SA BizTalk Bloggers Aggregation

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

2008-12-08T20:09:52Z

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!

2008-12-08T16:24:00Z

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)

2008-12-07T00:01:35Z

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

2008-11-05T01:25:00Z

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

2008-10-28T08:28:08Z

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

2008-10-20T09:22:16Z

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

2008-10-06T03:24:00Z

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

2008-10-05T18:59:16Z

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#

2008-10-02T03:36:00Z

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

2008-10-02T03:34:00Z

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

2008-09-30T02:34:00Z

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

2008-09-26T03:24:00Z

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?

2008-09-22T03:51:00Z

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

2008-09-15T02:38:00Z

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" ...

2008-09-12T08:34:21Z

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)