by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 18, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Wow. I was in the middle of working on a blog post about message construction and the Business Rules Engine (BRE) in Biztalk 2004. Several other Biztalk Developers and I were talking about this topic at Tech Ed and at the BPI Conference.I looked atRichard’s Blog...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Oct 3, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
The Biztalk Subscription viewer is an essential tool for analyzing and correcting subscription errors in Biztalk. In Biztalk 2004, the subscription viewer was provided in the SDK. In Biztalk 2006 Beta, the ability to view subscriptions has moved to the Biztalk...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 21, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I have started a new e-mail newsletter called The BizTalker. I hope to deliver periodic issues focusing on real life stories from integration consultants in the field. Nothing that fancy or long, just to the point: this is the problem we had and this is how we fixed...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 19, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I should start by saying I was much happier with last year’s entry. Last year, I used an Orchestration to limit other running Orchestrations. It could be configures on the fly using the Rules Engine. I should note that in Biztalk 2006 you will now have the...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 16, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
There is a 52 minute video on BizTalk Solution Designer. If you do not have a full 52 minutes to devote to this, you can get a good feel for the tool in the first 15 or 20 minutes. BizTalk Solution Designer is a visual tool for Biztalk Development. It abstracts the...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 14, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I have put together a video and sample walking through a simple Sequential Workflow using Beta 1 of WinWF (available for download from Microsoft). This video will take you step by step through creating your first sequential workflow in less than 15 minutes! This...
