In the time to come, I’ll be uploading packages available from my previous blog in the past because they got lost during my ISP transfer. First off, here’s the CompositeUI Application Block XBAP WPF implementation, as I blogged about here.
Please note the passwords for both protected signing keys are empty within the solution.
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Although this tool is not new, I blog about it because it is a must-have for every BizTalk developer:
The tool is called UK SDC BizTalk 2006 Documenter (you can download it here) and builds documentation of your BizTalk application(s). It uses reflection to find all information, therefore the BizTalk application(s) you want to document need(s) to be deployed.
One cool feature is the ability to create JPG’s for orchestrations.
Darren, Ewan and myself are really close to getting the book, Professional BizTalk Server 2006 out of the door, it’s been hard work but hopefully it’ll be worth while. The book offers insight in to how BizTalk works under the hood which will enable you to really exploit the architecture, this is blended with the lessons learned designing, developing, and operating some of the most mission critical BizTalk solutions that have been deployed around the world by Microsoft Consulting Services. I knew it would be a massive amount of work before we started, and it has definitely been that!!
As you may have seen GotDotNet is being phased out by Microsoft, because of this I’ve moved BizUnit to its new home at CodePlex, I have some great ideas for new features which, now the book is done I might actually get time to implement!! The latest version includes a bunch of work that we did on the last performance lab in Redmond that I was involved in, including some new test steps to enable it to be used to automate performance tests.
Aside form the book, a lots been going on for me. I left Microsoft last summer to work for a leading european investment bank, leaving after 8+ incredible years was not easy I can tell you. I had an amazing time working for Microsoft, a lot of great times. Since leaving I’ve been playing with a lot of different but very interesting technology, so I should get back to some blogging soon!
I’m working on a BizTalk project where we’re testing the use of security certificates, and I’ve just had a bear of a time finding thorough walkthroughs of setting this up. It’s barely mentioned in the available BizTalk books, and while the BizTalk 2004 whitepaper (which has now been added to the BizTalk 2006 documentation) […]
Nice comprehensive list of features that you can look at to determine whether your
existing spreadsheet will make it all the way to published….or fall short along
the way.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms496823….
After a heavy training schedule last week (collectively we trained nearly 60 students
around Australia) one of the frequent questions I got was –
“You know that excel services presentation you had, can I get a copy?”
Well folks it’s all available from MS – Have fun and enjoy. Thanks for the great interaction
last week!
Getting
Up and Running with Excel Services
Step through the process of configuring Excel Services so that you can publish an
Excel spreadsheet to a Windows SharePoint Services V3 site.
Darren, Ewan and myself are really close to getting the book, Professional BizTalk Server 2006 out of the door, it’s been hard work but hopefully it’ll be worth while. The book offers insight in to how BizTalk works under the hood which will enable you to really exploit the architecture, this is blended with the lessons learned designing, developing, and operating some of the most mission critical BizTalk solutions that have been deployed around the world by Microsoft Consulting Services. I knew it would be a massive amount of work before we started, and it has definitely been that!!
As you may have seen GotDotNet is being phased out by Microsoft, because of this I’ve moved BizUnit to its new home at CodePlex, I have some great ideas for new features which, now the book is done I might actually get time to implement!! The latest version includes a bunch of work that we did on the last performance lab in Redmond that I was involved in, including some new test steps to enable it to be used to automate performance tests.
Aside form the book, a lots been going on for me. I left Microsoft last summer to work for a leading european investment bank, leaving after 8+ incredible years was not easy I can tell you. I had an amazing time working for Microsoft, a lot of great times. Since leaving I’ve been playing with a lot of different but very interesting technology, so I should get back to some blogging soon!
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The ever insightful Lakshmi Murthy (BizTalk
MVP) has a great post today about newcode
samplesreleased by Microsoftfor BizTalk 2006. You’ll definitely
want to go check this out!
Of particular interest to me is the Integrating
BizTalk Server 2006 and Windows Workflow Foundation sample.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a whitepaper which SolidSoft has published today on our web site. It’s been published to coincide with the Microsoft Architect Insight conference at Newport which started today. SolidSoft is one of the event sponsors, and I spent the morning delivering a workshop looking, from an architectural perspective, on the use of rules engines in business process management. It seems to me that while there is lots of guidance and information on rules processing in BPM for business stakeholders, and some for business and enterprise architects, there is far less material orientated towards solution architects. I’ve attempted to push the boat out a little in the whitepaper by identifying some common patterns drawn from the work we’ve done around BizTalk Server and other technologies in the last few years. I hope it will provide some food for thought for solution architects who are considering the use of rules processing in relation to business processes. We are a Microsoft shop, and the patterns are illustrated using Microsoft’s process automation and workflow toolset, but I have tried to define the patterns in a reasonably agnostic fashion so that they have a wider appeal.
The whitepaper can be downloaded from http://www.solidsoft.com/WhitePaperDownload/DownloadFile.aspx?file=WP Rules Processing and BPM.pdf. You have to register with our site to access the paper, but if you do, you can also download a series of whitepapers by my colleague Simon Holloway on RFID. Simon worked for Microsoft as one of their RFID consultants until recently, and is a recognised authority on the subject.