Richard Seroter - SoCal BizTalk Musings

It's always tricky to remember that messages in BizTalk Server orchestrations are immutable, and that you must construct a new message to make changes to a message body or context. However, how does the Business Rules work then? You pass a message in...

I'm told that I am easily amused, but these two little BizTalk development nuggets that I recently discovered made me giddy. First of all, if you're like me, without fail you repeatedly double-click a functoid on a map and expect something to happen...

If you're someone deeply interested in rule engine algorithms, and specifically Microsoft's implementation of the Rete algorithm in the Rules Engine that ships with BizTalk Server 2004, then you absolutely must read this facinating study by Charles Young...

Let the "straightening out" begin. The article entitled Microsoft Workflow engine won't support BizTalk 2006 implies what is a misleading premise. While BizTalk Server 2006 will not have Windows Workflow Foundation embedded within, there's nothing...

Sitting here watching the Future Directions: Beyond BizTalk Server 2006 session at PDC05 and thought I'd share a few notes. We haven't done a ton of sessions here on BizTalk, and let Windows Workflow Foundation take the spotlight, but don't think for...

So finally, we can talk about Windows Workflow Foundation, one of the worst kept PDC05 secrets of the last day or so! First of all, some links to the key information, the beta download, and the now-available book ... Windows Workflow Foundation...

Attending the Building Distributed Asynchronous Applications with SQL Service Broker session at PDC05 and thought I'd share these notes .... Service Broker is for SQL Server applications The queues are actually database objects You can write...

500 Commerce Server t-shirts at the PDC05 booth. 1 hour of time. 0 shirts remaining. You people are ANIMALS! Man, next year I'm tempted to pay for shirts that say "Commerce Server Ate My Parents" just to see if people even notice when they grab shirts...

Microsoft has been actively making progress with our RFID story, and soon we'll have even more to talk about. With BizTalk Server being a very strategic part of our upcoming RFID offering, it's something I'm personally keeping an eye on. If you...

Make sure you check out the BPID Customer Response Team's recent post that contains a cornucopia of great questions and answers with regards to BizTalk Server 2006. Some of the questions include: Is an Indigo adapter planned? Can .NET 1.1 and...

We've just updated the BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1 installation documentation . There are a few fixes, and a bit more focus on installing with SQL Server 2005. Check it out.