Featured Webcasts

Mikael Håkansson
The BizTalk Benchmark Wizard is a simple tool to validate a BizTalk installation, making sure it performs as could be expected. The purpose of this tool is to verify your BizTalk environment performs as expected. The typical use-case where you would use the BizTalk Benchmark Wizard would be after BizTalk Server is installed and before deploying any solutions to the environment.
February 2 Views: 69 Rating: 5.0 (1 votes) Duration: 25:55
 
Alan Smith
This is the second in a series of webcasts looking at building custom activities in WF 4.0. This webcast will focus on creating asynchronous activities by deriving from the AsyncCodeActivity class.
January 31 Views: 57 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 08:12
 
Alan Smith
This is the first in a series of webcasts looking at building custom activities in WF 4.0. This webcast will focus on deriving from the code activity class.
January 31 Views: 92 Rating: 4.0 (2 votes) Duration: 13:45
 
Alan Smith
This webcast will take a look at the distributed cache functionality in Windows Server AppFabric (formally codename “Velocity”). The PowerShell management interface will be used to create and manage named caches and view cache statistics. Caching will then be added to a sample application and the performance improvements tested. The webcast is based on the AppFabric Beta 1 bits, so things may change in future releases.
January 14 Views: 181 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 19:49
 
Brian Loesgen
This video shows how you can easily and securely pick up messages from the Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus, extending an ESB Toolkit on-ramp and on-premises BizTalk-based ESB to the cloud. This powerful new pattern allows you to have trading partners and others outside your firewall participate in your BizTalk processes without the need to reverse-proxy Web services, load balance, etc.
January 12 Views: 156 Rating: 4.3 (4 votes) Duration: 20:20
 
Alan Smith
This webcast takes a look at building declarative workflow services using the WCF Workflow Service project template in Visual Studio 2010. It is one in a series of webcasts looking at working with WCF Workflow Service.
January 8 Views: 275 Rating: 5.0 (1 votes) Duration: 16:09
 
.NET Community
The BizTalk User Group Sweden (BUGS) is probably the largest BizTalk user group in the world. Mikael and Johan have done an outstanding job in driving the user group, attracting sponsors and inviting well known presenters from around the world to present at the meetings, which sometimes have over 100 attendees.
BizTalk User Group Sweden Homepage
December 17 2009 Views: 196 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 07:55
 
Tiberiu Covaci
Charles Young was in Stockholm to present at a BizTalk User Group Sweden (BUGS) event. He gave a great presentation on his favourite topic, the Business Rules Engine in BizTalk Server. After the session he sat down with Tibi and talked about the challenges of learning to use the BRE, and the possible uses of rules engines in future technologies.
December 17 2009 Views: 394 Rating: 2.2 (5 votes) Duration: 07:31
 
Alan Smith
This is the first in a series of webcasts looking at AppFabric (formally codename “Dublin”). In this webcast I will install the Application Server Extensions on Windows Server 2008 and then activate the monitoring and persistence databases. I will then create a basic declarative workflow service, deploy it to AppFabric, and then call it from a client. This will create tracking and persistence data that can then be viewed in the Application Server Extensions dashboard.
November 19 2009 Views: 238 Rating: 3.5 (2 votes) Duration: 14:20
 
Tiberiu Covaci
Don Box is the first to take the “Five Minutes” challenge with Tibi at PDC09. Tibi talks to Don about his role in Microsoft, the “M” modeling language and data technologies. See how Don swiftly and skilfully dodges the infamous crystal-ball question, a master at work…
November 18 2009 Views: 193 Rating: 4.0 (1 votes) Duration: 02:05
 
Alan Smith
This webcast will take a look at the new default configuration options on WCF 4.0, showing how you can manage service and endpoint configuration using much simpler config files.
November 17 2009 Views: 203 Rating: 5.0 (1 votes) Duration: 13:10
 
Tiberiu Covaci
Jon Flanders talks to Tibi and gives tips on how we can go about learning REST, Visual Studio 2010 Extensions and shares his ideas on the future of technology.
November 15 2009 Views: 204 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 06:05
 
Tiberiu Covaci
Tibi bought a VIP ticket for the “Wheel of Excellence” in Malmo and spent half an hour talking to Amanda Laucher, Kerry Hammil and Bea Stollnitz about the technologies that interest them and how we should go about learning those new technologies. This is the first of a two part interview, there will be more to follow…
November 12 2009 Views: 1670 Rating: 4.6 (33 votes) Duration: 07:04
 
Tiberiu Covaci
Ze Frank was kind enough to spend time talking to Tibi at the ØreDev conference in Sweden talking about his ideas and what inspires him about internet communities. Ze is the first to turn the tables on Tibi and interview him about his fears of flying and the challenges of life.
November 6 2009 Views: 558 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 11:14
 
Alan Smith
Carl Franklin entertains the customers at The Bishop’s Arms in Malmo, accompanied by Shawn Wildermuth on guitar.
November 5 2009 Views: 351 Rating: 5.0 (2 votes) Duration: 05:10
 
Alan Smith
In this webcast I will take a look at calling WCF services from a WF workflow in Visual Studio 2010. The WCF/WF integration is one of the new features in .NET 4.0 that will appeal to developers who work with WCF services and want to leverage the functionality of WF workflows in their applications. This is a fairly basic run-through of how to do it. I will be producing more advanced WCF/WF webcasts in the near future.
October 25 2009 Views: 433 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 09:54
 
Alan Smith
In this webcast I’ll run through the new flowchart workflow designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. The flowchart workflow designer allows for a free-form layout in the workflow, allowing fore more varies decision paths. (I’ve updated this webcast with a better way of calling the WCF services.)
October 22 2009 Views: 746 Rating: 4.0 (6 votes) Duration: 23:39
 
Tiberiu Covaci
Tiberiu “Tibi” Covaci spends five minutes talking with Shawn Wildermuth, a MVP and international presenter, about the importance of the “Middle Man” when developing data access in applications.
October 20 2009 Views: 709 Rating: 3.2 (6 votes) Duration: 05:28
 
Alan Smith
This is the first in a series of webcasts looking at the WF Designer in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (forget the other WF webcasts, lots has changed now). I’ll be taking a quick tour of the new WF designer functionality, looking at both the sequential and Flowchart workflow models as well as creating a custom activity.
October 20 2009 Views: 1007 Rating: 4.0 (7 votes) Duration: 15:47
 
Tiberiu Covaci
In the third of a series of interviews, Tiberiu “Tibi” Covaci spends five minutes talking with Christian Weyer about WCF development, cloud computing and the future of technology. (Should we have censored Christian’s T-Shirt?)
October 18 2009 Views: 201 Rating: 5.0 (1 votes) Duration: 05:53
 
Zeeshan Shah
In the first of two videos, Zaashan Shan takes look at the BizTalk Server 2009 development experience and provides tips on improving productivity.
October 11 2009 Views: 275 Rating: 3.0 (1 votes) Duration: 40:13
 
Alan Smith
This webcast will take a detailed look at the Atomic Transaction shape in BizTalk orchestrations. The correct usage of the shape will be demonstrated along with some tips for reducing persistence and error handling.
October 4 2009 Views: 346 Rating: 4.5 (4 votes) Duration: 31:26
 
Alan Smith
In this webcast I’ll run through the deployment of a new version of the CloudCasts website. I’ll start by showing the project structure and how I have configures the application to use local or cloud based storage in the development phase. I’ll give you a few tips on hosting your Azure applications in IIS to speed up development. I’ll then run through the deployment of the new version of the site to a staging environment, and finally taking it into production.
September 13 2009 Views: 672 Rating: 5.0 (2 votes) Duration: 16:41
 
Alan Smith
A webcast looking at building basic and hierarchical data contracts in WCF. The DataContract and DataMember attributes will be used to transform an entity class into a data contract that can be serialized. The serialization mechanism will be demonstrated by creating SOAP messages from the data contracts. The use of ordering will be demonstrated, along with the use of generic lists for collections.
September 10 2009 Views: 390 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 21:18
 
Miguel Herrera
This webcasts takes a look at the WCF-Oracle line of business adapter in BizTalk Server 2009. It starts with a brief overview of the adapter, and then takes a walkthrough the basic functionality. The more advanced features of the adapter will also be discussed.
September 5 2009 Views: 407 Rating: 4.3 (3 votes) Duration: 42:41
 
Mark Brimble
This webcasts takes a look at the BizTalk Server HL7 Accelerator and demonstrates how it can be used in a BizTalk Server system in the healthcare industries.
September 5 2009 Views: 417 Rating: 4.0 (1 votes) Duration: 47:00
 
Mike Taulty
In this screencast we take a look at how we can create bitmaps in Silverlight 3 in order to display on the screen and discuss other possibilities for those bitmaps that might show up in the RTM version of Silverlight 3.
August 30 2009 Views: 282 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 11:51
 
Alan Smith
This webcast shows how the WS-ReliableMessaging standard can be used in WCF to increase the reliability of message transmission across unreliable transports. The Fiddler tool will be used to examine how WCF creates a reliable session, and how messages and message acknowledgements are transmitted across the wire. The effects of blocking messages will be examined with reliable messaging turned off and on, and with the ordered delivery options enabled and disabled.
August 30 2009 Views: 961 Rating: 3.4 (9 votes) Duration: 23:17
 
Alan Smith
In this webcast I will provide a short review of the book SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 by Richard Serotor.
August 16 2009 Views: 812 Rating: 3.0 (2 votes) Duration: 04:58
 
Alan Smith
This webcast will take a quick tour of the different projects available for developing WCF Services in Visual Studio 2010. The new declarative workflow based service templates will be demonstrated, along with some of the templates that were available in Visual Studio 2008. It will also provide guidelines on when the templates are appropriate to use.
August 10 2009 Views: 997 Rating: 2.0 (4 votes) Duration: 22:58
 
Brian Loesgen
Walks through the ESB Toolkit 2.0 Itinerary design process and tooling.
July 8 2009 Views: 1125 Rating: 4.4 (14 votes) Duration: 19:45
 
Richard  Seroter
A look at the ESB Toolkit 2.0 in BizTalk Server 2009.
July 7 2009 Views: 2118 Rating: 4.5 (40 votes) Duration: 35:56
 
Mick Badran
Using the SharePoint adapter in BizTalk Server 2009.
July 7 2009 Views: 1103 Rating: 4.5 (14 votes) Duration: 01:18:59
 
Daniel Moth
In the next version of .NET and C++ that ship with Visual Studio 2010, a new task-based programming model is introduced. In this short video you will learn about Parallel Tasks, a new debugger window that helps developers debug applications that use tasks. You will also get a glimpse at the task-specific features of the Parallel Stacks debugger window introduced in another video.
July 7 2009 Views: 455 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 14:34
 
Mike Taulty
A quick walkthrough of getting started with the Live Framework SDK.
July 7 2009 Views: 410 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 17:33
 
Alan Smith
The Windows authentication options of WCF will be demonstrated using a simple service based on the wsHttpBinsing and hosted in IIS 7.
July 6 2009 Views: 485 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 15:43
 
Kent Weare
A look at designing and implementing a highly available BizTalk Server 2009 deployment.
July 6 2009 Views: 1085 Rating: 4.3 (9 votes) Duration: 27:51
 
Thiago Almeida
A walkthrough of the main functionality of the WCF-SQL adapter in BizTalk Server 2009.
July 6 2009 Views: 1525 Rating: 4.1 (7 votes) Duration: 59:45
 
Brian Loesgen
As part of my M end-to-end presentation in Stockholm last week, I came up with a way to walk through MSchema, MGrammar, MGraph and Intellipad that went over really well with the conference attendees.
May 18 2009 Views: 614 Rating: 4.7 (14 votes) Duration: 24:17
 
Mike Taulty
A quick look at how we can build a simple, read-only .NET client against an ADO.NET data service.
May 16 2009 Views: 422 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 17:22
 
Stephen W. Thomas
Oslo is made up of a tool, a language, and a repository. This video introduces you to the M. M is the new language for models inside Oslo. To code in M, you use a new tool called Intellipad.
May 14 2009 Views: 421 Rating: 4.0 (3 votes) Duration: 15:43
 
Alan Smith
A look at Custom XSLT mapping in BizTalk Server
May 14 2009 Views: 734 Rating: 3.5 (6 votes) Duration: 21:41
 
Alan Smith
This webcasts focuses on developing custom activities for WF 4.0 and also at using the new WPF activity designer.
May 14 2009 Views: 489 Rating: 4.0 (3 votes) Duration: 26:32
 
Stephen W. Thomas
A look at the WCF Adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2
May 14 2009 Views: 573 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Duration: 12:28
 
Alan Smith
This webcast runs through the installation of the core BizTalk components in a multi server environment using Virtual PC images.
May 14 2009 Views: 620 Rating: 3.0 (2 votes) Duration: 27:38
 
Alan Smith
This webcast is the third in a series looking at the service aggregator pattern in BizTalk Server 2009. The other webcasts are Service Aggregator and Orchestration Performance.
May 14 2009 Views: 546 Rating: 4.0 (1 votes) Duration: 14:44
 
Alan Smith
A look at Basic HTTP security ad certificates in WCF.
May 14 2009 Views: 561 Rating: 5.0 (2 votes) Duration: 20:32
 
Alan Smith
Using transactions and parallel actions to increase orchestration performance.
May 14 2009 Views: 769 Rating: 4.5 (2 votes) Duration: 16:50