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Using WebSphere MQ (still MQSeries for most of us) and the related products abbreviated WPM and alike from Microsoft .NET applications can be painstaking. While there are enterprise application integration solutions and BizTalk Server can help quite a...

By connecting to MQSeries withing a .NET application, first it has to be done is to install MQ Series client at the machine which will host the application. To do that, you can obtain for example the trial version of WebSphere MQ. During installation...

What is SOA? Service orientation is a means for integrating across diverse systems . Each IT resource, whether an application, system, or trading partner, can be accessed as a service. These capabilities are available through interfaces; complexity arises...

Over the next months, we will work on providing more information on BizTalk 2006 R2 with a possible emphasis on BizTalk RFID. Besides of catering to our usual (English language) audience, we will try to help the German market in providing German language...

By sending of messages directly on the message layer, you will often have to create and manipulate the message itself. Unfortunately WCF does not offer a very powerful support for message manipulation. For example following code shows how to send the...

With a short delay to the expected date, Microsoft made available its public beta of the coming version of BizTalk Server 2006 R2. You have to get it at http://connect.microsoft.com . Please allow some time for the downloads to show up in your instance...

XML Notepad 2007 XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents. Windows SDK Update for Windows Vista The Windows SDK Update for Windows Vista provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries...

Sometimes you will have a trivial requirement to create just simple ASP.NET user control (control derived from UserControl), which should have a property of a collection type. Following example illustrates such control: public partial class ComboBoxControl...