Well, it's really official now, I'm going to presenting at ObjectSharp's Architect's Breakfast in December. I've been working on a project involving BizTalk 2004, SharePoint, and InfoPath for some time now. We hired a couple guys from ObjectSharp (Dave, Rob and Matt) to shore up some resource shortfalls. I guess Dave liked what he saw as he asked me to be a big part of this breakfast. My part of the presentation is talking about the software we used, and the things we learned along the way. This...

Today, I came across something totally weird with BizTalk 2004. I'm hoping someone out there will have an explanation for this one. When we want to build a web service for BizTalk, the first thing we do is create an XML Schema. This gets compiled into code using xsd.exe. Once done, we compile xsd.exe's output (together with other schemes) into an assembly. Our web service that BizTalk consumes uses this assembly to define the documents that we want BizTalk to use when communicating with our web service....