You Had One Job
My son recently had a birthday. Since our area is still amid a significant COVID outbreak, we decided to keep the birthday party to just the family this year. Without the prospect of celebrating with a bunch of friends, I wanted to make sure that we did something special and memorable.
[Read more]Azure Facts: Working With Blobs
Following up from the previous blog post, it is time to exercise the Azure Storage Account to check out some of the basic features.
[Read more]Azure Facts: Storage Accounts and Blobs
This is the first entry in what will be an ongoing series of posts related to various components and service offerings within Microsoft Azure. The landscape of cloud computing is immense and can be overwhelming to those unfamiliar with the concepts. Through the Azure Facts series, I hope to digest smaller fragments of the overall landscape and briefly examine how they can be utilized. The first topic in the Azure Facts series will focus on Blob Storage within the Azure Storage Account.
[Read more]Configure BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.2 Management Portal
During my evaluation of BizTalk Server 2013 and the ESB Toolkit 2.2, I ran into an issue running one of my favorite components, the ESB Management Portal. I followed the set of instructions for installing and configuring the portal which were essentially the same as the ESB Toolkit 2.1 instructions. When I tried to navigate to the home page, I received a number of errors:
[Read more]Meet Windows Azure
AppFabric Service Bus Relayed Messaging
Picking up where we left off in the Service Bus Introduction, this post will walk through a Relayed Messaging sample in order to highlight how the AppFabric Service Bus could be utilized to build Hybrid applications. In addition to the basic sample, I will also demonstrate how to provision a BizTalk Server 2010 Receive Location on the Service Bus.
[Read more]AppFabric Service Bus Billing Lesson
Before I publish the next post on Relayed Messaging, I thought I would take this opportunity to share some lessons learned yesterday about the AppFabric Service Bus billing.
[Read more]Azure AppFabric Service Bus
I recently had the honor of delivering a presentation entitled ‘Build Hybrid Applications Using the Azure AppFabric Service Bus’ at the Richmond and Philly.NET Code Camps. Virtually no one in either of the sessions had any previous experience with Windows Azure or the components of the AppFabric. In this series of blog posts, I will expand upon the presentation in an effort to introduce the AppFabric and take a deeper dive into the code and practical application of the Service Bus messaging patterns.
[Read more]Using the ExecuteReader Operation of the BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server
Earlier this week I participated in a discussion thread on LinkedIn regarding the usage of the WCF SQL Adapter in BizTalk Server and I wanted to summarize some of my thoughts and the recommended best practices regarding this particular scenario.
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