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Solution Architect, Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft UK
Windows Workflow Foundation - Where does BizTalk fit in?
The last paragraph of my Windows Workflow Foundation posting was me being deliberately “devils...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/15/2005
Windows Workflow Foundation
It’s been a long time coming! We announced Windows Workflow Foundation at the PDC today which means...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/14/2005
Extending Visual Studio Team System
I had to spend some time figuring out some of the Team System extensibility points recently for a...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/01/2005
BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1: Download!
We have just posted Beta 1 of BizTalk Server 2006, visit here and register to gain access to the...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/26/2005
Daleks
So, I was in a shop with my 3 year old daughter the other day and there was a picture of a Dalek on...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/21/2005
Blogging, and writing a book chapter
Blogging always seems to take a backseat when things get busy, but worry not I’ve got a pile of...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/21/2005
Large Message Interchanges
Kevin Smith has finally started blogging again - I've been harassing him for a while now. He's...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/27/2005
BizTalk and Hyper-Threaded Processors
This great new article from the BizTalk Performance Blog has reminded me of a potentially nasty...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/17/2005
In Seattle
I'm in Seattle for a few weeks now working with the BizTalk product team which is shaping up to be...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/12/2005
BizTalk Performance Blog
The BizTalk team have just started a new blog focussed on Performance and it looks fantastic, they...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/12/2005
PSfD UK Team Blog!
Hi, I’ve just launched our new PSfD Team Blog, we’ve got around 20 consultants in our team so there...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/12/2005
XML is like...
I didn't spot Morgan's witty retort :-) Morgan has a thing about XML - or "angle brackets" as he...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/12/2005
XML is like....
Fantastic! This made me laugh J
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/09/2005
Get BizTalk 2004 SP1 Installed!
If you haven’t already done so – please consider moving your development and live servers to BizTalk...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/09/2005
Handy BizTalk Service WMI Scripts
I’m a nightmare for actually getting around to writing scripts to save me time; I have a list as...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/09/2005
BizTalk and the mysterious blue screen
A customer of mine has seen a few isolated incidents over the past year where their Windows Server...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/09/2005
SOAP Adapter Error Messages
Hi, Again in the scalability lab recently we were seeing a number of errors being raised by the SOAP...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/07/2005
EIF vs Enterprise Library
Following on from my previous posting on Logging and Instrumentation and to address some confusion...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/07/2005
Web Services: Concurrent Connections
The issue of concurrent outbound Web Service calls being throttled to two per endpoint comes up...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/07/2005
Logging and Instrumentation
Over the years I’ve helped to architect, develop, review, and troubleshoot various solutions ranging...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/07/2005
Blog, What Blog?
I’d be amazed if I’ve got any readers left considering I haven’t posted for an age! I’ve had plenty...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 03/07/2005
BTSnapshot
I’ve been on holiday for the last 3 weeks so have been slow on the uptake of this tool; in case you...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 01/05/2005
MSN Deskbar Rocks!
In case you haven’t spotted it, Microsoft released a Beta version of MSN Deskbar this week. It’s...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 12/17/2004
BizTalk 2004 Performance
I’ve been involved in a number of BizTalk 2004 Performance / Tuning engagements recently, it seems...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 12/14/2004
A goldmine of useful BizTalk Widgets
I kind of knew there was some BizTalk stuff up on GotDotNet but never realised how much. If you’re...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 12/14/2004
Domain Specific Language Tool Support
As I mentioned yesterday, our tools support for Domain Specific Languages (DSL) has now been...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/26/2004
Virtual PC 2004 SP1
I’m a bit slow posting this but Virtual PC 2004 SP1 has been released; this fixes the highly...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/25/2004
We're Hiring
Shameless plug J My team is hiring, if your interested check the links below: Current Open...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/25/2004
Traveling and Software Factories
I know – there’s been a distinct lack of blogging recently, my excuses are that I’ve been in Seattle...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/25/2004
Bloggers Guide To BizTalk
Alan Smith has taken the initiative and produced this fanstatic Bloggers Guide to BizTalk. He's...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 10/04/2004
Calling a .NET Assembly from Orchestration with Schema Types
There I was today pointing at a customer at a past blog entry on this topic – when I realized I’d...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/29/2004
New Bluetooth Mouse
I recently splashed out on a new Microsoft Bluetooth mouse, very nice and I (foolishly) just...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/20/2004
Team System Sample Projects and Documentation update
There is a VSTS documentation update here which provides a pre-release form of the VSTS specific...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/03/2004
Installing Visual Studio Team System
The Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) CTP build is now up on the MSDN Subscriber downloads site....
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 09/03/2004
Seattle
I touched down in Seattle yesterday; I’m out here for a week for some Visual Studio Team...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/30/2004
Looping around Message Elements
I had loads of fun a few weeks back with coming up with some options inside BizTalk on how to...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 08/30/2004
BizTalk Core Engine Blogging
In case you haven’t already spotted it, The BizTalk Core Engine team have a blog – The...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/02/2004
BizTalk Deployment Gotcha
Over the past month or so I’ve been putting together some fairly extensive BizTalk training...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/02/2004
Kevin Smith has a blog!
Kevin Smith has just created a blog, he joined MCS in the UK a few months back and is a mine of...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 07/02/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Team System Walkthroughs
Some walkthroughs and sample projects for TS are available here – Looks like they should have...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 06/14/2004
Installing BizTalk Server 2004 with SQL Server on another machine
I’ve seen so many problems with customers installing BizTalk Server 2004 and having the SQL...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 06/03/2004
New BizTalk Whitepapers
I’ve been on holiday so catching up – In case you haven’t already seen these...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 06/03/2004
Visual Studio 2005 Team System
As you’ve probably already spotted, The Visual Studio 2005 Team System (aka Burton) was...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 06/03/2004
BizTalk Server 2004 MSDN Articles
I’ve been thinking about writing a MSDN article and have some ideas for topics based on the...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 05/17/2004
Handy BizTalk Debugging Tip
So, you’ve got Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) to look at the messages and orchestrations...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/29/2004
Posting Messages Back to the Message Box - Again
Ok, everyone wants a copy of the sample, so I’ve found somewhere to store files and it’s here My...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/19/2004
Posting Messages Back to the Message Box
I’ve been thinking about a problem for a few weeks and managed to figure it out last week, the...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/18/2004
BizTalk Overload
Anyone would think I’m some form of BizTalk specialist at the moment, I’ve got a few...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/18/2004
BizTalk 2004 Documentation available for download!
For those of you who have already installed BizTalk 2004 you’ll have found that the supplied...
Author: Darren Jefford Date: 04/01/2004