Yesterday I’ve been playing around with the new Windows Powershell. As the name implies, this is the new shell for Microsoft Windows, a real shell compared to Cmd.exe. One important topic about Windows Powershell is security. The primary security feature in Windows PowerShell is its execution policy. By default, this policy is set to Restricted,... read more
Impersonation is a process in which a user accesses the resources by using the identity of another user. With impersonation we can control the identity under which code is executed. By default, ASP.NET does not use impersonation. When using impersonation, ASP.NET applications can execute the processing thread using the identity of the client on whose... read more
If you are interested in C# 3.0, there is an article at MSDN that details all the C# 3.0 Specification, with technical info and inline samples. You can find that article here! Yesterday, while I was reading the article, I copied and pasted what I think summarizes best what’s new in the language, a sort... read more
When testing performance in stress situations, I've found really useful a query that returns the count of all orchestration instances grouped by state. For example: Orchestration Count State Orchestration 1 5 Active Orchestration 1 3 Dehydrated Orchestration 2 9 Active Orchestration 2 11 Suspended Resumable Orchestration 3 1 Active Orchestration 4 2 Active The query... read more
BizTalk Server Development Center has recently released some papers and a Reference Implementation Sample that shows how to integrate BizTalk Server 2006, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows Communication Foundation in an enterprise solution. This is an extract of what you can find there at http://msdn.microsoft.com/biztalk/: Reference Application Pack for RetailThis white paper, along with the... read more
BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2 has been released. I strongly recommend you to read carefully the release notes and install the service pack in all your BizTalk Server 2004 environments. Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D20B4510-E5A6-4D7B-87A1-4BD52BDD57B8&displaylang=en This is the List of bugs that are fixed in BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924330/en-us
Hi everyone! Yesterday I faced an error when trying to compile a BTS project which was already developed on another machine. This project included an orchestration and some schemas and maps. The error was related to one of those maps: “Exception Caught: Cannot use a prefix with an empty namespace” I also received this error... read more
After the setup of the Enterprise Single Sign On, you could get the following error in the event log: The master secret has not been backed up. If you lose the master secret all the information stored in the SSO system will be lost permanently and your systems may fail to work correctly. Please use... read more
I have a Biztalk Server 2004 orchestration which interacts with a Web Service using the SOAP adapter. Under stress situations, such as lots of concurrent running orchestrations calling the Web Service, the SOAP adapter reports exceptions of type “not enough threads in the thread pool” as shown below: The adapter failed to transmit message going... read more
I’ve been busy trying to get the MSMQT Adapter working in a load balancing situation. After doing some tests, I’ve found that when using DIRECT=TCP:[IPNumber]\PRIVATE$\queueName, messages were sent successfully, but when using DIRECT=OS:[MachineName]\PRIVATE$\queueName messages were rejected and unacknowledgements were received. The cause for this situation was that MSMQT Adapter was originally installed using the local... read more
