July 2007 Entries
Microsoft has announced the 2007 Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference to be held from October 29th through November 2nd, 2007 at the Microsoft Conference Center on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA. The web site states: During 4 days of breakout sessions, chalk talk discussions, hands-on-labs, peer networking, and social events you will learn about both Microsoft’s current portfolio and long-term strategy for SOA & Business Process initiatives. Whether you are a developer, architect,...
For all you facebookers out there with BizTalk Architecture inclinations join the BizTalk Architects group and rub shoulders with the likes of Mike Woods, Clem Vasters, Darren Jefford and folks from Solidsoft
The second issue of the BizTalk HotRod mag is available for download. Please find it here: BizTalk HotRod Mag
This battle continues and isn't that clear who is winning although the smart money is on Blu-ray.... So the US figures: Hardware HD : 300,000 but that is 150,000 dedicated players and 150,000 other half are Xbox add ons. Blu-ray: 1,500,000 but only 100,000 are dedicated players and the rest based on the sale of the PS3. So it appears a win for Blu-ray....but then again all HD sales were a deliberate purchase of a HD player not just because it came with the cames console.... So result not clear. Top-selling...
Come and get it here: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Dates now avaialable for release: SQL 2008, .Net 3.5, Visual Studio and Windows Server 2008 are now scheduled for a Feb 27 2008 release. Of couse RTM and MSDN availability may be before that :-)
So decided it was time I did a little homework on this baby. First I read the bumpf, downloaded the SDK. I then watched my old pal from Windows Windows Foundation days, Dennis's video on Channel 9. What could be more simple....so followed the instructions :- registered at identity.biztalk.net, associated a beautifully crafted Cardspace card and loaded up the CTP sample code with glee.... And this is where I'm now at!! I follow the instructions for the Echo sample - build both client and server, run...
Orcas Beta 1 (Visual Studio 2008 BizTalk.Net Services CTP BPEL for Windows Workflow CTP And that's just for starters
Steven Martin, CSD Product Manager at Microsoft in his blog states: Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, we announced that BizTalk Server 2006 R2, is set to launch in September of this year! We also gave details on pricing, licensing and SKUs— all the details can be found here—but here are the important points I want to highlight today (all available with BizTalk Server 2006 R2): · The New Branch Edition: Intra-organizational connectivity (hub / spoke) is an important scenario for...
Found at CodePlex The Web Solutions Platform (WSP) event system is a general-purpose distributed publish/subscribe event system designed for high performance and low latency. Publish/subscribe is a common communication pattern though there are many variations to solve different scenario requirements. The event system provides the developer with a class library paradigm for publishing and subscribing to events. The events are developer-defined .Net classes which sub-class from the base event. This...
Two new BizTalk Server whitepapers: Best Practices for the Sql Adapter Sample Design Patterns for Consuming and Exposing Web Services from an Orchestration
There is a buzz around the post WPC world that Microsoft may be about to launch a single SKU that in real terms is the Microsoft shrink wrapped SOA product. Burley Kawasaki, director of product management with Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division, is quoted as saying. “We are trying to codify our experience and create an integrated licensing offering so you can buy a single SKU and have all the software you need … We think this pack can be a platform for building Office-based composite apps on...
The excellent Professional BizTalk Server 2006 by Darren Jefford (Author), Kevin B. Smith (Author), Ewan Fairweather (Author) is now available at all good book shops. In fact here's a link to it at Amazon The book is an excellent reference for any would be BizTalk developer. I know the authors both personally and by reputation and can vouch for their creditability. I you were to buy only one book on the topic this is it...
XBOX 360 Elite Launch in Europe: 24th August Price: Euros 499 (£300) Features: Black, HD via HDMI, HDMI lead, Wireless controller, 120 Gig Hard drive PS: IPTV coming in UK care of BTVision to and XBOX 360 near you Done
Have a look at the BizTalk Adapter Development Blog for some great usage patterns for the WCF LOB Adapter, Get it Here
So at last the final list of R2 additions plus price point: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Evaluation Edition - Free BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Branch Edition - $1,899 (but must connect to a Ent. Edition BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Developer Edition - $500 BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Standard Edition - $8,500 BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Enterprise Edition - $35,000 Release date: Summer 2007 (Most likely Sept 2007) Source: WPC
Microsoft showcased its new on-demand Dynamics Live CRM service July 10, which will be operated and managed within its data centers and initially available in the United States. It is based on the upcoming release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, code-named Titan, a multitenant application platform that also supports deployments in on-premise and partner-hosted environments. See it here...
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AllOfMP3 is dead. MP3Sparks.com has taken over but also appears to be dead today
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 has been released and is available as a free download at www.microsoft.com/virtualse