Interesting article on MSDN containing some architecutral advice on the “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) model for software delivery. Pretty interesting, though I’m not working directly in that space at the moment. I particularly like the discussion around hosting multiple tenants on the same services and dealing with the issues this poses. Also...
Here’s an interesting BizTalk 2004 bug we came across today. Essentially, if you try to keep your BizTalk installation lean and choose not to install certain features, then the packaged backup jobs fail because of a missing table in the database. The actual error message in the event log reads:...
David Chappell has just published an “Introduction to Indigo” on MSDN. Worth a read, and while on the subject, Clemens Vasters has a cute “Hello World” sample which demos the...
Have a look at Avalon …. By popular demand, the Avalon team has provided the November 2004 Avalon Community Technology Preview for the general public.? In addition, the team has provided a batch file to enable the Avalon project item templates for use in the beta of Visual Studio 2005...
Sam‘s posted a great article on MSDN re COM/.Net Interop where he goes into detail about what’s going on under the covers. I’m looking forward to the next installment...