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Where’s Microsoft going?

|create|it| has had a strong bet on Microsoft technologies since day one. We strongly believe it has the best overall platform, the one best suited to solve our customer’s needs, and this strategy has paid off in our 10 years of existence. In recent times, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:13 PM by jota | 0 Comments

«Dinâmica e Motivação de Equipas de Projecto» @ NetPonto Lisboa 21/04

Recently I’ve been doing a presentation with my colleague André Vala in academic events (namely IST’s SINFO XIX and FC-UL’s ENEI 2012 ), themed “ Architecture of Complex Software Solutions @ Create It ». My part of the session was originally meant to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:30 PM by jota | 1 Comments

AutoMapper Revisited

A few months back I posted about AutoMapper , a tool for which I had use in a project. One of the characteristics of AutoMapper is that, when it can’t map a given attribute, if fails silently. For example, if attribute A in the source object is Read More...
Posted Monday, March 26, 2012 7:45 AM by jota | 0 Comments

BizTalk 2010 R2 announced

Last week Microsoft announced the next release of BizTalk Server , for now called 2010 R2. Charles Young already wrote an overview of the features and product positioning , but I highlight two: the support for Informix V11 (I’ve had this need more than Read More...
Posted Monday, December 12, 2011 6:16 AM by jota | 0 Comments

AutoMapper

AutoMapper is a « convention-based object-to-object mapper ». According to the description, « AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:52 AM by jota | 1 Comments

WPC2011 and the Future of BizTalk

Following Tony Meleg’s presentation at Microsoft World Partner Conference , there’s a lot of discussion going on about the future of BizTalk Server. The following is a link to some pages with opinions about this issue: Microsoft’s middleware long term Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:58 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions + BizTalk Software Factory for BizTalk 2010

This one slipped me last year. A Microsoft whitepaper about Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk solutions . A reminder of the impact of trace and debug on BizTalk Developments. It covers Pipeline Components, Maps, Orchestrations, Read More...
Posted Monday, July 11, 2011 2:12 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Windows Phone 7– Outlook sync

I own a Windows Phone 7, and one of the problems I’ve had since day one is the inability to sync my local Outlook with the phone. My initial approach was to add the phone’s live account to Outlook, and then do copy&paste of contacts and appointments Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:56 PM by jota | 0 Comments
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Editing .ODX Files / Regenerate Orchestration Code

Everybody with some experience with BizTalk Server knows that sometimes the ODX files get garbled and have to be fixed manually. I’ve had situations where the compilation of an orchestration works fine, but when viewing the orchestration in the visual Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:44 AM by jota | 0 Comments

When are Instance Subscriptions created, after all?

I stumbled with a situation where a Main orchestration calls a sub-orchestration, and this sub-orchestration sends back to Main a new message, using Direct Binding. The non-obvious behavior here is that the first Orchestration calls the second synchronously, Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 02, 2011 3:50 PM by jota | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio 2010 and BizTalk 2010 File Locking Problems

I’ve had several situation with large solutions in VS2010 where assemblies get locked and references need to be constantly fixed, failing compilations. I would get errors when copying the DLL’s from the OBJ into the BIN folders, or even copying a schema Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2011 11:10 AM by jota | 0 Comments

BizTalk Server 2010 70-595 Certification Exam is out

At last! Just published. You can find info on the e -learning site . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:29 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Microsoft Business Integration RoadShow 2011 (Lisboa, 28/Fev)

Another year, another Business Integration Roadshow. This year I’ll be unable to present, as I’ll be attending Microsoft’s MVP Summit in Redmond, but my two colleagues Tiago Oliveira and Raúl Ribeiro will present a session on the integration of BizTalk Read More...
Posted Monday, February 14, 2011 4:46 PM by jota | 0 Comments

BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack

The BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack is an add-on to BizTalk Server 2010 that allows BizTalk functionality to be invoked from Windows Azure’s Service Bus. The feature pack specifically includes “BizTalk Server 2010 AppFabric Connect for Services”, the Read More...
Posted Monday, February 14, 2011 4:39 PM by jota | 0 Comments
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BizTalk and Gartner Oct’2010

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects (October 2010) places Microsoft in the leader’s quadrant for integration, with BizTalk Server and the global integration platform, as the company with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20 AM by jota | 0 Comments
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