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Microsoft announced today the details of upcoming features that will be added to Windows Server 2008 to provide a rich host for WCF Services and WF workflows. In addition, the announcement provides some information about upcoming features in the .NET Framework v4.0 including. I'm extremely excited...
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I'm excited to be teaching the first BizTalk double feature class coming up October in Irvine. Now I know what you are thinking: "of course you are happy to get out of Minnesota and go to sunny California", but I actually like fall in MN. No , this class is going to be cool because it allows...
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Since the announcement of "Oslo" and the excitement around Windows WF and WCF, many customers have been concerned about their investment in BizTalk Server or questioning whether it is a wise investment today. Microsoft just published their roadmap for BizTalk Server including some important...
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During my preparation for my Tech Ed talk on BizTalk Server port binding options, I wanted to write a PowerShell script to help me manage the transitions from one demo to another. For the most part, I was looking for a way to quickly enable / disable receive locations and start / unenlist send ports...
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Thanks to everyone who came to my session on port binding options in BizTalk Server yesterday. You can find the demos here including the visual studio solution, binding files for BizTalk and the PowerShell script I used for setting up and running my demos.
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According to Brian Harry[1] , he has been working with the BTS folks to get this put in place. He has been assured that this will be part of the R3[2] release of BizTalk Server that is due out next year. Finally, automated builds for BizTalk without all the hassle, I hope this definitely makes it into...
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I got a chance a few weeks ago to sit down with Jeff Brand at the local Microsoft office and talk about something I love - Connected Systems. We discussed Workflow and Biztalk, WCF and web services and how it all fits together. Jeff is fun to talk to and does a good job of asking questions that developers...
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I've been teaching mostly WF and WCF lately, so I'm excited that in a couple of weeks (April 22) I'll be getting a chance to teach our core BizTalk course again in the lovely city of Chicago. I'm excited because there is a lot of cool stuff for this particular open enrollment. 1) R2 - need I say more...
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I've run into this in two different places now so I figured it was time to blog about it and hopefully help someone else out since I didn't see much about this on the web when searching. What I experienced was that when I would try to add a schema for a table in SQL Server, the wizard would get part...
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I attended the Microsoft SOA and BP conference this week in Redmond where they announced their plans for future of connected systems (the division responsible for BizTalk, WCF, WF, AD, and much more). You can read more about the announcement and what impacted products are on the Microsoft SOA site ....
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When creating maps in BizTalk server, or generally creating XSLT transforms, you might run into a situation, as I did, that calls for you to generate a sequence number in your destination document. If the source document and destination have a similar repeating structure, you can always use the Iteration...
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As many of you know, Jon Flanders recently joined us here at Pluralsight. In just a couple of weeks Jon is going to be delivering our first public offering of the BizTalk R2 class. If I weren't already committed, I'd be at this course as Jon has some great material on the new features in the upcoming...
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For those of you who attended Tech Ed and wanted the demos from the breakout and chalk talk about the WCF adapter, you will find them below. Thanks to all who attended, and enjoy. Breakout session (445 kb) (Connected Systems application) includes transaction flow example and basic adapter configuration...
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I'm excited to be presenting at the upcoming Tech Ed 2007 event in Orlando next month. I'm doing two different sessions for the Connected Systems Division (SOA track); one on BizTalk R2 and one on Windows Workflow. If you are heading to Tech Ed, I hope you'll join me if the topics interest you (which...
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I've been crazy busy lately with BizTalk Server. First, I'm happy to announce that Microsoft has recognized me as an MVP for BizTalk Server (and I got nominated for the Connected Systems group as well)! I'm very pleased and look forward to doing as much as I can in the community this year to earn the...
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