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My article on troubleshooting the XmlSerializer is up on MSDN XML Dev Center
This new article is a much extended version of a post I had here several months ago. It desribes the various problems you can encounter working with the XmlSerializer and how to diagnose them. You can find the article here.
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Enumerated types in Web service interfaces and BizTalk
On my last Biztalk project, I had to call a Web service interface containing an operation with an enumerated data type. As it turned out, that’s a non-trivial task. You would think that importing the WSDL would create a .NET enumerated type which you can use in a Message Assignment shape.
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Flying Pointy Brackets == Anglebrackets?
I recently listened to Christian’s web cast on WSE 2.0, which is in German. I noticed a couple of things:
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Doug Purdy on Remoting
About a month ago, there was a flurry of activity around the question if remoting is dead. Now some people think that it's not dead, it just smells funny.
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Download Links: IBF and WSE BizTalk Adapters Preview
The Microsoft Office Integration Bridge Framework (IBF) was announced in Monday's opening keynote. It allows you easily hook up web services to Microsoft office applications. Download it here.
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Message Tracing in BizTalk Web Service Proxies
I blogged about the message tracing feature in WSE yesterday, but WSE isn’t the only recent Microsoft product with a built-in tracing feature.
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Quote from Steve Ballmer's TechEd keynote
Steve Ballmer said in today's opening keynote at TechEd:
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Tracing capablities in WSE2
WSE 2.0 was released at TechEd today. Congratulations to the WSE team with Rebecca Dias, Keith Ballinger and the rest of the WSE Team. Version 2 comes with support for WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-Policy and a few other WS-* standards.
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Tablet, Centrino, Battery life and CPU clock speed
I recently got my Acer Tablet with the power-saving Centrino technology. I am getting very decent battery times out of it, too. 4-6 hours with wireless on if I am not coding and running the compiler a lot.
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The Power of the Pen - and BizTalk doesn't use it
Am I the only one to use the BizTalk Orchestration Designer on a Tablet PC? The drawing UI metaphor of the Orchestration Designer works really nice on a tablet with a pen. I think it's totally cool to draw orchestrations on the screen, instead of using the mouse -- it's almost like in the movie “Minority Report“, where Tom Cruise moved images on those giant transparent displays by waving his hands.
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My TechEd Schedule
I'll be the cabana boy in the Web services cabana:
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I'm the Indigo guesser!
Didn't I speculate that we'll see Indigo before Longhorn a little while ago?