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I have a large number of messages that are passed into an orchestration/ split in the incoming pipeline and then passed one by one into a Rules Engine policy. I have discovered when I am processing…

After our company decided to use Windows Installer for all our installs, I held a presentation to the various project teams on Windows Installer technology. One of the most important principles I w…

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BizTalk server relies on a config file to store certain application information. This config file is located in \\Program Files\\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and is named BTSNTSvc.Exe.Config. View…

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A SMTP server mock is basically a fake SMTP server which can be used for unit testing of applications which send email messages. It acts as a real smtp server, except that the incoming messages are…

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In the last few weeks, we've encountered a set of problems when using custom pipeline components in Receive pipelines. After some testing, I have managed to produce a fairly definitive description …

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I have read another AOP article on code project today which uses context bound objects as a mechanism to implement the interception of method calls. The article does a fairly good job on describing…

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Sometimes, your application might be very database centric. You might need to summarize/retrieve data from a big database. Therefore, the query might take a long time to execute such that user cann…

You can convert local datetime values to UTC datetime values, and vice-versa, using the built-in GETUTCDATE() function:

Work and weather defense has been keeping me away from almost everything else. Now, a third hurricane (Ivan) is approaching. This too we shall survive, but I wanted to make some comments for those …

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The geek dinner last night in Montreal was great. and his wife Maryam came to dinner with their friends. The local crowd was made up of, Eric Gauthier my wife and myself.