I'm trying to run nunit tests of a 32-bit assembly on a 64-bit machine. When I load the assembly (compiled with VS target platform set to x86) into nunit, I get a FileNotFound exception. The proble…

Let's see one of the projects I've made with the Business Rule Engine from the Microsoft BizTalk tool set. There are the EDI data in"very flexible format". The source partners fill up the fields of…

Typically by reference data we mean an attribute of an object within a system that is restricted to a specific list of values. In integration scenarios when you are passing a message from one syste…

(This one is maybe more of a 10 min post. you'll survive)

You may see this error - more than once - when working with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 deployment. This animal / error generally shows itself after you have applied an upgr…

This is a 1st article in the BizTalk Model serie (2nd article is a "BizTalk: The Endpoint model depreciates the Physical and Logical Ports " https://geekswithblogs.net/LeonidGaneline/archive/2007/0…

So the other day I was adding a “news page” to one of my projects and thought it was a great chance to play with consuming some other RSS feeds that had related information to what I was working on…

One morning when restoring my pc from hibernate - I got this error:

Editing Resource Files after publishing in ASP.NET 2.0

By default, if you try to modify your hosts file in Vista, it will not let you save it. It tells you that you don't have permission. To successfully modify the hosts file, run notepad.exe as an adm…

The IIS Admin Service service terminated with service-specific error 2149648394 (0x8021080A).

I spent a couple of hours today looking at the problem we encountered yesterday with the xpath() function in BizTalk. We were attempting to use an XPath to extract the value of a nested element and…

Recently I got a chance to play around with the Data Protection Application Programming Interface (DPAPI). With .NET 2.0 installed, you can encrypt your Web.config just by using aspnet\regiis.exe o…

I have seen a lot of top 10 lists around (i.e. top 10 greatest IT people, etc). But, I have yet to come across a top 10 list for the.NET community. This list was compiled based on the experiences a…

One of the basic consideration in web 2.0 concept is 'tagging' where any contents in the web can be associated with one or more tags, which can be shared among social community network. It lets oth…

I recently bought a bigger 80 gig hard drive for my laptop, and wanted to copy the contents of my existing 30 gig disk with an XP install over to it. I didn't want to go buy any drive copying tools…

This came up when I was writing a UIProperty for SmartCodeGenerator, The combo box should display all the available enum options in a DropDownList for the enduser to choose from them. So if someone…

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

This post disappeared from a previous blog of mine so I'm reposting it.

The compensation model in BizTalk Server 2006 provides a versatile mechanism for addressing an extensive range of business process scenarios. It is used in situations where some condition arises th…