Speaking at the VBUG conference

A personal milestone.Following on from my talk at the VBUG local meeting a couple of months ago, I’ve now been invited to present an “Introduction to Biztalk” session at the VBUG 2006 conference. Im really excited about this. I think the timing is quite perfect too. We are currently exploring a move to v2006 and looking at how it can be used with VSTS, Software Factories etc and i think theres just about enough time to find out some useful stuff and present it along with the experience we’ve had so far with v2004. The session will feature both Biztalk 2004 and 2006, since the development experience is pretty much the same, with some improvements overall in 2006 (flat file wizard, publishing orchestrations as webservices, consuming webservices returning arrays, error message routing and so on). The major area however is the changes in deployment so that should get some coverage as well. We’ve also been working quite a lot with BizUnit and have written some custom steps in an ‘extension’ DLL project and im hoping to put that up for download after the conference. Stay tuned for more info.