules and alerts to get you started. But sooner or later you?ll face the reality, big enterprises will have some kind of monitoring soluti... [More]
 
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1/18/2010 Issue using in-memory SQL Express database with in Visual Studio

Posted at: 1/18/2010 at 2:14 PM by saravana
This post is for my own reference, just to avoid this in the future. It happened to  my twice already. I was trying to add a new in-memory databse (Add New Item ? SQL Server Database) within visual studio to quickly knock some prototype and was constantly greeted with this error message. "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance" After a bit of digging and binging, the solution is to delete the SQL express ... [More]
 
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12/8/2009 Linq to SQL strange error

Posted at: 12/8/2009 at 1:55 PM by saravana
Currently I'm using Linq to SQL in one of my internal projects. After adding a stored procedure to the designer, I started to see the following error "The custom tool 'MSLinqToSQLGenerator' failed. Unspecified error" and my LinqToSql auto-generated .cs file disappeared from the project. I tried various things like restarting VS (btw its VS 2008 with SP1), closing all the open source files, even going to the extend of deleting the complete .dbml and dbml.layout files etc. I received t... [More]
 
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Posted at: 11/26/2009 at 4:30 PM by saravana
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11/16/2009 SSO Configuration Application MMC Snap-In

Posted at: 11/16/2009 at 5:18 AM by saravana
For those of you who have used BizTalk long enough, its not a surprise : The Enterprise single sign on capabilities that comes as part of BizTalk server is used to store lot of confidential information in  a secured way, without SSO you can't setup a BizTalk environment. BizTalk Server internally uses SSO to store lots of its internal configurations like adapter data, configuration you put on send/receive ports etc, etc. Another less known factor (at least for beginners) is that, you can ... [More]
 
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