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		<title>MockingBird v1 RTM</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/mockingbird-v1-rtm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MockingBird v1 is now formally released. With the squeeze in available time for personal projects, it’s taken me nearly 6 months since the beta and only recently did the site see any check-ins. There’s quite a few updates, and enhancements to the suite. Actually the beta was pretty stable with hardly any bugs that needed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=236&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To DAL or not to DAL</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/to-dal-or-not-to-dal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do BizTalk consultants need to care about Data Access Layers? Does a BizTalk solution really need a DAL?&#160; These are the questions that I’ve been mulling over in the past few weeks. Let me explain.

There are a couple of places where a BizTalk solution encounters a DAL. The first is where the DAL acts as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=235&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSCF.blue v1 RTW</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/wscf-blue-v1-rtw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little late in announcing this. WSCF.blue is now formally released to web as v1. Although its only been out 3-4 days now we&#8217;ve crossed over a 100 downloads already. Whew. Looks like a lot of folk were waiting for this release  
Christian Weyer has blogged about the release. I would also like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=232&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSCF.blue &#8211; Paste-As-Schema</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/wscf-blue-paste-as-schema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WSCF.blue now has a new feature called &#8220;Paste-As-Schema&#8221; (which takes inspiration from the REST starter kit&#8217;s Paste-As-Type). Alex explains the new feature in detail in his post.
The MSI has now been updated to version 1.0.4. It is still formally in Beta-2. It also includes a few bug fixes in the original Beta-2 (1.0.3) release. Please [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=230&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSCF.blue Beta-2</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/wscf-blue-beta-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WCF]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beta-2 of WSCF.blue is now available.
The big feature of this new beta is the standalone Data Contract Generation and we have also put in some other fixes and addressed some outstanding issues (as well as rolling up fixes since the last beta).
The feature list is as follows. The &#8220;More Information&#8221; links point to posts on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=228&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My first year at MCS</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/my-first-year-at-mcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday (the 18th Aug) marked my first year at Microsoft Consulting Services (UK). I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. Years ago, I used to wonder how it would be to work in MCS and dismissed the idea as too high to aspire to and yet here I am after a full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=225&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSCF.blue &#8211; Updates</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/wscf-blue-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there&#8217;s been a few things happening on the WSCF.blue front. We&#8217;ve had some excellent feedback and also some feature suggestions, so all that has been rolled up into the install package. It&#8217;s still Beta-1, but the MSI has been updated to v1.0.2.
The main changes are
(1) the option to format the soapActions when setting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=223&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MockingBird@SBUG</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/mockingbird-atsbug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biztalk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK SOA BPM User Group (SBUG) is holding a series of mini-meetings over the next few months. These are short live meetings / webcasts. I&#8217;m delighted to be presenting my web-service mocking tool , MockingBird at the next mini-meeting to be held on the 29th July.
I will be discussing how MockingBird assists and simplifies integration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=220&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BizUnit 3.1</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/bizunit-3-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/?p=218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BizUnit 3.1 is now released. (Actually its been out for over a week). There are a few bug fixes in this release and most notable is the addition of the following steps that Bram Veldhoen contributed.

BizTalkSteps/ExecuteMapStep
BizTalkSteps/ExecuteReceivePipelineStep
BizTalkSteps/ExecuteSendPipelineStep

The Pipeline steps use Tomas Restrepo&#8217;s Pipeline Testing Library.
I had originally planned on incorporating Bram&#8217;s steps into Extensions as I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=218&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WSCF blue: Beta-1</title>
		<link>http://santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/wscf-blue-beta-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>santoshbenjamin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WSCF-blue, the WCF successor to the popular WSCF (Web Services Contract First) tool is now available in its first beta release at CodePlex. I&#8217;m delighted to be a part of the team working alongside guys like Christian Weyer, Buddhike De Silva, Edward Bakker and Alex Meyer-Gleaves.
If you aren&#8217;t familar with the tool, basically WSCF provides tooling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=santoshbenjamin.wordpress.com&blog=1749013&post=212&subd=santoshbenjamin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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