sfeldman.NET
.NET, code, personal thoughts
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Building AssemblyInfo for BizTalk with NAnt
All assemblies deployed into production are versioned. My personal preference
is to achieve that with build scripts, ensuring that build number, code revision, minor and major versions are all inserted. AssemblyInfo.cs is the file that normally contains that information. I normally generate a dummy AssemblyInfo file in the build project and reference that from the project(s). This way, when building with scripts, we can generate dynamic AssemblyInfo.cs file and overwrite the link. The link is a one way link, nothing is updated in the build project. And since link is just a reference, nothing is modified from the repository point of view. NAnt has <asmInfo> task that does all the job. Except that for BizTalk its not straight forward process (of course, how could it be). -
When Whiteboard Is Not Available
You use wall :)
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Change MsBuild Script with NAnt XmlPoke
For automated deployments of BizTalk application, I am using MsBuild scripts packaged with compiled BizTalk artifacts. Build scripts are in NAnt. I wanted from NAnt build script to update MsBuild deployment script.
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Testing BizTalk Custom Pipeline
There are a few ways to test BizTalk Custom Pipelines out there. If you want automatically execute pipeline on input and verify it’s not exploding, you can leverage TestableSendPipeline coming along with BT projects.
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Automated Builds and Deployment for BizTalk
Automated builds are an essential part of Continuous Integration. Definition commonly found is
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Digitally Imported
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Sending Big Files with WCF
I had to look into a project that submits large files to WCF service. Implementation is based on data chunking. This is a good approach when your client and server are not both based on WCF, bud different technologies.
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Comparing Checksums
This is something trivial, yet got me to think for a little. I had two checksums, one received from a client invoking a service, another one calculated once data sent into service is received. Checksums are plain arrays of bytes. I wanted to have comparison to be expressed as simple as possible. Quick google search brought me to a post that dealt with the same issue. But linq expression was too chatty and I think the solution was a bit muddy.
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Presentation by Uncle Bob
Robert C. Martin gave a nice presentation on InfoQ, highly recommended.
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Food Inc. – Thoughts
Yesterday I watched Food Inc. documentary movie. And this morning, hours after watching it, on the radio they announce salads recall – Salmonella bacteria contamination. Wonderful. Another proof of house mass production (and not just food) can go and goes wrong. The movie is highly recommended.
