Architect Forum: BizTalk Services – The Internet Service Bus
This last Wednesday I presented a session at the Microsoft Architect Forum 2007, held at the Lisbon Casino (a great venue), with ~100 architects attending. The overall topic of...
Custom Property demotion – Using IDocumentSpec and IPropertyAnnotation
Sometimes the property demotion rules are very difficult to apply in the Xml Assembler Pipeline. There are some limitations: • The Biztalk context dependency forces that data must be in...
BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM
Although with very little publicity (!?), BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM'd 2 weeks ago. This new (evolutionary) version includes a very interesting set of new features, including an RFID server,...
Debugging Windows Services
Recently I had to develop my first Windows
Service in C#. I had already done Services in C++, and I was used to launch and
debug the Services thru Visual Studio...
BizTalk RFID: notes
After finally getting around to setting up VMWare Workstation with a BizTalk 2006 R2 Beta2 + BizTalk RFID, I did several experiences with the Phigets RFID reader and the...
Take a Look at These…
I'm not about to start a series of "daily links" post, but here are recent links I find relevant: BizTalk 2006 R2 will come out in September,...
TechDays 2007: BizTalk R2 Session
I delivered my first session at TechDays today, an overview of the new features of BizTalk Server R2. Topics I covered included: BizTalk RFID (I can't wait for...
MVP Summit: Getting Ready
My second trip to USA's East Coast will be to Seattle/Redmond, where the MVP Summit is being held. My agenda, the Connected Systems Track ("BizTalk, WCF and WF experts...
BizTalk 2006: Tool to add application and references from the command line
BizTalk Server 2006 allows us to use the concept of Application to logically organize the artifacts in our solutions, such as orchestrations, schemas, send and receive ports, etc. Further,...
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...