I created a post on the WPC HIPAA DB Toolkit for Microsoft BizTalk. The post provides an introduction to the basic capabilities of the toolkit; a description of how to install the toolkit and I go through a simple example of how to use it. Introducing the WPC HIPAA Database Toolkit ......

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When determining infrastructure requirements for a client often the question of whether to use BizTalk Standard or BizTalk Enterprise comes up. If the client is a small enterprise with limited redundancy and scaling needs the Standard Edition of BizTalk should work fine. If the client requires any redundancy or scaling then Enterprise is almost certainly ......

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I started this week at WPC Services. They specialize in providing business and technical consulting services for healthcare organizations. Initially I'll be doing systems integration architecture.  

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I recently encountered a troubling problem while creating a BizTalk 2006 R2 solution. Everything was working fine until I tried to open the Orchestration Designer to edit one of the orchestrations I had been working of for a couple of days. Visual Studio crashed immediately. I tried a few things, but I could not open any orchestration without Visual ......

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When using orchestration breakpoints, make sure you clear them all when you want to build and redeploy the solution. Any existing orchestration breakpoints will make it impossible to unload the associated assemblies from the GAC. As long as there are any breakpoints in an orchestration the updated assemblies will not be used. This is really a bug and ......

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