September 2007 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID links

Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 RFID is starting to gather momentum on the internet. Anush Kumar from the Microsoft team manages a great blog on the subject. His latest post mentions two other blogs that are a “must subscribe to”: -Kalyan, also from Microsoft...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2007 2:30 PM by Connected Thoughts

Filed under: BizTalk, RFID, link, R2

BizTalk 2006 R2 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Better late than never, the BizTalk 2006 R2 Developer Edition is now on MSDN Subscriber downloads, currently getting ready to load it onto my new BizTalk 2006 R2 development Virtual Server Image. Very interested in repeating some of my WCF performance...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2007 2:39 AM by BizTalkBill's Ramblings

SOA tips

David Pallman from Neudesic has been blogging a set of SOA tips that most developers should consider as part of their SOA projects (via Sam Gentile ). Although the posts are titled WCF tips some of the principles are relevant to any Web Services/SOA implementation...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2007 4:08 PM by Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Filed under: Architecture, SOA, .NET J2EE interoperability, Web Services, AdapterWorx, Standards, Web Services Interoperability

Zero byte output

We occasionally have the need to generate a zero byte file, usually as a trigger file. The File Receive Adapter will "helpfully" delete any zero byte files given to it and write a warning to the event log. The basic solution is to create a new flat-file...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2007 11:09 AM by BiztalkBlogs.com

Convoy on a receive port

A pretty "basic" convoy problem, but I wasn't sure it would work. Now I am. A business process spits out a variable number of binary files. We need to transport the batch of files together in a convoy. At the end, we need to send a trigger file. We have...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2007 10:11 AM by BiztalkBlogs.com

Substrings in XLANG/s

I've seen posts from Microsoft and others, saying that XLANG/s doesn't (directly) support substrings in expression shapes. The advice is to create a helper object. Yes, but frankly I don't want to code such a ridiculously simple helper class and remember...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2007 10:02 AM by BiztalkBlogs.com

Threads, DB sessions, and throttling

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Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 9:52 AM by BizTalk Server Performance

BizTalk Ordered Delivery Gotcha

One of my colleagues recently lost a bit of work because of a tricky “gotcha” with messages going through an ordered delivery channel in BizTalk Server. For someone viewing suspended messages in the BizTalk Administration Console, there is...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 8:45 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk

IBM on ESB

Check out these two interesting papers regarding IBM’s vision ESB’s role in Service Orientation. · Why the ESB is a fundamental part of SOA · ESB-oriented architecture: The wrong approach to adopting SOA...( read more )

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 5:41 AM by Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Filed under: Architecture, SOA, Web Services, Standards, J2EE

Download BizTalk Server 2006 R2 RTM

The RTM bits of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 are now on MSDN Subscriptions ! Subscribers can download the developer addition in several languages. Congrats to everyone who helped make this happen! There are some sweet new features in this version of the product...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 1:04 AM by Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard

When CSC.Exe Generates a Different Size of Assembly From VS IDE

I struggled for the reason why CSC.EXE results in an assembly differently from VS IDE, because VS IDE generates an assembly of 20KB while CSC.exe compiles it in 8KB with the same source code. I checked the compiler options for the two compilers, but I...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 7:23 PM by Young's Software for Mere Mortals

Other BizTalk RFID'ers in blogosphere

As the interest in BizTalk RFID grows, something that I look forward to doing is pointing readers to great blogs on this platform as well as blogs of experts who are using BizTalk RFID to create innovative new applications - my hope is that there will...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 7:15 PM by Express the RFID in you!

Filed under: BizTalk RFID, Author : Anush Kumar

Back in the saddle

The BizTalk Server Performance blog has been a little quite of late, but all that is about to change. We have a new release out of the door in BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and the team is fired up to give our customers the best advice to squeeze as much as...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 6:19 PM by BizTalk Server Performance

Recent Analyst / Press coverage of BizTalk RFID

Some highlights from AR / PR coverage (if you missed them) 1. AMR’s coverage of BizTalk RFID ( Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2: RFID for Everyman ) 2. Manufacturing Business Technology - Microsoft touts new edition of BizTalk as low-cost solution for...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 6:17 PM by Express the RFID in you!

Filed under: BizTalk RFID, Author : Anush Kumar

BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM

Although with very little publicity (!?), BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM'd 2 weeks ago. This new (evolutionary) version includes a very interesting set of new features, including an RFID server , the ability to expose and invoke services using WCF, EDI support,...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 4:25 PM by João Pedro "jota" Martins

Filed under: BizTalk Server, Desenvolvimento, Posts in English

Scrum types a|B|C

Back from an hot summer, I wanted to post about an article posted two years ago on Jeff Sutherland's blog on Scrum: «Future of Scrum: Support for Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects» . I am by no means an expert of Scrum, but I've been...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 3:42 PM by João Pedro "jota" Martins

Filed under: Desenvolvimento, Posts in English, Arquitectura

Creative ZEN V Plus

Recently the time had come to upgrade my MP3 player. For Christmas I had gotten a Video iPod from my wonderful wife, but it was stolen a short time later from my truck and I've been without a portable MP3 player since then. Well a new client was suddenly...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 2:50 PM by Tim Rayburn's Blog

About Tim Rayburn

Giving in to the fact that every blog should be able to tell you something about it's author, this post will serve as a bit of introduction to me and give you a little bit of my history. My name is Tim Rayburn, and I am currently employed as a Principal...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 2:39 PM by Tim Rayburn's Blog

BizTalk: The Endpoint model depreciates the Physical and Logical Ports

One of the difficult part of BizTalk to understanding is a Port. Particularly I mean, Physical Port and Logical Port . Within BizTalk 2004 there are not such things as Physical Port and Logical Port. At first these terms started in several whitepapers...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 2:25 PM by Leonid Ganeline

Webcast - Introduction to C# 3.0

I've spent a lot of time this summer traveling to various events and presenting my talk "Introduction to C# 3.0" to people throughout the South Central area of the United States. Well, it pains me to say I'm but one man, and there are way way way way...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 2:18 PM by Tim Rayburn's Blog