BizTalk 2004 supports long-running and atomic transactions within Orchestrations. The model has changed a bit from earlier versions, and atomic transactions are no longer based on DTC transactions …

Most developers understand the classical 'ACID' concept of a transaction as an atomic unit of work that, when performed, moves the system from one consistent state to a new, consistent and durable …

Today, the expression "the devil to pay" is used primarily to describe having an unpleasant result from some action that has been taken. An example is when someone has done something they should no…

It is official, well, it has been for a couple weeks but you can all understand. I have accepted a job at Microsoft and will be starting on May 3. I am very excited because I will still be involved…

The reluctance of seamen to sail on a Friday reached such epic proportions, that in the 1800s the British Government decided to take strong measures to prove the fallacy of the superstition. They l…

Ever seen this error when debugging a web app in the VS.NET IDE:

BizTalk 2004's XLANG/s language is syntactically reminiscent of C#, and it is natural to assume that it exhibits similar features. In fact, XLANG/s is very different to C#, providing specific suppo…

While Gmail is in focus, I found SpyMac, which not only provides 1 GB of email space but also provides 100 MB of web space, Private and Public iCal Hosting, 250 MB of Picture Storage, Personal Blog…

There are few of us who at one time or another have not been admonished to "mind our P's and Q's," or in other words, to behave our best. Oddly enough, "mind your P's and Q's" had nautical beginnin…

Perspective’s prospect: Glass is Half full or Glass is Half Empty

I don't know how this one escaped my attention. In Whidbey, there is a new window that you can dock in your IDE. It is called “System Window” and you can find it under View -> Other Windows -> Comm…

Stephen Walther was named a Software Legend by Microsoft today in recognition of his contribution to the Microsoft developer community as an author, trainer and developer. Microsoft selected Walthe…

I was talking about transferring the profile before in the day, now I am giving you a solution if you have problems while logging off and your profiles do not unload properly and give you error mes…

Microsoft is going to be providing free presentations for user groups to utilize via the content repository. The newest (and first) presentation from this group is titled: . The goals of the presen…

Yeah, I'm a Total Geek. I think the Geek Test (link via Rai) is flawed though. First of all, it asks many questions that pertain more to nerds than geeks. I strongly feel that I should be AT LEAST …

“ Buy stamps to send e-mail “ says Bill Gates, to decrease and put hold on spammers now a new idea arises where we might have to pay to send out email messages!! Well can see some benefits i.e. it …

Table Data Gateway vs. Data Access Object

This is the mail which I wrote to update the core mumbers of MUGH. This has relevancy to my previous post regarding the Academic .Net workshop where MUGH MVPS and Community Stars are presenting var…

Along the same theme as my last post....

Ants are very dumb little creatures. They don't know how to do anything. They just seem to do everything at random.