The next ACSUG meeting is set for the 12th of August at 6:00pm at Datacom, 210 Federal Street downtown Auckland. Register here.
Presentation:
The introduction of cloud computing marks a significant change in the IT industry. Offering scalability, flexibility, efficiency and lower costs, the benefits of this technology are widespread and generating a lot of attention from CIO’s, architects and technology leaders as businesses and government look to leverage ‘the Cloud’ within their organisations.
Software plus Services (S+S) is Microsoft’s vision for the connected world. When you combine the ever growing power of devices and the increasing ubiquity of the Web, you come up with a sum that is greater than its parts. The best of installed software and online services.
Is this technology for you? Make up your own mind when you understand the what, why, where, when and how of cloud computing.
Key learning points:
1. Cloud computing is a hot topic right now, discover exactly what it is and why you should be interested.
2. What does it mean for IT in NZ (government, enterprise, small business etc.)?
3. A look at the Windows Azure offering and other Online Services from Microsoft.
Presenter:
Scott Wylie leads the Developer and Platform Strategy Group at Microsoft in New Zealand which means working with the DPE team to excite customers and communities about Microsoft’s new and emerging technologies. He was previously the NZ practice manager for Microsoft Services. Prior to Microsoft he worked in Australia, the UK and the US in a variety of ISV and corporate environments – having started his career in the early 80’s as an IBM 370 assembler programmer! After hours he can be found playing with his band ‘President Gas’ and spending time with his family.
Register here to attend. Free entry, pizza and drinks provided.
Regards,
Thiago Almeida
As you might know Microsoft have recently revealed two new BizTalk 2009 editions for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Here are more details about them from the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2009 two weeks ago (July 13th 2009):
ENTERPRISE RUNTIME EDITION
- Only used with of unified ISV solution
- Unlimited CPUs, limited to 5 BizTalk applications
- Includes all capabilities, adapters and accelerators
- Supports scale out/failover, multi-server configuration with multiple message boxes
STANDARD RUNTIME EDITION
- Only used to embed into ISV application and interoperate with up to 2 additional external systems
- Includes all capabilities, adapters and accelerators
- Limited to 2 CPUs on single server and 1 BizTalk Applications
- Single server with single message box, no failover
These two new editions add to the existing six editions: Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Branch Edition, Developer Edition, RFID Enterprise, and the BizTalk Adapter Pack.
The BizTalk editions page hasn’t been updated yet and the pricing hasn’t been revealed for the two new ones but information should be out soon.
Regards,
Thiago Almeida
We have a few BizTalk 2009 projects going on at the moment and are running into some issues. The latest is the that when deploying a project containing an orchestration from Visual Studio 2008 you see an exception similar to:
“xlang/s engine event log entry: FileLoadException exception occurred while the XLANG/s runtime enlisted a service.
Error message:Could not load file or assembly ‘EnvDTE, Version=7.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131040)”
The problem here seems to be that the orchestration was deleted from BizTalk (usually through the Administration Console), but the Redeploy property of the BizTalk project in Visual Studio is set to True. Once you set the Redeploy property of the project to False it will deploy fine.
Eliasen has posted about the other issues that we have been noticing, mostly between BizTalk 2009 and Visual Studio 2008:
http://blog.eliasen.dk/2009/07/21/IssuesWithBizTalk2009OnVSNET2008.aspx
Some of these we have reported to Microsoft already so I’ll post back when that gets some traction.
Update 17 November 2009: There is a hotfix coming up that fixes most if not all of these issues, keep tuned and I will update this post when it is released (either separately or as a service pack for BizTalk 2009).
Regards,
Thiago Almeida
In this session Thiago introduces the new WCF based SQL Server adapter that is part of the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0. Learn the architecture behind the adapter, and how to use the SQL Adapter from BizTalk, or directly from .NET applications via the WCF service and channel models.
Register to attend
Free drinks and pizza provided!
Where:
Datacom Systems Limited, 210 Federal Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland, 1141
Map (parking on the street outside Datacom. There is also pay parking in Hobson St parallel to the venue)
When: 16 July 2009 at 6:00:00 p.m.
Please register if you are attending, and forward the meeting details to those who might be interested.
For a recording with the same presentation see the video on www.cloudcast.net
My webcast on the new WCF SQL Adapter has been made available on CloudCasts, a great initiative started by Alan Smith. Clout TV is a community based website for hosting webcasts relating to Microsoft technologies.
Here’s the link to the presentation:
http://www.cloudcasts.net/ViewWebcast.aspx?webcastid=2521554268962766719
There are several other webcasts on the site already, including two others by Kent Weare that are part of the BizTalk Light And Easy Viewing Series. Make sure to check them out!
Mick Badran asked many BizTalk/CSD MVPs and Industry experts (around the globe) to share their knowledge and expertise. We came up with a series of Webcasts/Presentations and Demo Code for the community around many aspects of BizTalk 2009 – from new features in BAM, SharePoint, SQL Adapter… to Orchestration Performance. Some of them are being finalized and they will all be made available soon.
A few days ago I received an overnight email from Microsoft presenting me with an MVP award in BizTalk. Needless to say I am very excited and happy about it! It is not often that this kind of news is blogged about by one of the best in the field before you do.
I’m really looking forward to working a bit closer with other MVPs, which include many experts whom I look up to, and the product team. I will strive to improve my commitment to the BizTalk and Connected Systems community.
Thank you to all the Microsoft employees, other fellow MVPs (so good to say that), and members of the community that made this happen, and to all that have congratulated me.
Regards,
Thiago Almeida
I ran into a very strange issue today. After installing the ESB Toolkit, I tried to ‘Choose Items…” in the pipeline components toolbox:
But every time I did that Visual Studio 2008 just closed without warning and the following exception appeared in the Application event log:
“ .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3074 – Fatal Execution Engine Error (72615FC0) (80131506)”
I then tried to choose items from the Toolbox with the the pipeline file and the entire solution closed and it then worked. After that I was able to open the pipeline file and it worked fine, allowing me to add all the pipeline components that I wanted:
Go figure…
Regards,
Thiago Almeida
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