I’m saving this! For developers who have signed up for Visual Studio Achievements on Channel 9, not bragging or anything but I’m now #1!!!! (at the time of writing 24 February 2012) – out of nearly 23,000, that’s not bad. For developers who haven’t signed up, with Visual Studio Achievements Extensi... [More]

BizTalk 2010 contains a set of WCF Adapters allowing further extensibility to communicate with WCF based applications. The BizTalk WCF adapters are: WCF-WSHttp adapter Provides the WS-* standards support over the HTTP transport. The WCF-WSHttp adapter implements the following specifications: WS-T... [More]

Not sure what happened but when creating new projects, Visual Studio stopped prompting me for the folder location and as a result all projects were being saved in the default project location. This can be resolved by navigating to Tools > Options. In the Options dialog expand ‘Projects and Solut... [More]

When browsing a WCF service hosted in IIS I received the following error: The protocol 'net.tcp' does not have an implementation of HostedTransportConfiguration type registered. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review... [More]

After using the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard to publish a metadata only endpoint (in my case to expose a net.tcp endpoint), I received the following error when browsing the published service through IIS: Root element is missing. Description: An unhandled exception occurred du... [More]

Microsoft have released an update to AppFabric 1.0 for Windows Server. AppFabric 1.1 is available to download here. AppFabric 1.1 contains several improvements to the original Windows Server AppFabric 1.0 release. This release provides an upgrade path from Windows Server AppFabric 1.0, but it can ... [More]

After nine months of silence from the BizTalk team, we now know why. The BizTalk folks are busy developing the next version of BizTalk, BizTalk Server 2010 R2. The release date is currently scheduled approximately six months following the release of Windows Server 8, which at the time of writing is ... [More]

A LINQ query is a generic IEnumerable object of the collection selected. This query object can retrieve data but is not a populated sequence. LINQ doesn’t access the source data until the query object works with the results. This is called lazy or deferred execution. IEnumerable interface only has ... [More]

As promised by the BizTalk team, the next quarterly cumulative update, Cumulative update package 3 for BizTalk Server 2010, has been released. Interesting this time there isn’t a separate Cumulative update package 3 for BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010. Hotfixes that are included in cumulative update pack... [More]

Projecting data into anonymous types is useful as you don’t need to define concrete types. This is fine if the data is dealt with locally, but if the data was being returned from a business entity, the results should be projected and returned as a concrete type. This blog post demonstrates how anon... [More]