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Developing a BizTalk Server solution can be challenging, and especially complex for those who are unfamiliar with it. Developing with BizTalk Server, like any software development effort is like playing chess. There are some great opening moves in chess...

There is tremendous interest in versioning .NET4 Workflows. This blog post provides guidance on common scenarios that can be supported. Background Workflow versioning is required by a change in a business process that causes a modifications in...

One of the great (and major) features of Windows Server AppFabric is the out-of-the-box experience for monitoring WCF and WF based services. Gone are the days when an exception half way through a workflow instance could either 1) never be discovered or...

Yesterday someone contacted me in regards to adding a secondary persistence store to their AppFabric installation – they were trying to configure the environment so that workflow service A persists its instances to Store A, while workflow service B persists...

Summary: Financial Messaging Services Bus (FMSB) is a vertical industry implementation of Microsoft’s Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit 2.0 on top of BizTalk Server 2009 and BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT. FMSB greatly improves time to market for many...

The goal of this blog is to dig deeper into cache client & server communication, provide more insights into a set of configuration knobs and conclude with some best practices recommendation. Introduction If you are reading this blog, chances are...

Windows Server AppFabric Monitoring works with Oracle (10g XE) database? Yes, indeed! AppFabric Monitoring Provider extensibility is proven out in this MSDN Code Gallery Release - http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AFMonitoringOracleDB The release includes...

Following in the great tradition of other learn through example LINQ example pages, such as 101 LINQ Samples , here’s the first in a series of posts on StreamInsight query examples. This will first show up on this blog, then get migrated over to...

This is just a short note before heading into the weekend, to announce availability of the AppFabric Architecture and Deployment Topologies guide. In this guide we address common questions we have heard from customers during our CAT engagements related...

W e have new premium content for AppFabric server. This sample and the document are just what customers need to start using AppFabric Server to manage a .NET4 WCF Workflow service. Customers have been asking about versioning and security , and those are...

Simplifying publishing of the Workflow definitions Typically Business Analysts (IT Pro) own the process of creating Workflow definitions while publishing this definition, particularly to production environments, is relegated to IT/Production Systems...

Introduction In the first article of the series, we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using Dynamic Send Ports in a BizTalk application and in particular within a solution that makes an extensive use of the ESB Toolkit. We also talked...