No application is an island

BizTalk Server Operations Guide

WadeTsai — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:59:00 GMT

一份非常完整的Biztalk維護與操作指南，總共660頁。
提供Word DOCX, CHM, PDF三種格式。<下載>

CES2008: 比爾蓋茲在微軟的最後一個全職上班日

WadeTsai — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:09:00 GMT

.NET Framework 3.5 白皮書 (by David Chappell)

WadeTsai — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:09:00 GMT

Chappell大師寫的，總共四本，.NET 3.5 *1, WCF *2, WF *1，<下載>

R2 Bug: 當您嘗試使用 BizTalk Web 服務可能會收到未處理的例外狀況的錯誤訊息

WadeTsai — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:54:00 GMT

沒想到這種Bug竟然從2004一直留到現在2006R2還沒修掉，而且還真的給我遇到了。害我花了一個晚上Debug，想說這麼簡單的WebService Client我都寫不出來，差點就要改寫辭呈了...。氣死人了！

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891386/zh-tw

重點就是，如果你的Schema中某個Record的"Max Occurs"屬性設為"Unbounded"(Add Adapter MetaData就會產生這種Schema)，然後你要把它用Biztalk的Web Service Publishing Wizard自動產生並發布出去，那這支Web Service自動產出的"DataType.cs"會有Bug，宣告型別時會自動在後面加"[]"，也就是本來是一維陣列會變成二維，二維會變成三維。

這種Bug誰能自己找出來？真想罵髒話！

What is Business Process Management (BPM)

WadeTsai — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:58:00 GMT

Business processes underlie all organizational efforts, and the effectiveness with which they are carried out contributes directly to critical business goals such as customer retention, length of time it takes to fulfill a product order or service, or regulatory compliance.

Business process management (BPM) is a management discipline that combines a process-centric and cross-functional approach to improving how organizations achieve their business goals. A BPM solution provides the tools that help make these processes explicit, as well as the functionality to help business managers control and change both manual and automated workflows. Although early implementations of BPM have unfolded in large enterprises, managing business processes is critical for any size of organization that would benefit from greater visibility into and control over the processes that support their business goals.

Business process management has its origins in total quality management and business process reengineering. While it adds to these a technological framework, it is more than just the combination of these disciplines. BPM is an IT enabled management discipline that promotes organizational agility and supports the efforts of people to drive process change and rapid innovation. As such, BPM supports the alignment of IT and business activities both within the organization and with business partners and suppliers.

(轉載自 http://www.microsoft.com/soa/about/whatis.aspx)

What is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

WadeTsai — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:56:00 GMT

IT departments are managing increasingly complex IT portfolios. Yet as business needs change, these departments must still ensure that their technologies remain aligned with business goals. Failure to do so compromises organizational agility.

Service orientation is an approach to organizing distributed IT resources into an integrated solution that breaks down information silos and maximizes business agility. Service orientation modularizes IT resources, creating loosely coupled business processes that integrate information across business systems. Each IT resource, whether an application, system or trading partner, can be accessed as a service. These capabilities are available through interfaces; complexity arises when service providers differ in their operating system or communication protocols, resulting in inoperability.

Service orientation is a means for integrating across diverse systems. Service orientation uses standard protocols and conventional interfaces—usually Web services—to facilitate access to business logic and information among diverse services. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides the principles and guidance to transform a company's existing array of heterogeneous, distributed, complex and inflexible IT resources into integrated, simplified and highly flexible resources that can be changed and composed to more directly support business goals. SOA ultimately enables the delivery of a new generation of dynamic applications (sometimes called composite applications). These applications provide end users with more accurate and comprehensive information and insight into processes, as well as the flexibility to access it in the most suitable form and presentation factor, whether through the Web or through a rich client or mobile device.

(轉載自 http://www.microsoft.com/soa/about/whatis.aspx)

Microsoft ESB Guidance 元件與架構圖

WadeTsai — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:25:00 GMT

一圖勝過千言萬語

Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 released

WadeTsai — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:11:00 GMT

眾人引領期盼的Microsoft ESB Guidance終於RTM了，今天起開放下載。
短短幾個小時就有超過一萬六千多人下載，相信明天起就會成為Microsoft Download Center上關於Biztalk史上最多人下載的檔案。

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931189.aspx

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster

WadeTsai — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:23:00 GMT

Biztalk Server 到底能做哪些事呢？畫圖給你看。<下載>

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster

WadeTsai — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:21:00 GMT

Biztalk Server 執行環境的架構圖<下載>

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Reviewer's Guide

WadeTsai — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:13:00 GMT

如果你希望能多了解 Biztalk Server 2006 R2 提供的功能與商業價值，但是沒時間慢慢看產品說明檔、網頁說明又不夠詳細，那這份文件就是你要找的。<下載>

WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 說明文件

WadeTsai — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:01:00 GMT

The new WCF adapters in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 bring the flexibility of Windows Communication Foundation to the world of BizTalk Server messaging. The WCF adapters make it possible to define send ports and receive locations that use WCF behind the scenes to integrate with the BizTalk MessageBox database.<下載>

Biztalk Server 2006/2006R2 壓力測試工具 - LoadGen 2007

WadeTsai — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:26:00 GMT

一個用來測試 Biztalk Server 效能的工具，For Biztalk Server 2006 or 2006 R2. 下載

New Microsoft SOA & BPM Website

WadeTsai — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:07:00 GMT

微軟推出新的 SOA & BPM 網站了: http://www.microsoft.com/soa/

Biztalk Server 2006 R2 downloads

WadeTsai — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:51:00 GMT