Here is the demo code, and presentation (in swedish) from the BAM talk I gave at the BizTalk User Group Sweden event on the 20th. Thank you all who attended, and to Precio for hosting it. Please contact me with any questions you might have about the samples, how to get them running and how best to go forward to utilize the benefits they demostrate. I’ll add an additional blogpost as soon as possible, describing the sample code. But until then I just wanted to put the code out there for you to look at if you would like to. This download does not include the Purchase Order demo that I used to demonstrate aggregations, that’s part of the Business Activity Monitoring Training kit, which I highly recommend, and that you can get here. It also does not include the WCF Calculator Interceptor sample, which is part of the BizTalk Server samples that Microsoft provides, get that one here. Also check out Mikaels post to get the BAM Session 1 slides and demo code, and read the explanation at the biztalkusergroup.se site (also in swedish).
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I’d like to inform you of…
…what? Do you get it, I certainly don’t. All I got yesterday when opening up my laptop after standby was this (se image below). Apparantly it’s an error, at least that’s the title of the dialog, but then again the icon is informational. But hey, I didn’t really have much choice, I wanted to know what lay behind – I took the Red pill and pressed ok.
As PDC is approaching, do you want to take the red pill and learn what really goes on behind the scenes? If so then check out the The Devil’s Field Guide to the PDC, although I’m not entirely sure he got the whole red pill / blue pill anology correct – but that might be just my interpretation.
If you at this point are asking yourself “Hey., whatever happend after you pressed ok!?” – I’m sorry to dissapoint you, nothing happened. Which in itself doesn’t really do the red pill / blue pill analogy justice either…
The PDC is getting closer…
…anf get-togethers and parties are starting to add up. Some internal or private and some open to everyone that will hopefully be packed with people. We arrive late saturday, and will probably just fall asleep as soon as we hit the hotel, seeing that our local time places that at a 9 hours timediff from the local time in Los Angeles. So by the time we arrive at our hotel the head will still being in the mindset of 6 am. We’re hoping to be more in sync when we wake up on sunday – we have to, because that sunday night makes up the first party.
Making the switch to Messenger 9 Beta
There are lots of news in Messenger 9 Beta. Some that I at first sight can’t really say I like, and some that I just don’t see as being useful just yet. But there are some highlights. Read more here. It’s the small things that make me happy, like the possibility to be online from more then one computer at a time. You can get the beta here.
Getting up to speed with .NET 3.5
If you haven’t had the opprtunity yet to dive into the .NET Framework 3.5 there is a training kit from Microsoft covering the enhancements to the Framework. There is also this other training kit that covers a larger part of the .NET 3.0/3.5 Framework and Visual Studio 2008. Using Live Search to look for training kits unfortunatly reveals that there aren’t that many training kits around. Too bad. There should be more. It’s a good way to start learning a new technology on your own.
Talking about Live Search, Microsoft is really trying their best to get more people using their Live plattform. The latest offer I’ve come across is searchperks – where you get points for searching the web, which you can then redeem for something that you wan’t. If you are a really busy searcher you can get stuff like xbox controls.
Be Logical - Notes from Johan Hedberg 