November 2009 - BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

As part of the “BizTalk In Your Industry” webcast series that Microsoft Canada is running, we are hosting a session tomorrow focused on the retail and manufacturing industries. I am very pleased to have supply chain experts “ QLogitek ” joining us to...

We ran into an interesting problem a couple of days ago and I decided it would be worth posting the solution in case anyone else runs into it. The scenario involves a Windows Service communicating with a BizTalk WCF endpoint which is hosted using WCF...

Hi all. I’ve always used Skydrive and this blog to host my ESB Toolkit how-to videos but I have had a number of people ask me to find a better place for them to live. Well, I am now pleased to say that we are moving them to the ESB Toolkit page on MSDN...

At my company, we highly encourage our architects and developers to communicate their design models through UML.  We have a standard set of diagrams that we regularly use to convey aspects of a given solution, including: Component diagrams for system...

Every application needs management. Ideally an application should provide two ways of management. First an administrator needs a (graphical) console to be able to do single or ad-hoc actions like changing configuration, responding to error conditions...

In the next few weeks, Microsoft Canada will be hosting a number of webcasts focused on integration solutions for specific industries. On November 26th, we will be focusing on solutions for Healthcare organizations. I will stress that these events are...

Prior to joining Microsoft, I can’t tell you how many times I heard “will there be a convergence between BizTalk orchestrations and Windows Workflow Foundation? When do I use what? Are BizTalk Orchestrations going away?”. Since joining Microsoft, I’ve heard it even more. In fact, it has got to be the number one question I hear, and I’m sure that’s also true for many of you. Last week at PDC 2009, Sriram did two things, he announced BizTalk Server 2009 (as I blogged about here ), but also, he demonstrated...

If you are interested in the BizTalk Business Rules Engine here’s one for you: we have recorded the Auckland Connected Systems User Group meeting from last Thursday by Jeffrey Chilberto on ‘A Practical Exploration of the BizTalk Business Rules Engine...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Following on from the sample for processing Excel uploads with nServiceBus , I have a comparable version using BizTalk on MSDN Code Gallery here: BizTalk and nServiceBus Excel Upload . The BizTalk (2006...

This week at PDC, the product team announced BizTalk Server 2009 R2, and previewed some capabilities of a version beyond that. This marks a continuation of the rhythm of releases every 18 – 24 months that we’ve seen over the past decade. Note that everything I say here is based on this first announcement, as is subject to  change as the product moves closer to release. Areas of enhancement that were discussed were:   Platform Alignment - support for the following products and technologies...