Posted Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:23:00 GMT
By BizTalk Server Team

We recently started the Connected .NET blog, where we’ll focus on the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) pillars of the .NET Framework.  You definitely want to follow this blog which targets to make content more discoverable and will be frequently update... (More)

Posted Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:00 GMT
By BizTalk Server Team

  We are happy to announce the availability of the new BizTalk Adapter Pack Poster. This poster covers interoperability with Line-of-Business Applications using the BizTalk Adapter Pack and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) LOB Adapter SDK. This poster depicts the functionality, c... (More)

Posted Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:17:24 GMT
By Tomas Restrepo

The Windows SDK Team blog has posted an open question about some potential features of future SDK releases and is gathering our opinions about it. I'd like to comment a bit on them and provide some feedback. There are 9 areas the team is looking for feedback on. Let's consider... (More)

Posted Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:02:54 GMT
By Hammad Rajjoub

As i posted earlier that i will be presenting @ IASA Singapore's chapter evening. It turned out to be an interesting session and i got the chance to interact with the audience and hear their pain points on composite architecture and enterprise mashups.Enteprisewise initiatives, sharing data across s... (More)

Posted Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:43:32 GMT
By Brian Loesgen

[[ OK, I am writing this with tongue-in-cheek, which for anyone not familiar with that term, means "not really serious"!!! ]]   Funny thing happened today on the ESB project that I'm on.... After a day of hard work, solving some really tough technical challenges (the kind that makes your head th... (More)

Posted Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:23:00 GMT
By Jesus Rodriguez

Tomorrow Joe Klug will be presenting a session about Microsoft’s Real World SOA vision at the Microsoft’s offices in Downers Grove, IL. As part of the session Joe will present a version of a demo we built last year as an example of how to use Microsoft...(read more)... (More)

Posted Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT
By Nicholas Allen

Looking for a guide to all of the web services protocols implemented by WCF? There's no single document that captures all of the information, but there is a group of documents that talk about the implemented protocols and some of the choices in those implementations. The level of detail varie... (More)

Posted Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:43:28 GMT
By Sam Gentile

I am super excited to finally be taking a comprehensive BizTalk Server course to add to my skill set. I am taking the Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals course in NYC the week of 8/4. I am even more thrilled that my good friend Jon Flanders is teaching it. If you are interested in tak... (More)

Posted Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:15:00 GMT
By BizTalk Adapter Team Blog

If you’re developing your own adapters against the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, then it might be worth your while to try out the June CTP of the SP2 of the WCF LOB ASDK. There are a few minor changes, but we might make more based on your feedback. I’m mentioning the changes from SP1 to the June CTP of SP2 ... (More)

Posted Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT
By Nicholas Allen

I don't actually promise to update the design every year but it makes it sound more exciting- as if there's some kind of recurring event that people might look forward to. This year's design focused on improving content readability. I removed some of the design elements and dead space to get eno... (More)