A group I’m working with was looking to use SharePoint to capture data entered by a number of international employees. They asked if SharePoint could restrict access to a given list item based on the value in a particular column. So, if the user created a line item designated for “Germany”, then automatically, the list […]
June 23, 2008
During the MVP Summit this past April, I saw a presentation of UML capabilities that are part of the Visual Studio Team System “Rosario” April 2008 Preview. I immediately downloaded the monstrous virtual machine containing the bits … and finally took a quick look at things today. In my current job, I find myself creating […]
June 11, 2008
I was looking for a particular download today on the Microsoft site, and came across a couple of new whitepapers. Check out the Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide which 220+ pages of performance factors, analytic tools, planning/preparing/executing a performance assessment, identifying bottlenecks, how to test, and optimizing operating system / network / database level […]
June 6, 2008
I was on a conference call with those characters from SOA Software and they were demonstrating their BizTalk Management Pack. They also spent a lot of time covering their in-development WCF binding. Moving forward, SOA Software is releasing Microsoft-friendly agents for … IIS 6.0 (SOAP/HTTP) WCF (any transport) BizTalk (any transport) BizTalk-WCF (any transport) All […]
June 6, 2008
We’re replacing one of our critical systems, and one of the system analysts was looking for a way to capture key data entities in the existing system, and every system/form/report that used each entity. Someone suggested SharePoint and I got myself roped into prototyping a solution. Because of the many-to-one relationship being captured (e.g. one […]
June 3, 2008
I just finished zipping up all the source code for my recent set of articles over at TopXML.com. Specifically, I just added the source code for the set of articles on publishing WCF services out of BizTalk (with security, transactions, attachments) and the source code for all the BizTalk Adapter Pack demonstrations that utilized the […]
June 30, 2008
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