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Found this nice to read article on MS Skyscrapr site. A very brief overview of architecture, what it is and where it is going.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/skyscrapr/bb426891.aspx
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Microsoft has just released the BizTalk Server 2006 and R2 Operations guide. The guide is available online from here : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296643.aspx and is also available as PDF,CHM or DOCX. More info can be found at this location:
http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2008/03/21/biztalk-server-operations-guide-is-pulished-on-msdn.aspx
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The 2007 Microsoft Office System is a powerful platform for building role based, collaborative, and analytical applications that extend the reach of Line of Business systems and backend applications to information workers across the organization. These Office Business Applications combine the powerful platform capabilities of the Microsoft Office System with the user familiarity of the Office Clients to surface line of business data, information, and processes to information workers directly within the business productivity tools, interfaces, and devices that they use to execute and complete their business tasks......
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc196391.aspx
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Jeff Moser wrote a good, interesting and entertaining article on the differences between experienced and inexperienced programmers, good design vs. bad design etc, etc. Although some parts might be "over my head" (might not be over yours), I still found this a cool read:
http://www.moserware.com/2008/03/what-does-it-take-to-become-grandmaster.html
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From the official site:
"SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) are highly scalable, on-demand data storage and query processing utility services. Built on robust SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies, these services provide high availability, security and support standards-based web interfaces for easy programming and quick provisioning."
Seems like a very cool concept. For more information go read here:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/dataservices/default.mspx
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Too often, there's a wall between a company's information-technology department and everything else. That wall has to go:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120467900166211989.html
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Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. The Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) 1.1 is now available for academic non-commercial use. The official site for Singularity can be found here:
http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/
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The BizTalk Pattern Wizard is an extensible tool to help you capture, share, and reuse your orchestration best practices. Very nifty gem:
http://www.codeplex.com/PatternWizard
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The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/cc303301.aspx
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I think this is an intersting piece of code, should anyone have to do the same convertion I just had to do. Basically I had to struggle with the UNIX Epoch date demon - converting it to and from dotnet. Here is the conversion code. Enjoy:
To System.DateTime:
double epocTime = Convert.ToDouble(stringtoconvert);System.DateTime dateTime = new System.DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
dateTime = dateTime.AddSeconds(epocTime);
string theDate = dateTime.ToShortDateString() + " " + dateTime.ToShortTimeString();
Back to Epoch:
System.DateTime theTimestamp = Convert.ToDateTime(date);
System.
TimeSpan span = new System.TimeSpan(System.DateTime.Parse("1/1/1970").Ticks);System.DateTime time = theTimestamp.Subtract(span);
int epoch = (int)(time.Ticks / 10000000);
If anyone has a beter way of doing this, please comment on this post
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A code snippet library has just been released by MS. You can search for snippets or even upload your own:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/?tapm=A39S11G05
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Below is a link to Microsoft's techical guides for BTS 2006 R2. All are in poster format and include Database Infrastructure and architecture.
http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/guides.mspx