Stephen Kaufman's WebLog
Look who's BizTalk'in - Notes on all things integration
Creating Azure VM's with the REST API
There are many ways to create virtual machines in Azure. Of course the Azure Portal is the easiest...
Date: 10/30/2013
Presenting at the BizTalk Summit 2012
As many of you know, the BizTalk Team is putting on a BizTalk Summit. The BizTalk Summit 2012 is a 2...
Date: 12/05/2012
Blob Storage and Shared Access Signatures
I am working on a project where we are uploading client files to Azure Blob Storage. Blob...
Date: 10/15/2012
Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus–Part II
In the previous post I covered the Messaging Channel group of patterns. In this post, I will cover...
Date: 04/16/2012
Integration Patterns utilizing the Windows Azure Service Bus
For years we have all utilized Gregor Hohpe’s Enterprise Integration Patterns book (and the web...
Date: 04/16/2012
Services Hosted in Windows Azure Service Bus
In my last post, I talked about the BizTalk AppFabric Connect for Services functionality for...
Date: 03/20/2012
BizTalk AppFabric Connect For Services
Last week I spoke at the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The title of my...
Date: 03/20/2012
Can you move a Virtual Machine from VirtualPC to Hyper-V?
I was recently asked if I could help move a virtual machine that had been setup and running in...
Date: 01/18/2012
Composite Applications
It has been a long time since my last blog post. It certainly hasn’t been for a lack of...
Date: 03/16/2011
Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting–March 17th, 2011
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 17th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...
Date: 03/16/2011
Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting – September 16th, 2010
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 16th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...
Date: 09/10/2010
Storing Application Configuration Information in SSO
For those using BizTalk, we have long had the need to store configuration information in a central...
Date: 08/31/2010
Using The Windows Server AppFabric Cache with ASP.NET
It appears that I have lost some of my blog posts. I am reposting this blog post which originally...
Date: 08/30/2010
Tagging Objects in the AppFabric Cache
In two of my previous entries I outlined functionality and patterns used in the AppFabric Cache. In...
Date: 04/22/2010
Pre-Populate the AppFabric Cache
When I start talking to people about the caching functionality that is part of Windows Server...
Date: 04/07/2010
Interview on Endpoint.TV
Danny Garber and I were interviewed for Endpoint.TV on Windows Server AppFabric and our upcoming...
Date: 04/01/2010
Calling PowerShell from .NET
I have been working with Windows Server AppFabric caching lately and have found it to be very...
Date: 03/31/2010
Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting - March 11th, 2010
If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...
Date: 03/10/2010
Pro Windows Server AppFabric Book
I have been spending my free time working on my next book. Danny Garber and I are co-authoring this...
Date: 01/18/2010
Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting - January 21st, 2010
If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 21st please join us for the Twin Cities...
Date: 01/14/2010
AppFabric and BizTalk
There have been lots of questions lately about AppFabric (code named Dublin). These questions have...
Date: 11/23/2009
Follow Up from TechEd Europe
Paolo Salvatori and I delivered a session titled 'Customizing and Extending the BizTalk WCF...
Date: 11/20/2009
Speaking at TechEd Europe 2009
I will be speaking at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin Germany November 9th through the 13th. I will be...
Date: 10/12/2009
The Architecture Journal - Edition 21
I co-authored an article titled 'Design Considerations for S+S and Cloud Computing' in this months...
Date: 10/11/2009
StreamInsight
You are probably asking what is StreamInsight. Well, it is the platform for performing Complex Event...
Date: 09/30/2009
WCF: Did you know?
Did you know that when doing contract first development and utilize a Boolean data type with a...
Date: 08/12/2009
WSE, DIME; WCF, MTOM; OH My!
I was recently working on a proof of concept where we needed to interface to a repository that...
Date: 07/20/2009
Exposing Custom WCF Headers through WCF Behaviors - Part 3
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Date: 06/24/2009
Exposing Custom WCF Headers through WCF Behaviors - Part 2
In part 1 we covered how to create a custom behavior to inject header data into the dynamically...
Date: 06/11/2009
Exposing Custom WCF Headers through WCF Behaviors
Since the WCF Publishing Wizard in BizTalk does not support adding custom headers defined at the...
Date: 05/29/2009
Pro BizTalk 2009 Book
I have just submitted my chapters for the new Pro BizTalk 2009 book from APress. You can also find...
Date: 05/07/2009
I will be speaking at TechEd 2009
I will be speaking at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles. I will be presenting two sessions and doing demos...
Date: 03/18/2009
Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group - March 19th, 2009
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 19th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...
Date: 03/16/2009
Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Changes
The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group is changing to become the Twin Cities Connected Systems User...
Date: 03/10/2009
BizTalk Hotrod Article Published
The latest edition of the BizTalk Hotrod magazine was just released. They are currently going...
Date: 02/18/2009
Mapping a Repeating Source to a Delimited List
My last couple of projects have been very interesting, challenging and a lot of fun. My current...
Date: 02/01/2009
Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - January 15th, 2009
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...
Date: 01/08/2009
I will be speaking at the Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference
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Date: 01/08/2009
Multi-Value Key for a Dictionary
I have a situation in which I need to cache lookup data from a database tables that will be used in...
Date: 09/29/2008
More Information on Processing MSMQ Messages in FIFO Order
In two of my previous posts I talked about processing MSMQ messages in FIFO order with WCF. The way...
Date: 08/20/2008
More Information on UpdateGrams
In previous blog posts I have mentioned this large project that I am working on. This project has...
Date: 08/20/2008
Validating Schemas During Runtime
I recently came across an interesting scenario. In my application, we are transforming multiple...
Date: 07/18/2008
Software Development Meme
Well, it would appear that I have been 'tagged' to answer a few question on how I got started in...
Date: 06/24/2008
I will be speaking at TechEd 2008
I will be presenting at TechEd 2008. This will be my fourth time presenting at TechEd conferences....
Date: 05/19/2008
System Center Operations Manager and BizTalk
The SCOM 2007 BizTalk Management Pack has finally been released. The Management Pack is a complete...
Date: 04/22/2008
I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group
I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group April 3rd 2008 on Team Development and Testing....
Date: 04/03/2008
Matching the BizTalk Service Name with its PID
I have been working with pipeline components quite a bit recently and when I try to attach to the...
Date: 03/21/2008
Removing XML elements from an input document (with large message support)
In my last post I talked about taking an XML message and stripping out elements. In that post I used...
Date: 03/21/2008
Removing XML elements from an input document
I am working on a BizTalk application where we are processing messages from a Point of Sale (POS)...
Date: 03/02/2008
Processing multiple queues in FIFO order with WCF
In my previous entry on Processing FIFO MSMQ Messages using WCF I said that I would cover processing...
Date: 02/20/2008