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BizTalk 2010 R2 announced

Last week Microsoft announced the next release of BizTalk Server , for now called 2010 R2. Charles Young already wrote an overview of the features and product positioning , but I highlight two: the support for Informix V11 (I’ve had this need more than Read More...
Posted Monday, December 12, 2011 6:16 AM by jota | 0 Comments

AutoMapper

AutoMapper is a « convention-based object-to-object mapper ». According to the description, « AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:52 AM by jota | 0 Comments

WPC2011 and the Future of BizTalk

Following Tony Meleg’s presentation at Microsoft World Partner Conference , there’s a lot of discussion going on about the future of BizTalk Server. The following is a link to some pages with opinions about this issue: Microsoft’s middleware long term Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 21, 2011 1:58 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions + BizTalk Software Factory for BizTalk 2010

This one slipped me last year. A Microsoft whitepaper about Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk solutions . A reminder of the impact of trace and debug on BizTalk Developments. It covers Pipeline Components, Maps, Orchestrations, Read More...
Posted Monday, July 11, 2011 2:12 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Windows Phone 7– Outlook sync

I own a Windows Phone 7, and one of the problems I’ve had since day one is the inability to sync my local Outlook with the phone. My initial approach was to add the phone’s live account to Outlook, and then do copy&paste of contacts and appointments Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:56 PM by jota | 0 Comments
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Editing .ODX Files / Regenerate Orchestration Code

Everybody with some experience with BizTalk Server knows that sometimes the ODX files get garbled and have to be fixed manually. I’ve had situations where the compilation of an orchestration works fine, but when viewing the orchestration in the visual Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:44 AM by jota | 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2010 and BizTalk 2010 File Locking Problems

I’ve had several situation with large solutions in VS2010 where assemblies get locked and references need to be constantly fixed, failing compilations. I would get errors when copying the DLL’s from the OBJ into the BIN folders, or even copying a schema Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2011 11:10 AM by jota | 0 Comments

BizTalk and Gartner Oct’2010

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Systematic Application Integration Projects (October 2010) places Microsoft in the leader’s quadrant for integration, with BizTalk Server and the global integration platform, as the company with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20 AM by jota | 0 Comments

Interesting BizTalk links…

Details for Version 2.0 of the BizTalk ESB Toolkit (Brian Loesgen) Complex-Event Processing (CEP) Explained for BizTalk Users (Charles Young) Interview Series: Four Questions With … Ewan Fairweather (Richard Seroter) BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyser Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:44 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Cloud Computing: recommended Reading

Good information via Pat Helland’s weblog , on UC Berkeley’s Paper “ Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing ”. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:43 PM by jota | 0 Comments

BizTalk Server 2009 RTM on MSDN

This news is a few days late, but couldn’t let it pass: the 2009 version of BizTalk is out on MSDN for download. This is another evolutionary release, containing a large set of improvements ont he previous 2006 R2 version, including .Net 3.5 SP1/VS2008 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:16 PM by jota | 0 Comments

Webcast Best of DevDays | Patterns & Antipattern – April 21st

Tiago Pascoal and myself are doing a webcast with a repeat of our session at DevDays 09 , as part of Microsoft Portugal’s “ Best of DevDays ” webcast series. :) The webcast will happen on April 21st, in portuguese . If you are interested, the you can Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:14 AM by jota | 0 Comments

Windows 7 beta - late to the game impressions

Ok, so I finally made up my mind, after getting feedback that apps like the Zune Software, Live Mesh, and VMWare Workstation seem to work under the Windows 7 beta, and went for an upgrade from my main Vista laptop. Here are some notes on the process: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:39 PM by jota | 0 Comments
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DevDays09: Wrap Up

This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier space. I did three sessions, all of them on the ARChitecture track: ARC206 Patterns & Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 6:13 PM by jota | 0 Comments

DevDays09: Arc206 Patterns & Anti-Patterns

My first session this year at DevDays09 will be ARC206 , with Tiago Pascoal . We’ll be discussing mostly architecture anti-patterns, with loads of real life examples. It’s today at 14:30 on room A03, at Instituto Superior Técnico, this year’s venue. Overview Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:19 AM by jota | 0 Comments
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