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BizTalk in the Cloud, One Step Closer
We all know Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of effort in their cloud initiative called Azure. It started with compute and storage but in the mean time it has grown and more and more products are released in a cloud version before the on-premise...

Posted Sat, Dec 17 2011 12:01 AM by Jean-Paul Smit | 1 comment(s)

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BizTalk Software Factory for BizTalk 2010 Released
It took a while but now I can proudly announce the release of v3.0 of the BizTalk Software Factory ! This version supports: BizTalk Server 2010 Visual Studio 2010 BizTalk Deployment Framework 5 BizUnit 4 BizTalk Solution Instrumentation Framework Opposed...

Posted Wed, Jun 22 2011 10:23 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 1 comment(s)

ESB Toolkit 2.1
Via a blog post it came to my attention that the BizTalk user groups of Australia and New Zealand organise a combined event around BizTalk Server 2010. It is called BizTalk Saturday . It looks like a very nice event, so if your in the neighbourhood you...

Posted Fri, Sep 10 2010 10:30 AM by Jean-Paul Smit | 1 comment(s)

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New release of BizTalk Deployment Framework
The guys from the well known BizTalk Deployment Framework have been working very hard lately. Last year there was a version 5.0 beta for BizTalk 2009 solutions and BizTalk 2006 developers had to use version 4.0. A few days ago they released a new beta...

Posted Tue, Feb 23 2010 12:01 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 2 comment(s)

BizTalk Server 2009 VPC available
Microsoft released a demo VPC for BizTalk Server 2009. It contains demos and hands-on labs aiming for integration with Sharepoint Server 2007 and WF 3. Get it here: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Demo VPC The VPC will expire on October 1st, 2010. Update...

Posted Tue, Oct 27 2009 10:35 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 2 comment(s)

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Setting the icon in a guidance recipe
Yesterday I co-presented at the Dutch BizTalk User Group. It was a talk about the BizTalk Software Factory and I did the demo. Afterwards I got the question on how to set the icon on a guidance recipe, like in the picture below. I had to look it up in...

Posted Fri, Jun 19 2009 8:04 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | with no comments

BizTalk Server 2009 beta and “The project type is not supported by this installation”
Right after BizTalk Server 2009 beta was announced I worked on a virtual PC image to check this new stuff. I installed Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and of course BizTalk Server 2009 beta. When I tried to create a new Empty...

Posted Wed, Jan 14 2009 10:18 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 2 comment(s)

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BizTalk Server 2009 beta and ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP are public!
Last night the good news of BizTalk Server 2009 beta being public received me, finally! It consists of the following items: 12/8/2008 BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes Document BizTalk Server 2009 Beta - Release Notes 12/8/2008 BizTalk Server 2009...

Posted Tue, Dec 9 2008 9:17 AM by Jean-Paul Smit | with no comments

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My fight with T4 Templates for BSF
At the moment I'm working on integrating the great Pipeline Component Wizard by Martijn Hoogendoorn into the BizTalk Software Factory . I decided to use a T4 template to get the job done. T4 templates are very powerful and easy to write (but hard...

Posted Thu, Jun 26 2008 2:23 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | with no comments

BizTalk Software Factory v1.0 released
It took me a while, but v1.0 of the BizTalk Software Factory is finally on CodePlex. You can get it from http://www.codeplex.com/bsf This first release took CodePlex/BASF developed by Dijkstra as a basis and added some functionality. Create BizTalk multi...

Posted Sat, May 31 2008 11:25 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 6 comment(s)

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HowTo: Using XLANGMessages in Custom Exceptions in BizTalk
On the project I'm working on at the moment we're using custom exceptions in BizTalk. We have adopted the exception handling part of the ESB guidance and so the custom exception consists of a string indicating what to do next and an XLANGMessage...

Posted Mon, May 12 2008 9:46 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 1 comment(s)

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BizTalk Tool: MsgBoxViewer
On a blogpost by Yossi Dahan I read about a BizTalk tool I didn't know about: MsgBoxViewer Via Google I couldn't find much about it so I decided to unpack it and try it. This was a very easy process because it doesn't require any installation...

Posted Tue, May 6 2008 1:58 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | with no comments

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BizTalk Server 2006 R3 announced
In an earlier post I wrote about Microsoft researching possibilities for BizTalk Server 2006 supporting the latest Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio releases. Today I read a blogpost by Richard Seroter who writes about a new release of BizTalk Server...

Posted Wed, Apr 23 2008 8:02 AM by Jean-Paul Smit | 3 comment(s)

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Version 1.1 of BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer released
From the Microsoft site: The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation...

Posted Mon, Apr 7 2008 3:29 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | with no comments

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BizTalk support in Visual Studio 2008
I just read a post saying that Microsoft is investigating options for BizTalk support in Visual Studio 2008 and have BizTalk run on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. It is all scheduled for this year so that is good news! http://blog.paul.somers...

Posted Mon, Feb 25 2008 10:13 PM by Jean-Paul Smit | 1 comment(s)

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