I recently shifted positions slightly. Previously, I had been working with ISVs adopting our divisions latest technologies such as “Oslo” which is now officially called the SQL Server Modeling. My new team, the Data Modeling Customer Advisory Team(DM...

We announced earlier this week the transition of the name of the technology formerly know as “Oslo” to SQL Server Modeling.  Douglas Purdy discusses the change and some of our thinking behind this on his blog: From “Oslo” to SQL Server Modeling On...

PDC 2009 is rapidly approaching.  If you haven’t made plans yet, what are you waiting for? ( register by Oct 13th for a discount)  There will be a lot of great Data and Modeling sessions at this years PDC including:   The “data & modeling...

This is the 3rd and final part of our look at the “Oslo” May CTP. In Part I , we created a simple domain model for a fictional company’s employee information. In Part II , we used the M language support to created a domain specific language (DSL) model...

Welcome to Part II of our look at the “Oslo” May CTP. In Part I , we created a simple domain model for a fictional company’s employee information. In this installment, we will create a domain specific language (DSL) that will take a simple text input...

The “Oslo” May CTP has just been released. You can download the latest release of Oslo from the Oslo Dev Center on MSDN . I have been using this new version and want to give a little tour of the new bits. This will be the first of three posts that take...

It's been a while since my last post. I recently started playing with the latest “Oslo” CTP release and wanted to share with you what I have built so far. One of the cool features of the “Oslo” SDK is the ability to write new Domain Specific Languages...

PDC is rapidly approaching and there is a lot of exciting technology that is being created by CSD which will be unveiled at the conference. Steve Martin posted a blog entry last week about Dublin , a technology that makes it easier to deploy, manage and...

In April, Steve Martin announced that we are working on BizTalk 2006 R3. Some of the new investments for this release include: New web service registry capabilities with support for UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) version...

I saw a link the other day to an interesting project on Codeplex .  Mikael Håkanssons has published a project called the BizTalk Sftp Adapter .  You can find out more information on his blog .  There is a lot of confusion about what...

Recently I have been playing around with WCF and Visual Studio 2008. I was building a set of web services. The project consisted of two difference service interfaces (IServiceA and IServiceB) each with their own implementation class (ServiceA and ServiceB...

Welcome to the new blog.  My name is Dana Kaufman and I am a Program Manager in the Connected Systems Division working with the ISV eco-system around our SOA products.  Some of my interests include BizTalk, WF/WCF and of course Oslo . I have...