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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 is a perfect example of why REST is so powerful and should be used in many scenarios like that. Some people seem to confuse me with being anti-REST. The only thing I am anti is the REST zealots (not at all Jon). If I have learned anything in the last 25 years in this field, it is that there are no absolutes, no black and whites. There are REST situations, there are SOAP situations but in the end there is still an SOA, or at least an architecture that organizes loosely coupled business resources/processes behind service interfaces
• Getting Started with HL7 V3 and BizTalk Server 2006 -  This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7 v3 solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006, and how to convert message format from HL7 v3 to HL7 Version 2 Messaging (HL7 v2).
• Low Latency Messaging in BizTalk? I'll believe when I see it but Tim Rayburn says that Oliver Sharp has committed to it being part of BizTalk Oslo. I think it is safe to say that this is our biggest pain point with BizTalk

SOA

• Aligning Business and IT for Greater Corporate Agility (through SOA) - This 65-page PPT (in 22 page 3 slide format) explores Microsoft's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Singapore's Public Sector showing IT strategies driven by business needs.
• SOA is the Unification Model

WCF

• Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 (and .NET 3.0 SP1)
• Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Accessing the remote hosts address
• Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - Custom username over transport security