TechEd Brazil 2006

The TechEd Brazil 2006 was a great event. For the opening session a good introduce by Gabriel, O pensador and good performances between the presentations.

For the Brazilian public the high point was present the products in PT-BR. All here now how long takes to this kind of products gets his Brazilian version.

Other good point was the presence of Microsoft Vice-President, Microsoft Brazil President, and the most famous 3D Brazilian Designer Hans Donner. All they made a good impression in the event.

The Windows Vista presentation was very good and I believe, different for XP, everybody who can will migrated very soon. I'm already on Vista. On the next posts I'll show some tips to continues works fine, like in XP.

The most exciting demonstration was the Exchange 2007 and the PABX integration. Really amazing!

In the following days we had a lot of presentations, hands on lab and a lot of talk in the community lounge. I asked to the responsible of MSDN Brazil about Commerce Server Forum in Brazilian lands and she told me that we have to warm up this product here. As we know Commerce Server is present in some big player in Brazilian E-commerce but not enter already in the B2B, G2C and C2C as it was in B2C. But I'm still confident that this kind of product increase his production here, maybe even with some spefic features.

The other highlights was Office System 2007 Sharepoint, ASP.net Ajax, XAML, WCF. This products will make a big noise the 2007. For presentation, ASP.net Ajax are a present reality and XAML (WPF) will be a promisor product, in my opinion this depends most like Vista will be accept by the user.

WCF shows his weapons in TechEd too.

There were good days, congratulations Microsoft for the great event.

BizTalk Commerce 2K7 Adapter Troubleshooting

Yesterday I receive an email with this error in the Biztalk Environment of my client.

"..Failed submitting message to BizTalk. Message: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.."

The Biztalk Project, that throw an error, works to delivery Commerce Server Orders to a backoffice system. This error starts without a specific reason so I start to investigate.

First I execute the steps of Biztalk Adapters Troubleshooting, from Commerce Server Documentation (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa545867.aspx).

I find two occurrences : Abandoned Registry Entries and Last Run Times Written to the System Registry I verify the date changes to 1/1/1753.

To fix it I backup the registry and change the date to the actual date. After that I delete the Biztalk Project, install the project again and restart the Biztalk Service (Platform Setting > Host Instances > BizTalkServerApplication).

After that I check the receive locations and make sure that all Receive Pipeline are XMLReceive. (just because that make sense for this project).

The last check I did was the Regional Settings of the machine (Control Panel > Regional Language and Options), and I changed Portuguese(Brazil) to English (United States).

After that a simple reboot and the environment starts to run again.

See also the resume event :
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Commerce Server Orders Receive Adapter
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0

Description:
Failed submitting message to BizTalk. Message: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.. Stack trace: at System.DateTimeParse.Parse(String s, DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi, DateTimeStyles styles)
at System.DateTime.Parse(String s, IFormatProvider provider)
at Microsoft.CommerceServer.Adapter.Orders.OrdersReceiveEndpoint.get_TimeWindow()
at Microsoft.CommerceServer.Adapter.Orders.OrdersReceiveEndpoint.SubmitBatch().

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Because of the untraceable nature of this kind of error I believe that type of things we will get resolved in the first Commerce 2k7 SP1.

Good Luck!

Commerce Server Webcasts

A good way to start (or migrate) to a new product is watching an Web Cast. I always look for this to get my first impression or to get more details about specific areas.

Se also the Microsoft Commerce Server Webcasts on TechNet :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/comm/2007/webcasts.mspx

VStudio 2k5 SP1 Beta

The VS2k5-sp1 beta now available. The post in the MSDN's Site tells that they intend to ship the realease version in the next 3-4 months.

Visual Studio 2005 (SP1) Beta

The beta ends in October 30th.

Windows Vista RTM

So many news in the end of 2006.

Today Windows Vista goes RTM.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

Let's study... 2007 will be a revolution year!

.NET Framework 3.0 has been released!

Continuing the "News!, News!, News!", today the .NET Framework 3.0 has been released.

To download the components go to :

http://www.netfx3.com/blogs/news_and_announcements/default.aspx

• .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components
• Windows SDK for Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0
• Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation)
• Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF)

Office 2007 RTM

As you can read in Mohammad's Blog, the Office 2007
is going to be released. Like him I'm very excited with the "new" Sharepoint and the WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation).

Very soon I'll post some code samples about WWF.

Check those links:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2006/11/06/office-2007-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX100487411033.aspx?pid=CL100571081033

The Beginning

I decided to write a blog to share and discus ideas, talk about Microsoft products, software architecture and coding, coding, coding. To introduce a little bit of my profile, as you can see my name is Willian Leite and I’m writing from Brazil.

Here I’m a Solution Architect for Microsoft Products of my company. I’ve been work with Microsoft products since 2000 and the first one was Commerce Server 2000. Since then I worked with CMS, Sharepoint and all kind of family products take my special attention.

In my actual project I'm work with Commerce Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, Biztalk Server 2006 all under Windows Server 2003 R2. In Brazil we always have a good numbers of customization in this Microsoft Products, to make then fit to the Brazilian market. It is for that reason that kind of products look more like a framework then a regular “install-use” product.

Feel free and let's go!