Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

A couple of weeks ago Jean-Paul Smit released BizTalk Software Factory V1.5. I myself want to start with next part of my High Performance Learning Environment for BizTalk i.e. development. This factory is useful if you want to start developing BizTalk solutions. In a previous post I already described the previous version of the BizTalk Software Factory. This version has improved a lot and there are features in them like unit tests. Besides developing your solutions testing is very important to eventually end up with a robust solution. I downloaded new BizTalk Server Factory and installed it on my virtual machine (I first had to uninstall the previous version). I then opened up VS2005 and started a new project; type BizTalk Software Factory Solution. I created a snk file and created a BizTalk Solution with all options. I noticed that a couple of solutions were generated and even unit tests. I then found out biztunit and nunit were not properly installed or installed at all. So I had...

Jean-Paul Smit released v1.0 of BizTalk Software Factory and supplies guidance for developing BizTalk applications. This release is based on the project Dick Dijkstra started a year ago on CodePlex (BASF). It has been extended with functionality, consists of source code, some documentation and one can do the following: * Create BizTalk multi project solution structures using a wizard * Create BizTalk single project solution, grouping artifacts into folders, using a wizard * Guidance for adding Schemas to a project * Guidance for adding Maps to a project * Guidance for adding Orchestrations to a project * Guidance for adding pipelines to a project. I downloaded this from Codeplex and gave it try on my VPC image containing, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installed on Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2 with Visual Studio 2005 Professional ( NOT TFS ) as IDE. Steps I took to make it work were/are as follows: (1) Download BSF from codeplex; (2) Do not forget Guidance Automation Extentions 1...