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BizTalk,Oracle: ORA-24777: use of non-migratable database link not allowed

When using the WCF Oracle Adapter I was getting the following error message 'ORA-24777: use of non-migratable database link not allowed' when I want to execute a stored procedure.

ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio: MSDN Event - Scott Guthrie - Part 1

Yesterday I was attended at the talk from Scott Guthrie in Brussels. It was an interesting technical session about all the new features within .Net Framework 4.0, Silverlight 4, VS2010, ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

The final agenda for the event was as follow:

13:00 - 13:30: Welcome and registration
13:30 - 15:00: Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4 Web Development
15:00 - 15:20: Coffee Break
15:20 - 17:30: Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta
17:30 - 18:00: Q&A with Scott Guthrie

Silverlight: Menu disappearing after Silverlight application

When implementing a carousel with Silverlight on a webpage the menu was disappearing behind this Silverlight application.

By default the Silverlight application have its own rendering window useful when displaying high definition video content or complex animation.

Silverlight, C#: Cross domain security error

When trying to read an RSS feed within my Silverlight application I was getting a security error exception.

The reason for getting this security error was that by default unauthorized connections will not be allowed to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, DNS Rebinding attacks and Reverse tunnel attacks other then the host where you want to connect to.

BizTalk, Windows: After restarting BizTalk host instances services stayed disabled

We have discovered that after a restart the BizTalk host instance services stayed disabled even when the startup type is set to automatic.

The problem is that the BizTalk host instance service has a dependency with the Enterprise Single Sign-On Service which is not starting quickly enough. Because of this the BizTalk host instance services will not start.