It has been long time coming but here it is: The 11th edition of the NServiceBus Weekly. Since the last edition the NServiceBus project has changed quite dramatically: It’s now hosted on a different source control service.

News

• NServiceBus’ source code has moved to GitHub! This is a change I personally like very much, excellent news!
• Project Changes – As usual, the NServiceBus team has brought us a great deal of new commits. For example, there has been changes to the extensibility of configuration sources. Click the link to find out more information.

Tutorials and Articles

• Getting Started with NServiceBus Part 9: Horizontal Scaling with the Distributor – Adam Fyles continues his great series of NServiceBus related tutorials. This time he takes a closer look to the NServiceBus distributor.
• Getting Colors in the log4net output from NServiceBus – Kristian Kristensen has posted a detailed tutorial on how to get colored output from log4net when using NServiceBus.
• NServiceBus: w3wp.exe Processes Crashing- If you’re having problems using NServiceBus in a web application this post by Jonathan Oliver may help you.

Community

• NServiceBus: Message level encryption – Interested in encrypting the NServiceBus messages and don’t want to use the WireEncryptedString? Read on to find out the alternatives.
• NServiceBus: GridInterceptingMessageHandler – Ever wondered what is “GridInterceptingMessageHandler”? Adam Fyles offers you the answer.
• NServiceBus appropriate for load distribution of periodic tasks – Udi answers to jlew’s question about using NServiceBus as a scheduled background worker.
• NServiceBus-Contrib Json serializer – It seems that Json serializer has been added to the contrib project of NServiceBus. I haven’t personally tried the new serializer but if you have, please let me know how it works.

Thanks for reading and please let me know if I missed something. This time we had more timeline to cover so it’s more possible than before that some interesting articles or news has slipped under the radar.

Got an interesting NServiceBus related link? Did I miss something? Link not working? Please, send mail or contact @MikaelKoskinen.

The next NServiceBus weekly is still coming even though it’s really, really late from the usual every-Wednesday schedule. But I’m on a sick leave, trying to get rid of long-lasting flu. The next release will contain all the news and articles from the last couple weeks.

I had to go through quite many Oracle scripts last week and one of them was giving the following error:

PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol “CREATE”

As it turns out, if you’re creating a trigger in your Oracle script, you have to include the ‘/’ character after it or you will get this error. Here’s an example of a broken script:

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum1">   1:</span> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER MY_TRIGGER

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum2">   2:</span> AFTER UPDATE OF DATA ON TABLE FOR EACH ROW

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum3">   3:</span> BEGIN

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum4">   4:</span>     UPDATE TABLE SET DATA=<span style="color: #006080">'Changed data'</span>

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum5">   5:</span> END;

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum6">   6:</span>  

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum7">   7:</span> CREATE VIEW MYDATA_VIEW AS...

But fixing this just requires one new character

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum1">   1:</span> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER MY_TRIGGER

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum2">   2:</span> AFTER UPDATE OF DATA ON TABLE FOR EACH ROW

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum3">   3:</span> BEGIN

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum4">   4:</span>     UPDATE TABLE SET DATA=<span style="color: #006080">'Changed data'</span>

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum5">   5:</span> END;

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum6">   6:</span> /

<span style="color: #606060" id="lnum7">   7:</span> CREATE VIEW MYDATA_VIEW AS...

Welcome! This is the tenth edition of NServiceBus Weekly. Hope you all had a good week.

News

• NServiceBus Updates – Udi Dahan has posted a new blog post where he outlines the latest developments going on in the NServiceBus. The highlighter features include WebSphere MQ and Azure support and the NServiceBus-Contrib gets mentioned too.
• Project Changes - Current revision: 1421. Great amount of commits since the last time. Much of the work done is related to the Azure support but there’s of course more. Browse to the SVN repository to find all the details.

Tutorials and Articles

• Getting Started with NServiceBus Part 8: Message Versioning – Adam Fyles has continued his excellent introduction series. This time he discusses message versioning and topic like backward compatibility.
• Azure Queue Storage support for NServiceBus – Goeleven Yves’ post is the place to go for the NServiceBus’ Azure-support related information. His post goes through the configuration and all the details required to get things running.
• Understanding the transactional behavior of an Azure Message Queue- Another good post by from Goeleven Yves related to the NServiceBus’ Azure-support.  This one contains much of the required background information about the remote queuing s
• Getting the NServiceBus-Contrib project up to speed! – This post highlights the details behind the NServiceBus-Contrib project.
• nServiceBus in n easy steps (really!) – protocollie has posted a long introduction to the NServiceBus. It starts from the theory behind the ESB solutions and then a working sample application is built in small steps.

Community

• NServiceBus-Contrib discussion group – NServiceBus-Contrib’s discussion group is the best place to go if you want to find more information about the Contrib-project.
• NServiceBus-Contrib – NServiceBus-Contrib project at the GitHub has gotten quite much new code since last time. Make sure to check it out.
• NServiceBus: specifying message order – keepitstupid’s question about specifying the message handler order has received many excellent answer, each containing a different approach for the problem.

Thanks for reading and see you again next week.

Got an interesting NServiceBus related link? Did I miss something? Link not working? Please, send mail or contact @MikaelKoskinen.

Welcome to this week’s NServiceBus Weekly. This time we have a nice amount of quality articles and posts so read on to find more details.

News

• CQRS, race conditions, and sagas – oh my! – Skills Matter and Udi Dahan are hosting a free event in London in November 1st. The topics touch NServiceBus from different angles.
• Project Changes - Current revision: 1399. Over ten new revisions last week. Highlights include: Many Azure related changes (for example 1396) and some changes related to the new header management (1397).

Tutorials and Articles

• NServiceBus: ASP.NET Permissions for MSMQ – If you encounter permissions problems when trying to run NServiceBus in an ASP.NET application, make sure to check out this post by Jonathan Oliver.
• Deploying NServiceBus in a Windows Failover Cluster – Excellent and throughout introduction on how to deploy NServiceBus in a Windows Failover Cluster written by David Boike. In his tutorial David shows how to configure NServiceBus distributor, two worker nodes and MSMQ in cluster.
• Manual NServiceBus Configuration – Johnllao continues to explore the NServiceBus, this time he takes a peek at configuring the bus manually.

Community

• NServiceBus callback failure – Scooletz has encountered a likely bug in NServiceBus callback features. Read on for more details.
• Integrating through FTP – Some good discussion on the question presented by Jimmy Bogard.
• How does NServiceBus handle transactions? – Read on to find more info on what NServiceBus will do if the delivery of message fails.
• Problem with .NET 4.0 version of nSB – Chris Nicola would like to share the same message assemblies between the .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0 clients. Hop in to read the interesting discussion.

Thanks again for those who have contributed to the NServiceBus Weekly by sending  me links or writing these great articles and posts. See you again next week.

Got an interesting NServiceBus related link? Did I miss something? Link not working? Please, send mail or contact @MikaelKoskinen.