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I'm in Redmond today and tomorrow doing our 2-day preconference workshop titled What's New in Microsoft Connected Systems . If you're interested in the topics described here , we can deliver this content as a custom 2-day onsite course. The Microsoft SOA & BP Conference starts on Tues -- I'm expecting...
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The RTM bits of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 are now on MSDN Subscriptions ! Subscribers can download the developer addition in several languages. Congrats to everyone who helped make this happen! There are some sweet new features in this version of the product...my favorite feature, of course, is the new...
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My latest Service Station column for MSDN Magazine has been published online. You can find it here -- my focus in this issue is BizTalk Server 2006 Web Services . The article describes how BizTalk Server 2006 integrates with Web services standards via the SOAP, WSE 2.0, and WCF (new in R2) adapters that...
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Pluralsight is holding a special event -- Building Connected Systems with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 -- on December 4-8 in Kirkland, WA focused on the next release of BizTalk Server, which brings some compelling new features to Connected Systems development. It seems so much is happening in the Connected...
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The next thing on my agenda is a local UNUG (Utah .NET User's Group) talk, which will take place tomorrow night in South Jordan (Neumont). I'm going to speak on BizTalk Server 2006 -- one of my favorite topics these days. I'm going to focus primarily on its messaging layer and integration features. If...
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My latest Service Station column has hit MSDN Magazine online . This is the second part in a two-part series on BizTalk Server targeted at developers new to BTS but who have some experience with XML and Web services. You can find Part I here . You can also download the wmv of my recent Webcast presentation...
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For me, one of the compelling uses of BizTalk is as a SOAP intermediary or as a "connector" between SOAP and other not-so-common transports/protocols. This gives you the power of the BTS pub/sub architecture and the transformation engine at the heart of your SOAP systems. You typically accomplish this...
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I've had some requests for the slides from my webcast on BizTalk Server 2004 (An XML Guru's Guide to BizTalk). Here they are, and here 's the sample code that goes along with it.
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Today at 3:00pm (Pacific) I'll be delivering a webcast on BizTalk Server 2004. The session will highlight the BizTalk XML and Web services features that I personally find most compelling. I believe these features can add significant value to any .NET developer's portfolio. Click here for more details...
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Looks like the TechEd BOF voting is over. Mine were accepted and are scheduled as follows: The Contract-First Debate - co-led by Tim Ewald (Tues at 7:45pm) Mixing the Worlds of BizTalk and Web Services (Wed at 9:00pm) How Will You Get to Indigo: Migrating from ASMX (Wed at 6:30pm) I'm really excited...
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I just read Rocky's piece titled A SOA Versioning Covenant , which is a great read. The article discusses the differences between syntactic and semantic contracts. The latter is what he calls a covenant . The basic gist is that SO applications should focus more on semantic contracts while providing the...
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Some readers responded to my post on Why I'm Falling in Love with BizTalk with some negative comments about things like BizTalk pricing, documentation, transaction throughput etc. Mike Woods, the Sr. Technical Product Manager on the BizTalk team, provided an informative response to these concerns that...
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One of the things that really turns me on about BizTalk is how it truly enables loose-coupling via XML messaging. Like I said in this post, loose-coupling is a term that is often flung around but rarely achieved in practice especially by most of today's Web services frameworks, which is ironic. Achieving...
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The top 5 reasons why I'm falling in love with BizTalk: BizTalk == XML messaging. BizTalk is the only shipping Microsoft technology that is truly built on an XML messaging foundation through and through. Even its internal publish/subscribe architecture is built on this foundation. The entire experience...
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I've submitted three TechEd BOF sessions for Orlando: Contract-First Web Services: Step-by-Step BizTalk Contracts and the Web Services Publishing Wizard Migrating ASMX to Indigo Tim Ewald and I will most likely tag team the first talk. It will cut through the debate surrounding contract-first development...
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