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BizTalk ... WCF ... ProtectionLevel - a joust to the death (Part 2)

A world apart from the everday ... : BizTalk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:09:52 GMT

In my previous post ( Part 1 ) I introduced the problem and the fact that there didn’t appear to be a known solution out there … oh how we love a challenge! Considering I was running into all sorts of dead-ends on the BizTalk side of things we switched Read More......(read more)

BizTalk 2009 Public Beta and ESB Guidance V2 CTP Available!

BizTalk lessons from the field : BizTalk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:24:00 GMT

After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . In unison, the CTP of the ESB Guidance Toolkit v2 is Read More......(read more)

BizTalk ... WCF ... ProtectionLevel - a joust to the death (Part 1)

A world apart from the everday ... : BizTalk — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:01:35 GMT

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has brilliant support for WCF out of the box; in fact I use it’s WCF based adapters almost exclusively now, unless I have a specific line of business system, like S.A.P / Microsoft Dynamics to connect to. It is really painless to Read More......(read more)

Configuration issues with BizTalk Server

A world apart from the everday ... : BizTalk — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:25:00 GMT

So we're running our development environment on a virtual environment and the team that setup the environment setup one Windows 2003 server as a base and then cloned this multiple times. One of these clones became our BizTalk server and another one Read More......(read more)

“Dublin” and “Oslo” in the words of a Technologist

BizTalk lessons from the field : BizTalk — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:28:08 GMT

David Chappell is both a technologist and an amazing wordsmith. In his most recent whitepaper, titled A First Look at WF 4.0, “Dublin”, and “Oslo” , he does an amazing job of detailing the new release of WF, and the new “Dublin” and “Oslo” technologies Read More......(read more)

BizTalk Challenge Scenario 1 - Solution

BizTalk lessons from the field : BizTalk — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:22:16 GMT

Quite a while back I posted what was to be the first in a series of BizTalk Scenarios that could be used as a practical learning aid. I was hoping to have the solution for this scenario uploaded within a month of that post, but alas it was not to Read More......(read more)

Developing Parallel Programs

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:24:00 GMT

Parallel programming is an extension of sequential programming; today, it is becoming the mainstream paradigm in day-to-day information processing. Its aim is to build the fastest programs on parallel computers. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture Read More......(read more)

Update on Wednesday's User Group Meeting

BizTalk lessons from the field : BizTalk — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:59:16 GMT

The guys from K2 have provided some more detail on what they will be showing us during the User Group meeting on Wednesday: Home Improvement Retailer – Integrated Sales Order Solution. Charles (Sales Officer) creates a new sales order. Customer Read More......(read more)

The history and future of c#

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1149786074;pp;1 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network Read More......(read more)

Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:34:00 GMT

Post on Slashdot on Microsoft's plan to release an OS intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications. Read more here: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/10/01/1816208.shtml Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 Announced

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:34:00 GMT

Reveals extensive enhancements for simplified application life-cycle management, provides sneak peek at all key focus areas for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Find the press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08 Read More......(read more)

Sprint Zero

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:24:00 GMT

Some teams use a Sprint 0 to prepare their product backlog, the infrastructure (development environment, CI server), ... .Is this part of Scrum? Is it useful? http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/sprint_zero Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Read More......(read more)

Can SOA be done with an agile approach?

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:51:00 GMT

In this article Martin Fowler looks at SOA and implementing Agile around the concept. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/EvolutionarySOA.html Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg Read More......(read more)

Oslo - The begining

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:38:00 GMT

eWeek taking us to the beginning of Oslo: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsofts-Distributed-Destination-Oslo/ Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick Read More......(read more)

BizTalk and "Oslo" ...

A world apart from the everday ... : BizTalk — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:34:21 GMT

Ever since "Oslo" was announced the industry has been in a flat spin trying to figure out what this is ... Will it replace BizTalk? Will it be a solution to world peace? Who knew ... and for months and months a variety of posts from a variety Read More......(read more)

Sending an HTML Email without an Orchestration

BizTalk lessons from the field : BizTalk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:44:17 GMT

There is plenty of information on the Net relating to being able to send an HTML email from BizTalk using a dynamic SMTP port and an orchestration (see here and here ). At a client I needed to achieve the same objective, but without the use of an Read More......(read more)

Oliver Sharp on what is next for BizTalk

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:51:00 GMT

Oliver Sharp, general manager of the BizTalk Server group at Microsoft, provides an update on how BizTalk has fared in the marketplace and progress the team has made on the next version of the product, BizTalk Server 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass Read More......(read more)

HUMAN WORKFLOW SERVICES (HWS) : 2B || !2B

Business Process and Integration : BizTalk — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:41:35 GMT

As a response to question posted in a previous post , Nabeel Prior , having used HWS before, had this to say about the use of HWS: "...while it is capable of doing workflow it is a rather cumbersome tool to use. Couple that with the fact that Read More......(read more)

Human Workflow Services (HWS)

Business Process and Integration : BizTalk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:59:09 GMT

I have never been exposed to Human Workflow Services (HWS) in BizTalk Server and find it interesting that such a solid framework is available “native” to BizTalk. Yet, with almost no documentation / samples available online, and some bloggers Read More......(read more)

BizTalk Server 2009

Riaan's Blog : BizTalk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:56:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced BizTalk Server 2009. They have decided to rather release a full version then an R3 version of the product. For more information read here: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2008/09/05/124969.aspx http://blogs.breezetraining Read More......(read more)

BizTalk Server 2009 == BizTalk Server 2006 R3

BizTalk lessons from the field — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:24:13 GMT

Some very interesting news around BizTalk today. Not only was there the announcement around BizTalk's future on the BizTalk Server Roadmap page, but there was a Q&A session with Oliver Sharp , the General Manager for the Connected Systems Read More......(read more)

Hub and Spoke Deployment in Biztalk

Riaan's Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:54:00 GMT

I'm currently busy with consulting at a client around Integration and BizTalk as the middleware. Deployment seem to be a biggy in terms of understanding how the process work with regards to BizTalk. Not to sure if i posted this before, but here is Read More......(read more)

Point-to-Point anyone :?

Business Process and Integration — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:18:48 GMT

Google chrome - First impressions

Business Process and Integration — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:28:49 GMT

Pros Love the tabs and the effective use of screen real-estate Startup performance is phenomenal Cons Bootstrapper installation makes for an unpleasant experience in the future reinstalls. As a developer I find it annoying that XML content types Read More......(read more)

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls

Riaan's Blog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:49:00 GMT

InfoQ interview with Martin Fowler: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/fowler-scrum-interview;jsessionid=947B25BAC575C404042BA6215B59DDAB Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg Read More......(read more)