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BizTalk 2010 Developer is available

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During European BizTalk Conference we were told BizTalk 2010 was going to be released before end of September and moment has come. It offers a developer edition, which can be downloaded . BizTalk Server 2010 Developer is a free edition of BizTalk Server that enables developers to build and test applications that run on BizTalk Server on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.  BizTalk Server 2010 Developer includes all of the functionality of Enterprise Edition, but is licensed only for development, test, and demo use.  Solutions from BizTalk Server 2010 Developer Edition can easily be packaged and deployed to a production environment that is configured with any other edition of BizTalk Server 2010. Besides that BizTalk Server 2010 introduces a new feature “ AppFabric Connect ”, which combines rich proven features of BizTalk Server and the flexible development experience of .NET to allow users to easily develop simple integration applications (See Installing the BizTalk Server 2010 Ap

BizTalk Server 2010 Documentation – Beta and Posters

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BizTalk Server 2010 Documentation – Beta is available through Microsoft Download Center. Here you will find documents like: BizTalkServer2010.exe BizTalkServer2010HXS.exe Installing BizTalk Server 2010 and BAM in a Multi-Computer Environment.docx Installing BizTalk Server 2010 on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.docx Installing BizTalk Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2008.docx KWUserGuide.exe PartyMigrationTool.exe Troubleshooting BizTalk Server 2010 Setup.docx Upgrading to BizTalk Server 2010 from BizTalk Server 2009 or 2006 R2.docx Besides the documentation a new set of posters is available: BizTalk Server 2010 BAM Poster This poster describes BizTalk Server 2010 BAM concepts, processes, and management for both new and experienced users. BizTalk Server 2010 Runtime Architecture Poster The poster depicts message flow, data flow, and references that occur at runtime in BizTalk Server 2010. BizTalk Server 2010 Capa

European BizTalk Conference: Stockholm

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Few weeks ago I registered for BizTalk 2010 Release Party in Stockholm organized by Swedish BizTalk User Group led by Mikael Håkansson and Johan Hedberg . I went to this event that took place this week on Wednesday and Thursday. It turned out that BizTalk wasn’t released yet, it will happen somewhere at end of this month as we were told. Event was renamed to European BizTalk Conference, while most sessions where about AppFabric which is good (I will tell why in a minute). AppFabric can mean two things: Windows Azure platform AppFabric and Windows Server AppFabric enable IT professionals to build and manage applications more easily both on-premises and in the cloud . It is important to know when people talk about AppFabric in what context on- or off premises. Just recently the Windows Server AppFabric Customer Advisory Team released the Windows Server AppFabric Architecture Guide .There have one good resource already, but there is more: This book just released through Pack Pub

Learning BizTalk Server: How to start?

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On BizTalk Server General forum I sometimes see people asking how to start learning BizTalk. Responses to these questions vary a little and links are provided to numerous resources, but what would be a good starting point? In my view the Microsoft BizTalk Server site and BizTalk Server Developer Center are good starting points. A successful  learning path for BizTalk Server depends on: Knowledge of .NET and Visual Studio (BizTalk artefacts); Knowledge of SQL Server since BizTalk depends on SQL Server (see BizTalk Architecture picture below); For publish/subscribe, see patterns/practices article and understanding BizTalk Server 2009 . Invest in time and money, a good training from experienced professionals can speed up the process of learning BizTalk. Spend time to build up routine and experience. Knowledge of .NET and Visual Studio Development for BizTalk Server is done through Visual Studio . Visual Studio has templates for BizTalk artefacts like orchestrat

BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework Controller: My First Experience

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In past I have used log4net or System.Diagnostics.Trace component of .NET for logging and tracing. Until a few months ago the post Best Practices for Instrumenting High Performance BizTalk Solutions got my attention. I read it, but did not start using it directly as I wasn’t doing any development. These days I sometimes am involved in development of BizTalk solutions, so moment was there. Recently BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework Controller was released on CodePlex . The BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework is a high performance tracing/logging framework for BizTalk that builds upon the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) infrastructure. It was created by Microsoft's BizTalk Customer Advisory Team (CAT). The Controller is an easy-to-use GUI for the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework. My thinking was why don’t I try this UI out in combination with Microsoft AppFabric CAT Best Practices Samples . The BizTalk Instrumentation Best Practices Samples solution provides a reus