Author Archives: Maxime Labelle

Hosting BizTalk WCF Send Adapters in your Custom Application

The BizTalk Adapters for WCF is a collection of several adapters that are designed to make it easy to create BizTalk applications that communicate with WCF-based services or line-of-business applications. It ships with five physical adapters, corresponding to predefined WCF … Continue reading

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Déployer une Machine Virtuelle SQL Server 2012 sur Windows Azure

This article has been written in an effort by the Windows Azure France team to coordinate the writing of tutorials and how-to guides for various Windows Azure features and technologies. This guide is a direct translation in french of the … Continue reading

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Microsoft® MVP Integration 2013

It is with great honor and pleasure that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the third consecutive year. This year marks the change in name from my previous expertise around “BizTalk”, to a more broad and general … Continue reading

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Prise en Main du Cache sous Windows Azure

This article has been written in an effort by the Windows Azure France team to coordinate the writing of tutorials and how-to guides for various Windows Azure features and technologies. This guide is a direct translation in french of the … Continue reading

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My Review of the Microsoft Surface for Windows RT

Ever since Windows 8 has been announced to the world back in September 2011, I have been very excited and interested in the direction that Microsoft is taking, in order to virtually regain a foothold in the mobile industry – … Continue reading

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IISConfigurator stopped working

In the past few months, I’ve worked on a large project involving the design and implementation of a SaaS offering powered by Windows Azure. The learning curve was quite steep but I think I have become more confortable over time … Continue reading

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Creating Strongly-Typed C# Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Assemblies with Visual Studio

The Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Framework is a high-performance logging subsystem of Windows available to kernel-mode and user-mode developers for instrumenting mission critical and large scale applications. Starting with Windows Vista, ETW is the foundation for instrumenting many components … Continue reading

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Unit-Testing Custom Inline Functoids with the CodeDOM

As far as extending the BizTalk Mapper, custom inline functoids are probably one of the easiest ways. This particular types of functoids are what I called design-time functoids in the sense that they are only required to be made available … Continue reading

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Preserving Input Sequence Order when Aggregating Debatched Messages

In a recent project, Jérémie wanted to improved one BizTalk solution where messages are debatched upon reception, processed independently and aggregated again before transmission to downstream processes or application partners. This is sort of a classic Scatter-Gather pattern. The catch, … Continue reading

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Session TechDays – 2012 : Mettre en Oeuvre une Plateforme d’Intégration et de Gestion des Informations de l’Entreprise (EIM) avec SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services

Warning: this post is about my contribution to the Microsoft TechDays 2011 in Paris and is therefore written in french. Pour la deuxième année consécutive, j’ai le plaisir d’animer une session sur la dernière version de SQL Server 2012 Master … Continue reading

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