Blog Post: My MuleSoft Connect 14 Recap
This past week over 1200 attendees ascended upon San Francisco to attend Connect and APICon (a sister conference). If you are interested in checking out the company recap of Connect you can check that...
View ArticleBlog Post: SOA and API Management with Sentinet
Sentinet is a lightweight and scalable SOA and API management platform that helps to define, secure and evolve your API program.
View ArticleBlog Post: BRE Pipeline Framework v1.5 is coming soon
A release for the next version of the BRE Pipeline Framework is now weeks away, with the framework in the latter stages of unit testing (speaking of which the framework has had a massive shift from...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why full NuGet support for BizTalk projects is important!
TL;DR Using NuGet to handle BizTalk dependencies for shared schemas, pipeline components and so on works fine today. As .btproj files however aren’t supported by NuGet (as shown in this pull request)...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices eBook [Free] coming...
I public announce for the first time that I was working in an eBook about BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices, and that I was published for free, this March during BizTalk Summit 2014 London… …...
View ArticleBlog Post: TechEd NA Videos Now Online
I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Microsoft TechEd in Houston, TX, and the videos of those sessions are now online. A few thousand people have already watched them, but I thought it’d be good...
View ArticleBlog Post: Student feedback and the 70-496 Exam
As the TFS courseware author and lead ALM trainer for QuickLearn, I work hard to try to make sure our eight TFS 2013 courses are best of breed. Students who attend our training are often doing so not...
View ArticleBlog Post: ESB Toolkit Tip #7: Use Business Rules to make your solution...
In classic BizTalk are Business Rules not often used in solutions because they are a bit undervalued and also out of the box you can only use them in Orchestrations. With the ESB Toolkit it’s almost...
View ArticleBlog Post: Sentinet – Service Virtualization Part 6 - BizTalk Server
In the previous post I have demonstrated how I can secure my internal BizTalk services application with X.509 certificates security (that might represent a hypothetical B2B application-to-application...
View ArticleBlog Post: End to End BizTalk Domain Setup in Windows Azure IaaS Scripts
Got a little over an hour? Get a full featured multi-server BizTalk 2013 domain running in Windows Azure IaaS! It is fully configured with Send, Receive, Processing, and Tracking hosts all ready to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Benchmarking in BizTalk
So I guess most of you are aware that benchmarking of the environment and your applications are critical for your environment, when it comes to tuning and to see how well your applications are...
View ArticleBlog Post: Proxy madness – System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException
One of our customers removed their ISA proxy and had removed all the proxy settings from all the send ports but one set of WCF-Custom send adapters showed an erratic behaviour. For short periods of...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Mapper: Working With Nillable Values (xsi:nil="true")
Basically there are two properties inside the schema element decides whether an element can be absent from the document: Min Occurs and Nillable. If Min Occurs property is set 0 then that element can...
View ArticleBlog Post: 4 big features added in BizTalk360 version 7.5 to make your life...
This blog post is just a quick update on what we are working on for the past few months. We are pretty much ready, we are on final stage of QA verifying all the edge cases. Version 7.5 will be...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure BizTalk services–My learning’s 4 Troubleshooting
I discovered today how to troubleshoot using the WADLogsTable with the help of “Getting Started with BizTalk Azure Services” by Jon Fancey et al. I was calling some custom code to write to on-premise...
View ArticleBlog Post: Guest presenter during Build, Release and Monitor course
During the first run of our new Build, Release and Monitor software with Visual Studio 2013 course this week we had a special guest presenter for the topics of Application Insights and Cloud Load...
View ArticleBlog Post: Build an Azure IaaS BizTalk Single Server or Domain – Win $100 or...
This is the biggest contest I have had in the 10+ years I have been blogging! In all12 prizes to give away!The top prize of $100 will be awarded to the person with the best feedback! This could be...
View ArticleBlog Post: ESB Toolkit Tip #8: Modify and Extend the BizTalk ESB Toolkit
The strength of the ESB Toolkit is that it’s highly extensible so you can create your own services and components to suit your specific requirements. For example, you may want to change the behavior of...
View ArticleBlog Post: Looking back at ITPROceed 2014!
A few Codit employees went to the ITPROceed event which tries to fill the void left by the cancellation of the Belgian Techdays. Here is their take on some of the sessions there.
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