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In this post I will provide few example which shows how to exchange messages between devices and service. In all examples, we will assume that service is implemented in .NET for Windows System32 (today known as desktop) and device is implemented in .NET for Windows RT. Please note that there are many...
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Cross-Platform Push Notifications Windows Azure Notification Hubs is a new cloud service which enables you push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows and Windows Phone with few lines of code. Notification Hubs is the service build on top of Windows Azure Service Bus, which dramatically simplifies notification...
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If you have noticed that the Workflow Manager 1.0 and Service Bus Server 1.0 do nor show up in the Web Platform Installer you should check few things. Following picture shows that Cumulative Update, WF-Tools and WF-clients are listed in WPI, but workflow Manager and Service Bus are missing. First of...
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These days we detected some harmful information message in the Service Bus event log. ServiceBus Inner Management Channel has faulted. Type: PartitionId:0, ContainerId:1.ree When something like this happen, you should hope that this was a temporary issue, which somehow has been automatically covered...
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Imaging you are receiving some events which have to be used to activate new workflow instance Wi of some workflow type W. As long the workflow completes faster than new events arrives, successive workflow activation will execute ordered. That means for each event Ek, workflow instance Wk will be activated...
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If you want to implement the long running business process or in other words to automate the business process, the Windows Workflow Foundation is definitely great choice. In addition you might probably want to use the host like AppFabric and Workflow Manager. Assuming that you are SharePoint guy or you...
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As probably known the cloud messaging platform in Windows Azure is based on Service Bus technology. Few months ago Microsoft has published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 which provided the same API for Windows RT. Unfortunately this library has been deprecated. The new WinRT library for Service...
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When working with Service Bus, it is very useful to make a usage of Service Bus Connection String to create SB-entities. For example, following line of code can be used to create the QueueClient instance which can be used to send and receive messages: var client = QueueClient.CreateFromConnectionString...
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This post should give you a quick overview of new features of Service Bus. Note that I didn’t describe the MessageBrowse Feature , because it is already well described by other SB team colleagues. MessagePump When receiving messages from queue, you have been responsible to implement some kind...
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I'm very happy that 01. Mai is on the front. This is my favorite Barbie Queue day. But till than one more public conference only. WinDays is probably after Tech Ed the biggest developer conference in Europe. Traditionally I will give few talks there. As always I will talk about things which...
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Here is the preliminary agenda for MSNetwork upcoming session next week. There are few important things which will unfortunately not be covered in this session. But if you really want to dive deeper behind Steaming and Push technologies, I would recommend you to read this post.
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When working with Workflows, which running in Workflow Manager (SP devs call it usually SharePoint Workflow) on-premises or in Office 365 you might get following error: Expression: DateTime.Now.ToString() " Property access conversion to an activity is not supported for property 'CurrentDomain'...
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The new BizTalk Server has as usual many improvements, new adapters and it focuses now additionally the cloud model. Cloud related strategy includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities as well as Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities. To get a good feeling about IaaS offering for...
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When working with Service Bus MessagingFactory the easiest way to setup the SB-API is to use connection string. In a case of Service Bus in Windows Azure, the connections string can be obtained directly from management portal: However when working with Service Bus for Windows Server you will have to...
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The first Cumulative Update for Workflow Manager and Service Bus or formally known SharePoint workflow is online. which actually includes Suspend/Resume of instances support. (It will also be available via WebPI soon). WF Manager : KB article (KB2799754): here Download page: here Service Bus:...