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Interview in Automatiserings Gids
19 September 08 03:27 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Recently I've been interviewed by Automatiserings Gids about fragmentation in .NET. Read the article here Read More...
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Testing in integration solutions
25 March 08 05:05 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
I recently told something about testing and BizTalk for the BizTalk User Group and wrote an article about this subject (Dutch). Material will be online soon... Read More...
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BizTalk 2006 Best Practices Analyzer
13 September 07 03:17 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
A really helpful tool to see whether Best Practices are applied to your BizTalk solution. Read More...
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Exposing a BizTalk webservice that accepts generic content
07 September 07 10:52 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
In a BizTalk HTTP messaging scenario, it's fairly common to have one port that receives all message types. Depending on the message type (and perhaps some other properties) messages are routed to different destinations. You can implement the same pattern Read More...
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The future of BizTalk / WCF / WF
07 September 07 10:46 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
A lot of guessing and many new questions in this good article by Tomas Restrepo on the future of BizTalk / WCF / WF. Read More...
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Property Demotion
31 August 07 02:51 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Most people working with BizTalk have heard of property promotion, in fact property promotion is very important in CBR messaging scenarios. Property promotion makes it possible to route messages based on their content. In short, property promotion is Read More...
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BizTalk Hotrod: Where BizTalk Meets the Road...
31 August 07 09:38 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
I really like the magazines ( issue 1 , issue 2 ) on the BizTalk Hotrod website . Both the website and the articles so far contain very good and readable information on new BizTalk technologies. Read More...
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AMQP
29 August 07 11:15 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Have a look at this . AMQP is a messaging standard that looks very powerful. I wonder when a .NET / BizTalk implemention will be available. Read More...
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Schemas without namespace
21 August 07 08:59 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
It's not recommended, but sometimes you dont have a choice to use schemas without namespaces. BizTalk deals with the schemas very well, just be aware that the BTS.MessageType used in the filter will be only the rootnode, not #RootNode . Read More...
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Working on BizTalk Solution Software Factory
17 August 07 12:01 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 1 Comments   
I'm working on a new version of the BizTalk Software Factory, enhancing the old version with functionality to create pipeline components. Futher on, the new version will contain a DSL for creating CBR solutions. Future plans are to include functionality Read More...
Covast & R2
24 July 07 04:49 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
With the coming of native EDI support in BizTalk 2006 R2, many people thought Covast would not be involved in creating EDI solutions with BizTalk. Well, that's not what's going to happen. Covast adds the very specific standards, like EDIG@S, ODETTE and Read More...
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BizTalk Documenter
23 July 07 03:50 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Many developers use this great BizTalk Documenter tool to create a CHM report describing their BizTalk configuration. Just a quick tip: when you get the error message " Unable to locate the help compiler executable ", go download the HTML Help Workshop Read More...
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Orchestration Profiler
23 July 07 12:03 PM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
Have a look at this tool! BizTalk 2006 Orchestration Profiler creates reports on the level of coverage of the orchestrations when testing them. The reports show the percentage covered and some metrics, so you can easily identify performance bottlenecks Read More...
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.NET Magazine
20 July 07 11:21 AM | Dick Dijkstra | 0 Comments   
A while ago I wrote an article on Failed Message Routing in BizTalk, it was published in the dutch .NET Magazine ( click ). An article on BAM of a former collegue of mine, Sander Schutten , was published in the same issue ( click ). Christian Siegers Read More...
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