KB5005076 and 32-bit IIS crashes - Anti-Malware interference!!! 13. September 2021 DeanMay@phidiax.com Phidiax Technology, WCF / Services / AppFabric / IIS (0) After installing KB5005076 on Windows Server 2012 R2, IIS application pools which are set to allow 32 bit mode begin to crash, writing BEX errors (Buffer Overflow Exception) to the event log, referencing either w3wp or regsvr32 as the faulting process. [More]
BizTalk BTDF: Backfilling Port Binding Masters for BTDF Using Environment Binding Export 27. May 2020 DeanMay@phidiax.com BizTalk / Enterprise Service Bus, Phidiax Technology, .Net (0) Using BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) to create installers for BizTalk applications helps make the deployment much easier. we've setup a tool that can take in the Environment Settings File Generator, the environment name, and an exported environment binding file. [More]
PayPal Developer Portal : Seeing Hidden Message Details and Call Contents 18. January 2019 DeanMay@phidiax.com Phidiax Technology (0) Getting around the "hidden" ability to see your PayPal API request and responses when the request is not successful. [More]
SSRS: How to Deal with Custom Fonts and Their Ligatures in Sql Server Reporting Services 28. December 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology (0) SSRS PDF Rendering and the issue of font substitution table items properly rendering, and how to get around it! [More]
How to Manage SSIS Configuration and SQL Agent Job Setup to Read From Multiple Configuration Files 5. December 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology (0) Using SQL Agent to run SSIS with a custom configuration: a naming gotcha may have you using an unexpected configuration. [More]
BizTalk Server: Consuming your Business Rules (BRE) from SQL Reporting 29. October 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com BizTalk / Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology, .Net (0) Making SQL Reporting Play by YOUR Rules - Using the BizTalk Rules Engine from SSRS. [More]
BizTalk Server 2010 to 2016: Upgrade Issues - WCF SQL Adapter and NULL Handling Differences 22. May 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com BizTalk / Enterprise Service Bus, Phidiax Technology, .Net, WCF / Services / AppFabric / IIS (1) How to get around the WCF SQL Adapter handling of NULLs post BizTalk 2010 without having to rewrite all maps. [More]
SSRS: Stopping PDF Font Embedding ... Temporarily 28. March 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology, WCF / Services / AppFabric / IIS (0) SSRS and PDF Exports generally play nicely together to generate a quality printable document. To reduce PDF size, you can choose to not embed fonts. Here's how to do it on a one-off basis. [More]
SQL Azure: DataContext Error : The context cannot be used while the model is being created 25. February 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Cloud / Azure, Phidiax Technology, .Net (0) What else can cause a DataContext to error when being accessed besides thread and initialization errors? Bad models of course! [More]
Using the Microsoft Enterprise Library Validation Block in Azure Pre-Compiled Functions v1 20. February 2018 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Cloud / Azure, Phidiax Technology (0) A primer on how to implement the Enterprise Library Validation Block (v6) in a pre-compiled Microsoft Azure Function. [More]
How To Run SSIS Packages on Azure Data Factory, with Logging to Application Insights 27. December 2017 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Microsoft Cloud / Azure, Phidiax Technology, .Net (0) Running SSIS Packages on Azure Data Factory while Using Application Insights to track SSIS Events. [More]
Using the Microsoft Enterprise Library Validation Block in Azure Functions v1 10. November 2017 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Cloud / Azure, Phidiax Technology (2) A primer on how to implement the Enterprise Library Validation Block (v6) in a Microsoft Azure Function. [More]
Microsoft Power BI and Azure Application Insights: How to Authenticate with API Key 10. October 2017 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Microsoft Cloud / Azure, Phidiax Technology (0) Authenticating Power BI to Application Insights using and API Key instead of Microsoft Azure Account. [More]
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): How to Justify Text (Part 2) 4. October 2017 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology, .Net (9) How to fully justify text in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). [More]
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): How to Justify Text (Part 1) 28. September 2017 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology, .Net (2) How to fully justify text in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). [More]
BizTalk - Business Rules Engine (BRE) - Why Doesn't My Policy Work, It Used To!?!? 21. November 2016 DeanMay@phidiax.com BizTalk / Enterprise Service Bus (0) How to fix: BizTalk error - "Some previously selected parameters are no longer valid, and are automatically removed from the list." [More]
SQL SSIS Editor Error - Method not found set_DataPreviewTimeout(Int32) 17. November 2016 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Business Intelligence, Phidiax Technology, .Net (4) After installing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for VS 2015, SSIS Package editing for source components Fail (Method not found set_DataPreviewTimeout(Int32)) This blog provides a fix. [More]
How To Use Azure Automation, Runbooks, Scheduler, and Powershell for ELMAH XML File Maintenance in Azure Web Sites 1. April 2016 DeanMay@phidiax.com Microsoft Cloud / Azure, Phidiax Technology (0) How to utilize Azure Automation, Runbooks, Variables, Scheduling, and Powershell to manage ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) logging errors from MVC websites. [More]
Open Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) - Build for Visual Studio 2015 21. July 2015 DeanMay@phidiax.com Phidiax Technology, .Net, Service Oriented Architecture, WCF / Services / AppFabric / IIS (0) Visual Studio 2015 ready - Web Service Software Factory WSSF by the Microsoft Standards and Practices group for contract-first development, modeling, and practices. [More]
Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) Thread Safety - Using AsParallel + List<T>.Add() Returns Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object 1. June 2015 DeanMay@phidiax.com Phidiax Technology, .Net (0) PLINQ (Parallel LINQ) for large data operations to automate threading returns "Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object" due to Thread Safety if not using ConcurrentBag. [More]