Due to an ever increasing amount of spam I installed the (Ajax enabled) captcha control for CommunityServer 2007 written by Brendan Tompkins today. The installation documentation was clear enough, kinda. It still took me a little bit to get it working…(read more)
With the amazing wave of new platforms (Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008) coming out of Redmond recently, some of the most asked questions are "When will BizTalk be able to utilise these new platforms?", and "When can I use VS2008 with my BizTalk solutions?".
Well, the good news is that the guys at Redmond have been hard at work to update BizTalk in order that it can work with the latest versions of Windows Server, the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and SQL Server. Once SQL Server is released as the final part of this technological tidal wave that Redmond has released on us, BizTalk Server will follow hot on its heels with support for these most recent platform releases. The benefits of this will include providing customers with the ability to take full advantage of the improvements in scalability and virtualisation, and they will have improved support for next-generation web and service oriented applications.
In addition to the support for the latest platforms, a few additional capabilities are planned to be added to the next BizTalk release, to deliver additional customer-requested capabilities for our core SOA infrastructure. More details will be provided on specific features in the coming months, but at a high level some of the new investments in the release include:
Either way, there is something new for the BizTalkers out there to look forward to, with the first CTP expected to be available in the third quarter of this year, and the final release planned for sometime in the first half of next year.
BizTalk Server 2006 R3 is coming!
I just posted another article for TopXML.com as part of my series on BizTalk + WCF. In this article, I explore the new BizTalk Adapter Pack.
This article is mainly an introduction to the BizTalk Adapter Pack, with a couple demonstrations using the Oracle adapter. I show how to use the WCF Oracle adapter to query […]
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BIZTALK SERVER 2006 DEEP DIVE For a limited time only, Microsoft South Africa is offering this BizTalk Server 2006 Deep Dive training course at a reduced price exclusively for Microsoft partners and BizTalk Server customers.
This course is intended for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 developers who are responsible for building advanced messaging and business process integration scenarios. Individuals who attend this course are expected to have some familiarity and hands-on experience. Normally this course costs $3395 (USD), but if you act quickly you can attend for only $500. To register please click here.
Use registration code MSBPG1 to register for $500 (USD) (normal price is $3395). Class size is limited. Registrations are accepted on a first-come first-served basis and subject to eligibility verification
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After a lengthy absence from the BizTalk Community, the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter is once again available. Greg Forsythe has kindly made it available at http://www.codeplex.com/BizTalkScheduledTask, together with the source code for this adapter.
For those who are not aware of this adapter: through the use of this adapter on a receive location you are able to schedule the creation of a message into the BizTalk message box, which can then be used to start a BizTalk process. The scheduling options are flexible, allowing for a daily, weekly or monthly schedule to be created. Configuration of the adapter provides for a selection of three standard tasks to take place once the scheduled time is reached:
In addition to the standard tasks, custom tasks can also be created by creating any .NET class that implements the appropriate interface.
This is a question I find myself asking my colleagues often. And they typically reply with something like, “Who’s Greg?” or “Greg in accounting??”. Not quite what I was getting at Greg Leake is a guy who works for me in the Connected Systems Division. He spends most of his time in a self-created, self-run .Net Framework testing lab; and by most of this time, I literally mean most of the hours that he is not sleeping, and some of those too. During the hours of 9am to 2 am, you can typically find him working away in his lab. Greg’s very passionate about helping developers, and he’s had significant successes with his projects–Interesting enough that I recently looked into his bloodshot, over caffeinated eyes and told him to pack up his servers and hit the road to tell more people. This week and next, Greg will be presenting the .NET StockTrader 2.0, including a new Configuration Service, to .NET community user groups in San Francisco, Boston and NYC-check here for more info. We’re also posting the updates online for everyone to play with and give feedback on-we hope that you’ll write to Greg on his blog or in the forum about what’s working and what isn’t. So check out Greg’s blog for good stories from the tour, updates to the code and more. Oh, and if you’re interested in how many cups of coffee Greg drinks in a daythe Twitter section is especially interesting.
As you might have read earlier (this post), a new SQL Adapter is on its way. The features we plan to support are described there.
Further to that, some time back I had mentioned a few limitations (here), which we wouldn’t be addressing.
I am happy to say that due to the TAP customer feedback received on this feature, we WILL be allowing multiple operations (i.e., INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE on the same or different Tables/Views) as well as Stored Procedure/Function invocations within the same XML message (and therefore, within the same Transaction). One thing to keep in mind though:
Our current plan is to release a CTP around the end of May / beginning of June. If you plan on using the adapter, you should join the TAP program. TAP customers have a direct communication channel with the developers on the team, and can play an important role in pushing for important features (important for them) to be included in the final product. If you are interested in joining the TAP program, please leave your email address here (in a comment to this post – don’t worry about spam, I promise to remove your address the moment I make a note of it).
As you might have read earlier (this post), a new SQL Adapter is on its way. The features we plan to support are described there.
Further to that, some time back I had mentioned a few limitations (here), which we wouldn’t be addressing.
I am happy to say that due to the TAP customer feedback received on this feature, we WILL be allowing multiple operations (i.e., INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE on the same or different Tables/Views) as well as Stored Procedure/Function invocations within the same XML message (and therefore, within the same Transaction). One thing to keep in mind though:
Our current plan is to release a CTP around the end of May / beginning of June. If you plan on using the adapter, you should join the TAP program. TAP customers have a direct communication channel with the developers on the team, and can play an important role in pushing for important features (important for them) to be included in the final product. If you are interested in joining the TAP program, please leave your email address here (in a comment to this post – don’t worry about spam, I promise to remove your address the moment I make a note of it).
Here’s a little snippet of code I use to get the size of an XLANG message in bytes. Very efficient and always correct, it loops through each message part and adds up each part’s Size property.This is useful for when you need to know the size of the message inside an orchestration.
//Returns the sum of […]
This post is a follow up to my previous post Delivery Notifications outside Orchestrations – a pure Messaging approach . The sole reason for this is to provide a downloadable demo and a walkthrough of that. The demo features a solution with one pipeline…(read more)
