Cliff Simpkins has one of the many announcement posts . Today, at the Virtual Application Infrastructure virtual event , the announcement was made first of the official launching Windows Server AppFabric , with the immediate availability of the Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate (RC) ; the final...
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BizTalk/Identity/SOA Announcing Tellago DevLabs on CodePlex - Jesus Rodriguez announces the new by announcing the availability of Tellago DevLabs on CodePlex . The workspace will publish several open source projects led by members of Telligo staff BizTalk Data Services: Making BizTalk more RESTful with...
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WCF/Azure/BizTalk/Oslo WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon - Kent highlights the work, showcased in the PDC booth, for WCF's interoperability through the WS-* protocols. In particular, they highlighted the Apache project Stonehenge, where Microsoft worked together with WS-* vendors...
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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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As Jon notes , the BizTalk course in NYC that he taught is over. I want to thank Jon for a great course. If you want to take the best BizTalk (or WF or WCF) courses around, you want to see Jon and Pluralsight. I also really enjoyed hanging out with Jon all week, and going to his NYC REST talk . SQL Server...
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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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WCF Send Adapters Each receive adapter has a corresponding Send adapter Except WCF-CustomIsolated Send Adapters build up a channel stack dynamically Using generic contract definitions and ChannelFactory Channel Stack built based on Send Port config No way (or need) to specify contract Outbound message...
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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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As Jon notes , he is working on a WCF REST book. It's been an honor to be one of his Tech Reviewers. I am learning a whole lot about REST and even some about Web programming in WCF 3.5. He also notes that I am sitting on his Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 course in NYC, which I noted here . I am...
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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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ZapThink has some strong opinions on Microsoft SOA centering around Microsoft defining SOA as integration, particularly web services integration, not broader Enterprise Architecture (They called them "tone deaf." :). For me, there is some truth to this as products such as BizTalk are phenomenal...
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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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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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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client Product...
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I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client...
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I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence my titling this list as "inessential"...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would...
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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems...
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I haven't found much in the last 5 days that is New and Notable but here is a few items of interest. BizTalk Server/Connected Systems/WCF/CSD/WF Our own Brian Loesgen did a presentation on a deck that he had been circulating internally (it is cool to work with these people in our Connected Systems!)...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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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...
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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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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations...
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Development Tools Snippet Compiler Live 2008 Ultimate Edition for Developers (Alpha) [via Mike ] NAnt 0.86 Beta 1 Release [via Mike ] BizTalk Composite Services using Oracle ESB Routing Services Dealing with cXML based messages in BizTalk WCF/ADFS/Authentication/WF Authenticate Users Across Organizations...
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Weeks ago, I stated that we had some real "big name rock star" names coming into Neudesic. I am extremely delighted and proud to announce the first of these. The one and only Marty Wasznicky has joined Neudesic from Microsoft!!! Marty worked for 6 years for the BizTalk/CSD team and is of course...
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Weeks ago, I stated that we had some real "big name rock star" names coming into Neudesic. I am extremely delighted and proud to announce the first of these. The one and only Marty Wasznicky has joined Neudesic from Microsoft!!! Marty worked for 6 years for the BizTalk/CSD team and is...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps"...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps"...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting a great...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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LIVE WEBCAST SOA Infrastructure Webinar Thu., Oct. 18, 2007 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Central Time (Welcome Time: 10:55 AM Central) Microsoft Event Code # 121389 PRESENTER INFO Chad Thomas - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Chad operates Neudesic's Midwest Region Connected Systems/SOA practice. As an early...
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