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Last night, I gave my talk on Code Generation and CodeSmith, and I think it went fairly well. I promised I would post the templates I created as well as my slides, which you can get here. The slides are relatively useless. as there's not much details about what I talked about, but there are notes in the powerpoint, so you can get an idea of what I said.There's also a text file in the zip which contains the command lines I used to do batch generation and the "Keep" region example. Here's a listing...
My trip to California was eventually a successful one. I say eventually because we pounded our heads against a wall for quite a while working through the Biztalk framework to get what we wanted. Every problem we ran into, we would find a solution, usually resulting in us calling into a DLL to handle what we were trying to do. And since it started out as needing to do database lookups, we migrated to calling into our already-built shared library, since it already had the caching capabilities we wanted...
Well, today was finally the day to take the plunge. Performance of my laptop was WAY down, and it was time to start fresh. It actually didn't turn out to too bad. I had two things going for me: First, we have ghost images for our laptops, and that got me quite a base - Windows XP SP2, Office 2003 all patched up, Visual Studio .NET 2003, SQL Server, etc. That was loaded in 20 minutes. Second, I don't use my base box for most of my development - I've switched to using VPC. So, there wasn't much else...
How's this for coincidences? Yesterday I was talking to Brian about my current BizTalk project. He asked if we were moving to BizTalk 2006. I said no, but the beta was coming out soon - probably this month. Well, I got home, and lo and behold, according to Sam Gentile, it was released yesterday - probably right around the time Brian and I were talking about it...
Last week, I finally had a chance to get into the mapper in BizTalk. I've done minor things with it to this point - dragging fields from one side to the other, using the simple functoids to concatenate strings, but nothing complex.I was a little nervous to try something hard. I was warned by Jim (you need to blog more, Jim!), one of our BizTalk experts at NuSoft that the mapper was dangerous. He said don't use the mapper - use Xpath. I'm guessing anyone familiar with XML and XSL and XSLT and BizTalk...
According to an article in Computer World, Beta 1 of BizTalk Server is supposed to be out soon - as in this month. I'm looking forward to it. I think there's quite a bit of room for improvement and I hope to get my hands on it soon.The article also provides some good information about release dates, and clears up some rumors flying around about them (it's not going to hit RTM in November!). But there was one quote from Andrew Brust that made me laugh. "Setting up BizTalk Server is not the easiest...
I've been doing some Biztalk development lately, and for the most part, it's pretty straightforward. Granted, what I'm doing isn't all that complicated, so I know I'm not hitting some of the complexities of Biztalk - that, and I'm not responsible for the transformations that need to take place.Given that, there are a few things that frustrate me about Biztalk, and I ran into one of them today. Of course, the only reason I ran into this was because I messed up in my initial planning. You see, we originally...
I installed WSS as part of my Biztalk ramp-up - Biztalk uses it for some of it's services, such as BAS. Anyway, it took me a few days before I realized how much WSS messes with the rest of your sites. It locks down ASP.NET development to the point of unusability (yes, I know that's not a word, but it should be!). You can't debug your apps, and once you turn that back on, you can't use session. Until you turn that on too! Oh - and before you do all that, you have to tell WSS that the virtual directory...
I've started working part time on a very interesting project. It's a CMS project, but it's focused around a C++ back end system that the CMS site will interact with. It's all COM-based, which means we'll be using COM interop. Fun!Anyway, my role isn't really to build the CMS site. I'm developing the framework we'll use to build CMS templates, as well as setting up continuous integration so we get automatic builds. Well, I got the build process done today, and there's parts that I'm happy with and...
Ok. I'm new to BizTalk Server, but I think I got this right. Please let me know if I didn't. I have an existing application that uses an object. I want to take this object, allow BizTalk to accept messages of that type, and map them to another message type that can then be sent out to a third party verification system. Sounds like a pretty typical scenario to me.It took me a while to figure it out though. First, I added a reference in BizTalk to my business object class. Then I created ports that...