BizTalk: Wire Tap
Debugging in BizTalk (and other async/messaging-based solutions) can be complex, and very often the UIs (the Admin Console and Hat) don't give you enough tracking information, either because you've...
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...
BizTalk Server and “Dublin” (Me Too)
Check out Charles Young’s post “Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference?”. It’s well worth the read, for all BizTalk developers, and a very interesting analysis. I’ve been...
BizTalk 2006: Parallel Shape and Threads
Another question I never before had the time to test has to do with the Parallel Shape. The product documentation states that this shape should be used to handle...
BizTalk Server 2006 (and R2): Set Failed Message Routing
While developing BizTalk projects I frequently end up developing mini-tools to automate small and/or repetitive administration tasks. One of these, which I recently generalized, I use to turn on...
BizTalk: faster to transform with maps or in code?
I have been testing a scenario hinted about in a discussion at TechEd with a fellow MVP. This is the basic idea: which is faster? using the BizTalk Mapper,...
BizTalk Server MVP, Year 3
Microsoft has decided to re-award me with the MVP title for another year, still in the BizTalk Server category, which means another year in the wonderful world of Connected...
PDC(loud) 2007
For me, this year's PDC in LA will totally be about the "Cloud". Sure topics that interest me are Mesh and Sql Server Data Services (SSDS), but I'm sure...
BizTalk Server and Code Generation
BizTalk Orchestrations are visual descriptions of processes, models of behaviour and interactions. These models are the basis for a code generation step, during which BizTalk converts the orchestrations into...