One announcment people seem to have missed at PDC was BizTalk Server 2009 R2. Brian Loesgen has the whole scoop including these areas of enhancement: Platform Alignment - support for the following products and technologies: Visual Studio 2010 Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 Productivity Improvements...
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I thought today may be a good topic for my audience as it go well together with my 3 part WF series just as some of yesterday augments this post on WCF 101 . WF Windows Workflow Foundation WF is a Framework for building Workflow-enabled applications It is NOT a Workflow "product" CLR-based...
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BizTalk AND WCF WCF fits nicely into the BT architecture Both have pluggable protocol stacks WCF Receieve Adapters expose WCF endpoints Messages routed to BT via BT Adapter API HTTP based binding are isolated (run in W3WP.exe) Send Adapters build a dynamic Channel Stack No proxy needed in Orchestration...
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DataContract Attribute which controls serialization/deserialization between .NET and XML New serialization layer Hmm, ClientViaBehavior allows us to use tracing tools like TcpTrace and make it cool with WS-Addressing (didn't know about this) Behaviors Objects that change the semantics of the *service...
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What is WCF? Again, Microsoft's next way of distributed dev technology "open up your mind" - not just WS-* - universal framework to communicate with anything Reminiscing about DCOM :) ah, DCOMCONFIG If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows) - love it! Stack extremely pluggable...
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I am going to try to do a live blog as I did for the 2 day at PDC for this four-day course that I am taking with Jon Flanders in NYC. Looks like today will have a lot of WCF so that's good for me. Instead of doing the labs on the provided machines, Jon has encouraged me to go ahead and do them on this...
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I am super excited to finally be taking a comprehensive BizTalk Server course to add to my skill set. I am taking the Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals course in NYC the week of 8/4. I am even more thrilled that my good friend Jon Flanders is teaching it. If you are interested in taking...
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Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), announcing an update of the BizTalk Server for the 2008 Wave technologies. It will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. It will also be updated with the following SOA-related features...
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We, the Connected Systems Community have a new community site started by Microsoft called "BizTalk Blogs ." Don't let the name fool you :) It's not really about BizTalk, which has expanded into a marketing name, but all things CSD like WCF, WF, CardSpace, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services. I...
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