BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A few days ago I received an overnight email from Microsoft presenting me with an MVP award in BizTalk. Needless to say I am very excited and happy about it! It is not often that this kind of news is blogged about by one of the best in the field before...

A couple of days late, but I’m thrilled to announce that Microsoft has recognized me as a Most Valuable Professional again for 2009.  I’m always immensely honored to be counted among this incredible group of technologists.  MVPs are known around...

I’m looking at the XML capabilities of SQL Server a bit this week, and it reminded me to take another look at how the new BizTalk Server 2009 SQL Adapter (WCF-based) interacts with XML content stored in SQL Server. I’ve shown in the past ...

Delimiter Suggested Value Encoding Character Position Usage Field Terminator <CR> hex 0D Terminates a segment record. Field Separator | (0) Separates two adjacent data fields within a segment. Component Separator ^ 1 Separates adjacent components...

Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Event Category: None Event ID: 8706 Date: 20/08/2008 Time: 12:55:30 User: N/A Computer: IN12620 Description: Unable to log message "An empty batch was received with fr..." to the event...

I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town.  The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event .  I’ll be presenting Silverlight...

We have developed a HIPAA 4010 to HIPAA 5010 converter for use in Visual Studio 2008. After installing the converter, the steps to use the converter are as follows: Place the appropriate 5010 HIPAA schema in the same project as your current 4010 HIPAA...

The ten Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) hands-on labs were updated today on Microsoft download center for your coding enjoyment! These ten labs were initially posted when WF was new to the world and .NET 3.0 was hot off the presses. This past winter, the product management team worked with David Starr to get the labs converted to .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, make the manuals consistent, and bring the VB.NET code up par to follow the same best practices as the C# code. Once installed, you will...

Microsoft is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for participation in the “Dublin” Technology Adoption Program (TAP). “Dublin” rounds out the existing application server capabilities in Windows by providing additional features to help organizations manage and run Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) services built using .NET 4. The TAP is a program designed for customers who have specific business needs to get early access to...

Recently, i heard one of my colleagues enquire about MVVM model. MVVM stands for Model-View-ViewModel in WPF framework (also called as Onyx). Onyx is a framework that aids in the development of WPF applications that follow the Model-View-ViewModel pattern...