There are some good tutorials/walkthroughs on Bart De Smet’s blog and a good range of advanced WF topics such as Tracking, Persistence, and External Data Exchange. He breaks everything down into small chunks and makes it seem simple!
http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/category/1004.aspx
Benny Mathew
Seamless Integration Solutions
BizTalk Consulting, Development, Training
Bangalore, India
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Last week I had to help a collegue with the Oracle adapter. To get started I used the following 2 articles:
Wilfried Mausz’s Oracle adapter demo
These two articles and some general BizTalk knowledge helped me to understand most of the Oracle adapter in very little time.
Sharing knowledge rocks! Thanks guys!
I’ve been spending way too much time building BizTalk maps recently, but, I did uncover some interesting behavior of the Scripting functoid that I thought was worth sharing.
My opinion is that using “Inline C#” (or VB.NET or JScript) in the Scripting functoid should only be for very simple operations, not page-long functions. In my […]
Apress released another book about BizTalk.
Here’s the description:
First Steps: Developing BizTalk Applications is a primer to most other introductory Biztalk books. If you feel like traditional beginning books are too abstract, and that you are mired in detail and missing the “big picture,” check out this book. It’s not a reference — it’s a jumpstart to learning Biztalk. You learn about the product in a phased approach. This way, you learn just what you need to know, when you need to know it. And the entire book is example-based: you learn by doing. Each phase provides detailed instructions for creating, deploying, and testing a BizTalk project. Through the book’s projects, you will be exposed to orchestrations, pipelines, maps, schemas, messages, ports, shapes, the BizTalk Server Administration console, and the Health and Activity Tracking (HAT) tool.
My friend John Evdemon has been writing about the different components of a SOA Reference model. Check the first two posts here and here . Both articles emphasize in the idea of a SOA model based on capabilities that can evolve independently throughout…(read more)
All good things must come to an end, and my time on the BizTalk Server team has expired (self-inflicted of course). One of the best parts about being employed at Microsoft is the endless opportunities that can arise throughout your career. To that end,…(read more)
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Marty Wasznicky (Regional Program Manager for BizTalk Server) and Scott Zimmerman (senior App Dev consultant with Microsoft) have written an interesting MSDN article with Tips for Better BizTalk Programming. This article discusses Multi-Part Messages, Direct-Bound Ports, Internal and External Schemas, Web services and Debugging XSLT. Make sure to read this article; it will help you save time when producing working solutions. Regards, Marjan
After the usual problems with local customs and DHL related to purchases outside the EU, we finally received PhidgetRFID Kit. I am interested in this because it’s a cheap and easy way of trying out BizTalk 2006 R2’s support for RFID (the BizTalk-specific adapter is not out yet, however). I downloaded and installed .Net 2.0’s class library, followed by a simple sample I got from Developer.com (“RFID Programming Made Simple and Cheap” by Bradley Jones), and got it working immediatly. Really great developer experience, out of the box!
RFID is a very interesting techology, even if it’s not mature yet as I hope it will be in the future, and the ability to easily make the bridge from the hardware to the software/applications side is very welcome for those of us working in the integration space.
As a final note, Phidgets has software to allow the integration of their products (which also include sensors, servos, LCD’s, etc.) with Microsoft’s Robotics Studio. The products this company makes, so easily integrated with current technologies, make it a perfect adult toy, in the same vein as Lego’s Mindstorms. 🙂