Interesting tech stuff I come across day-to-day. Mainly around Biztalk and .NET 3.0

Fabulous PDC Infrastructure

Monday, September 26, 2005

I was quite amazed by the infrastructure provided to PDC Attendees. When I saw the email from CSDeveloper competition chair saying my DVD is corrupted and asking me to send it by email or another copy of DVD, I was in panic attack, that's my 5 months hard work utilizing all my weekends and if I can't submit it by next day, my entry is going to be invalid.

All I had is my laptop with all the files (around 20MB), funny bit is I left my power adapter in the hotel thinking I have enough power to check my email whole day.

Ok, now I need to do something drastic to get the files there, I borrowed a Dell power supply from a MS employee (didn't even notice his name!!), when I plugged my laptop into the adpater it came with a warning saying incompatible power input, one of my ex-collegue(Paul watson) said, its quite normal, so I just continued working.

I downloaded WS-FTP trial version (around 10mb)
Installed it, and started uploading my files to my file server (around 20 mb)
In the mean time I wrote 5 split emails(each containing part of the solution) and manage to replicate it.

I had a blank DVD in my bag, managed to copy all the files into it, tested it on Paul's laptop, went to business services desk in the LA convention centre and send it through FedEx overnight post.

So, I managed to send around 50mb of data and all the DVD activites within 30 minutes, I was really amazed.

Now, fingers crossed. Will wait and see where I'll be!!

Its all good fun.

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SQL Service Broker Management Studio 2005.

I been spending last few months in this project for the connected systems developer competition. After looking at some of the features of SQL server 2005, the one things that attracted me a lot as an Integration person is SERVICE BROKER, which helps your to build scalable, reliable, asynchronous messaging style communication between two SQL Servers (whether its local or situated remotely). Cool thing is SERVICE BROKER is included in the free version of the product SQL EXPRESS as well (there are few limitations, but for basic use its more than enough).


The one thing I felt missing was a cool tool to configure, manage, develop and administer SERVICE BROKER application. As a starting point I decided to build an "Object Explorer" for service broker objects (the one that comes with SQL Mangement Studio is pretty basic and doesn't allow you to do much).

Some of the key points I took before beginning this project

1. Must be very simple to use
2. Must be as close as to SQL Managment Studio.
3. Should look professional, I belive professional looks gives more confident to a product than anything else.
4. Should have a solid base to allow extensibility.

I haven't published the source code yet, but trying to form a community to build this project as a great tool for SERVICE BROKER apps.

To read more about what the application can do, read this document.

User Guide

Download the "How to" guide from
How to Guide

To play with the application, download it from GOTDOTNET and give me your feedbacks.
SQL Server 2005 JUNE CTP version is required
MSI Package


Saravana

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