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When a busy developer is running under tight deadlines, every instrument that helps increase productivity would be in high demands. Visual Studio 2010 with Power Tools is a heaven for .NET developers but developers would always ask for more and it’s natural. We have recently come across a good tool that could help BizTalk developers save precious time so that it can be spent elsewhere whether it’s that another important feature, that last-minute bug or that delicious cup of strong Italian...

In case you have for some unfathomable reason missed the posts by Brian, Jon, Mick, Richard Steef-Jan and Yossi, I would also like to point you to the recently launched Windows Server AppFabric CAT Team Blog. It combines posts from some of the most...

I just got the news my BizTalk Performance Optimization session was approved for Tech·Ed: Topic Information Primary Track Application Server & Infrastructure Session Type Lunchtime Session Session Title BizTalk Server Performance: Configuring BizTalk...

Well as TechEd 2010 draws to a close this year in Australia, I had a great time getting away from it all and certainly experiencing a couple of firsts. For me this was one of the better TechEd’s I had been to – the sessions were a little light on, but...

As you might know the standard edition of BizTalk Server has a limit for the number of applications you can deploy. The BizTalk licensing FAQ states: “BizTalk Server 2009 STD may be the best option; however, BizTalk Server 2009 STD is limited to five...

Just wondering how many people actually do dynamic versioning of their BizTalk projects with Cruise Control or Team Build. The reason I ask is you dont see that many things on the forums or blogs about it. I find that it can be quite challenging at times...

Well folks, after a recent week of performance issues running a SharePoint 2010 VM image (40GB) on Virtual Box (v3.0.14 & v3.2.8) Olaf (a fellow Breezer) and I sat down and put our thinking caps on as how to improve things. - Hyper-V wasn’t an option...

Recently I was in Redmond for the BizTalk VTS Summit, with a bunch of colleague BizTalk experts from all over the world.  During one of the discussions we had, a question came up about the fact that it seemed that to host HTTP endpoints, it is required to have IIS as the real host configured. After my suggestion that is was perfectly possible to bypass IIS in this process, it looked that quite a number of attendees didn’t know about this.  And that’s the reason why I decided to add it to...

The Bing API allows you to get results from multiple sourcetypes, one of them being the Translation SourceType. More Info on the API can be found here . The SDK comes with some nice samples and can be found here . As a practise we are going to do a query from a BizTalk Pipeline component to translate a field configured by an XPath. In design we need to define a source language, destination language and the XPath to the field we will translate. TranslationLanguage is just an enum to facilitate configuration...

We have consolidated some of our recent publications into a pocket-size, printer-friendly format and published them in the July issue of the BizTalk Hotrod Magazine : Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions (page 47) How To Boost Message Transformations Using the XslCompiledTransform class (page 93) Check them out and share your feedback.