WCF SVC – Page not found (Under Windows 2003 IIS 6)

I’ve a 64bit machine that has a web-service hosted under IIS6!. This starts throwing out errors one morning as I browse to my .svc location – “Page not found 404 Error…”  Solution: Check that the isapi.dll is pointing to v2.0 C:\WINDOWS\microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727\ It appears that an overnight .NET 4 installation was pushed out and hence all [...]

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BizTalk 2010: Debug with Parallel tasks in Visual Studio (VS) 2010

This post describes debugging on parallel BizTalk components (as in threads) running in VS 2010. With my current application, I submitted a message that would be routed to multiple locations. Before being routed, the file was being archived to a disk location (on the send component). While debugging, the editor would switch between threads (as [...]

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What constitutes a Guid?

Guid.NewGuid is always unique. MSDN describes it as containing several sections for a given number – like the timestamp, clock sequence and node. As the example, generating the GUID 8743428c-ef91-4d05-9e7c-4a2e856e813a consists of the following sections: 8743428c- Low field of the timestamp ef91 – Middle field of the timestamp 4d05 – High field of the timestamp [...]

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BizTalk 2010: The Messaging Engine encountered an error during the processing of one or more inbound messages.

  This happened because I was trying to write to the context of the incoming message in my pipeline. Although I built my solution and deployed it, the compiler would skip over the line where I was setting the context. Solution (Maybe!): Right click on the project, and hit Clean Gac your assembly and restart [...]

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VS2010 : Adding XSLT to Visual Studio 2010

I was struck with the proposition of using XSLT 2.0 for one of my projects. This requires a new parser (XSLT engine) as .NET 4 doesn’t come with one – out of the box. There are many XSLT 2.0 parsers available in the market, depending on your requirements and project budget constraints. In this post, [...]

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Utilities: Convert VB.NET code to C# (or vice versa)

This is a handy link that is sure to help us on our migration projects. Helps me a great deal on my SSIS projects 8) Link:  Click here

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Utilities: LinqPad… looks interesting

Here is an interesting utility that is promising productivity on LINQ projects Link: http://www.linqpad.net/ Well, you don’t have to!  LINQPad lets you interactively query databases in a modern query language: LINQ. Kiss goodbye to SQL Management Studio! LINQPad supports everything in C# 4.0 and Framework 4.0: LINQ to Objects LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework [...]

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Parsing an XmlDocument with XPath

While parsing them with XPath expressions, often you would require removing the xml namespaces. Sure you could use the namespace manager to do this – with the following code Option#1: It would be handy to construct a method that is a bit more generic than the above rather than knowing about the namespace as well. [...]

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VS 2010 – Latest and greatest

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net framework 4.0 – were both released in May 09 (beta). Generally it takes around 5 to 7 months for a full release to be launched… so most for us already keen to know about the latest and greatest in the full editor Some of the niceties you could expect are: Enhanced User [...]

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What is sharepoint ? High level introduction ..

Microsoft has divided the SharePoint capabilities into 8 categories (drawn below). Using these capabilities customers have implemented projects from collaboration to business intelligence (case studies).  Videos 1) SharePoint in Plain English 2) SharePoint Intro    Capabilities Details Top 10 benefits: Click here Case Studies     : Click here    Further Info To analyse it further, here is a [...]

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