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Unable to refresh the BizTalk Group Hub
I have occasionally gotten either of the following errors in my BizTalk Administration console, and am then unable to refresh the BizTalk Group Hub: "An instance of the FreeThreadedDOMDocument class...
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Yay, we’re still relevant
Just incase you haven’t read this amongst the other 7394 blog posts today, Microsoft have confirmed the next version of BizTalk Server 2006 R3 2009. Here’s the official Roadmap page. Looks like...
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“Filtering” a document
Just a quick lesson learnt from a recent project, as I know I’m going to need to do this again. Filtering down an Xml document in a map based on the existance or value of an element or attribute. For...
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Calling custom stored procedures using CodeSmith
Calling a custom stored procedure using the .NetTiers template in CodeSmith couldn’t be easier. You just make sure your procedure uses the standard naming convention of _{TableName}_{CustomMethodName}...
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Unlocking a file from TFS
Inevitably somebody on the team goes away on holidays and forgets to check everything into TFS (guilty, as charged!) There’s no facility to unlock somebody else’s files through TFS Explorer, so we have...
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Adding a Sql user that already exists
Occasionally I’ll need to copy a database over to my dev machine in order to be able to work offline. USE <Target_Database> EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Update_One', '<Server_User>',...
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Debugging BizTalk instances – which one to attach to?
A good hint from Michael. Determine the Process Id of a specific BTNTSVC.exe instance using the following command line: tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq btsntsvc.exe"
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Essential plugins for Notepad++
I really, really like Notepad++ as a drop-in replacement for the standard Windows Notepad. It’s fast, light-weight, can open just about any file format, regardless of encoding or byte-order marks. And...
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Replacing an existing TFS user workspace
I recently ran into a situation where I had “inherited” a laptop from a previous developer on a project. This laptop was on the customer’s domain, and had been configured for source control using Team...
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Add context menu item to Visual Studio
Here’s a nifty way to add a ‘Run in Command Prompt’ context menu item to the Visual Studio solution explorer....
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