Biztalk Adapters

51 of 1339 | New whitepaper about Microsoft BI - Unloading fact data from SAP BI 7.0 - We have published a new whitepaper in the Interoperability - Business Intelligence area. This time Hermann Daeubler gives an overview of how to unload fact data from a SAP BI 7.0 system using th Queryview Web Service. You will find a sample C# application which connects via Web Services to the SAP BI system and which allow you to unload fact data which then can be used for further steps in a Microsoft based solution. This approach does not require the installation of any additonal adapters or DLLs. The paper can be found at Unloading fact data from SAP BI 7.0 using the Queryview Web Service and C#. - Juergen...

52 of 1339 | Really, What is the Cost of WSS 3.0? - If WSS is free then what are the limitations? There is nothing good that is completely free, right? According to what I have found, if you setup WSS using SQL Server Embedded Edition (on the same server and not Express), then there is not a size limit.  You have to setup WSS with the Basic option in order for it to install SQL Server EE (not Express); otherwise Express is installed and there is a 4 GB limit.  Some are saying 500 GB may be a size constraint with EE, but I am not sure.  SQL Server EE can be accessed by command line on the server or via the server name of  \\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query in Management Studio.  SQL Server EE cannot be installed on a Web Edition of Win......

53 of 1339 | Volume Activation 2.0 - Dieses Dokument beschreibt rein die Volumen Aktivierung. Also die Aktivierung von Clients und Servers welche von einer Volume Source (z.B. Select) installiert wurden. Die beschriebenen Technologien der Aktivierung (MAK, KMS) finden nur im Enterprise Umfeld mit Volumen Sourcen Verwendung.   Was ist eine Aktivierung Die Aktivierung ist keine Lizenz. Es ist keine Registrierung. Es ist eine Aktivierung. Ziel der Aktivierung Das Ziel der Aktivierung ist es einerseits den Schutz der Software zu gewährleisten. Andererseits und dies ist der wichtigere Punkt, ist es dem Kunden eine Plattform zu bieten, seine Volumen Lizenzkeys schützen und zentral verwalten zu können. In weiter Fern......

54 of 1339 | What is a BizTalk Accelerator and what version to install? - In a nutshell, a BizTalk Accelerator is an industry specific solution.  There are two editions:  Enterprise and Standard.  Each edition is installed with the corresponding BizTalk Server edition except for Developer edition which requires Enterprise.    Each accelerator has a specific installation guide and must be followed after the core BizTalk Server is properly installed and configured.  BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT (A4SWIFT) Provides a set of schemas, rules, and associated tools to assist you in the integration of SWIFT messaging with your internal applications.  Along with A4SWIFT or by itself, you can also use FileAct and InterAct Adapters w......

55 of 1339 | All BizTalk Server Posters -   BizTalk Server 2009 Posters BizTalk Server 2009 Database Infrastructure Poster BizTalk Server 2009 Scale-out Configurations Poster  BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Posters BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Scale-Out Configurations BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Database Infrastructure Poster BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0/WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster - Interactive Web version BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Legacy Modernization with Host Integration Server 2006  BizTalk......

56 of 1339 | BDD With MSTest - In my previous post I mentioned that I was writing BDD-style unit tests in the standard MSTest environment that’s part of Visual Studio.  In an ideal world, I’d probably choose to use a test framework explicitly designed for BDD like MSpec, but there’s a maximum rate of change that I and my team can absorb and right now a new test framework would exceed that boundary. Instead, I use a small adapter class to translate MSTest’s attribute system to my preferred BDD context/specification style.  The adapter class is very trivial, but I thought I’d post it here in case anyone wants to see it. /// <summary> /// Provides common services for BDD-style (context/specification) un......

57 of 1339 | [Visual C++ 2010][Concurrency Runtime]Introduction au Concurrency Runtime - Les deux offres parallèles de Visual Studio 2010, native et .NET, reposent sur des socles techniques permettant de tirer parti des processeurs/cœurs avec une grande efficacité: un Concurrency runtime. J'ai préféré l'illustration de l'offre native car elle dispose d'une architecture extensible que ne propose pas l’actuelle offre .NET. Cependant sur le plan des concepts les deux offres partagent sur le plan de la brique Concurrency Runtime de nombreux points communs. Introduction Une nouvelle offre parallèle pour les développeurs C++ arrive avec Visual Studio 2010. Contrairement à l'offre .NET, celle-ci n'avait jamais été dévoilée auparavant. Néanmoins, à l'instar de la version .NET, celle......

58 of 1339 | Thinking bigger when using a remote control - Mike Hurnaus may have saw “Honey, I shrunk the kids!” when he thought this idea up.  Mike built a what may be the world’s largest Windows Media Center remote control. How Mike created the pad is rather smart, he ordered some Dance Dance revolution mats and used an adapter to hook them into his computer.  He then used a modified version of a DirectInput example by Mark Harris to create the library to interact with Windows Media Center.  Mike even has the source code for his WMC/DDR project available for download too! Looking at this controller, I think Mike finally found a way to work out and channel surf at the same time!...

59 of 1339 | Engineering the Windows 7 “Windows Experience Index” - We’re busy going through tons of telemetry from the many people that have downloaded and installed the Windows 7 beta around the world. We’re super excited to see the excitement around kicking the tires. Since most folks on the beta are well-versed in the hardware they use and very tuned into the choices they make, we’ve received a few questions about the Windows Experience Index (WEI) in Windows 7 and how that has been changed and improved in Windows 7 to take into account new hardware available for each of the major classes in the metric. In this post Michael Fortin returns to dive into the engineering details of the WEI. The WEI was introduced in Windows Vista to provide one means acro......

60 of 1339 | Community Credit Prizes for January 2009 - Note: As always, our prize list can be found on our "Stupid Prizes Page"Check it out to see past prizes and contest winners. The items below show the prizes that you can win at Community-Credit this month(January 2009 ). You can have a chance at earning one of these prizes by contributing to the development community this month.  Simply log your contributions (points awarded for over 100 types of contributions) and the geeks with the most points at the end of January 2009 Contest will win one of the prizes shown below. You can also see the past winners and prizes on our Stupid Prize Page. But first... a word from our Sponsor: StupidCubicle.com This month we a......

61 of 1339 | Update Rollup 2 para Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - De acuerdo a la nueva política de lanzamiento de actualizaciones, esta semana se ha lanzado el Update Rollup 2 para CRM 4.0. Esta actualización está disponible para todos los idiomas soportados por CRM 4.0. Este update es el segundo de los rollups liberados para Dynamics CRM 4.0, tras la publicación en Noviembre de 2008 del Update Rollup 1 para CRM 4.0. Sin embargo la instalación del Update 1 no es un requisito para la instalación de este segundo update. El número de build correspondiente al Update para Dynamics CRM 4.0 Server, Dynamics CRM 4.0 Client para Outlook, Dynamics Data Migration Client,  Dynamics CRM E-mail Router y CRM Connector for SRS e......

62 of 1339 | E' in arrivo BizTalk Server 2009 - http://blogs.msdn.com/bpmblog/archive/2008/09/05/microsoft-announces-biztalk-2009.aspx Dal blog del collego cito testualmente: Microsoft has announced that the release of BizTalk server previously referred to as "BizTalk Server 2006 R3" has been upgraded to a full release to "BizTalk Server 2009".  New features for this release fall into four areas: B2B Integration - mobile RFID support, enhanced RFID device support, improved AS2 and EDI support, Drummond certification & updated SWIFT support with Gold certification. Updated Platform - support for .Net 3.5, VS 2008 SP1, Windows Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008. SOA & Web Services - UDDI v.3 Web Service......

63 of 1339 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 9-1-2009 - Hi All, Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 9th January 2009.  Key ones include: Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance • Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta • Windows 7 Walkthrough: Deployment Image Servicing and Management • Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 8 Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 Beta documentation • Active Directory Domain Services Operations Guide.doc Solutions & Solution Development • BizTalk Server 2009 Beta Documentation • Windows 7 Walkthrough: Enterprise Application Compatibility • Windows® PowerShell 2.0 • Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET F......

64 of 1339 | New ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP Out - Yesterday the Microsoft team released a new tech preview of the ESB Guidance 2.0 package. What’s new?  I’ll be installing this today so we’ll see what “LDAP Resolver” and “SMTP Adapter Provider” actually are.  Looks like some good modifications to the itinerary design experience as well.  The biggest aesthetic change is the removal of the dependency on Dundas charting (for the Exception Management Portal) and a long-overdue move to Microsoft Chart Controls.  As you’d expect with any CTP (and as I’ve learned by digging into CTP1 for my BizTalk 2009 book), don’t expect much in the way of documentation yet.  There ARE updated samples, but it’s up to you to dissect the components and discover ......

65 of 1339 | Return of the Jedi... err I mean WMI - A sneak peak at new stuff in WMI in Windows 7. (Continuation of WMI - The story so far)   WMI, Powershell - how well do they gel?   Jeffrey Snover mentioned in the Powershell blog a long time back (http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/06/26/647038.aspx ) that a veteran MVP remarked to something in the lines of "if you want to do reporting use Windows Powershell because it is very powerful but if you want to get things done use vbscript...” Although this was in context of particularly invoking wmi methods through Powershell, the statement does highlight that the WMI-Powershell story was not complete.Well not anymore (or so we would like to believe)! With the WMI relat......

66 of 1339 | Common Service Locator for Silverlight Now Available - One of the goals of Prism was to avoid coupling too closely with any particular Dependency Injection container.  To that end, the first version of Prism had defined an IContainerFacade that anything from the library side of Prism would interact with and we supplied an adapter for Unity Prism. It turns out there were a number of people interested in a common definition of a service locator interface that applications, frameworks or libraries could use for a similar purpose.  Adapters to specific technologies could then be written once and re-used.  To that end, the CommonServiceLocator project was established and a number of folks in the .Net community worked with patterns &a......

67 of 1339 | DisplayPort specification to add Apple's mini connector - The forthcoming version of the DisplayPort specification is said to incorporate Apple's mini DisplayPort connector. ...

68 of 1339 | MEFGrid: A Sample MEF Application - MEFGrid is a sample MEF application that I presented at Seattle Code Camp and at an Olympia .NET user group meeting.  It includes connect 4 and the game of life, but other grid based games could be written and dropped into the extensions directory. The application demonstrates some of the more advanced features of MEF.  The available life patterns, for example, are stored as text files in the LifePatterns directory.  A custom catalog makes these available as string-based exports via a custom programming model, and the life game uses a contract adapter to convert the string-based exports to command exports that set the current life pattern. If I can find the time I will wr......

69 of 1339 | Hyper-V V2: Guest Only External Networks + Add Roles Wizard Changes - The Hyper-V best practice in traditional production environments is that any physical network interface used by guest virtual machines is dedicated and isolated to guest only traffic and not shared with the management operating system (host).  This recommendation was made for several reasons – security is the primary reason since virtual machines are considered less trusted than the management partition isolating the network traffic reduces the risk that a malicious guest could take advantage of a remote security exploit to take over the physical machine.  Following this practice also reduces the risk of a guest virtual machine saturating the network preventing the server administ......

70 of 1339 | Problems receiving a Multi Part Message via a HTTP vs File Adaptor - I recently built a recieve location that used used a File adaptor to test the recieve and Orchestration for a new multipart message.  It all went well until I converted the recieve port to a HTTP adaptor.  At that point my custom component in the recieve pipeline raised a 'method not implemented' error. After several tests I was sure that the error was specific to HTTP adaptor and was not a problem with the installation of the custom component.  One theory that I had was that an aditional method(s) may be required when implementing a custom components in a HTTP recieve pipeline hence the error.  This was proven to be wrong. In fact the issue was due to less methods being implemented in th......

71 of 1339 | Formation au développement d'un connecteur avec Microsoft Dynamics 2009 - Vous êtes éditeur de logiciels ? Venez découvrir comment connecter et intégrer Microsoft Dynamics Ax à vos applications. Microsoft Dynamics AX offre des fonctionnalités complètes qui permettent d'automatiser et de rationaliser les processus de gestion financière, de la relation client, des services commerciaux et de la chaîne logistique. http://www.microsoft.com/france/dynamics/ax/default.mspx Venez découvrir, les 4 et 5 février prochains, comment les éditeurs peuvent intégrer Dynamics Ax 2009 à leurs applications existantes. (Cette formation se déroulera sur deux jours dans la région parisienne et sera assurée en anglais) Agenda The Dynamics AX Application Integration Frame......

72 of 1339 | TFS 2008 HP Quality Center Connector December Pre-Release verfügbar - Die Dezember Pre-Release des HP Quality Center Connector gibt’s via Microsoft Connect hier Der Connector erlaubt die Synchronisation der Quality Center Defects mit TFS Workitems und somit die Integration einer bestehenden HP Quality Center Konfiguration. Der Sync kann via Background Prozess oder interaktiv durchgeführt werden. Chris...

73 of 1339 | Very Important Enterprise Search links - Module 1: BPIO workshops: https://www.msbpio.com/Pages/Default.aspx Quick Start for Microsoft Search: https://www.quickstartmicrosoftsearch.com/login/signin.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f MOSS Search: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/capabilities/es/overview.mspx Enterprise Search: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/ SharePoint Blog (Search): http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/tags/Search/default.aspx Enterprise Search Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/ TechNet Virtual Labs: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/learning/virtual.mspx Protocol Handlers & iFilters: Microsoft filter back, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-407......

74 of 1339 | Developer BizTalk Server Training Resources - .style1 { color: white; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; background: #FFC000; } .style2 { color: white; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: general; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; border-color: inherit; border-width: medium; padding-left: 1px; ......

75 of 1339 | Installing the Windows 7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1 - Yesterday we made the Windows 7 Beta available for public download. Hopefully you’re as excited as I am that the beta is here! The Windows 7 Beta is already getting some rave reviews for its new features, performance, and stability. But it is a beta, and with that comes the potential risk that some things may not work as well as they will in the final release. If you have a spare test machine that supports the system requirements then I highly recommend installing the beta on your test machine. But if not, one way to mitigate the risks of using pre-release software is to use virtualization technology such as Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. Creating a Windows 7 Beta 1 virtual image (aka virtual......

76 of 1339 | Upcoming Project Server webcasts – Mark Your Calendar! - Please find below a list of EPM 2007 webcast in the coming months as well as on-demand webcasts (recorded in the past 4 months) . These webcast are primarily targeted to  IT Professionals and will present in details key aspects to consider when you evaluate, plan, deploy, and operate Project Server 2007.  On February 12th, Larry Duff will present the recently released Solution Connector for Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 on MSDN Code Gallery to the developer community. You need to register to each webcast by clicking their respective link (all free of charge); then you get emailed a link to sign on and participate in the web cast on its date and time. Each webcast......

77 of 1339 | Windows 7 beta 1 install experience - I've been an avid user of Windows 7 pre beta ever since we got a build at the PDC conference in Los Angeles in October 2008. I installed it in dual boot on my work laptop, as explained here. There were a few minor kinks that forced me to keep Vista on this machine. The most annoying was that it was impossible to debug Silverlight on that build. Well, happy to report that this annoying bug is gone now, and I can develop and debug Silverlight on Windows 7 now. Let's see other problems and what happened to them: Unsolved (and workarounds): Unability to mount ISO files without external solution: This is probably the most annoying missing thing in Win7 at the moment. I can't understand ......

78 of 1339 | Windows 7 beta 1 install experience - I've been an avid user of Windows 7 pre beta ever since we got a build at the PDC conference in Los Angeles in October 2008. I installed it in dual boot on my work laptop, as explained here. There were a few minor kinks that forced me to keep Vista on this machine. The most annoying was that it was impossible to debug Silverlight on that build. Well, happy to report that this annoying bug is gone now, and I can develop and debug Silverlight on Windows 7 now. Let's see other problems and what happened to them: Update: Forgot to mention that there is a critical update that must be installed after you install the beta of Win7. Get it here!! Unsolved (and workarounds): Unability to m......

79 of 1339 | AdapterConfig – what is it and how does it help me - I was currently developing the Bulk XML import adapter and I had developed the adapter and tested it on my development box. I then proceeded to create the MSI. So you go and create the code for the adapter, and test the functionality of the logic. After...(read more)...

80 of 1339 | How to download multiple images (/files) from SQL Server to client using ASP.NET and DotNetZip? - How to download multiple images (/files) from SQL Server to client using ASP.NET and DotNetZip? Here is a simple way you can use to let your web site users download multiple images or files at once. For this article, I will be focused on images but the same technique can be used for downloading files also. I will be describing how to zip all the images in a folder and send the zipped file to the client. In my case, the images were stored in SQL Server as binary data so I had to come up with a process to first get the images out of the database and then zip them. I was working on the Personal Website Starter kit available at www.asp.net. It has an Album section where users can view and do......

81 of 1339 | New nsoftware Releases for SharePoint, BizTalk, SSIS - Today /n software announced new versions of three more toolkits today: SharePoint Extensions V3 BizTalk Adapters V3 SSIS Tasks V3 I have been involved in building these products, so if you have any questions feel free to let me know. Technorati Tags: BizTalk, SharePoint, SSIS ...

82 of 1339 | Windows 7 in Boot Camp - As soon as I got my mitts on the M3 build of Windows7 at the PDC last year, the first thing I tried was to run it in Fusion on my 15 inch MacBook Pro. It ran just fine sans one little thing – I could never get it to recognize the Marvell Ethernet adapter. Wireless worked fine, but for what I do at work wireless means a constant VPN connection and that was a pain. I did some searching, found one person that had it working on an older MacBook with a different Ethernet chipset. Once the new beta 1 build was released yesterday I decided to give it another go. And boy was I happy. Not only did the Ethernet and wireless adapters work just fine, they did so without the need to install all the Ap......

83 of 1339 | A useful WMI tool & how to find USB to Serial adaptors - To illustrate a useful tool for WMI (WMICodeCreator) & using WMI to find USB Serial / COM port adaptors...

84 of 1339 | The W3C Forms Working Group has published a working draft of XForms for HTML. - The W3C Forms Working Group has published a working draft of XForms for HTML. "XForms for HTML provides a set of attributes and script methods that can be used by the tags or elements of an HTML or XHTML web page to simplify the integration of data-intensive interactive processing capabilities from XForms. The semantics of the attributes are mapped to the rich XForms model-view-controller-connector architecture, thereby allowing web application authors a smoother, selective migration path to the higher-order behaviors available from the full element markup available in modules of XForms." I think the goal here is to hide XForms submission within standard HTML markup, but I haven't fully gro......

85 of 1339 | Writing to a MySQL database from SSIS - A couple of users reported being unable to use the ADO.NET destination to insert data into their mysql databases. When I originally tried this out, it worked, but it seems like changes made since the early 2008 CTPs have made us incompatible with MySQL. We do have a bug logged to make this more flexible, but the good news is that in the meantime there is a workaround when using the ODBC connector. For the ADO.NET Destination to work properly, the MySQL database needs to have the ANSI_QUOTES SQL_MODE option enabled. This option can be enabled globally, or for a particular session. To enable it for a single session: Create an ADO.NET Connection Manager which uses the ODBC driver ......

86 of 1339 | Expo Notes: Up close with Shure’s X2u mic adapter - At Expo, Shure is showcasing the X2u, a small module that connects straight to the XLR cables used by most professional audio microphones and then connects to your Mac via USB. We take a closer look. ...

87 of 1339 | iLuv dual-dock alarm clock offers either port in a storm - The iMM183 Hi-Fi Dual Dock Alarm Clock with Weather Brand Radio features docks for charging two devices at once, including any iPod with a dock connector and the iPhone 3G. ...

88 of 1339 | TFS 2008 – HP Quality Center Connector ? December Pre-release - The TFS product team has been working with Hewlett Packard’s (HP) Quality Center team to develop the TFS 2008 – HP Quality Center (QC) Connector. It lets Quality Center 9.2 users synchronize their Defects with Work Items in TFS 2008. This synchronization can be performed interactively with a Windows (GUI) application or as a background task (running as a service). The Connector is built on the TFS Synchronization Toolkit and is available for download from Microsoft Connect. Along with the installer for the QC Connector, we’ve included a Getting Started guide that explains the prerequisites, installation, configuration and usage of the Connector. There’s also a ZIP file containing a sample ......

89 of 1339 | Wiring Up Dynamics CRM & Commerce Server - Someone sent me an e-mail over the weekend asking about how to wire up Commerce Server and Dynamics. Fortunately, there is any easy answer - BizTalk Server! The BizTalk team has published an adapter for Dynamics 4.0, released on October 6, 2008. It is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=abd3bb9e-a59a-4eb6-8de8-fb25b77926d7&displaylang=en. Using this and the BizTalk Adapters in Commerce Server, it is possible to get CRM and Commerce Server talking without actually writing code. I highly recommend checking it out! Hope this helps.  ...

90 of 1339 | Wiring Up Dynamics CRM & Commerce Server - Someone sent me an e-mail over the weekend asking about how to wire up Commerce Server and Dynamics. Fortunately, there is any easy answer - BizTalk Server! The BizTalk team has published an adapter for Dynamics 4.0, released on October 6, 2008. It is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=abd3bb9e-a59a-4eb6-8de8-fb25b77926d7&displaylang=en. Using this and the BizTalk Adapters in Commerce Server, it is possible to get CRM and Commerce Server talking without actually writing code. I highly recommend checking it out! Hope this helps.  ...

91 of 1339 | Declarative Context Adapters - The first post in this series introduced the problem of accessing IoC container features dynamically. We brushed over two common patterns: Global Container (or Static Service Locator) Injected Context Before we move on from this topic, I'd like to look at one more pattern in this theme that may not be in common use, but deserves some attention anyway. This pattern I've labeled Declarative Context Adapter, and it builds on the strengths of Injected Context while moving from imperative implementation to declarative configuration. Problem After composition, a component requires dynamic access to features of the container that hosts it (the context.) Commonly, this involves dyna......

92 of 1339 | Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 19-12-2008 - Please find attached the listings of new or updated downloads for the week ending 19th December 2008.  Key ones include: Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance • System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 Evaluation Edition • System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 • Windows Deployment Services Step-by-Step Guide • Branch Office Infrastructure Solutions v3.0 Retail Vertical Solutions Guide Solutions & Solution Development • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 • Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - December 2008 • SQL Server 2005 Books Online (December 2008) • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update for Windows Vista, a......

93 of 1339 | REDFLY Smartphone Terminal - Normally, I’m not a gadget-head but I recently saw a new device in action that is tailor made for road warriors or those of us who take notes extensively.  Celio Corp. has come out with the REDFLY Smartphone Terminal.  For $199 you get a device that connects to your Windows Mobile 6.x Smartphone and provides a full scale keyboard and display. It connects to your phone via USB or Bluetooth.  In addition to the USB ports it has a VGA connector for connecting to projectors.  Celio advertises 8 hours of battery life and it can even charge your cell phone!   I want one Yesterday! ...

94 of 1339 | Windows Home Server and Backups for the Paranoid - I recently discovered to my chagrin that Windows Home Server is not exactly a secure backup platform.  Let me explain before I get in too much trouble... On the plus side, The latest versions of WHS connectors can actually backup BitLocker and EFS volumes and it works with Vista 64 bit, and actually Windows Server 2008 (64 bit to boot) (though it's not documented).  I'm finding out that just about anything that works with Vista 64 bit, in the way of not just application software, but drivers as well, works with W2K8.  Also, WHS is running on a W2K3 server which means you can have strong passwords, etc.  But, the plus side turns out to be the negative side if somebody ......

95 of 1339 | SQL Connection Information for BizTalk Adapters - I created a SQL Bulk load adapter as the standard SQL Adapter casts the stream to a string and runs out of memory for large datasets. While developing the Bulk Load adapter, I need to specify the connection information. I was about to implement a custom...(read more)...

96 of 1339 | How to create and run Compact Framework unit tests with VS2008 and TestDriven.NET - Unlike VS2005, where you didn't have a unit testing framework for the .NET Compact Framework (and that's the reason why we had to create one for the Mobile Client Software Factory), VS2008 (Team System Test or Suite editions) comes with the same test framework you probably use for desktop applications. Rather than trying to emulate another great post on how to get the first test running on the emulator or device, just go ahead and read Device Unit Testing using Visual Studio 2008 Team System. One thing I'll add is that if you get the following exception on first run: The test adapter ('Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.TestTypes.Unit.UnitTestAdapter, Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.Ti......

97 of 1339 | EzAPI – Alternative package creation API - SSIS provides APIs to programmatically create dtsx packages. While we provide a managed wrapper layer for the runtime/control flow, you have to use the lower level COM wrappers (DTSPipelineWrap) to create your data flows – the usability of which could definitely be improved. Evgeny Koblov, one of the testers on the SSIS team, has put together a really powerful framework for generating packages called EzAPI. It’s been used by the test team internally for awhile now, and we’ve now published it to Codeplex as well. The project includes a pretty detailed readme file, as well as some great samples on how to use the classes. This post is mostly a formatted version of the readme file written b......

98 of 1339 | Failed to create the transport adapter - I have received this error when testing my adapter I am creating: The Messaging Engine failed to create the transport adapter "SQLBulkXML". OutboundAssemblyPath: "D:\Eric\Warehouse\Adapter\Run-Time\SQLBulkXMLTransmit\bin\Debug\SQLBulkXMLTransmitAdapter...(read more)...

99 of 1339 | Possibly faulty Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapters on the loose - Some users are experiencing display corruption problems with Apple's Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter. ...

100 of 1339 | Read and use FM radio (or any other USB HID device) from C# - Last time we spoke about reading and decoding RDS information from FM receivers. Also we already know how to stream sound from DirectSound compatible devices. However, before we can do it, we should be able to “speak” with such devices. So, today we’ll spoke about detection and reading information from Radio USB adapters (actually from any Human Input Devices). Let’s start. First, if you want to do it, go and buy such device. The are not a lot of alternatives, but if you’ll seek, you’ll find it very quickly. So, let’s start. First of all, we’ll use platform invoke to get and set the information. Also, we have to preserve handle of the device from being collected by GC. After we’ll fini......