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Its been a while....the book, BizUnit and my job

  Darren, Ewan and myself are really close to getting the book, Professional BizTalk Server 2006 out of the door, it's been hard work but hopefully it'll be worth while. The book offers insight i...

BizUnit 2006 is Released BizTalk 2006 and Visual Studio 2005

   Ive finally got around to finishing off BizUnit 2006, this version is targeted at BizTalk 2006 and Visual Studio 2005. Ive been using the new unit testing capability in Visual Studio 2005...

Debugging BizTalk Maps and XSLT's...

Did you ever want to debug a BizTalk map, or any XSLT for that matter? VS 2005 has a great new feature that enables you to do just that. If you are using BizTalk and want to debug your map heres what ...

BizTalk Server Team Blog...

Michael Woods, Kris Horrocks, Steve Sloan, and Mark Berman from the BizTalk Server product group have started up a blog which will I'm sure fill the void left after Scott changed groups, they already ...

Concurrency and Coordination Runtime...

I've been tracking the CCR internally within Microsoft for a while now, and now there's an interesting channel 9 interview with the CCR guys: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=143582 ...

The BizTalk Product Group is Hiring....

Do you want to join Microsoft? Would you like to help to shape and build the next generation of BizTalk Server? The BizTalk product group is looking for talented individuals to help build the next gen...

Routing Messages to the MQ Dead Letter Queue

I recently had a fun problem to solve for a client of mine, essentially they wanted to route messages to the MQ Series dead letter queue and have the MQ dead letter queue handler move those messages t...

Dave Green is blogging...

Dave Green has started his blog, welcome Dave!. Dave is the WWF Architect, and he's been having stacks of fun building out Microsoft's workflow platform, I have to say WWF looks really cool. Dave's a ...

BizUnit 2.0 - Automated Testing for BizTalk Solutions

I've released BizUnit 2.0, in case youve not come across it before, BizUnit is a framework that I put together to enable the rapid development of automated functional testing for BizTalk solution...

Announcement: Get Connected to Free Product Support and Tremendous Online Collaboration

The product group have asked me to post this announcement to let you know about the great online support that we have available, I strongly encourage you to take a look because (1) its free J, (2) th...

Controlling the CLR Thread pool hosted by BizTalk

The CLR thread pool is global to the process, meaning that all components using the thread pool in a given process share the same thread pool and therefore compete for it. This for the most part is a ...

BizUnit v2.0 is imminent...

Version 2 of BizUnit is pretty close to compleation, the new version has the notion of passing state between the individual test steps plus plenty of new test steps not ony from myself but also f...

BAM: Tracking Portal

As we all know BizTalk Server 2004 provides a great set of enabling technologies to address a number of business problems, specifically around integration and business process management, the very nat...

Processing Large Interchanges

Recently Ive have had quite a few customers asking about the processing of large interchanges, and restrictions around them. Firstly, let's make sure we're on the same page regarding what an interchan...

I'm back...New blog...

I've been very busy as of late which you may have gathered from the distinct lack of activity on my blog, I have a whole load of things that I've been working on and I'll be blogging some of these ver...

Rules Engine and A4Swift gotcha...

I've been using the A4Swift (v2.1) accelerator a lot recently, which I have to say is extremely good. Around this I though it worth sharing a tip with you all that has caused me some pain on two occas...

Kevin Lam has started a blog...

Kevin Lam has recently started a blog, be sure to check it out, Kevin works in the Biztalk Design Wins team and I'm sure he'll share some of the great experience he has gained designing and building e...

Delivery Notification Performance

I'm over in Redmond currently for a couple of weeks working with the Biztalk Design Wins team doing some performance tuning on a solution for one of my customers, Ive also been having a lot of fun cat...

Test Framework for Rapid Test Case Development

Firstly apologies for the lack of activity on my blog, I have several reasonable sized pieces of work that Ive been trying to finish off ready for posting, this is the one of those pieces, and I wante...

Bug in CustomPartyResolution SDK Pipeline Sample...

Owen found a bug today in the custom party resolution SDK pipeline component located in @ $:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004\SDK\Samples\Pipelines\CustomPartyResolution.    The b...

Eldar's weblog...

Here's another blog from the Biztalk product group that is well worth keeping an eye on, Eldar is a Program Manager for the Biztalk engine team, so I'm sure we'll be seeing some great blogs from ...

Acknowledgments and Negative Acknowledgments (Part 1)

The Biztalk engine has the notion of publishing system level (positive) Acknowledgments (ACK’s) which indicate a successful message transmission and Negative Acknowledgments (NACK’s) whic...

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