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If you are hosting a WCF service which utilises a COM component and is hosted in IIS you might, like I did, get confused when the calling client returns an error from the service complaining that the COM class is not registered (when you know it is!)

I’m playing with Python for a little pet project (more posts to come I hope) and I just love the way Python deals with returning non scalar values from functions

I’ve always prefer to use class based messaging in BizTalk. This is pretty straightforward and involves generating classes from schemas using the XSD.exe tool supplied.

If you’d have told me back in 2001 that I’d still be looking at VB6 code 10 years later I would have laughed in your face. But like the fabled hover skateboards I’m still waiting for (thanks a bunch Marty), the future has a habit of pulling out a few surprises when you least expect …