Last week, I released Volume 10 of The BizTalker. The headline for this issue is the release of Visual Studios 2008 and the .Net 3.5 framework. View this issue here. Be one of the first to receive the BizTalker by signing up for the free email newsletter here.

Yesterday, Visual Studios 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 was released by Microsoft. I, of course, immediately download the Team Suite edition from MSDN and installed it on a Virtual Machine. Then, went about my daily business of opening up a BizTalk project to get...

Today (on Tuesday November 6th) I have upgrade the blogs and forums of BizTalkGurus.com to the newest version of Community Server 2007. You may have noticed the site was down for about an hour during the upgrade and everyone will have to login again. Please post a...

I've posted the power point slides and three demos from the SOA and BPM Conference.  The three demos cover: 1. Untyped Messages and Dynamic Transforms 2. Partner and Self Correlating Ports 3. Convoys You can find the content here:...

Today at the SOA Conference in Redmond Microsoft publicly announced Oslo. The next generation of Service Oriented Technologies that will be included in the next major wave of product releases. Oslo will focus on two core areas: modeling and services. While Oslo itself...

I'm just putting the final touches on my demos for my session at the 2007 SOA and BPM Conference in Seattle.  My session is on Friday, November 2nd at 10 AM in the Cascade room.  Session details are below.  Hope to see you there!   Track: Solution...

Microsoft has released the developer edition of BizTalk 2006 R2 on MSDN. Along with Windows 08 RC0. Anyone with MSDN access should now be able to access the software. Non-MSDN users can still access R2 but its a free trial version.I'm not sure what the plans are...

The long awaited BizTalk 2006 R2 is now available as a trial version on Tech Net.Download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738059.aspx

I have placed the Demos and Slides I presented at Tech Ed online if anyone is interested in taking a look at them. This was presented last month at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando.The demos show how to useUntyped Messages, Dynamic Mapping, Self-Correlation Ports, and WCF...

Just wanted to point out I'll be at Tech Ed in Orlando next week presentingmy firstbreak out session. The session is "Advanced Microsoft BizTalk 2006 R2 Concepts". It's SOA312 on Thursday at 2:45 PM. The abstract is below: "Business processes are a required component...

The long awaited Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book is now available on Amazon.com.I haven't had a chance to look at this one yet, but the outline looked very good.I'll try to post an update once I get around to looking though it.

The public beta of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is now available on http://connect.microsoft.com. I think all you have to do is sign in with a passport and go to Available Connections. BizTalk 2006 R2 adds some great new features on the adapter side along with support for...