Attaching BizTalk XML Messages as attachments to emails (with a file extension)
I’m in the middle of a BizTalk implementation, and for a certain set of messages, the only thing I want to do is notify someone that the message has...
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BizTalk 2010 Developer Training
This really is the most spectacular training resource if you need to get up and running with BizTalk quickly. Microsoft have made available a BizTalk 2010 Developer...
MetroTwit Show – Twitter PowerPoint Presentation
From Microsoft, and based (at least in name) on their MetroTwit client, this is a really nice, really slick way of presenting twitter posts. Every office should have one...
What do you love? from Google
Google has a new data mashup project on the go. You can see it for yourself at: http://www.wdyl.com/ The results are an amalgamation of many of Google’s...
Glimpse – like Firebug on the Server-Side!
Glimpse is a NuGet package that gives you Firebug-like functionality, on the server-side. It makes things a lot easier when you’re debugging. To add it, first...
SSMS – Is I in The Cloud?!
I was reviewing some processes that should have terminated, but hadn’t, prior to performing a Restore, when I came across this snippet of SQL. It looks like a...
Give your SQL Strings Names!
This is such a useful debugging practice I had to share it. How often have you come to debug a problem and had to resort to SQL Tracing to pinpoint the problem, or had...
Making WCF-SQL Send Port work with Stored Procedure
[Disclaimer: I’m learning BizTalk the hard way – without a training course and with an impending deadline. These are my learnings, notes and reminders. If...
Getting your SQL Backup Models right
[this was an email I just sent to the IT Team I work with] People of the development world, When creating databases on the SageServer (or anywhere for that matter),...
Sackboy Thermometer
This is a bit geeky, but I had a plastic Sackboy, an LCD display, a thermometer chip and a Arduino board lying around, so I thought I’d combine them to highlight...
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