BizTalk RFID 2009 ships a Discovery library that provides an easy interface to leverage WS-Discovery to discover WS-Discovery enabled devices. WS-Discovery support was first included with the BizTalk RFID Standards Pack and comes out of the box with BizTalk...

When a device provider should raise the DeviceConnectionDownEvent is a topic of some confusion. The Contoso device provider sample gave a wrong example of its use till recently. The sample has the following code inside the PhysicalDeviceProxy.Close method...

You might have observed that every time you start a process from RFID Manager, both the methods Deploy and Init of every event handler (EH) in the process are called. This raises the question: why have these two separate methods at all? The answer...

This generally happens if the provider throws an unhandled exception. The RfidTools logs are unlikely to help much in fixing this. The exception is logged in the RfidServices logs as a warning. But the best place to look for the bug are the provider...

Given how easy it is to call BRE rules from a Microsoft BizTalk RFID process, it's surprising how few people make use of this feature. And that gives me a topic to blog about! So, here starts my first post... BizTalk RFID provides support for executing...