July 2007 - Posts

AssemblyInfo.cs in template when compiling Guidance Automation Project
26 July 07 03:30 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
When you're working with an Guidance Automation Project and you have template for lets say, a class library project that contains the file properties\assemblyinfo.cs, make sure you set the build action to "Content" instead of "Compile", or else you'll Read More...
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Covast & R2
24 July 07 04:49 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
With the coming of native EDI support in BizTalk 2006 R2, many people thought Covast would not be involved in creating EDI solutions with BizTalk. Well, that's not what's going to happen. Covast adds the very specific standards, like EDIG@S, ODETTE and Read More...
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NCover
24 July 07 03:40 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
When testing your software, do you hit every line of code? Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but how can you make sure you do? Check out this tool, it'll show you the level of coverage of your code. Read More...
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BizTalk Documenter
23 July 07 03:50 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Many developers use this great BizTalk Documenter tool to create a CHM report describing their BizTalk configuration. Just a quick tip: when you get the error message " Unable to locate the help compiler executable ", go download the HTML Help Workshop Read More...
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Orchestration Profiler
23 July 07 12:03 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Have a look at this tool! BizTalk 2006 Orchestration Profiler creates reports on the level of coverage of the orchestrations when testing them. The reports show the percentage covered and some metrics, so you can easily identify performance bottlenecks Read More...
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.NET Magazine
20 July 07 11:21 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
A while ago I wrote an article on Failed Message Routing in BizTalk, it was published in the dutch .NET Magazine ( click ). An article on BAM of a former collegue of mine, Sander Schutten , was published in the same issue ( click ). Christian Siegers Read More...
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Software Factories
18 July 07 12:59 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Lately I've been working a lot on software factories, I found this toolkit to be really helpful. It combines GAT/GAX with DSLTools, so you can use the best of both worlds working towards a complete software factory concept. Read More...
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Behaviour Driven Development
18 July 07 12:49 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Behaviour Driven Developement (BDD) is an evolution of Test Driven Development (TDD), the methodology many developers nowadays use. BDD is very intuitive and fairly easy to understand for everyone involved in a software development project. There's a Read More...