August, 2005

I will be presenting 2 session at the upcomming Tech Ed 2005 on the Gold Coast. The sessions are on BizTalk: one on what is new in BizTalk 2006 and the other on BizTalk Business Rules.

It has been a big gap in my blogging, but sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to Auckland with the magic if iBurst seemed like time to do a bit of catching up. I will be doing 2 presentations at Tech Ed NZ, both on BizTalk.

Overview This tool is intended for developers and IT professionals to simulate load on a BizTalk Server. Using this tool, you can simulate load to instrument performance and stress against a BizTalk deployment. In addition, this tool may also be extended...

I wanted to test the new Mapper of BTS2006 and I saw that they added some new functoids ( IsNil (Logical), Nil Value (Advanced) and Assert (Advanced)) . Today I saw a post from Stephen W. Thomas about his experiences with the new Mapper. Read his blog...

Yesterday I received an email from Microsoft with a workaround of issue (bug) I mentioned earlier , see here . Indeed the error is a bug in Beta 1 and will be fixed in Beta 2. For a workaround follow the following instructions : Workaround: Customers...

In my last entry, I discussed some ways that can making working with binding files a bit easier. Here is another post in that same vein that addresses a common pain point... Un-escaping TransportTypeData One of the annoying things about binding files...

In my last entry, I discussed some ways that can making working with binding files a bit easier. Here is another post in that same vein that addresses a common pain point... Un-escaping TransportTypeData One of the annoying things about binding files...

With BizTalk 2004, it can be quite helpful to eventually maintain binding files as "source code". After a solution has reached a certain point of stability (where port definitions are not changing often), many projects will use the Deployment...

With BizTalk 2004, it can be quite helpful to eventually maintain binding files as "source code". After a solution has reached a certain point of stability (where port definitions are not changing often), many projects will use the Deployment Wizard to...

Version 2.6 of the Deployment Framework is now available (see the download links - the full download , core , and tools have all been updated.) Future work in this area will be about augmenting the already-great deployment story in BizTalk 2006! The release...

Version 2.6 of the Deployment Framework is now available (see the download links - the full download , core , and tools have all been updated.) Future work in this area will be about augmenting the already-great deployment story in BizTalk 2006! The release...

Today I dived in the new BAM Portal of BTS2006 Beta 1 and had it up and running BAM in about 1 hour. First of all I Migrate a simple project EAISolution (from the Labs of BTS2004 maybe u know it) and I had a BAM xls SalesManagerView.xls copied to my project...

This week I have time to look at the new version of BizTalk and I participate with the BizTalk 2006 Beta program. Im really impressed to see how this Beta 1 version is rolled out. I've got some problems to install Windows Sharepoint Services , but when...

BizTalk 2006 comes with a new handy tool called BTSTask. For more information about this new tool read here : http://blogs.conchango.com/matthall/archive/2005/08/02/1908.aspx Its the new version of the BTSDeploy.exe of BizTalk 2004 with much more new...

Microsoft is providing eight new application adapters forBizTalk Server that it has acquired from iWay software early in 2006. The adapters in question are: Oracle Db Oracle Apps SAP PeopleSoft Siebel TIBCO Rendezvous TIMCO JMS Clarify Scott Woodgate...