In the past I have published overview tables of BizTalk version numbers. I used to publish a new table whenever a new version or service pack of BizTalk server was released.
I wanted to do the same after the release of SP1 for BizTalk server 2006 R2. Unfortunately it appears that the version number is not […]
I wrote a very simple PowerShell script which allows you to easily determine the installed BizTalk version and service pack level.
You cannot just look at the version number anymore because it seems SP1 of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 does not update the version number. This means the version numbers for BizTalk 2006 R2 without and […]
I came across this handy tool to identify which process is causing the Copy-Paste malfunctioning
GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip (4.08 kb)
Welcome to the first of many posts around BizTalk Server 2009 R2, the latest version of BizTalk Server that is scheduled for release later this year.
As many times before, CODit is again part of the TAP (Technology Adoption Program). In this serie, I will create a post for each new feature in this version.
This post will probably the less interesting one: installation and configuration 🙂
The 2009 R2 version can be installed on the latest available platform: Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and .Net 4.0. Therefore, I decided to take the latest available releases for all these products and install them on my Virtual PC.
Windows Server 2008 R2.
First issue: the Windows Server 2008 R2 version will only be available in a x64 build. While this makes perfectly sense (who configures a 32bit server nowadays?), it raised an issue for me.
I am using Virtual PC as the virtualization software on my development laptop. But VPC does not support hosting x64 operating systems. Microsoft makes this only available through Hyper-V. But since I am testing on my laptop, I don’t want to install Hyper-V, which would make me lose my ‘stand-by’/’sleep’ features.
Therefore, the only options left were VMWare or Sun VirtualBox. I decided to take the last one.
After the installation of Windows, it became clear that a lot of the Windows 7 UI features made it in the Windows 2008 R2 release, which is cool.
SQL Server 2008 R2.
For installation of SQL Server, I installed the November CTP release. Installation went smoothly. New features like StreamInsight and Master Data Services are not available through the standard setup wizard. They need to be installed through a seperate MSI on the DVD.
Visual Studio 2010.
Installing the 2010 RC version of Visual Studio went fine, during the deep-dive sessions we had in Redmond, we already had a chance to play with it, so nothing shocking here…
BizTalk Server 2009 R2.
In the setup features, there are no new features available at first sight:
I closely followed the installation of BizTalk Server and there was only one thing that looked new to me: we finally have a download/progressbar for the prerequisites cab. I know of too many customers who just stopped the installation of one of the previous versions of BizTalk, while it was downloading the cab-file. Finally we have visibility on this:
The configuration of BizTalk hasn’t changed at all. No new features or sub-features are available in the Configuration Wizard. So, next thing after install will be to find out where the new features like the settings dashboard and trading partner management will be…
Part 2: the new and enhanced BizTalk mapper.
Just a small reminded for myself. When you are using Publish/Subscribe EventAggregation mechanism provided by PRISM along with Unity to resolve types. It’s important to specify the Action method on subscribe to be public.
Example:
TextChangedEvent evt = eventAggregator.GetEvent<TextChangedEvent>();
evt.Subscribe(OnSubscibeForNewText);
///
///
public void OnSubscibeForNewText(string payload)
If it’s not public, Unity will have issues resolving the type and you’ll see an exception as shown below
Attempt by method ‘Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Events.DelegateReference.TryGetDelegate()’ to access method ‘ModuleA.ViewModel.ModuleAView2VM.OnSubscibeForNewText(System.String)’ failed.
Nandri!
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Hi all
Just to let you all know, that David
GROSPELIER has written a BizTalk 2009 book in French that is about to be published.
You can find the book at Amazon and
at Editions-ENI.
David has been so kind as to mention my collection of functoids from http://eebiztalkfunctoids.codeplex.com several
times in the book, and since it is in French, I have not bothered to check what has
been written, but trust that David knows what he is talking about 🙂
So go check it out! 🙂
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Eliasen
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