Posts Tagged: Development Tools

SQL Database CRUD Stored Procedure Generator

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I am often tasked with creating Create, Read, Update, and Delete (also know as CRUD) stored procedures in SQL. While researching online, I have found that there are many tools available out there. There is only one problem with the majority of these tools, they are either ridiculously hard, if not impossible to customize. Now,…
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Visual Studio Themes Site

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As much as I love Visual Studio, I am not a huge fan of the default theme. Something about staring into a lightbulb on high bright all day that makes me think it can’t be too healthy. Whenever I can, I change my theme to a darker one. Previously this meant heading out to google…
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Hotfix for BizTalk 2009 / Visual Studio 2008 Integration issues

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If you have spent any length of time working with BizTalk  server 2009, chances are you’ve probably come across number of issues with Visual Studio 2008 integration. For instance, project references between BizTalk projects raises unexplainable design-time errors in your orchestration files. These errors sometimes go away mysteriously if you recompile or resave associated files. Very annoying…
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BizTalk HL7 Advanced Pipelines Released

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Last week, we presented at MSHug and we wanted to give something back to the community. So, we have our first release of the BizTalk HL7 ToolKit. This release contains some advanced HL7 pipelines for pre-processing of HL7 messages  and auditing. I will be posting additional details shortly. The toolkit is at http://biztalkhl7toolkit.codeplex.com

BizTalk Video Tutorials

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As many times as I have read through the MSDN tutorials for BizTalk or scanned through my BizTalk development books, sometimes it is just nice to sit back and watch a video. I came across Cloud TV today from the BizTalk Developer Center. It looks like Alan Smith has created a new video tutorial site….
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BizTalk Tools

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I get asked pretty frequently what tools that I use when doing BizTalk development. Surprisingly, there are quite a few available. Here is a list of the ones that I find myself using the most often. Let me know if you have come across anything else that didn’t make it here. Administration BizTalk Documenter Creates…
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