BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide + MsgBoxViewer
Microsoft has published a few days ago a new guide around optimization of BizTalk Server performance. This is a lengthy guide (over 200 pages), but it has a lot...
Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions + BizTalk Software Factory for BizTalk...
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...
BizTalk 2004/2006: Not all Delay Shapes are created the same
While doing a simple copy&paste of a Delay shape to the outside of a Listen block, I noticed a slight difference between the use of delay shapes inside and...
At Your Service: Performance Considerations for Making Web Service Calls from ASPX Pages
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservice/html/service07222003.asp
BizTalk 2013 RTM and Azure IaaS Support
A few days ago I attended the Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day with my colleagues Pedro Vala and Tiago Oliveira. Steef-Jan’s session on cloud based adapters was interesting (although part...
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...
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...
“The E-Myth Revisited” and The World After Summer
I've been reading "The E Myth Revisited", by Michael Gerber. The book is all about entrepreneurs and small companies, and why they usually fail. The following quote is right...
BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack
The BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack is an add-on to BizTalk Server 2010 that allows BizTalk functionality to be invoked from Windows Azure’s Service Bus. The feature pack specifically...
BizTalk Server 2010 R2 TAP
The TAP for the next version of BizTalk, strangely pre-named “2010 R2” (instead of 2013) is open for nominations here. Of the list of new features, I am especially...