Private key information from the smart card

The way of getting the private key information from the smart card when it supports Microsoft CryptoAPI

using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

usingSystem.Security.Cryptography;

public static X509Certificate2GetSignedCertificate()

{

X509Certificate2signingCert = null;

var myStore = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

var smartCardCerts = new List<X509Certificate2>();

myStore.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly);

foreach (X509Certificate2 cert inmyStore.Certificates)

       {

if (!cert.HasPrivateKey) continue;          

var rsa = cert.PrivateKey as RSACryptoServiceProvider;

if (rsa == null) continue; 

if (rsa.CspKeyContainerInfo.HardwareDevice) 

{

signingCert = cert;

myStore.Close();

return signingCert;

}

        }

   return signingCert;

}

Cool link for any BizTalk developer

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7204.biztalk-list-of-errors-and-warnings-causes-and-solutions-en-us.aspx

Multi-Part message – “use of unconstructed message ” – Error message when you try to build a BizTalk project

Thank you Sandro. You have saved my time.

http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/multi-part-message-use-of-unconstructed-message-error-message-when-you-try-to-build-a-biztalk-project/

EventRecord.FormatDescription() method returns nothing though it has data.

When using System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogQuery to read events from the Windows Event Log, the EventRecord.FormatDescription() method returns nothing though it has data.

When I set the Current Culture, it starts to working.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

Hope this will be helpful to anyone who comes across this issue.

BizTalk 2010 - Hot Fix

I have installed the following Hot Fixes on my BizTalk environment to get rid of the following issues.

Issue:

  After editing one of the complex orchestrations, I could not build the project.

  mismatched 'braces' '{}' error appers on the build output.

Solution:

It worked fine after installing the   FIX: Build operation fails after you modify an orchestration of a BizTalk Server 2010 solution in Visual Studio 2010

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2548064

Issue:

The following error came when deploying the changed BizTalk solution

Error saving map. Stored procedure returned non-zero result

Solution:

It worked fine after installing the FIX: "Error saving map. Stored procedure returned non-zero result." error message when you deploy the BizTalk Server 2010 applications in BizTalk Server 2010 Administration Console

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2673264

Windows Schdule Task does not support Clustering on Windows 2008 r2

Windows Schedule Task does not support clustering on Windows 2008 r2 Failover Cluster. I have used BizTalk 2010 Scheduled Task Adapter (http://biztalkscheduledtask.codeplex.com/) as an alternative for this

issues when creating WCF proxy

I have changed my WCF services and updated the service reference on my test project.
But I could not build the project after that. Then I tried to build it on my old machine and it was built. So this should be an environment issue. I had the following errors & warnings in the output.

Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:portType

Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference  

There are blogs which say I need to unclick the Reuse types in reference assemblies. But it didn’t work for me.  
Then I tried to run using the WCFStorm tool and I got the following errors

Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://localhost:8082/Service.svc'.
Import Error : Cannot import wsdl:portType
Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.DataContractSerializerMessageContractImporter
Error: Schema with target namespace


I found some blogs which says I need to repair ServiceModelReg & need to run aspnet_regiis.exe –iru. But anything didn’t help me.
Then I found the following link it says this is happening because of permission issues in c:\windows\temp
http://blogs.infosupport.com/unable-to-generate-a-wcf-proxy-using-svcutil-but-retreiving-the-wsdl-works/
Yes It was the issue of environment. Thank you for the above blog writer you have saved my time.