https://blog.romero.id.au/ Recent content on Ralph Romero Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/addingcustomwcfheadersbiztalk/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/addingcustomwcfheadersbiztalk/ You may have written a WCF client calling a SOAP service with some custom headers and are wondering how to the same thing in Biztalk. I’ll explain how to map what you would do in C# with how to implement it in Biztalk. Starting with a sample C# client var xmlns = "http://www.myns.com"; var usn = "myusername"; var pw = "mypassword"; var userHeader = MessageHeader.CreateHeader("Username", ns: xmlns, value: usn); var pwHeader = MessageHeader. https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/displayinternationalcharactersinfsharpconsole/ Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/displayinternationalcharactersinfsharpconsole/ When outputting non-English characters in an F# console, you may find that the characters are unrepresentable. For example printfn "あそこで買う" printfn "ليونيكود" printfn "медве́дем" printfn "Hồ Xuân Hương" gives you ?????? ???????? ?????´??? H? Xuân Huong To correct this, set the output encoding before the output System.Console.OutputEncoding <- System.Text.Encoding.Unicode printfn "あそこで買う" printfn "ليونيكود" printfn "медве́дем" printfn "Hồ Xuân Hương" then run the console. Click on the top left icon on the console window and select Properties. https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/applyingcsharpclosures/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/applyingcsharpclosures/ There are many articles that describe what C# closures are, but it can be difficult to understand where or why you should use them. I’ll walk you through an example which will give you a better appreciation of the where and why. I assume you have already read other articles which describe what Closures are and how to implement them in C#. Problem Statement We require a function that will give the word for hello in random different languages. https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/servingstaticwebsitefrombiztalk/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/servingstaticwebsitefrombiztalk/ It is possible for Biztalk server to act directly as a basic web server serving up dynamic content. Of course you should consider when you need a full featured web server, but for basic cases such as serving up information to internal users, this can be a really simple solution. The following shows how this is implemented. Create Receive Location Create a WCF-WebHttp request response receive location. Pipelines should be set to passthrough. https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/medicationforaddisonsdiseaseindogs/ Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/medicationforaddisonsdiseaseindogs/ Having a dog that has been diagnosed with Addison’s disease means a lifetime of medication twice a day. The main medication required every day is Florinef which at the vet costs $60 for 100 tablets which lasts you 25 days. There is an injectable medicine that does the same job as Florinef which only needs to be administered once a month which costs a whopping $160. The other medication which may be required is Prednisolone which is significantly cheaper but some dogs can manage fine without it. https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/rethinkingthealphabetorder/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.romero.id.au/posts/rethinkingthealphabetorder/ The first three letters of the alphabet are ABC. You can make the word CAB from it but it’s not a commonly used word. You may intuit that SAT might be better than ABC because you can make the words SAT and AT which are words that a two year old may know. Therein in my opinion is the inefficiency of the English alphabet order. Being able to combine letters into words as early as possible when learning the alphabet allows those letters to be put in context and reinforce the learning. https://blog.romero.id.au/about/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:37:58 +0530 https://blog.romero.id.au/about/ I’m a software consultant currently living in South Australia. I will write about things other than software.