With a couple of colleagues, I have started a new project: AzureGames. I was inspired by the Microsoft Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games, and was started as a CodePlex site. We are currently flushing out the bugs for the basic platform. As we don’t have time to also write the games to host, we are looking for submissions so if you have a html5 ......

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I've added a new page to the Guide: Adding a New Proxy via Assembly. 

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I've just published my first CodePlex project: WCF Test Harness. This is a testing utility I have been working on for a while now and I thought it could be helpful for others. I wrote a short Overview and I plan on adding additional information depending on interest ......

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Here are some notes on customising exports created via the BizTalk Administration Export MSI file. Before creating the export, add any externally referenced .Net assemblies by adding them as a resource in the BizTalk Application's Resources folder: This will allow you to include the added resources in your export and will add them to the Global Assembly ......

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I had a surprise recently about the behaviour of the Table Looping and Looping functoids that I wasn't expecting and involves when the scripting functoid is evaluated. For those of you only interested in the comparison... In the following map, the highlighted scripting functoid will be evaluated once per Client element. In the following map, the highlighted ......

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The RootFolder attribute on the Batch element controls the folder of the item. This can be used to access a sub-folder. The structure is Lists/list/folder where folder is optional. For example, if the list being updated is Contacts and there are two sub-folders Work and Personal. To update an item in the Contacts list: <Batch OnError="Continue" PreCalc="TRUE" ......

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Just some notes relating to error codes received during Sharepoint integration using the UpdateListItems method of the lists.asmx service. A value in the update for a column exceeded the maximum column size. <ErrorCode xmlns="http://schemas.micro... text value A text field contains invalid data. Please check the ......

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In my schema file, I have a choice element that only contains a single child element. For example: The above example is actually a crude schema of the where clause of a Sharepoint call to Lists.asmx where in the case I have only 1 item, I want to send a where clause of <Where> <Eq> <FieldRef Name="ItemID"/> <Value Type="Text">99900</Va... ......

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Yes, another newbie to Sharepoint post; but it may help the others out there who are working through labs and exercises and not getting the "expected" results. If after you have deployed your new feature (e.g., workflow, web part, etc) you do not have it listed as an available content type, it might have been added successfully but not activated. To ......

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Here is a simple way to open a command window from within Visual Studio that is aware of the BizTalk Management Utility (bm.exe). I have found this useful while working with interceptor configuration files. This tip will add the Visual Studio Command Prompt to the Tools menu. Nothing too dramatic here, just a time saver when defining interceptor configuration ......

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