BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

MockingBird meets WCF in v2.0 RC

Santosh Benjamin's Weblog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:35:17 GMT

I’m delighted to announce that MockingBird v2.0 is now available as a Release Candidate. This is the long awaited ( ) version that adds a WCF Message Interceptor that now sits alongside the HttpHandler and uses the same generic simulation engine...(read more)

Is there a bug in BizTalk 2006 R2 SP1?

Gobbledygooks by Richard Hallgren — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:14:25 GMT

Late Thursday night last week we decided to upgrade one of our largest BizTalk 2006 R2 environment to recently released Service Pack 1. The installation went fine and everything looked good. … But after a while we started see loads of error messages looking...(read more)

Job @ Breeze: BizTalk /SharePoint specialist!

Mick's Breeze Blogs - Biztalk/Sharepoint/... — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:48:46 GMT

Hi guys – Breeze is looking for talent that can hit the ground running in BizTalk and/or SharePoint. Being a training company we’ll skill you up further and you’ll be working on a vast array of cutting edge technologies. Ideally you must be Sydney based...(read more)

BizTalk: Dynamic SMTP Port: Unknown Error Description

Biztalkien — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:50:22 GMT

Today I investigated one strange error working with Dynamic SMTP Port. Event Type: Error Event Source: BizTalk Server 2006 Event Category: BizTalk Server 2006 Event ID: 5754 Date: ******** Time: ********AM User: N/A Computer: ******** Description: A message...(read more)

Project Plan Activities for an Architect

Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:45:09 GMT

I’m the lead architect on a large CRM project that is about to start the Design phase (or in my RUP world, “Elaboration”), and my PM asked me what architectural tasks belong in her project plan for this phase of work. I don’t always get asked this question...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Released

ScottGu's Blog — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:24:16 GMT

I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. You can download and install it from the following locations: Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsoft...(read more)

BizTalk Performance and DNS

Victor Fehlberg's Tech Postings — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:04:31 GMT

We recently solved a performance problem that had been plaguing us for quite some time on one of our Test/QA BizTalk Application servers. Even if you aren’t experiencing the problem to the full extent that we were, I’ll bet I can improve your...(read more)

Camtasia Studio

Andy Morrison's BizTalk Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:16:16 GMT

Have you heard about this tool? This is a capture tool that records your actions as you perform them on your workstation, remote desktop, etc. It's made by the same company that makes SnagIt, etc. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp I have used...(read more)

ESB Toolkit 2.0 EndPointConfig (HTTPS with WCF-BasicHttp and the ESB Toolkit 2.0)

Andy Morrison's BizTalk Blog — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:36:36 GMT

Earlier this week I had an ESB endpoint (Off-Ramp in ESB parlance) that I was sending to over http using WCF-BasicHttp. I needed to switch the protocol to https: which I did by changing my UDDI Binding over to https: No problem from a management perspective;...(read more)

Event ID: 4119 An empty batch was received with fragmentation turned on

Eric's BizTalk & HL7 blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:49:44 GMT

I have come across this ‘INFORMATIONAL’ event log message a few times and after much banging of heads (mine in particular), Microsoft has a hot fix for the following message: Event Type: Information Event Source: BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 Event Category...(read more)

SP1 and the Oracle Adapter in BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0

Victor Fehlberg's Tech Postings — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:22 GMT

I experienced the following problem the other day when trying to configure a WCF-Oracle send port after installing SP1 for BizTalk 2006 R2. I believe the problem would show itself when using BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 as well, but I didn’t verify...(read more)

Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting - March 11th, 2010

Stephen Kaufman's WebLog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:00 GMT

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. I will be...(read more)

What’s New in BizTalk 2009 R2…

blog.paul.somers.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:22:22 GMT

We have had BizTalk 2006 R2, and now we will soon have BizTalk 2009 R2, so don’t get confused… and BizTalk is far from being replaced it only gets better. I’ve been looking at 2009 R2 recently, and I can tell you a few things about what’s coming, within...(read more)

SIMPLER Way of Hosting the WCF 4.0 Routing Service in IIS7

Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:20:25 GMT

A few months back I was screwing around with the WCF Routing Service and trying something besides the “Hello World” demos that always used self-hosted versions of this new .NET 4.0 WCF capability. In my earlier post, I showed how to get the Routing Service...(read more)

Turn learning Office into a game

QuickLearn Team Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:58:00 GMT

After spending hours learning to play the fake guitar simply to get a higher score, I often wondered why someone couldn’t make a game to learn useful skills. Where’s arithmetic Hero? Going-to-bed-on-time Hero? Microsoft Office Ribbon Hero...(read more)

New CTP Available for Download: WF Migration Kit

The .NET Endpoint — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:47:42 GMT

Happy Monday! It’s an exciting time here as we start ramping up for launch next month. Within the product group, there has been a flurry of activity as they squash their bugs, and the final polish is being placed on the Visual Studio release. In the business group, we’re busy finalizing web content and launch material that you’ll start seeing over the next few months. On Friday, in preparation of the release of the new Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) runtime in .NET 4 (WF4), the team has released...(read more)

Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:07:29 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has...(read more)

A few announcements for those in the UK

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:04:30 GMT

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th...(read more)

Form, function and complexity in rule processing

Charles Young — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:39:25 GMT

Tim Bass posted on ‘ Orwellian Event Processing ’. I was involved in a heated exchange in the comments, and he has more recently published a post entitled ‘ Disadvantages of Rule-Based Systems (Part 1) ’. Whatever the rights and wrongs of our exchange...(read more)

San Diego:Windows Azure Conference is Tomorrow!

Blog.BrianLoesgen.com — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:38 GMT

San Diegans, time is running out, the Windows Azure conference (I blogged about it here ) is *tomorrow*. This is a great opportunity to ramp-up quickly on what Windows Azure is, and how it can be used in the real world. Come see why everyone is so excited, and why everyone agrees that this is a major shift in our industry. This is not future-tech, the cloud isn’t vapor anymore :) – this is live and production-ready today. I will be presenting on Windows Azure platform AppFabric, and specifically...(read more)