Mike Diiorio
Nov 10 2011
AppFabric Service Bus Relayed Messaging
by Mike Diiorio
Picking up where we left off in the Service Bus Introduction, this post will walk through a Relayed Messaging sample in order to highlight how the AppFabric Service Bus could be utilized to build Hybrid applications. In addition to the basic sample, I will also demonstrate how to provision a BizTalk Server 2010 Receive Location on the Service Bus.
Tagged: AppFabric, Azure, BizTalk, Cloud, enterprise architecture, Microsoft, Service Bus, SOA, WCF
Nov 02 2011
AppFabric Service Bus Billing Lesson
by Mike Diiorio
Before I publish the next post on Relayed Messaging, I thought I would take this opportunity to share some lessons learned yesterday about the AppFabric Service Bus billing. While I was preparing to present on the Azure Service Bus at some recent Code Camps, I decided to create a different Service Bus namespace for every session in an effort to tailor the code to the audience. I selected the pack of 5 connections for each of the namespaces rationalizing that I would not go over 5 concurrent connections at any point during any of my demos. The scenario I did not completely think through was that by provisioning the namespaces a few days in advance of my sessions and running several tests to ensure I was hitting the right namespace, the cycles had a much larger impact on my overall monthly allowance than I expected.
Tagged: AppFabric, Azure, Cloud, enterprise architecture, Microsoft, Service Bus
Oct 30 2011
Azure AppFabric Service Bus
by Mike Diiorio
I recently had the honor of delivering a presentation entitled "Build Hybrid Applications Using the Azure AppFabric Service Bus" at the Richmond and Philly.NET Code Camps. Virtually no one in either of the sessions had any previous experience with Windows Azure or the components of the AppFabric. In this series of blog posts, I will expand upon the presentation in an effort to introduce the AppFabric and take a deeper dive into the code and practical application of the Service Bus messaging patterns.
Tagged: AppFabric, Azure, Cloud, enterprise architecture, Microsoft, REST, Service Bus, SOA, WCF
Sep 27 2011
Using the ExecuteReader Operation of the BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server
by Mike Diiorio
Earlier this week I participated in a discussion thread on LinkedIn regarding the usage of the WCF SQL Adapter in BizTalk Server and I wanted to summarize some of my thoughts and the recommended best practices regarding this particular scenario.
Basic Requirement
Using the WCF SQL Adapter in BizTalk, we need to issue a select statement against multiple tables in SQL Server through the use of INNER JOINs.
Jul 15 2011
BizTalk is not dead
by Mike Diiorio
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. ~Mark Twain (or BizTalk Server)
For the past 5 years or so, various technologists have been predicting or even proclaiming the untimely demise of Microsoft BizTalk Server. Usually these predictions come in the form of blog posts espousing the new hotness whether it was a new product from Microsoft or a competing product claiming it was a better middleware solution than BizTalk. Oddly enough, the chatter ramps up the loudest shortly after Microsoft releases a new CTP of technology X that may be tangentially related to an existing product like BizTalk. The problem with all of the proclamations is that they never seem to come from the Microsoft Product Development groups or BizTalk MVPs. I am not an MVP, but I do consider myself to be plugged in to what is happening with BizTalk. With that in mind, I would like to briefly take a look at the current state of BizTalk's life and put an end to the urban legend.
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