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Many a times one may feel the need to trace ESB events when using itineraries. This will enable you to see how a message is getting processed by the ESB itinerary resolver and if something is going wrong there. The process of enabling this switch is quite simple and it involves the following: Tracing...

Scenario During recent years, I had the chance to work with many customers and I realized that one of the most recurring problems they usually experience is due to long start-up times: indeed, this is not a BizTalk specific issue, it’s rather a problem affecting any .NET application, regardless...

Overview As part of my work installing the ESB Toolkit 2.0 on BizTalk 2009 I have been encountering some significant traps in the configuration of VS 2008 Team Suite and ESB Toolkit 2.0. I have found that it is very important for you to install Visual C++ as part of the VS 2008 install if you [...]

Introduction Lately I have been working on building out some VMs for working with BizTalk 2009/ESBT 2.0 and for BizTalk 2010/ESBT 2.1. I am working on a project that is targeting BizTalk 2010/ESBT 2.1 but there is a feature we would like to use which is currently only compatible with BizTalk 2009/ESBT...

I am really looking forward to speaking at (and being at) the SOA and Cloud Symposiums next week in Berlin. This is my third year speaking at the SOA Symposium, co-located this year with the Cloud Symposium. I hope to share, and learn, a lot. I was going to start listing and linking to my friends and...

This post is a follow-up to the RTM last week of BizTalk Server 2010 . The BizTalk User Experience team has been REALLY busy putting together a ton of great resources. These are all live now, enjoy!   Learning: BizTalk Server 2010 Training Kit Video tutorials Working with BizTalk AppFabric Connect...

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything here about Windows Server AppFabric, so I thought I’d do a quick post about some great resources about the technology. I highly recommend both of these. White paper: If you’re new to AppFabric, or want a better understanding of how the whole thing works at an...

The BizTalk team announced today that the latest version of BizTalk Server, BizTalk Server 2010, has been released to manufacturing. It will be available for purchase starting October 1 2010. The Developer and Evaluation Editions are available effective today at the links below. For those of you that...

Introduction In the first article of the series, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using Dynamic Send Ports in a BizTalk application and in particular within a solution that makes an extensive use of the ESB Toolkit. We also talked about how to create custom services to boost the performance...

Microsoft’s Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team ( CAT) has launched a new blog focused on AppFabric (both Windows Server AppFabric and Azure AppFabric), WCF, WF, BizTalk, data modeling and StreamInsight. You can find the blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabriccat/ . If you read my blog...

For those of you that attended the “Real World SOA with .NET and Windows Azure”  TechEd session that John deVadoss , Christoph Schittko and I did last week, I discussed the following reference architecture:     I didn’t have time to do a demo/walkthrough during the session, but as I mentioned...

After a long effort, working with Thomas Erl and a very talented team of individuals, I finally got to hold a copy of the latest book I co-authored (and carry it around like a proud new father might) at TechEd in New Orleans. It’s real, and it’s here now! It is in-stock at Amazon. If you’re here at TechEd...

I’m really looking forward to presenting at TechEd North America 2010 on June 9 2010, and am honored to be co-presenting with John deVadoss (Microsoft, Director, Patterns and Practices) and Christoph Schittko (Microsoft, Global Application Strategist). John and I worked together on the SOA-Manifesto...

I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB configuration tool. They kept receiving a rather puzzle error messages which stated: “The type initializer for ‘EsbConfigurationTool.Helper’ threw an exception. You must have Microsoft ESB Guidance installed...

If you read my blog then you have an interest in BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, WCF, etc… That means that you would also be really interested in the virtual launch event coming up on May 20th 2010 (8:30AM Pacific Time). Details are below, the event site is http...

To complement the existing series of posters that show various parts of BizTalk’s architecture, there is now one available for the ESB Toolkit. You can get it here .

Yesterday, QuickLearn released their training schedule for the remainder of 2010. Due to increased demand, QuickLearn doubled their BizTalk Server 2009 course offerings including the new dates for the BizTalk Expert Series for ESB Toolkit 2.0 . Check out the calendar to see all upcoming classes!

On March 15th, students from around the world will be attending QuickLearn’s newly revised 3-day version of BizTalk Server 2009 ESB Toolkit 2.0 course . QuickLearn’s expert developers just added an entire third day of advanced hands-on training that teaches you how to build a complete end...

The AppFabric team hit another milestone today with the public availability of AppFabric Beta 2. Congrats team!!! Now, because I know there must be some confusion out there, AppFabric is a brand, as I blogged about here . I’ve been doing some posts here lately about extending BizTalk ESB to Windows Azure...

A new white paper was released a few days ago by Microsoft, written by MVP Jon Flanders, on the ESB Toolkit. It’s a well written paper that walks through the architecture, and shows examples, and serves as both an overview and a mini-tutorial. Great place to start if you want to come up to speed on this...

The San Diego .NET User Group will be hosting our first Azure day-long conference on March 6th. This first one will be more overview level, we’re planning at least one other which will be more focused and deeper for later this year, and then perhaps more after that. For this first one, we will be covering...

I was lurking around the ESB Toolkit forums yesterday, and got involved in an exchange with someone who was hitting the same roadblock to the Itinerary Designer that a lot of people hit: confusion with the model elements and extenders. Upon my first exposure to the Itinerary Designer it took me a week...

The webcast that Ofer and I ran last week “Improving Business Agility with the Enterprise Service Bus”  went quite well (at least that’s the feedback we heard from those of you who attended.) For those of you who couldn’t attend and those of you who just want to view this at a later date, the On...

This is the third post in this series. So far, we have seen: Post #1: Creating an ESB on-ramp that receives from Azure’s AppFabric Service Bus Post #2: Sending a Message from BizTalk to Azure’s AppFabric ServiceBus with a Dynamic Send Port In this third post, we will see how to use an ESB off-ramp to...

I am going to do a series of three blog posts (and accompanying videos) about how to integrate BizTalk and Azure. As you know, Azure is in the process of going live, and BizTalk can play a very compelling role bridging between on-premise and off-premise. This post shows two key interactions with the...