Many times on larger BizTalk projects developers need to share working inside Projects and Orchestrations. This means at some point you will have conflicts. While Visual Studios offers the option to Auto-Merge files, I have not seen this done successfully with BizTalk...

I have known Steef-Jan Wiggers for many years now. He is a fellow BizTalk Server MVP and one of the sharpest BizTalk guys I know. So of course I was excited when I found out he was working on a solo BizTalk book. His book is a cookbook-style book named BizTalk Server...

First off, thanks for all the great suggestions of missing blogs from the BizTalkGurus.com Blog Feed! I will be working on getting those site included into the feed with the next release that should happen in the next week. Now for the winners! Grand Prize of a copy...

For those of you who do not know, one of the features of BizTalkGurus.com is the aggregate blog feed.  This feed goes back over 8 years and has over 8,000 posts.  Since I started the BizTalk feed, I have expanded the aggregate feeds to include App Fabric and...

The results are in! Out of a total of 12 blog post comments, the winner of the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Patters Book published by Packet Publishing is Comment #8 - Mitch Vanhelden As a 2nd place winner, I am also giving away a copy of Pro BAM in BizTalk Server...

It is amazing how time flies!  It seems like just yesterday my book on Applied Architecture Patterns hit the shelves, but that was almost a year and a half ago now. A few months ago, a new BizTalk patterns book written by fellow BizTalk MVP Dan Rosanova has been...

Congratulations to Brett Tyrrell from Australia via Facebook and Mike Koerner (@michaelskoerner) from USA via Twitter for winning the BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration books from Packet Publishing. Watch for more great opportunities from...

Like I have done with many of the other new BizTalk books I have two copies of the new BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration book by Kent Weare et al. published by Packt to give away. Not to worry, I will cover all shipping costs. To enter: Either LIKE...

I’m back in the action again working on a large BizTalk Healthcare project after some time off. This is the first time I’ve worked with HIPAA transactions like 270, 271, and others and so far I have learned a lot. Like other projects I have worked on in the past, one...

After starting off strong for the first part of 2011 with a major site upgrade to BizTalkGurus.com, blogging more frequently, and sending out new editions of The BizTalker, I have really dropped the ball for the past 6 months. But let me explain. In the past 6 months...

In the recent edition of The BizTalker Newsletter I featured the below article about BizTalk Adapters.  Read the article below or join the newsletter to have it delivered directly to your email.  I welcome any comments. feedback, or thoughts on this subject....

I had the honor of being the Technical Reviewer on the BizTalk 2006 Recipes book.  One of the authors, Mark Beckner, has updated the book for BizTalk 2010.  It is currently available on Amazon.com at 38% off list price. This book covers the following topics:...