by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In this WCF screencast, I'll show you how to configure Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) for TCP-based activation, making it possible for you to host your WCF service in IIS with TCP-based endpoints.
Be sure to check out our growing collection of short screencasts on our screencast landing page.
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by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In my previous post ( Part 1 ) I introduced the problem and the fact that there didn’t appear to be a known solution out there oh how we love a challenge! Considering I was running into all sorts of dead-ends on the BizTalk side of things we switched Read More……(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
In September, we provided a few more details on BizTalk Server 2009 features and release timing. Today we’re excited to report that we’re continuing to make progress toward a full release in the first half of 2009, and have additional news to share.
The first public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available here. This is a feature complete release, and we encourage our customers and partners to begin testing and exploring today. We’ll also continue to tune the code base, focused on performance, reliability, etc. Final release is on track for the first half of 2009, and as we stated earlier this year, we’ll release an update to BizTalk every two years going forward. We’re really excited to be able to give customers a tremendous amount of additional value for their existing investments, and to continue to make BizTalk Server an affordable investment.
The second piece of our news relates to RFID Mobile, and today, we are proud to announce that BizTalk RFID Mobile is now generally available. Customers currently using BizTalk Server 2006 R2 who have purchased Software Assurance will receive BizTalk RFID mobile as part of their licensing agreement. We are so glad to be able to provide customers with even more value for their existing investments- this is simply an extension of RFID platform out to the mobile edge.
We hope that BizTalk Server 2009 Beta and RFID Mobile will enhanced productivity, platform alignment, and enterprise connectivity to users. We encourage you all to try out the beta and send us your feedback; we’d love your feedback on how to continue to improve BizTalk Server to meet your needs.
Best Regards,
Marjan Kalantar
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Finally. Ever since being told of a rough estimate of the date it was to be released I've been waiting for it to come. And now it has. Read the official word at Steve Martins blog . Get it here . ESB Guidance 2.0 is here . It took a while longer than…(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
We are excited to announced two things today!
1-As promised, the first public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available for download. This beta release is officially feature complete, and on track for a final release in the first half of calendar year 2009. We encourage our customers and partners to check it out today and let us know what you think. BizTalk Server 2009 is a full-featured release and as always, will be a no cost upgrade to BizTalk Server customers with active Software Assurance. In a time when we are all trying to do more with less, we’re very pleased to be able to offer additional value for existing IT investments in BizTalk. As mentioned before, the BizTalk Server 2009 aligns with the 2008 wave of updates earlier this year – Visual Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server. To get the beta and more information, go here. We look forward to getting the feedback!
We also know that many BizTalk customers are interested in doing more with BizTalk Server as an enterprise service bus (ESB). As such, we also released the a community technology preview of the ESB Guidance 2.0 today, which delivers updated prescriptive guidance for applying ESB usage patterns with improved itinerary processing, itinerary modeling using a visual domain-specific language (DSL) tools approach, a pluggable resolver-adapter pack and an enhanced ESB management portal. To get it, go here.
While I’m thrilled to see the 4th major version of this product since 2004, we will move to a rhythm of BizTalk Server updates every two years. Our customers have told us that this is the right consistent cadence for their infrastructure needs.
2-BizTalk RFID Mobile is officially available today. Previously announced at RFID Journal Live last spring, RFID Mobile extends the power of RFID built into the core BizTalk Server platform even farther to the ’edges’ of the enterprise. Customers can now get a read on their inventory and orders in real time-enabling people to ultimately make more informed immediate decisions about the business. We also officially released the RFID Standards Pack today, which supports key RFID industry standards, and will enable customers and partners to more seamlessly develop open and flexible solutions for their RFID systems. For more info, go here.
This year has inarguably been one of the most innovative I’ve seen at Microsoft. We updated the major parts of our core platform with Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and introduced the Azure Services Platform. We think that using these technologies in conjunction with BizTalk Server 2009 will help our customers achieve significant productivity gains in mission critical areas such as ALM, SOA, connectivity, interoperability and BI.
So, when taken together, what does this all mean? Over the last decade, BizTalk Server has becomes a comprehensive family of solutions focused on enterprise connectivity for over 10,000 customers and partners worldwide. As we continue to expand the platform, we keep developers’ needs at the heart of everything we do, with the goal of making their hard problems simple to solve.
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . In unison, the CTP of the ESB Guidance Toolkit v2 is Read More……(read more)
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Microsoft announced the public BizTalk 2009 beta today. You can snag it from the Microsoft Connect site. I’ve been running BizTalk 2009 on a VM since late summer, and while you don’t notice a whole lot of differences, there are some subtle things that you’ll notice. Recall that the big ticket features are platform specific […]
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Do you wish you could open your presents before Christmas?
Your wish has come true! Microsoft has announced the release of BizTalk 2009 CTP, and it’s available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218. The updated Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance is available at http://codeplex.com/esb.
Details
With the public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009, Microsoft is delivering the first customer preview of the multi-release road map announced in September 2008 and is giving customers the first look of the feature-complete download. BizTalk Server 2009 supports the latest Microsoft application platform technologies, including Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. BizTalk Server 2009 also delivers expanded new connectivity options including new integration with Oracle Corp.’s E-Business Suite, as well as updated platform support for the most recent versions of IBM Corp.’s Customer Information Control System (CICS), Information Management System (IMS), DB2, DB2/400, DB2 Universal Database and WebSphere MQ.
Customers will also benefit from BizTalk Server updates in key enterprise focus areas, including connectivity, visibility and platform support, which extend their investments in existing infrastructure, people and applications. BizTalk Server 2009 also delivers improved scalability and reliability through support for SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization and enhanced failover clustering. It provides significant new enhancements to both individual and team productivity by enabling new interoperability with Microsoft’s application life-cycle management (ALM) solution Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. This allows development teams to utilize the integrated source control, bug tracking, team development support, Project Server integration, and support for automating builds via MSBuild for a more seamless development and testing experience.
BizTalk RFID Mobile also extends the power of BizTalk Server RFID to mobile devices running Windows Mobile and Windows CE. In addition, BizTalk RFID Mobile delivers simple device management and offline processing capabilities, all of which help reduce the total cost of ownership.
In addition, customers and partners can now expedite development of RFID applications in heterogeneous environments with BizTalk Server support for RFID standards, Tag Data Translation (TDT) and Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP). Also being released today is a community technology preview of the ESB Guidance 2.0, which delivers updated prescriptive guidance for applying ESB usage patterns with improved itinerary processing, itinerary modeling using a visual domain-specific language (DSL) tools approach, a pluggable resolver-adapter pack and an enhanced ESB management portal.
BizTalk RFID Mobile is available at no cost to all BizTalk Server customers with Microsoft Software Assurance as well as new BizTalk Server customers who purchase an edition of BizTalk with Software Assurance. When BizTalk Server 2009 becomes generally available, customers will be able to acquire BizTalk RFID Mobile as part of the software license.
by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
From the connect.microsoft.com Site:
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BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server 2009 represents the next release in Microsoft’s long-term strategy to enable the connected enterprise. BizTalk Server 2009 enhances enterprise connectivity with broad industry support of WS* protocols, the edge via Microsoft BizTalk RFID, and business partners though EDI.
What’s new in BizTalk Server 2009?
%u00d8 Simplify Interoperability
%u00fc Support for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – take advantages of the latest developer tools.
%u00fc Support for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 – full support of Hyper-V, and increased performance and scale.
%u00d8 Extend To The Edge
%u00fc EDI – enhanced out of the box support for the most commonly used EDI schema and trading partner management tools.
%u00fc Simplify development of mobile applications that expose relevant, real-time business information (RFID Mobile).
%u00d8 Enhance Productivity
%u00fc ALM – new support is provided for Team Foundation Server (TFS), allowing development teams to leverage the integrated source control, bug tracking, support for team development, Project Server integration and support for automating builds via MSBuild.
%u00fc Enhanced Developer Productivity – improved underlying project system enhances debugging support for artifacts, pipeline components and orchestrations, and enables support for unit testing.
Support
%u00fc This beta is community supported. The TechNet forums will be the primary place for support – http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1470&SiteID=17.
%u00fc This beta is for evaluation purposes only. It is not supported in a live operating environment.
%u00fc ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP is also now available at – http://msdn.microsoft.com/esb
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by community-syndication | Dec 8, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This application has been on blog for a while, and I'm happy to have got lots of feed-back. Apparently, I'm not the only one finding uninstalling/re-installing BizTalk assemblies to be challenging. You have to know the order of references between every assembly, along with ports that might be using the assembly you want to uninstall. If you have worked with BizTalk for a while, – I'm pretty sure you have sworn over this dialog in the past:
The BizTalk Undeploy Helper is an application I built for a customer, where they often deploy and undeploy large solutions. This might not an big issue when deploying from Visual Studio to your build environment. But this is seldom (at least in my experience) the procedure when deploying to an production environment. The recommended way is to add the binding files to your BizTalk Application resources before exporting the MSI package, and then set the Target Environment. If you then undeploy using the Add/Remove Programs, the assemblies and ports should be removed in the right order. However, I haven't found this to work that well when deploying multiple solutions to the same application(s), and that's pretty much why I developed this application. This is all very well described in a post by Stephen W. Thomas
Using this tool is pretty straight forward. First, select the assemblies to undeploy. By selecting one assembly, the tool marks all assemblies referencing the one you selected. You may also use the new feature of marking all unused assemblies. This might come in handy if you are updating the assembly version each time you deploy. –Use this option with caution. It's virtually impossible to determine if an assembly is used or not, so carefully examine the result before you undeploy.
Before you choose to undeploy, you'll be given a list of all assemblies and BizTalk artifacts related to those assemblies. You have the option to leave the ports, in which case the ports will be reconfigured to use passthrough pipelines and no in- or outbound transformations.
If you are working with a big solution, with assemblies deployed to multiple applications, you can save the uninstall configuration for later use. This way you don't have to reselect the assemblies the next time you undeploy. Just click the load button, and point to the configuration file.
IMPORTANT
If you choose not to run the application on the server, make sure the assemblies you're about to uninstall are deployed to the computer from which you're running the application. This is because the application needs to access the assemblies to get its dependencies.
Find it at CodePlex
