July 2008 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Just finished the main writing stage for the REST book. Wow books are hard (people ask me all the time why I dont' write a book on BizTalk and or WF and sometimes I forget why - books are hard). Next week I'm teaching the R2 course for Pluralsight...

The 2008 installment of the Auckland Code Camp is set for 31 August 2008 (the day before TechEd). Registration is open! Sign up now to learn all you need to know about WCF, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, and much more. This year we will meet on 31 August 2008...

I recently wrote about problems with two-factor authentication and installing a certificate in the correct certificate store. Well, we’ve had similar problems, this time securing the transport link on a SOAP adapter, which resulted in the following...

Ok, in the past few weeks I’ve been travelling a lot. One trip was amazing, my honeymoon, the other was very unexpected and sad, and after that there was a business trip for a new project. Anyways, now that I am back and ready to blog again, I thought...

IBM has announced plans to buy ILOG for $360m, subject to antitrust scrutiny. ILOG specialises in rules-based processing centred on their JRules engine. Although it has been obvious for some time that ILOG was interested in being purchased, the news still...

Is anyone going there this year? Let me know.

RESTFul people want to control the URI of their services.  They focus on building a good information architecture that describes the resources their site provides.  Historically most web sites described resources in terms of files and paths in the virtual root of the web server.  But what if your resources are coming from a database and there are no files to speak of?  What is the URI of your service then? The default behavior of a RESTful web service  in WCF is that you...

This week, we've added two new articles for WF to the MSDN Online Library : an article by Jon Flanders to help choose between sequential workflows and state machines, and a major article by Michele Leroux Bustamante explaining the five most common WF deployment scenarios. Both articles have received great reviews from internal readers so far; and we're hoping that you find them useful as well. Additionally, we wanted to draw attention to someting we missed last week; Maurice de Beijer published...

We recently started the Connected .NET blog , where we’ll focus on the Windows Workflow Foundation ( WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) pillars of the .NET Framework. You definitely want to follow this blog which targets to make content more...

Announcing the Biztalk Adapter Pack Poster We are happy to announce the availability of the new BizTalk Adapter Pack Poster. This poster covers interoperability with Line-of-Business Applications using the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the Windows Communication...