BizTalk - Sam Gentile If (DeveloperTask==Communication && OS==Windows)

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New and Notable 261: As Jon notes , the BizTalk course in NYC that he taught is over. I want to thank Jon for a great course. If you want to take the best BizTalk (or WF or WCF) courses around, you want to see Jon and Pluralsight. I also really enjoyed hanging out with Jon...
Posted 08 August 2008 02:25 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Silverlight, IronRuby, IronPython, New and Notable, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, Mocks, SQL Server 2008

Live Blog - Day 3 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation: I thought today may be a good topic for my audience as it go well together with my 3 part WF series just as some of yesterday augments this post on WCF 101 . WF Windows Workflow Foundation WF is a Framework for building Workflow-enabled applications It...
Posted 06 August 2008 09:12 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: WCF, WF, Windows Workflow, WCF/Indigo, BizTalk, BizTalk Server

Live Blog - Day 2 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - WCF Send Adapters: WCF Send Adapters Each receive adapter has a corresponding Send adapter Except WCF-CustomIsolated Send Adapters build up a channel stack dynamically Using generic contract definitions and ChannelFactory Channel Stack built based on Send Port config No...
Posted 05 August 2008 10:06 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: WCF, WCF/Indigo, BizTalk, BizTalk Server

Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - WCF Adapter Receiving: BizTalk AND WCF WCF fits nicely into the BT architecture Both have pluggable protocol stacks WCF Receieve Adapters expose WCF endpoints Messages routed to BT via BT Adapter API HTTP based binding are isolated (run in W3WP.exe) Send Adapters build a dynamic...
Posted 04 August 2008 03:21 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, WCF/Indigo, BizTalk, BizTalk Server

Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - WCF for BizTalk Developers Continued: DataContract Attribute which controls serialization/deserialization between .NET and XML New serialization layer Hmm, ClientViaBehavior allows us to use tracing tools like TcpTrace and make it cool with WS-Addressing (didn't know about this) Behaviors...
Posted 04 August 2008 12:34 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, WCF/Indigo, BizTalk, BizTalk Server

Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Course - Intro to WCF for BizTalk Developers: What is WCF? Again, Microsoft's next way of distributed dev technology "open up your mind" - not just WS-* - universal framework to communicate with anything Reminiscing about DCOM :) ah, DCOMCONFIG If (DeveloperTask==Communication &&...
Posted 04 August 2008 10:46 AM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, WCF/Indigo, BizTalk, BizTalk Server

Live Blog - Day 1 Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - Introduction to BizTalk Server 2006 R2: I am going to try to do a live blog as I did for the 2 day at PDC for this four-day course that I am taking with Jon Flanders in NYC. Looks like today will have a lot of WCF so that's good for me. Instead of doing the labs on the provided machines...
Posted 04 August 2008 08:38 AM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, WCF/Indigo, BizTalk, BizTalk Server

Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Course and Jon's REST Book, NYC: As Jon notes , he is working on a WCF REST book. It's been an honor to be one of his Tech Reviewers. I am learning a whole lot about REST and even some about Web programming in WCF 3.5. He also notes that I am sitting on his Pluralsight BizTalk Server...
Posted 03 August 2008 02:53 PM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Personal, Personal and Family (Non-Technical), BizTalk, BizTalk Server, REST

Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals in Big Apple: I am super excited to finally be taking a comprehensive BizTalk Server course to add to my skill set. I am taking the Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals course in NYC the week of 8/4. I am even more thrilled that my good friend Jon Flanders...
Posted 21 July 2008 02:43 PM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: BizTalk, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services

How Can I Help You With Your WCF/WF/Neuron/Messaging Needs Today?: I mentioned that I was looking for new opportunitie s but I have decided to concentrate my independent Microsoft .NET consulting on all things Connected Systems and Messaging. I see many shops around the country struggling with WCF and WF. In this area...
Posted 18 July 2008 11:00 AM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: Personal, WCF, SOA, WF, WCF/Indigo, Microsoft, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services, Neudesic, NeuronESB, Service Oriented Architecture, Windows Workflow Foundation, SOAP. Google. Web 2.0, Windows Communication Foundation, Neuron ESB, Neuron, Software Archiitecture, SOAP, S+S, SAML, NServiceBus

New and Notable 250: Visual Studio Peter says he is hooked on Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio color scheme and so am I! I am using it 100% now. An Amazing Introduction to NDepend BizTalk/WCF/WF/SOA My friend Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility deep dive on...
Posted 09 July 2008 02:42 PM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, BizTalk, NDepend, Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft SOA: Inadequate?: ZapThink has some strong opinions on Microsoft SOA centering around Microsoft defining SOA as integration, particularly web services integration, not broader Enterprise Architecture (They called them "tone deaf." :). For me, there is some truth...
Posted 05 July 2008 11:01 AM by Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: SOA, Microsoft, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services, Connected Systems, CSD, Enterprise Architecture, ESB, Service Oriented Architecture, ESB Guidance, Enterprise Service Bus, S+S

New and Notable 248: BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new Whitepaper "Integrating...
Posted 13 June 2008 09:35 AM by Sam Gentile
Filed under: Silverlight, WCF, SOA, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, BizTalk

New and Notable 245: Co-Workers Mark Bosley is finding out that Reflector is the Swiss Knife of Workflow programming Meanwhile, resident Neuron genius David Pallmann goes through the story of being " Licensed to WSDL " :) Computer Languages/Functional Languages...
Posted 25 May 2008 11:50 AM by Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: WCF, SOA, IronRuby, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, BizTalk, Neudesic, Service Oriented Architecture, Sharepoint, SOAP. Google. Web 2.0, F#

New and Notable 243: P&P/Design Patterns I have been in a customer situation where I have been using a combination of the SAB+VAB+LAB from EntLib in order to create a custom Claims-Based identity system configured with SAB rules expressed with VAB expressions. It had...
Posted 19 May 2008 08:12 AM by Sam Gentile | 5 comment(s)
Filed under: Design Patterns, New and Notable, BizTalk, Enterprise Library, PAG, P & P, Visual Studio 2008