Yesterday evening I attended a discussion at Conway Hall entitled “The EU Referendum: What Happens Next?” #ConwayHallEU organised by #LondonThinks. It is the first political meeting I’ve attended since I was a student in th
Oh come on. This is crazy! Obama has been president for a few months and has made a nice speech recently to the UN. That's hardly a reason to award him a Nobel prize. It robs the Nobel Peace Prize of any credibility. I've nothing against Obama...yet. That's the point. He hasn't had time to achiev
I've decided to move technical blogs to http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/. As I am likely to want to blog on other issues form time to time (SPMIV is so provocative), I shall keep this site on.
My voyage of BizTalk exploration goes on. XLANG/s is not, in the strictest sense, a new .NET language (i.e., it doesn't compile directly to IL). When you compile a BizTalk Visual Studio project, a whole bunch of temporary C# files are generated for orchestrations, pipelines, messages, schemas, maps, etc. XLANG/s simply scripts the output of the some of this gene
I have seen the future, and the future is Microsoft Virtual Server. This new product is due to ship in the summer, but for the time being I will be a little circumspect about giving away any details. I haven’t signed an NDA, but I probably should have done. For those of you who haven’t heard about this product, it is essentially a server version of Microso
BizTalk 2004's XLANG/s language is syntactically reminiscent of C#, and it is natural to assume that it exhibits similar features. In fact, XLANG/s is very different to C#, providing specific support for process flow, whilst offering only a rudimentary set of features for expressing business logic. It is not really necessary for developers to know the mai
Someone asked me a couple of days ago why web references in BizTalk projects use .odx files. If you show all files in Solution Explorer, and expand a web reference, you will see an .odx (Orchestration Designer) file has been created automatically. The answer is fairly straightforward. In a C# or VB.NET project, a web reference results in the generation of
In BizTalk programming, it is often useful to generate schemas over examples of well-formed XML. You can, of course, generate schemas by opening XML files in Visual Studio and then right-clicking the editor screen and selecting 'Generate Schema'. However, this approach does not always work. The built-in schema generation facility in Visual Studio was designed onl
I had a problem yesterday with Visual Studio .NET. I was attempting to debug a .NET web application hosted on a non-default local website using host headers. Every time I tried to run the project I got a message saying that the current user was not a member of the 'Debugger Users' group. Suffice to say that, of course, the current log-on account was a member of th
I'm working on my first Biztalk 2004 project, putting together a demonstrator for the Microsoft partner community, and stuck in the bowels of TVP (Microsoft's UK headquarters). The demonstrator implements a simple scenario for the fictional Contoso Clothing company and uses not just BizTalk 2004, but also InfoPath, Great Plains, MS CRM, Windows SharePoint Services and Commerce Server. It's ths first time I've had a chance to take BizTalk 2004 out fo
At last! I've set up a blog site. I'm a technical consultant working for a UK company specialising in BizTalk integration, so expect lots of BizTalk, WSS/SPS, CMS and general .NET stuff here, plus some political views and bits and pieces.
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