March 2006 Entries
Getting ready for my talk on Business Activity Monitoring at the NYC BizTalk 2006 First Look Clinic this week, I ran into an apparent bug on the BAM Portal. It wasn't showing the Pivot tables but was giving a message: “The query cannot be processed: Safety settings on this machine prohibit accessing a data source on another domain.“. Time was getting close to my presentation. Of course I could ask the audience to “trust me, it really works I'm just having some unexplainable bug...
Not only is BizTalk sort of “Contract First” out of the box, there is now a tool for BizTalk to actually give you the same experience the thinktecture WSCF tool gives you(http://www.thinktecture... The new tool is written by Molnar Tibor and is called BiztalkWscfClient: http://geekswithblogs.net/m... It currently supports BizTalk 2004 and VS.NET 2004, but he is working to upgrade it for BizTalk 2006 and VS.NET 2005 very soon. This is...
A few of us who evangelize BizTalk have noticed that it is sometimes tough to get developers excited about BizTalk. In general, the BizTalk class at a developer conference or event, e.g. VSLive, will not be the biggest draw. I think there are several reasons why this is: General lack of knowledge and understanding of exactly what BizTalk does. The name probably doesn't convey what it does very well. Microsoft Enterprise Integration Server might have been a better name (but its too close to Host Integration...