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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Mitch VanHelden

The BizTalk community is awesome. I get to spend time with many of them during my travels abroad when speaking to them. A week ago I had the opportunity to speak in Porto during the Oporto BizTalk Innovation event. My upcoming next BizTalk events in Italy (June) and Norway (September) are planned and its preparations have already started. BizTalk Server 2013 will soon be generally available as it is in RTM right now . I believe many BizTalk professionals that have access to MSDN and must have downloaded and installed it already on a VM. Like one of my colleagues, who has already posted a nice article on which possible issues you might run into when installing the 2013 RTM. The story today for the BizTalk community series will be on Mitch VanHelden , who also recently blogged on the RTM release . Mitch is 27 years old, married to Anne-Lore and has two lovely kids (a 4-year old boy Lars and a 2-year old daughter Chloë). He lives with his family in a small town called Rotem , in B

BizTalk Server 2013: It is RTM now!

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I will be not the first nor last one that will blog, tweet or share through other social media that BizTalk Server 2013 is RTM . The 8th release in little over twelve years. That is amazing as I do not believe any Server Product has such a release cadence. Impressive as the Microsoft BizTalk Server Product keeps pushing out new features in the product. There was talk, rumors or loud statements that this product was near its end. Some even pronounced or claimed it was dead. Au contraire is still alive as Microsoft will keep innovating the on-premise version. Besides on-premise you can run BizTalk in a VM i.e. IaaS solution for development/testing purposes. That is not all as BizTalk Services will follow in the Windows Azure Platform. This will be an enhancement of the previous EAI/EDI labs. Microsoft’s BizTalk strategy will be that there is one BizTalk, on-premise and in the cloud. The cadence of the Windows Azure BizTalk Services will differ as it will be innovated in a faster p

BizTalk Innovation Day, Porto – The experience

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The fourth event after Milan , Stavanger and London with the BizTalkCrew on stage was a success. Around 45 people attended the event in Porto, Casa do Infante . We had a special guest over from the Microsoft Product Group, Akshat Sharma , who did a session (keynote) on BizTalk Server 2013/BizTalk Services. Both Akshat and Tord were delayed so I was the first one the climb the stage for my session on cloud based adapters in BizTalk Server 2013. In case you are interested in exploring the new BizTalk adapters yourself here is a list of resources: General BizTalk Server 2013 Beta Documentation BizTalk Server 2013 New Adapter Series   SB-Messaging Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter Service Bus Messaging: Queues, SB-Messaging Adapter – Part II BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 1 BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 2 BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Service Bus Integration–Part 3 BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP: Azure Se

BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: WCF-WebHttp

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The support for REST has been anticipated for a long time by BizTalk developers. A majority of the services in the cloud these days is REST based. When exposing a public API over the internet to handle CRUD operations on data REST has now generally been considered the best option. Twitter, Google, Salesforce, eBay, Amazon all offer REST API's to use their services. Not only these, but many more companies support REST or will support it as the number of mobile devices and light weight rich (Ajax) web applications will increase significantly coming years. In previous posts on the new adapters available with BizTalk Server 2013 I discussed both the Relay adapters: BasicHttp , NetTcpRelay and the Service Bus SB-Messaging . In this post I like to discuss the WCF-WebHttp adapter in his current state in the BizTalk Server 2013 Beta. The adapter offers the capability to send messages and to receive messages from a RESTful Service endpoints. Note: Since BizTalk sends out message bodi