July, 2009

Yeah, I just gave a name to the next version. Who knows what it’ll actually be? Anyway, a BizTalk discussion list I’m on starting down a path talking about “little changes” that would please BizTalk developers. It’s easy...

Naming convention for the BizTalk solutions Version 2.0, 2009-07-30 1 How to use this document To accommodate this document for the specific solution: · Create the real names in Appendix or create a separate Dictionary document. See Instructions in Appendix...

I’ve been through many integration projects and I think now I’ve found a product more complicated than BizTalk. For the last 6 weeks internally we’ve been ‘rolling out’ (more like dragging through the mud) an OCS/UM setup – it now finally works!!!! (Inbound...

The ASP.NET team just released the first public preview of ASP.NET MVC Version 2.  You can download it here . Today’s preview works with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008, and can be installed side-by-side on the same machine as ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (meaning they...

Over the past several months, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the concept of service virtualization. Service virtualization is an emerging trend in the SOA landscape that focuses on providing a common infrastructure for building and managing a complex...

Although I spend most of my development focus on WCF, I’ve become more and more intrigued by the possibility of using ASP.NET MVC as another framework for building RESTful services – this is especially compelling when using XHTML for your resource representations...

Maybe you have decided WCF is the right technology for your next project because it has the power, productivity, and flexibility you need. But you might be a little nervous that your team will be able to get up to speed quickly and make the right design choices in applying WCF to you project.  Or maybe you just used WCF successfully for you last project, but wonder if there are things you could have done better. Either way, you will want to check out the new series of articles that we are releasing...

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  The BizTalk Server 2009 RFID Operations Guide has hit the streets! The BizTalk 2009 Operations Guide was made available last week, and yesterday Microsoft have also released its RFID counterpart, with 108 pages worth of BizTalk RFID goodness, with...

I’m happy to announce that we have two new BizTalk 2009 courses available for instructor led training: BizTalk Server 2009 Fundamentals and SOA and BPM Fundamentals with BizTalk 2009 .  The BizTalk Server 2009 Fundamentals class is for .NET developers...

Rama, one of my colleagues in the CAT team has just shipped the BizTalk Server 2009 RFID Operations Guide. Rama worked for two years as a Feature Program Manager on the V1 release and joined the CAT team just under a year ago. He knows RFID inside and out and this guide represents comprehensive documentation on how to actually run it in your environment. Everything that Rama wrote he has personally tested to ensure it is the optimal technique. This is an absolutely must read: The BizTalk Customer...

Recently, I was working on a support incident where the customer have modified 837I HIPPA schema by adding a child node under DTP segment. But, while we tried to validate an instance against the schema at both design time and run time, we will get error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”. Below is the error thrown by EDIReceive pipeline at run time. Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Server 2009 EDI Event Category: None Event ID: 4097 Description: Fatal error encountered...

In case you missed it, the HIPAA 5010 beta (for BizTalk Server 2009) is available to the public at the Microsoft Connect site. You can get it here . If you’re in healthcare then you probably know that HIPAA 5010 is a government-mandated initiative for healthcare exchanges. If you’re a BizTalk person who works in the healthcare space, then you want to check this out as it will be very important to you. If you’re not in healthcare, well, you probably don’t care :)

The next ACSUG meeting is set for the 12th of August at 6:00pm at Datacom, 210 Federal Street downtown Auckland. Register here. Presentation: The introduction of cloud computing marks a significant change in the IT industry. Offering scalability, flexibility...

Book “SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009” by Richard Seroter, review Questions: Who is the reader of this book? What is the level of the reader? How good is the book structure? I think reader should be a seasoned BizTalk developer. It should not be...

The Live Mesh adapter is part of the recently released BizTalk Azure Adapters SDK 1.0 July CTP . It was first shown at TechEd 2009 North America by Danny Garber . But as someone who didn’t attend the conference, it passed me by. It didn’t surface for...

Hi all Just to let you know, I am now listed on http://www.biztalkblogs.com along with lots of other cool BizTalk bloggers :-) -- eliasen

Great news, a new version of the BizTalk Operations Guide was just released. I strongly encourage all BizTalk folks to take a look through this, it offers LOTS of great guidance, covering everything from planning through monitoring. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee308947(BTS.10).aspx

I am not sure if the war over ‘ which product is better ’ will ever be over, but the price battle sure has been won: WebSphere TX BizTalk IBM Passport Advantage Express Microsoft BizTalk Server Pricing and Licensing Overview Microsoft sure has made it...

As you might know Microsoft have recently revealed two new BizTalk 2009 editions for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Here are more details about them from the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2009 two weeks ago (July 13th 2009): ENTERPRISE...