January 2009 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Screencast: Using the Replicator activity

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up. In this session, I go into detail about how to use one of the more powerful control flow activities in the framework. I show how to use data to drive control flow with...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 8:05 PM by Matt's Musings

Filed under: Windows Workflow Foundation, Screencasts

Screencast: Working with Tracking Profiles in Windows WF

My latest screencast in the Windows WF developer screencast series has been loaded up. In this session, I follow up on my previous screencast where I covered using SQL Tracking Services and dive into how Tracking Profiles work and how you can create them...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 7:53 PM by Matt's Musings

Filed under: Windows Workflow Foundation, Screencasts

New Oslo SDK is live

Get it here . One note of caution - delete your Repository database first. I didn't and had to completely uninstall and re-install again - YMMV but at least you are warned :) Check out my new book on REST .

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 4:24 PM by Jon Flanders' Blog

Speaking at VSLive! San Francisco on Feb 25-26

I will be speaking at VSLive! San Francisco at the end of February, specifically on the 25th and 26th. I'm presenting the following sessions: Codename "Dublin": Windows Application Server What's New in WCF/WF 4.0 Web 2.0 + WCF Blog readers...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 4:24 PM by Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard

BizTalk 2006 R2 Exam available - 70-241

Certification for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is available, at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx . Apparently it came out last October.....anyone done it? let's go there! I'll post back shortly and let you know how I went.....

Published Fri, Jan 30 2009 1:00 PM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk/Insights, Training

Essential SharePoint Developer Tool: SPDisposeCheck

[ Via Paul Andrew ] Now here is a must have tool for every SharePoint developer that wants to make sure that his code isn’t causing any nasty memory leaks due to forgotten Dispose calls (typically on the SPSite and SPWeb instances)! The SPDisposeCheck...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 10:40 PM by Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Filed under: SharePoint, Development, developer, wss, moss, tool

BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification

In a recent internal discussion I was enlightened to the fact that there is a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 certification exam available. This exam is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx , so get going and be one of the...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 10:38 PM by BizTalk lessons from the field

Filed under: BizTalk, Training, News

BizTalk 2006 R2 X12 EDI Batching

I had a requirement to extract several thousand rows of X12 data from a back end database and package them up once a month into X12 EDI with a max of 5000 rows per Transaction Set and maximum 4 Transaction Sets per file. I found that there was no out...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 8:43 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

Microsoft's Annual SOA and BP conference - SOA meets Cloud

Today we wrapped up the 6 th annual SOA and BP conference here in Redmond. This was the 14 th stop on the tour which continues around the world thru April. Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote to kick off the conference and took that...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 4:52 PM by Development Unfiltered: From code, to cloud to comedy. - Steven Martin, CSD Product Management

Filed under: S+S, WCF + WF

Upcoming WCF/WF training in London

I'm teaching one of Pluralsight's signature Double Feature events in London the week of February 16th. Double Features are basically two four day courses jammed into a single 5-day week (extended hours). The topics this time are WCF + WF. Most...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2009 10:33 AM by Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard

Feedback requested: Planning on Enterprise Library 5 has started!

Planning on Enterprise Library 5 has started! See Gregori's blog for more information if you want your EntLib needs to be in the next release: http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/01/26/enterprise-library-5-what-s-on-your-wish-list.aspx !

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 10:50 PM by Random ramblings about Technology

Order Elements Even if They Aren't Present

I've come across the same situation twice, so time to blog about it. I have an EDI segment that can take 4 line procedure codes. The back end system contains the 4 procedure codes, but it is not guaranteed which order they will be populated or if...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 10:12 PM by Eric's BizTalk 2004/2006 blog

Setting up an HL7 Solution

Setting up an HL7 Solution HL7 Accelerator Overview As you might know, the BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 offers a great deal of enhanced messaging capabilities for the healthcare industry. Although it is offered as a separate download, it comes with the...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 12:28 PM by Blog BizTalk

Filed under: General, BizTalk, Biztalk Tutorial, HL7 Accelerator

BizTalk 2009 Beta Docs & BAM Guidance

Microsoft just published a very interesting an in-depth 86-page document about BAM, one of the most under-used features of BizTalk Server, “Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers”. You can download if here , and find more overview info about...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2009 3:32 AM by João Pedro "jota" Martins

Filed under: BizTalk Server, Development, Posts in English

Oracle EBS/DB Adapter Changes in Beta

As the Beta release for the Adapter pack approaches, here's a list of changes in the Oracle EBS/DB Adapters so that you can prepare for it: · Now support Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 · B ased on Oracle ODP.Net 11.1.0.7 Both adapters now _...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 9:48 PM by WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack

Filed under: Adapter Pack, Oracle E-Business, OracleDB

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Today we shipped the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate (RC). Click here to download it (note: the link just went live so if it isn’t working wait a few minutes for the server you are hitting to refresh). It works with both Visual Studio 2008...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 12:13 PM by ScottGu's Blog

Filed under: ASP.NET, .Net, Visual Studio, MVC

Slides for my Capabilities of BizTalk Server 2009 talk for ACSUG

Just a quick note that the slides for my talk on BizTalk 2009 on the 22/01/09 for the Auckland Connected Systems User Group can be downloaded from the Attachments section of this page: http://www.acsug.co.nz/Meetings/New-Capabilities-of-BizTalk-2009—Thiago...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 11:16 AM by Connected Thoughts - Thiago Almeida

Filed under: BizTalk

Microsoft Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Latest Magic Quadrants for Application Infrastructure

The latest round of research is out from Gartner, and they have positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant of all three Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants. The Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 8:30 AM by Development Unfiltered: From code, to cloud to comedy. - Steven Martin, CSD Product Management

Filed under: Pursuit of simple middleware

RFID 4W Range now Legal in Australia

Our Australian Govt. has been busy over Christmas by finally legalising RFID UHF Reader Frequencies and Power Output! Previously the 'work around' was to operate under a Scientific (Experimental) 'License' - these were controlled by GS1...

Published Tue, Jan 27 2009 3:57 AM by Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/...

Filed under: BizTalk/RFID

Configure BAM Portal Access

For those who deploy BAM activity definition using the Tracking Profile Editor, it may come as a surprise when denied access to the BAM portal......( read more )

Published Mon, Jan 26 2009 9:59 AM by Paul Wu on BizTalk Development

Filed under: BAM