Although xRM is not directly related to me, my job and my area of expertise, I really like this video and the idea behind it. Enjoy!

This post has nothing to do with BizTalk or EAI/SOA/etc, but it’s interesting, so here it goes! I’ve a thread with some colleagues about User Experience (something I see myself as an enthusiast). Somebody shared a video about Bumptop . As the YouTube...

This is a part of small posts reviewing the book ‘SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009’ , by Richard Seroter . Chapter II – an WCF Primer The second chapter has been a little surprise for me: it is a WCF primer and has nothing to do with BizTalk Server...

Good news that the BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 (previously known as ESB Guidance 2.0) has been released for download. The download is no longer published on CodePlex. Now you can download it from the BizTalk Developer Center . Changes in the name and the...

This is a part of small posts reviewing the book ‘SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009’ , by Richard Seroter . I think I’ll be posting chapter reviews and thoughts as I read them. Preface and Chapter I – BizTalk Server refresher The chapter one, as one...

Repeat with me: SOA is something you do, not something you buy - David Linthicum   This is a nice cite I’ve read at the preface of the book I was talking about yesterday . Yes, it seems a cite said by Captain Obvious, but it’s still amazing how many...

I’ve just received for review from Packt Publishing the new book ‘SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server’ by Richard Seroter . There’s also a free chapter from the book, ‘New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: WCF SQL Adapter’ downloadable as .pdf from...

I’m working with a customer in a BizTalk Server 2009 + ESB solution for eAdmin. It’s a really nice project and I’m doing lot of different tasks here. One of these tasks involve to design and explain the whole solution to many different people at the customers...

There’s a new issue published of the nice BizTalk HotRod Magazine. It contains some very nice articles written by clever people. And then there’s an article written by me :-)   I’m gonna copy/paste the index from Thiago’s blog, Connected Thoughts...

As we said yesterday , workflow still matters, and I'm catching this stuff again in the Realworld(tm), trying to clear concepts and how-tos in these (not so) new componentes of .NET. Workflow Foundation is one of these, and I'll try to talk also about...

David Chappell blogs about it. From my point of view, technologies such BTS Orchestration Engine are very interesting since they allows to: Separate control flow from code that perform actions. Draw control flow, instead of write it. It's more...

Finally, BizUnit 2.0 is here, one of my favorite BizTalk projects must-haves. These guys work hard, in the very right direction... I case you're not aware of what BizUnit is, it is a test framework fo BizTalk. Read their blog for more info.

Abstract : I’ve been dealing with context properties, and I’ve discovered a couple of very useful tricks for promoting and routing. some definitions: As you’ll probably know, there are two types of properties in the context of a message: properties...

Abstract : I’ve using BAM to measure execution time in some orchestrations. I cannot use HAT because I needed to do some calculations to rest waiting time of the external processes. It’s extremely easy. Things get funny when we needed to get more that...

Impresive! from Steve W Thomas : For starter, why would you want to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration? I had to struggle for a bit to come up with a good reason… I can find it useful in debatching Scenarios that require mapping prior...

There are many reasons, sure, and probably there are also reasons why plain text files can be better, but I would like to remark just only one reason, just because I fighting with it right now: Xml is human readable Or at least, it should be. ...

I've been playing around with a funny error message in ConfigFramework. It says " The Operation Completed Successfully ", but it's a Retry/Cancel message box, where you get looped until you press cancel... The details found in the log file talk about...

Marty Wasznicky has posted a compiled BizTalk 2004 Help File (.chm) check it out in his blog (11 Mb) The most interesting stuff is that it can be indexed using MSN Desktop Search (as any other .chm file).... that means querying BizTalk Documentation...

There is a new whitepaper on MSDN about messaging. It's called BizTalk Server 2004: A Messaging Engine Overview , but it's quite a deep dive into messaging. From my point of view, the most interesting stuff is how it explains the Pub/Sub internals in...

Abstract : You can create a BizTalk message from a custom .NET class, instead of using an Xsd schema. This practice has some pros and cons. Let’s see… Usually, the most common process is to start creating Xsd schemas, and use them in Orchestrations...

Calculated shot... well, I've played Scorched Earth a lot in my life... :-) I am a Scorched Earth Tank . When I have a mission, it consumes me; I will not be satisfied until the job is done. I have a strong sense of duty, and a strong sense...

Abstract : In the asynchronous world, we can talk about Real async and Simulated async . Each one has its own pros and cons. Let’s see a simplified sample of each case. Sample scenario, let’s assume two systems, A and B : 1.- A sends a message to B...

Abstract : this seems an easy question, but I have not found a proper answer yet… feel free to give your answer and a little justification. The complete question is: What should I secure? the access to the resources, or the content of the resources...

Abstract : An exception has been thrown, what should I do? --> At least two actions: Fix the situation and Log it Orchestrations tend to fail. Sure. This is because the nature of integration: Orchestrations deal with external applications, and expect...

...or at least that's what Clemens Vaster thinks. A little bit radical just to explain that SOA is an Orientation , not an Architecture itself... anyways, I agree with him, and I've added him to my blogroll... It's true that there's too much hype with...