We got together recently at teched, and spoke about the concept of workflow, and SharePoint being a great host for human based workflow. No I have not changed my spots to become a SharePoint person, I have enhanced my spots my looking above and beyond what just BizTalk can offer. There is a lot more to life these days, for those who have been living in the dark, there is the whole world of connected systems, and workflow foundation. The opportunities to use the technology that BizTalk started have expanded. This is one example of thinking out side of the box, and taking full advantage of this technology. It may even go as far as explain where BizTalk is positioned in light of Dublin, and the new WF 4.0. SharePoint is a good user interface, it can provide workflow capabilities, but more importantly it can draw users in and get them to fill in forms and answer the questions that a human based workflow might require, such as approvals, or provide this invoice, and the like, these can all be handled in a document library in SharePoint. They are placed there perhaps as part of a workflow, or part of a business process.   more »

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Get into Microsoft Tag it, at the recent Teched here, all MVPs had a Tag assoicated with our names, ...   more »

Microsoft .NET 4.0, and WCF 4 and WF 4 are all comming..... VS 2010 is availbe for beta 1 download..... Now you need to get up to speed.... have a look at the training... WCF / WF 4 Training Kit: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfwf4/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2698   more »

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 »

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

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