Misc

Service Virtualization with the Microsoft Managed Services Engine

Andy Morrison — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:49:03 GMT

I presented at the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group last night on the Managed Services Engine. You can get the presentation here.

The Managed Services Engine is a CTP technology that acts as a service intermediary. It helps abstract consumers form the services that they call, performing things such as xslt mapping, protocol switching, version mapping and service stubbing (useful for testing unhappy service respone paths as well as development of the consumer before the service is really ready.)

You can get the Managed Services Engine on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/servicesengine

Twin Cities Code Camp - Spring 2007

Andy Morrison — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:37:14 GMT

The second Twin Cities Code Camp will occur this Saturday, April 28th. Here's the website, which includes a schedule and list of sessions: http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com/TCCC/Default.aspx

I'll be presenting on utilizing BizTalk's BAM features from non-BizTalk applications.

Document Explorer 2005 is installed from...?

Andy Morrison — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:40:00 GMT

Did I miss something or is the answer to this question harder to track down than it should be?

As documented in the 'BizTalk Server 2006 Installation Guide - Multiserver.doc', Document Explorer 2005 is a dependency for the BizTalk 2006 documentation. So the operations team on my current engagement asks me where it comes from... and I respond that that is a good question and that I'll have an answer for them in a couple of minutes.

After a few tens of minutes I've inferred that it is part of the Visual Studio 2005 installation, based on this document: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/AdminReadme/default.aspx 'Help on Help' leads me to believe that it could be (in the future?) installed from multiple products.