by community-syndication | Sep 10, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
As a response to question posted in a previous post, Nabeel Prior, having used HWS before, had this to say about the use of HWS:
"…while it is capable of doing workflow it is a rather cumbersome tool to use. Couple that with the fact that it was announced as a deprecated feature in R2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559720.aspx), and you have something that just isn’t worth investing time in.
My view is that it would be much more beneficial to learn WF and use WF from BizTalk, as per http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2007/11/01/just-released-biztalk-server-2006-extensions-for-windows-workflow-foundation-sdk.aspx.
Even though ZTP was based on HWS, even it is moving to WF: http://blogs.msdn.com/daclark/archive/2007/06/15/provisioning-4-0-on-windows-workflow-foundation.aspx"
I would like to thank Nabeel for the brilliant response. You can check out Nabeel's blog here.
by community-syndication | Sep 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This week I had the privilege of sitting with Bob Muglia while he taped a short video on his thoughts of how model-driven development could transform the way we develop and manage applications. Bob also announced Microsoft’s participation in the Object Management Group (OMG) standards organization, which owns key modeling standards like UML and BPMN. Given bob’s history, it was great to hear his perspective on how modeling will impact the next generation of computing.
Bob spoke about the opportunity that Microsoft sees to take this kind of approach mainstream – not just the Fortune 50 or Fortune 500, but the Fortune 5 million In the video, Bob talks about modeling as a core focus of Microsoft’s Dynamic IT strategy, and highlighted three areas of focus for Microsoft: platform, personas and partners.
What is the significance of these 3 “Ps” aside from being a super-cool alliteration? Well, they are the three-part strategy to bringing modeling into the mainstream. We think that by driving modeling capabilities into the core .NET platform, expanding the various types of personas within an organization that can interact with models, and finally expanding the partner ecosystem to create a broad array of solutions and standards, this gives customers – of all sizes – the ability to benefit from modeling as a part of their application development. In many cases, customers will benefit from modeling through natural evolution of existing technologies. They won’t necessarily know they are using modeling when they deploy an app – their life will just get easier.
I’ve talked about “ Oslo” many times here. “Oslo” is the codename for a set of technical investments that will significantly enhance modeling capabilities for Microsoft, our partner ecosystem and our customers. It consists of:
%u00b7 A tool that helps people define and interact with models in a rich and visual manner
%u00b7 A language that helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages and data models
%u00b7 A repository that makes models available to both tools and platform components
It’s also important to note that modeling is a company-wide investment, which means it doesn’t start or stop with “Oslo” – it includes a lot of exciting work we’re doing as part of Visual Studio Team System “Rosario”, System Center, BizTalk Server, SQL Server and more.
Want to know more about the OMG news or what Bob had to say? Check out the video.
by community-syndication | Sep 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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by community-syndication | Sep 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Ok, so one more complaint on language usage and i’ll go back to proper tech stuff, I promise.
2 things that i see very often which are more than just typos are the following:
Using ‘extravert’ instead of extrovert: This comes up very often in posts and articles about personalities. The opposite of an ‘introverted’ personality is […]
by community-syndication | Sep 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
…that can be seen here looks exactly like the SQL Server logo and is very similar to the System Center logo. I wonder why and which server product is next?…(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I can only follow Mikaels post and thank everyone who attended the BizTalk User Group Sweden event last thursday about REST with Jon Flanders. It was a great turnout weighing in at about 80 people. According to Jon we were one of the largest usergroups…(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 9, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
More then a few times I have seen interview questions that people post on their blogs for use when interviewing people for a BizTalk Server job opportunity. I never use interview questions. I'm not sure if the market and access to BizTalk developers…(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Alright, now that the New Zealand Tech Ed is done and dusted people around here are back at blogging, including me.
I thought I’d start with one that’s been on my list for a while: how to make multiple calls to the same stored procedure using the SQL Adapter without having to use a loop shape.
No […]
by community-syndication | Sep 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I just got back from two weeks in Denmark and Sweden. Had a great time, met a number
of really interesting and smart people and all my host’s hospitality was just incredible!
For those of you that came to the talk I did on REST at the Stockholm BizTalk User
Group meeting – here is the code and the slides
stockholmbtug.zip
(796.71 KB)
Also – I just have to say, this group is one of the best User Groups I’ve ever spoken
at. From the travel to the talk itself it was a great experience. Thanks again!
Check out my new book on REST.
by community-syndication | Sep 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In the previous post, I laid out a data visibility problem and proposed using RSSBus to build an enterprise mashup that inflates a single data entity whose attributes reside in multiple disparate systems.
Before a mashup can be built, we actually need the source data in a ready-to-mashup format. For the mashup I am building, my […]
