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Software in the cloud: Cloud Workflow

As promised in my last posting let's take a look at the new "Workflow in the cloud" functionality offered in the July drop of the BizTalk Services This cloud based workflow system leverages Window...

Dublin!

This announcement came sooner then I expected, I'd assumed PDC was going to be the first time Dublin was mentioned in public!   The most detailed information before the PDC can be found here...

Professional BizTalk Server 2009?

I've been looking into the possibility of updating the highly successful Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book to take into account new features and capabilities in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the rece...

Software in the cloud: The Relay Service

Im now back from a trip to Seattle a few weeks back where I attended a huge week-long Microsoft internal technical training event.  I presented three times during the week, two of the presentatio...

Cloud Services

CSD have just announced Release 12 (R12) of Codename BizTalk Services, Clemens has a good low-down on whats new here.  Remember BizTalk Services != BizTalk.  BizTalk isnt used in the cloud o...

64bit support for the BizTalk Orchestration Profiler and BizTalk Documenter

A number of you have contacted me in recent months to report that the BizTalk Orchestration Profiler and BizTalk Documenter didn't run on 64bit machines, this seems to have been down to compiler setti...

Codename Oslo

Microsoft has just made the first public announcement of Oslo at the SOA and BPM conference, at a high level Oslo is an overarching initiative across multiple products and Microsoft divisions, in fact...

How everyone should test their BizTalk based solutions: Presentation

I've managed to find somewhere to store the presentation deck I delivered yesteday and you can now download it from here.  I've also added the slides I had to cut from the presentation to enable ...

How everyone should test their BizTalk based solutions presentation links

Thanks to everyone who came to my presentation today, I was humbled by the huge turnout!  The presentation deck will be broadly shared to attendees which contains hyperlinks to all the tools show...

Orchestration Profiler for BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Documenter

Hi, I've recently taken ownership of the source for the BizTalk Orchestration Profiler and BizTalk Documenter tools that Jason Birth originally developed, the documenter has worked fine with BizTalk S...

GenerateTypedBamApi

Long overdue but I've finally got around to finishing up the latest release (1.1) of the GenerateTypedBamApi tool.  You can find the new version here, if your not familar with the tool read on! &...

TechEd 2007: Sessions and Book Signing

I arrived in Orlando yesterday after a long old flight from London and should make the Party with Palermo tonight which looks like it'll be fun but as I'm presenting tomorrow it'll be a quiet night! M...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006: In Stock (In the US)

Another quick update, it seems that stores in the US now have stock and are shipping.  Both Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble are reporting stock!   The UK should follow very shortly, 7 day...

Presenting at TechEd

  I'm pleased to announce that I'll be presenting two sessions at TechEd which is being held at Orlando between Monday 4th June and Friday 8th June!  The first is a breakout session which co...

BAM: PivotTables not working on the BAM Portal

Ive used the same base VPC for my various BizTalk Server 2006 images over the last few years, this has worked fine apart from a few annoying bugs that of course plagued every single instance of a VPC ...

Watch out: DebugView (OutputDebugString) & Performance

For developer level tracing the tracing classes held within the System.Diagnostics namespace are often used along with the Windows Sysinternals DebugView tool.  In default configuration all trace...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Release Date

Hi, I'm reliably informed by Wiley that the book should be in-stock at their warehouse on the 23rd April 2007 and should then ship to distributors/stores in the US followed by international outlets su...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Off to the printers

A year on, ~224,000 words and over 600 pages later, and Professional BizTalk Server 2006 has finally gone to the printers!  This book has been a mammoth undertaking for all involved, but having j...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Chapter List

Following on from my previous post, included below is the final chapter list and a brief overview of the content covered in each chapter. Chapter 1: Technical PrimerThis chapter primes the read...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Review Complete!

I've been dying to provide an update on the book for some weeks but I thought it best not to keep drip feeding small progress steps, as of today (21st February) the author review (AR) process is now c...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Content Complete

I'm pleased to announce that all of the content for my book is now complete! As of two weeks ago we've now entered the reviewing/copyedit phase which should last until the end of the year keeping us o...

A BizTalk Swicki!

A colleague of mine just introduced me to the concept of Swicki's, what on earth is that you ask?   It's effectively a community personalised search engine. When you create a swicki you supp...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006 Update

I thought those of you that still read this rather poorly-updated blog might be interested in the current state of play with my BizTalk Book!  It's been taking every spare moment of my life hence...

Team Foundation Server: Subscribing to Policy Overriden Events on Checkin

I demonstrated over a year ago the code required to subscribe to the Policy Override event when developers checkin code, as you know you can apply Checkin policies to ensure developers do things like ...

Visual Studio Team System Books

Fantastic news, I got my box of complimentary copies of Professional Visual Studio Team System which is already on-sale in the US and should be on Amazon/Your local bookshop any day - go get your cop...

Adapters chapter is shipped!

I've finally shipped the Adapters chapter of Professional BizTalk Server 2006, which makes 3 chapters done and plenty more to go :( The chapter specifically doesn't cover writing Custom Adapters or th...

BizTalk Server 2006 R2

In case you missed the announcement on Tuesday, Microsoft has announced a new release of BizTalk Server 2006 called BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (Release 2) to ship H1 2007. R2 will build on the core founda...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006 Book Update

Phew!   After some very long days and nights I've shipped my second Chapter to Wiley, I decided to go after the chapter I was most passionate about this time round and the Business Activity...

Professional BizTalk Server 2006

As promised heres my draft Table of Contents for my upcoming Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book. This TOC is subject to change and I havent gone into full detail in each of the chapters for obvious...

One more EventStream!

A quick correction on my earlier BAM posting, there are actually four EventStreams in BizTalk Server 2006, there is the MessagingEventStream which operates in the same way as the OrchestrationEventStr...

New Product Team BizTalk Blog

The BizTalk Server 2006 Product Team have pulled together a new centralised blog which you can find here, this is the central place for information direct from the product team and looks like it will ...

VSTS Work Item Type Designer Preview

Hi, This is yet another long awaited project that Ive been working on behind the scenes, the exponential improvement of the DSL Tools over the last year has meant Ive had to throw away more and more c...

The nirvana of Trace Points

I read this, and I'm hooked!  Visual Studio drives me mad when it snatches focus back when you hit a debug breakpoint.   Put a breakpoint in your code, right click the red circle that ...

Business Activity Monitoring: GenerateTypedBAMAPI Tool (BizTalk 2004 release uploaded)

Following on from my post last night, I've just uploaded a BizTalk Server 2004 version of GenerateTypedBAMAPI to the GotDotNet workspace. It's functionally identical to the 2006 release already u...

Business Activity Monitoring: GenerateTypedBAMAPI Tool

Hi,   For those of you who work with me or have already used this, the productization of the GenerateBAMDefinition code has been a long time in the coming!     Its been one of thos...

BizTalk 2006 Beta Documentation Now Availalble

Hi, The BizTalk team have just posted the latest drop of the BizTalk 2006 documentation here.  For those of you that are BizTalk Server 2004 developers you'll be pleased to know that you can now ...

Microsoft rebrands iPod packaging

This made me laugh, and oh so true :)    Microsoft rebrands iPod packaging...

Windows Vista Beta 2 CTP Released

In case you haven't already noticed, the Feb CTP of Windows Vista has been posted to MSDN Subscriber Downloads.  I've been running various CTP and internal daily builds for a while and this is b...

My new project!

  I know Ive been very quiet on the blog front which is the opposite of work at the moment; there are loads of things going on from BizTalk Server 2006, WCF, Workflow to Team System which is near...

So Long Steve!

Steve White is off to Redmond to work on Sparkle, Good Luck Steve, The Team, Snakes & Ducks (of the TVP Lake) and the sign will miss you ;-)   Remember mines a pint of Mack and Jacks wh...

Windows Workflow Architect Dave Green has a blog!

Dave Green is the architect of Windows Workflow Foundation and has just started blogging now that we have announced Windows Workflow Foundation, check out his blog here I had the pleasure of working w...

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