My BizTalk 2002 project is finally winding down and needless to stay I'm excited. It was a very successful project but at the same time it was very frustrating to be tied down to old technology. Our team spent weeks upon weeks developing solutions that newer versions of BTS already fixed out of the box, it was a good exercise in self control. Its a great time to get back into BizTalk 2004-06 and WF. I just saw that the WinFX January CTP was released. Get it here. There seems to be significant changes...
Since I have recently been working on a BizTalk 2002 project I thought I would write a little bit about the major differences and how to perform certain tasks that I've forgotten over the years while working on nothing but 2004 (I've been spoiled). I'll start with the list of usable MACROS (or symbols in the help file): %datetime% Date and time, in milliseconds, of the file creation. The time is based on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.%document_name% Name of the document definition...