Debug that BizTalk Map

Ouch! Look at this map. I need to see what is happening in some of these functoids. What is a developer to do?????

BizTalk and WMI

This will be a rather short blog post because I intend to write a much longer blog post about a this topic once I finishing coding a side project that uses WMI with BizTalk. So for now I am just going to throw down some quick, dirty code and explanation to show the power and usefulness of this topic.

Team Build and Strong Naming or Click-Once

I woke up to a FAILED build report in my inbox this morning… Not the best of signs but it happens, right?

So I’m trying to figure out what in the world could have gone wrong. What did we change since the last build that could have…

.Net Framework v2.0.50727 gacutil.exe

Just a quick note:

While modifing some NANT files today for our BizTalk 2006 deployment I notice the gacutil is no longer located in the framework folder i.e C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 as it was in the previous versions…

Pistachio Released — Free WPF Resource Visualization Tool

I’m excited to announce that we have finally released a free tool to help you visualize resource usage in your WPF applications. Kudos to the team on a job well done!

Visual Studio 2008 Code Metrics

VS 2008 has added a new feature called Code Metrics (CM). Code Metrics is a way to produce actionable information on a project or solution. When you generate CM on your code it produces such things as Maintainability Index, Cyclomatic Complexity, Class Coupling, Inheritance…

Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 SDK

The SDK consists of two different types of libraries, Implementation and the Interface. I love this API, they developed it for ease of use and scalability for future functionality in mind. The Implementation assemblies are not publicly expose and undocumented…