Survey Results: The Current State of Application Integration
Before my recent trip to Europe to discuss technology trends that impact application integration, I hunted down a bunch of smart integration folks to find out what integration looks like today. What...
View ArticleIntroducing the T-Connect EDI File Splitter
A common trend that we have been seeing recently is the similarities in the pain points that companies are often faced with. One of those such pain points is the difficulty in quickly receiving and...
View ArticleLost Messages Caused By MSDTC Problems
Recently I was asked to assist an organization using BizTalk that was experiencing problems on their BizTalk 2010 production environment. They were losing incoming messages and were unable to figure...
View ArticleBizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices book [Free] released
I public announced for the first time that I was working in an eBook about BizTalk Mapping Patterns and Best Practices, and that it would be published for free, this March during BizTalk Summit 2014...
View ArticleBizTalk Innovation Day, Oslo – story of the day
This is a guest blog post by Sandro Pereira, one of the speakers of the event. Sandro Pereira works as a BizTalk Consultant at Devscope. Over the last few years, Sandro has been working on integration...
View ArticleWCF-WebHttp and custom JSON error messages
I’m currently working on a solution that exposes a BizTalk Orchestration as a RESTful webservice using WCF-WebHttp. Upon successful processing of the message, the service returns binary data for the...
View ArticleDisplaying Enhanced Rich Text in Content Query Web Part
SharePoint has the Content Query web part, which is a control that allows a user to display an aggregated list of items based on some criteria. You can choose to return items from all sites within a...
View ArticleSpeaking at LIX Encontro da Comunidade SQLPort | October 15
This post is for the BizTalk Server and SQL Server Portuguese Community, will be held on October 15, 2014 between 18:30 – 21:50 the LIX SQLPort Community Meeting at the Science and Technology Park of...
View ArticleAzure DevCamps: Coming to a capital city near you!!!
Hi folks – I’m lined up to present the Azure Dev Camps over the coming weeks in Sydney, Melbourne & Brissy. Given the rate of change of Azure – there’s some amazing stuff in here. Come along for 1...
View ArticleChallenges in handling date and time in REST API and distributed web...
One of the important thing we addressed in BizTalk360 version 7.8 (releasing Oct, 2014) is a mechanism to have consistent date and time handling. Handling date and time consistently may sound very...
View ArticleBizTalk 2013 Solution Template
The mad coder has blogged about a BizTalk 2010/ Visual Studio 2008 Solution template based on Dan Rosanova’s book – BizTalk Patterns 2010 If you try to install this on BizTalk 2013/ Visual Studio 2012...
View ArticleSerializing Custom .Net Types for use with the Azure Redis Cache
In my previous post I looked at a real-world example of using the new Azure Redis Cache. One thing that was missing was the storing of custom .Net Types as cache values, which we’ll look at here. The...
View ArticleComparing Clouds: IaaS Provisioning Experience
There is no perfect cloud platform. Shocking, I know. Organizations choose the cloud that best fits their values and needs. Many factors go into those choices, and it can depend on who is evaluating...
View ArticleInstalling SharePoint 2010 SP2
I was tasked last week with learning how to install SharePoint 2010 as part of our SharePoint IT Training Module. It’ll be easy they told me, or maybe they didn’t tell me that and I told myself that....
View Article1 month, 3 events – The story
This last few days were quite busy in terms of speaking engagements. In less than 1 months I was invited to speak in 3 events: BizTalk Innovation Day Oslo, LIX Edition of SQLPort Community (Porto –...
View ArticleMABS - BizTalk Portal Supports Organizational Accounts
For some time now, one of the top customer request has been the ability to manage BizTalk Portal with corporate (Active Directory) identities rather than just the Microsoft accounts (Live IDs). With...
View ArticleBizTalk360 version 7.8 released – Advanced Process Monitoring
We are still maintaining the agile way of building BizTalk360, listening to customers feedback and bring 4-5 key features in every release once in 4 months. Our last major release 7.5 was back in...
View ArticleBizTalk360 version 7.8 released – EDI reporting, System Profile and User Profile
In the first part of the 7.8 release article, we covered in detail about BizTalk Server “Advanced Process Monitoring” capabilities we added in 7.8 release. In this part 2 article let’s take a deep look...
View ArticleCreating a Windows 10 Preview VHD That Can Run as a Hyper-V VM and Can Boot...
Introduction When the Windows 10 Technical Preview came out earlier this month, I wanted to see kick the tires a bit and see what was new. However, I need my laptop to work reliably, so I couldn’t take...
View ArticleBizTalk360 version 7.8 released
BizTalk360 just released their latest version 7.8 with interesting new features. With this new release comes some very interesting new features that make it even easier to actively monitor and maintain...
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