EF Code First Migrations is a great way to manage data model changes in .Net application. When publishing to Azure you can enable migration by checking the box: Execute Code First Migrations on the Publish Settings wizard. This will force migrations run on each application start which may not be OK for some. If there’s seed data in Configuration.cs ......

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While pulling some older project from Git using new Code Composer Studio (Eclipse) I tried to use Import Existing Project from Git option. The import itself worked and workspace recognized projects but build was failing with the error:warning #10211-D: cannot resolve archive C:/ti/ccsv5/tools/compiler/... >> Compilation failure ......

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I just finished reading new book on Microsoft BizTalk 2010 written by BizTalk colleagues Kent Weare, Richard Seroter, Thiago Almeida, Sergei Moukhnitski, and Carl Darski. There are many good books that explore core BizTalk features for beginners, intermediate, and advanced developers. This one stands out by the fact that it covers relatively less documented ......

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I took a shot at new (to me) certification exam for BizTalk 2010. I was able to pass it without any preparation just based on the experience. That does not mean this exam is a very simple one. Comparing to previous (2006 R2) it covers some new areas (like WCF) and has some demanding questions and situation to think about. But the most challenging factor ......

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This example is not covered in the ESB Toolkit samples and I bumped my forehead a few times while making it work. I thought it’d be helpful to save other fellow BizTalk'ers from headaches by publishing findings. I have been fun of dynamic generic messaging for quite a while and went long ways to avoid working with typed messages and static bindings ......

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I've been working lately on web application that uses Asp.Net MVC, WordPress and MySQL database. To communicate from .NET code to MySQL database using Entity Framework we installed MySql .NET Connector. It worked fine out of the box on developer's workstations but once deployed to hosted web server application started to throw following error: [NotSupportedException: ......

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Microsoft has released official hotfix related to the problem I described earlier (see: http://geekswithblogs.net/p... The knowledge base article and link to hotfix download are located at http://support.microsoft.co... ......

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Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 comes with multiple versions of the HL7 implementation. One of the typical integration tasks is to receive one format and transmit another. For example, system A works HL7 v2.4 messages, system B with v2.3, and system C with v2.2. The system A is exchanging messages with B and C. The logical solution is to create ......

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Repeating sequence groups can often be seen in real life XML documents. It happens when certain sequence of elements repeats in the instance document. Here’s fairly abstract example of schema definition that contains sequence group: <xs:schemaxmlns:b="http:... xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org... xmlns="NS-Schema1" ......

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In my project I needed to separate template generated entities, context in separate projects from the EDMX file. I’ve stumbled across this problem how to make template generator to find edmx file without hardcoding absolute path into the template. Using relative path directly (inputFile=@”..\ProjectFold... generated error: Error 2 Running ......

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If you experience sequence of errors below with BizTalk HL7 MLLP receive ports you may need to request a hotfix from Microsoft. Knowledge base article number is 2454887 but it’s still not available on the KB site. The hotfix is recently released and you may need to open support ticket to get to it. It requires three other hotfixes installed: · 970492 ......

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When developing pure messaging solutions (no orchestrations) in BizTalk often there’s a need to apply transformation on the message. BizTalk has out of the box functionality to execute maps on receive (inbound map) and send (outbound map) ports. Sometimes using classic BizTalk map is not the best solution, for example for complex transformations with ......

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When using WCF receive adapter with SQL binding in Polling mode please be aware of the following problem. Problem: At some regular but seemingly random intervals the application stops processing new requests, places a lock on the database and prevent other application from accessing it. Initially it looked like DTC issue, as it was distributed transaction ......

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BizTalk 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta 1 has been released. It's available through MS Technology Adoption Program at https://connect.microsoft.c... List of features http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... ......

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Generally, it is not recommended to store passwords in the binding file and by default BizTalk administration UI clears it out when exporting binding to the xml file. But in development environment where you have automated continuous integration build and deployment not having password in the binding file will prevent application from starting and CI ......

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