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For years we have all utilized Gregor Hohpes Enterprise Integration Patterns book (and the web site). Many of these patterns, if not most, are well known and there are many resources out there t...
In the previous post I covered the Messaging Channel group of patterns. In this post, I will cover the Message Routing Group patterns. This group contains: Content Based Router, Message Filt...
Last week I spoke at the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The title of my presentation was Integration with Windows Azure Connecting to the Cloud. During my presentation ...
In my last post, I talked about the BizTalk AppFabric Connect for Services functionality for BizTalk. As you start to make your services accessible through the cloud you may find that you hit an...
It has been a long time since my last blog post. It certainly hasnt been for a lack of content but it is amazing how fast time flies when you are busy. I have been spending a lot of time l...
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 17th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman ...
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 16th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Nor...
For those using BizTalk, we have long had the need to store configuration information in a central location that is shared between each of the distributed BizTalk instances. BizTalk itself uses ...
Did you know that you can use the AppFabric Cache with ASP.NET? AppFabric Cache provides an ASP.NET session state provider. There are a number of reasons that you would want to consider us...
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday May 20th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman ...
In two of my previous entries I outlined functionality and patterns used in the AppFabric Cache. In this entry I wanted to expand and look at another area of functionality that people have come ...
When I start talking to people about the caching functionality that is part of Windows Server AppFabric I am usually asked "What is the AppFabric Cache?" The MSDN page at http://msdn.microsoft...
I have been working with Windows Server AppFabric caching lately and have found it to be very impressive. The more that I work with it the more that I can see areas that it can be utilized. ...
If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 21st please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting.
The meeting takes place at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Cente...
There have been lots of questions lately about AppFabric (code named Dublin). These questions have centered around why Microsoft needs another middle tier solution and will AppFabric replace BizTalk.
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Paolo Salvatori and I delivered a session titled 'Customizing and Extending the BizTalk WCF Adapters' and Paolo has created a number of fantastic blog entries around this subject. His latest ent...
I will be speaking at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin Germany November 9th through the 13th.
I will be presenting two sessions. My first is a 'Deep Dive with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Developme...
I co-authored an article titled 'Design Considerations for S+S and Cloud Computing' in this months Architecture Journal. I co-authored this along with 8 other architects at Microsoft. They...
You are probably asking what is StreamInsight. Well, it is the platform for performing Complex Event Processing (CEP) from Microsoft. Actually to quote exactly what it is - it is a "...
Did you know that when doing contract first development and utilize a Boolean data type with a default value (lets just say the default value was set to true), WCF will not serialize out the default v...
I was recently working on a proof of concept where we needed to interface to a repository that returned the documents using DIME attachments. I don't know if you have had the 'opportunity' to wo...
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In part 1 we covered how to create a custom behavior to inject header data into the dynamically created WSDL.
In this part we will look at consuming the header data passed in.
By default BizTalk will ...
Since the WCF Publishing Wizard in BizTalk does not support adding custom headers defined at the server, we need to programmatically modify what gets created by the wizard to add custom headers.&...
I have just submitted my chapters for the new Pro BizTalk 2009 book from APress. You can also find information about the book on Amazon.
I am co-authoring along with George Dunphy, Harold Campos...
I will be speaking at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles.
I will be presenting two sessions.
My first presentation will be on 'Application Lifecycle Management Experience for BizTalk Server 2009 Developers'...
The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group is changing to become the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group!
We are changing to encompass a broader set of technologies and ensure that we are keeping ...
The latest edition of the BizTalk Hotrod magazine was just released.
They are currently going through a membership update and if you did not get an e-mail letting you know the latest version w...
My last couple of projects have been very interesting, challenging and a lot of fun. My current project is no exception. I have the pleasure of working with a great group of people (I've g...
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I will be speaking at the 2009 Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference in Redmond, WA. I have two presentations for this conference. For my first presentation, I...
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00pm to 7:3...
I have a situation in which I need to cache lookup data from a database tables that will be used in the BizTalk Mapper. The part that makes it interesting is that it is not just key value pairs ...
In previous blog posts I have mentioned this large project that I am working on. This project has been a great project for finding lots of material to blog about. What I have not mentioned...
In two of my previous posts I talked about processing MSMQ messages in FIFO order with WCF.
The way that WCF, along with the MSMQ binding, works there could be a couple of situations in which me...
I recently came across an interesting scenario. In my application, we are transforming multiple incoming messages to a a canonical format. We then take the output and place it in the Messa...
The SCOM 2007 BizTalk Management Pack has finally been released. The Management Pack is a complete rewrite and covers BizTalk 2006, BizTalk R2 as well as the new features of R2 including RFID an...
In my last post I talked about taking an XML message and stripping out elements. In that post I used a standard MemoryStream object and a reader requested that I also talk about how this pipelin...
I have been working with pipeline components quite a bit recently and when I try to attach to the BizTalk Server process I find that there are a lot of host instances and I need to determine which one...
I am working on a BizTalk application where we are processing messages from a Point of Sale (POS) system. As it turns out these messages contain a lot of data that we don't need su...
In my previous entry on Processing FIFO MSMQ Messages using WCF I said that I would cover processing multiple queues and processing each queue in FIFO order.
If you remember, our require...
The label property of an MSMQ message has been used for many things. Developers still use the label property and want to continue to use it. So, how do you get access to this property in W...
I am working on a BizTalk test system within TFS for a client. They are sending the output messages to a file location and using a GUID as the file name. They have a requirement to take th...
I visit a lot of customers and I hear many of the same questions. One of the most common at the beginning of a project is how do I document and design the transformations.
I have created ...
I have been having fun working on the middle tier of an application which is using BizTalk, Windows Workflow, MSMQ and the Windows Communication Framework.
One of the requirements is to...
I am very excited that I will be presenting at TechEd this year. I am presenting on Monitoring BizTalk Server with MOM. The last time that I spoke at TechEd was back in 2000. ...
In my last blog post I said that when I found more scenarios that required custom XSLT I would blog about it. I just didnt think it would be quite so soon.
In this case I have two ...
I am becoming more and more convinced that you need to have good XSLT skills to work with the Commerce Server Adapters for BizTalk. Well, I came across a situation that called for a custom XSLT ...
I am working on a large project where we need to query Commerce Server to create data feeds to send to such sites as MSN Shopping, Yahoo Shopping, PriceGrabber, etc. When we create t...
Back in November I delivered a presentation to the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group titled 'Rule Engines: Workflow Rules vs. BizTalk Rules'.
Since then I have been working with the Rules Team in Redmond...
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday November 16th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.
The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00 to 7:30...
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