Stephen Kaufman's WebLog

Look who's BizTalk'in - Notes on all things integration

There are many ways to create virtual machines in Azure. Of course the Azure Portal is the easiest...

Date: 10/30/2013

As many of you know, the BizTalk Team is putting on a BizTalk Summit. The BizTalk Summit 2012 is a 2...

Date: 12/05/2012

I am working on a project where we are uploading client files to Azure Blob Storage.  Blob...

Date: 10/15/2012

In the previous post I covered the Messaging Channel group of patterns. In this post, I will cover...

Date: 04/16/2012

For years we have all utilized Gregor Hohpe’s Enterprise Integration Patterns book (and the web...

Date: 04/16/2012

In my last post, I talked about the BizTalk AppFabric Connect for Services functionality for...

Date: 03/20/2012

Last week I spoke at the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting.  The title of my...

Date: 03/20/2012

I was recently asked if I could help move a virtual machine that had been setup and running in...

Date: 01/18/2012

It has been a long time since my last blog post.  It certainly hasn’t been for a lack of...

Date: 03/16/2011

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 17th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Date: 03/16/2011

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 16th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Date: 09/10/2010

For those using BizTalk, we have long had the need to store configuration information in a central...

Date: 08/31/2010

It appears that I have lost some of my blog posts. I am reposting this blog post which originally...

Date: 08/30/2010

In two of my previous entries I outlined functionality and patterns used in the AppFabric Cache. In...

Date: 04/22/2010

When I start talking to people about the caching functionality that is part of Windows Server...

Date: 04/07/2010

Danny Garber and I were interviewed for Endpoint.TV on Windows Server AppFabric and our upcoming...

Date: 04/01/2010

I have been working with Windows Server AppFabric caching lately and have found it to be very...

Date: 03/31/2010

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 11th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Date: 03/10/2010

I have been spending my free time working on my next book. Danny Garber and I are co-authoring this...

Date: 01/18/2010

If you are in are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 21st please join us for the Twin Cities...

Date: 01/14/2010

There have been lots of questions lately about AppFabric (code named Dublin). These questions have...

Date: 11/23/2009

Paolo Salvatori and I delivered a session titled 'Customizing and Extending the BizTalk WCF...

Date: 11/20/2009

I will be speaking at TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin Germany November 9th through the 13th. I will be...

Date: 10/12/2009

I co-authored an article titled 'Design Considerations for S+S and Cloud Computing' in this months...

Date: 10/11/2009

You are probably asking what is StreamInsight. Well, it is the platform for performing Complex Event...

Date: 09/30/2009

Did you know that when doing contract first development and utilize a Boolean data type with a...

Date: 08/12/2009

I was recently working on a proof of concept where we needed to interface to a repository that...

Date: 07/20/2009

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Date: 06/24/2009

In part 1 we covered how to create a custom behavior to inject header data into the dynamically...

Date: 06/11/2009

Since the WCF Publishing Wizard in BizTalk does not support adding custom headers defined at the...

Date: 05/29/2009

I have just submitted my chapters for the new Pro BizTalk 2009 book from APress. You can also find...

Date: 05/07/2009

I will be speaking at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles. I will be presenting two sessions and doing demos...

Date: 03/18/2009

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 19th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected...

Date: 03/16/2009

The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group is changing to become the Twin Cities Connected Systems User...

Date: 03/10/2009

The latest edition of the BizTalk Hotrod magazine was just released. They are currently going...

Date: 02/18/2009

My last couple of projects have been very interesting, challenging and a lot of fun. My current...

Date: 02/01/2009

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk...

Date: 01/08/2009

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Date: 01/08/2009

I have a situation in which I need to cache lookup data from a database tables that will be used in...

Date: 09/29/2008

In two of my previous posts I talked about processing MSMQ messages in FIFO order with WCF. The way...

Date: 08/20/2008

In previous blog posts I have mentioned this large project that I am working on. This project has...

Date: 08/20/2008

I recently came across an interesting scenario. In my application, we are transforming multiple...

Date: 07/18/2008

Well, it would appear that I have been 'tagged' to answer a few question on how I got started in...

Date: 06/24/2008

I will be presenting at TechEd 2008. This will be my fourth time presenting at TechEd conferences....

Date: 05/19/2008

The SCOM 2007 BizTalk Management Pack has finally been released. The Management Pack is a complete...

Date: 04/22/2008

I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group April 3rd 2008 on Team Development and Testing....

Date: 04/03/2008

I have been working with pipeline components quite a bit recently and when I try to attach to the...

Date: 03/21/2008

In my last post I talked about taking an XML message and stripping out elements. In that post I used...

Date: 03/21/2008

I am working on a BizTalk application where we are processing messages from a Point of Sale (POS)...

Date: 03/02/2008

In my previous entry on Processing FIFO MSMQ Messages using WCF I said that I would cover processing...

Date: 02/20/2008

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