Reflections on three days at Tech Ed

This is my third day at Tech Ed 2008 in Barcelona, the breadth of the technologies and languages that we as .Net developers now need to at least understand and preferably master to some degree is enormous. I believe that developers will need to specialize more explicitly on certain technology areas to remain productive in the future. It has been impossible to master all of Microsoft’s products for many years now but up until a […] Read more »

BizTalk 2006 MQSC Adapter Encoding Solution

Working with Websphere MQ and the MQSC adapter is quite new for me and I have been struggling with a couple of problems which have been very difficult to find solutions to. One of our main issues has been getting the correct character encoding of outgoing messages to MQ. BizTalk would output the message with the correct encoding (using a file send port to verify) and it looked like the messages on the WebSphere MQ […] Read more »