Blog Post: BizTalk Server: Demystifying the Test Map operation in Visual Studio
In the past I wrote a series of post on Basics principles of Maps where I stated that testing should be a continuous process as you build your map, not only at the end of development, but when...
View ArticleBlog Post: How Do I Get Things Done? New Pluralsight Course Reveals All My...
Back in August when I released a Pluralsight course on Optimizing Systems on AWS, the most frequent question I heard had nothing to do with AWS or the cloud. Instead, it was the familiar “how do you do...
View ArticleBlog Post: Easily use DesignData with Caliburn.Micro for Windows Store apps
They may have removed the sample data functionality in the latest versions of Blend, but have no fear, you can still accomplish effective Designer/Developer workflows using custom design data and the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Data Stream Processing with Amazon Kinesis and .NET Applications
Amazon Kinesis is a new data stream processing service from AWS that makes it possible to ingest and read high volumes of data in real-time. That description may sound vaguely familiar to those who...
View ArticleBlog Post: Our new TFS 2013 training curriculum kicks off on Jan 27th
Since the official release of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 in November we’ve been testing our newest course updates and we’re pleased to be launching our new 2013 courses at the end of...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Summit London MArch 3rd – 4th!
March 3rd and 4th will be the biggest BizTalk Summit in Europe this year. With over 12 Integration MVP Speakers from all over the world. I can personally say that you will never get this many technical...
View ArticleBlog Post: Looking back at 2013
It’s always nice to be able to look back on things and see what was good and what needs some work or can be done better. The end of the year is the perfect time to do this and so we’re listing up the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure BizTalk Services: TNWiki Articles
Last year in November the Windows Azure BizTalk Service (WABS) were made general available for the public. From that moment I have started to explorer the technology further, which resulted in a few...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 and a BizTalk Summit 2013 Re-cap, Stockholm – 14th Jan...
On 14th January 2014 we are invited to present Monitoring and Management capabilities of BizTalk360 in Stockholm. The event is organised by Sweden BizTalk User Group (SBUG) at Microsoft office in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Export BizTalk Server MSI packages directly from Visual Studio...
Getting a full Continuous Integration (CI) process working with BizTalk Server is hard! One of the big advantages in a working CI process is to always have tested and verified artifacts from the build...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure: Notorious 9 Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013
My take and some answers on it– http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/topthreats/ Welcome back folks to a beautiful 2014 and I had an interesting one while going through a Cloud Solution Design I came...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 for Managed Services
We are super excited to bring this new feature in version 7.1 of BizTalk360 called "BizTalk360 for managed services". One of the key users of BizTalk360 is consulting companies that specializes...
View ArticleBlog Post: White Paper: Installing BizTalk Server 2013 in a Standalone Machine
I couple of months ago I published two white papers through BizTalk360, an initiative came from an invitation of Saravana Kumar that I promptly accepted. However I had never mentioned my White Papers...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using the New Salesforce Toolkit for .NET
Wade Wegner, a friend of the blog and an evangelist for Salesforce.com, just built a new .NET Toolkit for Salesforce developers. This Toolkit is open source and available on GitHub. Basically, it makes...
View ArticleBlog Post: White Paper: Installing and Configuring BizTalk360 on Windows...
The second white paper I initial wrote for a client who wished to try BizTalk360 tool, then I converted to this document that was reviewed by Saravana Kumar and its team. Installing and Configuring...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Mapper: Best Practices when using Custom XSLT files
If you follow my blog or already saw one of my presentations in BizTalk innovation Days events about BizTalk Mapper Patterns and Best Practices, you already notice that I avoid using Custom XSLT files...
View ArticleBlog Post: Missing MSVCP100.dll during BizTalk 2013 installation
I’ve seen some problems during configuration of BizTalk 2013, specially when I’m running in on all new hardware. BizTalk 2013, and Windows Server 2012. One of the usual show stoppers is the missing...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack for BizTalk Server 2013...
Exciting news… Version 1.7.0.0 of BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack for BizTalk Server 2013 is now available! But before talking about the change-log of this version there is another subject that I...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Saturday Recap
The weekend before the first BizTalk Saturday in the Netherlands took place. 17 attendees including a representative from Microsoft The Netherlands, people from Belgium, myself and Saravana Kumar were...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 version 7.1 released
After nearly 2.5 years since the first launch, we are still continuing the moment of bringing regular product updates to BizTalk360 every 3-4 months once. You can see the full release history here. We...
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