April, 2007

At the SOA & Business Process conference back in October we annouced that Jon Flanders was building an awesome new tool, the BizTalk Server Pattern Wizard . Well, it's done. Actually, Jon posted it on CodePlex quite a while ago, I just forgot to blog...

Two news for the SOA Standards land: · The World Wide Web Consortium today released four SOAP 1.2 Second Editions as W3C Recommendations: Part 0: Primer , Part 1: Messaging Framework , Part 2: Adjuncts , and Specification Assertions and Test Collection...

There have been a couple of important, news-worthy events that have happened in the MS Business Process Management (BPM) / BizTalk space recently: Business Process Alliance (MS enhances / rounds-out its BPM story with partners): BizTalk Services (hosted...

BizTalk 2006 R2 release includes a scalable and extensible platform for development, deployment, and management of rich RFID and sensor solutions. We are happy to announce that we have also rolled out the BizTalk RFID blog. Please provide us with feedback...

Quick follow up to today’s post on production-ready BAM tactics. If you have folks accessing the BAM Portal, make sure they’ve installed the necessary components. Specifically, if they want to view aggregation (pivot tables), they must install...

Get started with Silverlight streaming Tim has the details. Check out his sample . Also Lee live blogged the keynote . Tags: MIX07 This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Please join me in watching the Mix keynote live now . The new Silverlight community site is now live! There is a lot of news and preview downloads on this site check out the http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ page to learn more. The preview of Cross Platform...

I recently went through the process of deploying a BAM model to our new BizTalk infrastructure, and learned a few things about BAM security and deployment along the way. Given that most BizTalk architects/developers probably play with BAM on a single...

I'm just leaving my room to go to the Mix keynote and I saw this post from Tim Sneath and I had to try out this app ... all I can say is WOW. Tags: MIX07 This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi All, Marty Wasznicky and Scott Zimmerman have come up with 8 amazing tips and tricks for Biztalk Programmers: 1. Always Use Multi-Part Message Types 2. Always Try to Design Orchestrations with Direct-Bound Ports 3. Always Use Separate Internal and...

Hi All, The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 is a preview release of the latest version of the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework 3.5 which is cent percent backward compatible, adds many new exciting features in several major technology areas; including...

I knocked out a brain-dump of some BAM best practices this morning for a colleague, it seems like a good thing to share more broadly. It's a starter for 10 and I'll refine it over time I'm sure, the book covers all of these things in far more...

I knocked out a brain-dump of some BAM best practices this morning for a colleague, it seems like a good thing to share more broadly. It's a starter for 10 and I'll refine it over time I'm sure, the book covers all of these things in far more detail as...

By the time I post this it will be midnight Monday morning the day that Mix officially kicks off. I see Scott Barnes is already telling stories about what we got up to last night... But what is a story without evidence (Scott is the one with two beers...

I've spent some time playing with the recent BizTalk Services CTP SDK (way cool stuff!), and ran into a weird error that perhaps others might run into: Sometimes, but not always, I would get an error when trying to use any of the BizTalk Services WCF...

A lot of water has flown under the bridge since we began our efforts a few years ago to build a feature rich, scalable RFID platform that would allow end users to create, deploy, and manage end-end RFID solutions and most importantly give the power of...

At RFID Journal LIVE! , the world’s largest RFID conference and exhibition, we are unveiling the covers off our ground breaking RFID platform, BizTalk RFID , and highlighting Microsoft’s commitment to the Connected Enterprise vision. At the event, we...

This document is published here because there is no way to publish images on forum. It's written primarily to help our support people, and we are publishing it to help troubleshooting problems with the server join process for Windows Home Server for Beta...

I spoke recently at Dallas Code Camp 2 about C# 3.0 and the new language features it contains. Most of the buzz on the net has been about LINQ, understandably, but as I've mentioned here before I really, really, dig extension methods . I've spent a good...

I am sitting down for the second day of a two day UX Summit in Vegas prior to MIX next week. We have been having many back to back half hours sessions which is difficult as the body tries to ajust to the timezone. It has been great spending time with...