August 2009 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Just got a note from Ewan Fairweather from the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team. He is presenting a TechNet webcast on the BizTalk performance tests him and his team have performed this year and their results. The webcast is happening in a couple of days...

I’ve added a new webcast on http://www.cloudcasts.net . This webcast shows how the WS-ReliableMessaging standard can be used in WCF to increase the reliability of message transmission across unreliable transports. The Fiddler tool will be used to examine...

A WCF question came up recently on StackOverflow about using a binding for a custom transport through configuration instead of code. My initial reply was that you needed all the right configuration classes associated with your binding so that you could...

Generally, it is not recommended to store passwords in the binding file and by default BizTalk administration UI clears it out when exporting binding to the xml file. But in development environment where you have automated continuous integration build...

I spent this weekend toying with Microsoft StreamInsight bits. I have a few blog posts planned for the next few days that tackle very specific CEP patterns but I figure it might make sense to start by highlighting some of the features I think differentiate...

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post is about an admittedly small, but I still think kind of nice, change coming with ASP.NET 4.0: clean, simple, web.config files.  You’ll...

Yeah! Pro BizTalk 2009 is now published and available. It was an interesting project to be involved with (even in just a small way). You can find it on Amazon now at http://www.amazon.ca/Pro-BizTalk-2009-George-Dunphy/dp/1430219815/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s...

We’ve just published Chapter 2 in the WCF Essentials series .  This new chapter is about WCF Templates and Tools. There are several Visual Studio templates available to help you to be more productive with WCF. In addition there are a few essential tools – some that are most useful as you are getting started, and others that you will use more regularly. In this chapter Michele Bustamante summarize the available project templates and when to use each; discusses some side-effects and workarounds;...

Richard Seroter talks here about feeding BizTalk events into StreamInsight or receiving events out as BizTalk messages. I spent a little time considering the possibility of using StreamInsight in conjunction with BTS messaging infrastructure by building...

We just published a new article: A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit .  In this article Aaron Skonnard covers all of the main features in the Starter Kit and demonstrates how to use these features in common REST scenarios with lots of samples.