The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0, formerly known as the ESB Guidance 2.0 - was released on the June 9th to the web on the new ESB page in the BizTalk Developer Center on MSDN. This toolkit is a collection of tools and libraries that extends BizTalk Server 2009 capabilities of supporting a loosely coupled and dynamic messaging architecture. It functions as middleware that provides tools for rapid mediation between services and their consumers. Enabling maximum flexibility at run time, the BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 simplifies loosely coupled composition of service endpoints and management of service interactions.    more »

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an architectural pattern and a key enabler in implementing the infrastructure for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Real-world experience has demonstrated that an ESB is only one of many components required to build a comprehensive service-oriented infrastructure (SOI). The term "ESB" has various interpretations in the market, which have evolved over time; however, the basic challenge it addresses is the same.   more »

TechEd is in its 10th year and is positioned to be the best yet! Teched is starting to sound like the super bowl in the USA. However.... be sure to take advantage of the Super Early Bird offer   more »

Are you aware there is a BizTalk Server Dev Center?? There is some very Nice Biztalk 2009 documentation here which is well worth the effort, as the 2009 release is out, you should now know that you need to do BizTalk the right way.   more »

Come and get some of the cool BizTalk Related videos from this years USA Tech-ED   more »

The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and the BizTalk UA Team are pleased to announce the Release To Web of the “Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper-V Guide”. The guide provides relevant information to IT professionals to enable them to make educated decisions about the advantages and tradeoffs of using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to virtualize BizTalk Server environments. This guidance is a result of 6 months of effort including a 6-week performance lab conducted by the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team.   more »

I came across a little nasty, when trying to send email from the smtp adapter. If you look down deep ...   more »

If you wish to call a .net method from an orchestration.   more »

Try not to use the System.XML.XmlDocument object inside an orchestration, or receive messages of this type   more »

Wishing to upgrade to BizTalk r2, from previous BizTalk versions, 2004 or 2006, and then upgdrade heir servers at the same time, or move to new servers, and then upgrade their sql servers.... Not exactly standard installs for BizTalk...   more »