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Microsoft’s Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team ( CAT)

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Microsoft’s Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team ( CAT) has launched a new blog focused on AppFabric (both Windows Server AppFabric and Azure AppFabric), WCF, WF, BizTalk, data modeling and StreamInsight. This team contains the artists-formerly-known-as-BizTalk-Rangers, and they provide deep expertise on BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, WCF, WF, AppFabric Caching and StreamInsight (CEP). These technologies become more and more important in time to come, when it comes to integration, process automation, SOA and Cloud Computing. This is something to look at closely and I suggest to digest it’s content. Also I suggest to read Richard’s post on Microsoft Customer Advisory Teams, and why should know them. Technorati: biztalk server 2010 appfabric

BizTalk 2010: Changed features and tools

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  I have been reading through BizTalk 2010 Technical Review   and noticed that a few things have been changed in BizTalk 2010 compared to current 2009 version. SQL Adapter has been removed and one should now turn to WCF-SQL Adapter that is a part of BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0. Although in my BizTalk Server 2010 Beta environment on VPC, I still see the SQL Adapter. In forums I notice still a lot of people use the standard out-of-the box SQL Adapter and they will have to make the shift towards WCF-SQL Adapter in future.For anyone who likes wants to learn more, the article on Packt Publishing by Richard Seroter called New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: WCF SQL Server Adapter is a good starting point and as a follow up my previous post WCF-SQL Table Operations discusses how to set it up the adapter and how CRUD operations on tables in SQL Server work.  Another change is that BizTalk Explorer tool in Visual Studio 2010 is not available for BizTalk Server 2010. Any administra

Microsoft Windows Azure Revisited

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Well it almost seems ages ago, but it almost two years ago Microsoft launched Windows Azure. After the PDC’08 I wrote a post called the future is in the cloud   and some responded: “ this cloud thing is going to be huge. But, the question if Microsoft will also be huge. I think the clear market leader at the moment is Amazon, followed by Google ”. Where is it now? According to this article ‘ Microsoft's Windows Azure: What a difference a year makes ’ a lot has changed. I notice it to as Windows Azure is getting more press releases here in the Netherlands in different magazine (on- and offline). Even I have just recently wrote another article around Service Bus for Dutch Technet magazine, which basically a little more detailed story found on Windows Azure website . Cloud computing is starting to be big business and Microsoft will be one of the providers for it together with Google and Amazon. As IT professional I am starting to get more involved into it, like integration b

BizTalk, SalesForce and MSMQ – Part II

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In this post I would like to continue, where I left of in Part I where a did a run down in setting up an account at SalesForce, building a service and how to consume its WSDL. Also explained some security details necessary for communication with your SalesForce service. In an orchestration you can consume a web service build in SalesForce, through running BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard. If you run the wizard and pick WDSL generated for your service BizTalk will generate schema and binding file for you. Schema en binding file shown below. Binding file will be helpful in creating WCF-Custom send port. I have built an orchestration that consumes my created SalesForce web service. The orchestration is initiated (activated) by picking up a file form a folder location. Xml file contains account name I want to retrieve details from SalesForce. Information in the file will be used to call the service and response message is sent to MSMQ. In MessageAssign shape code from ForceToken is

WCF-SQL Adapter Table Operations

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In this post I like to show all table operations possible with WCF-SQL Adapter. The WCF based SQL Adapter can be used to connect BizTalk applications to SQL Server. WCF-SQL Adapter is part of BizTalk Server Adapter Pack 2.0, but can also be downloaded separately. To work with the adapter you will need to install the WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2 before installing this adapter. Something that is overlooked easily, which also accounts for the fact that this adapter is offered as a supplement to BizTalk Server 2009. You must have a valid license for the BizTalk Server in order to use the SQL adapter and be eligible for support and to receive updates. Important to note here are the supported operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Windows XP Service Pack 3 Windows XP SP3 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista and required is .NET 3.5 SP1. The Adapter Metadata wizard is supplied through WCF LOB Adapter