January, 2005

This MOC style lab is the second one of the series of labs that I'll write about how to develop the BizTalk adapters. Especially, this one will show you how to develop BizTalk In Process File Receive Adapter in C#. The purpose of this lab isn’t to...

Alan Smith has published version 1.3 of the Bloggers Guide to BizTalk. Well done Alan.

I’ve just posted the January 2005 edition, sorry it’s so late. I think I’d better start trying to get them back to the start of the month again. I’ve been real busy with buying and selling apartments, packing, tidying, etc. and...

Just want to let everyone know that it is out and it is goodness. Woodgate has posted links to it as well as some information on where to download the .Net Framework GDR on which we have a dependency just in case you miss it in our docs. Check out his...

Recently the BizTalk Server exam has been released. Just do as I did and take it to get yourself certified! For more information, see Scott's blog . Another important milestone in the life of this great product: SP1 has been released TODAY!! Get it NOW...

Well as predicted, it's out, slipped out last night Redmond time, all complete and with extras. Be sure to read ...

BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 1 was released today. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f4a5ab9e-d599-4cc8-abdf-ae6ae68bac3d .

BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 1 was released today. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f4a5ab9e-d599-4cc8-abdf-ae6ae68bac3d .

Tests of SP1 prove promising, I have no adverse things to report regarding this, it is looking good. It has ...

Some time ago I published a utility on GotDotNet.com which dumps the temporary C# source code files generated by BizTalk during compilation. The utility works quite well, but cannot always dump all the files because it is unable to prevent BizTalk from...

(Note - this work has been updated for log4net 1.2.9. See the 'Tools' download in the Deployment Framework ) Early on when working with BizTalk 2004, it might be tempting to view the ability to track orchestration events (and the use of the orchestration...

Owen Cutajar blogged about " The 5 biggest mistakes almost all web designers make ". I'd like to add a site to the list... I recently tried to browse this page on the Sony Connect Website from a Windows 2003 PC, only to be informed that: We appreciate...

I’ve recently had to go through the process of having to find out how to achieve this so hopefully I can save other people a lot of time when it comes to creating their custom adapters. The Socket Adapter sample provided with the Biztalk Adapter...

The Solidsoft blogging community continues to grow! My colleague Richard Case has just started his blog . I know recently he's been doing some cool stuff with NAnt tasks for BizTalk deployment that have a lot of synergy with Scott Colestock's work and...

My thanks to Gregory Van de Wiele who raised some questions over my statements about call-back patterns in my recent article on Direct Binding. In attempting to dispel some myths, I was indeed adding my own!! I had failed to understand the implications...

In my existing project I wanted to be able to store my User Interface Process configuration data OUTSIDE of my standard application configuration file (i.e. appname.exe.config or web.config). I felt that I was going to have a significant amount of navigational...

Jesús Rodríguez has published a great article on a technique for invoking orchestrations from custom code using the same approach adopted by the Start Orchestration shape. This is the first time I have seen information on using the undocumented...

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