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Finally! Its taken me like 5 years to get to 200. I sometimes I wish I was prolific like Mike Gunderloy. The really sad part is the first 3+ years of my blogs are not even up on the net right now as they are buried in a SQL Server database on an old host and in .TEXT format. Windows Workflow Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflows Starter Kit - A starter kit Web application that includes task-oriented workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation. Simple Human Workflow QuickStart Sample Code - for Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 - Simple Human Workflow Quickstart Sample Code associated with an MSDN article Simple Human Workflow Quickstart woth WF, AD, Exchange, and IM WF Persistence and Tracking Services for Oracle and MySQL Orcas/Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5 Soma confirmed , at TechEd Europe, what many of us know already; that VS2008 and .NET Framework will ship by Thanksgiving Daniel Moth presents The Top Ten Things to Know About Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace poster Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance [via Mike ] WCF/BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems My good friend, Jesus Rodriguez, who I spent a lot of time with last week, has his demos from last week's WCF Adapter session My friend Aaron also has WCF Adapters Deep Dive demos from the conference My collegue, David Pallmann, has his first report from the SOA conference and says it was the "People First." He's exactly right Read More...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM is a perfect example of why REST is so powerful and should be used in many scenarios like that. Some people seem to confuse me with being anti-REST. The only thing I am anti is the REST zealots (not at all Jon). If I have learned anything in the last 25 years in this field, it is that there are no absolutes, no black and whites. There are REST situations, there are SOAP situations but in the end there is still an SOA, or at least an architecture that organizes loosely coupled business resources/processes behind service interfaces Getting Started with HL7 V3 and BizTalk Server 2006 - This paper provides developers with an overview of HL7 version 3 Messaging (HL7 v3) concepts, how to build HL7 v3 solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2006, and how to convert message format from HL7 v3 to HL7 Version 2 Messaging (HL7 v2). Low Latency Messaging in BizTalk? I'll believe when I see it but Tim Rayburn says that Oliver Sharp has committed to it being part of BizTalk Oslo. I think it is safe to say that this is our biggest pain point with BizTalk SOA Aligning Business and IT for Greater Corporate Agility (through SOA) - This 65-page PPT (in 22 page 3 slide format) explores Microsoft's Read More...
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As I stated yesterday, this is an exciting session. This is the first time in the Microsoft stack that we have been given what us Service designers have wanted - Contract First (Christian Weyer's tool was a first step) because, as Christian says, "It's All About Agreements!" Its the Contract that matters, period. The modeling capabilities go a long way in V3 and you DON'T have to wait 2-3 years for Oslo for this portion on it. I am sitting here next to my collegue David Pallmann, who of course helped build Indigo in Building 42 so it's kind of sureal :) Live blog: Crazy week as Don as been trying to ship this week plus prepare for the conference Take-away's Modeling services is here and here to stay The Service Factory can be bent to your will Development tools and automation are continuing to gain popularity in the .NET community · Software Factories o Help you build a specific kind of application o Imply a process for the dev team o Incorporate various content types of guidance § Readables § Reusables § Executables § Actionables · Target Audiences o Teams building Web Services § Different team roles may have different tasks § Clear distinction between design and implementation § Encourages a layered service architecture o Teams building development tools § A growing trend in .NET development § Guidance: Captures and reuses the “rockstar” § Code Gen: Isolate unit testing and increase predictability · Goals, Motivations and Scope o For Web Service Read More...
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I only went to one session yesterday, as I spent a lot of time talking to our customers and potential customers as well as three hours with a a potential new hire. I have to say, is there is *huge* interest in our ESB - Neuron. It's a real world need - people are seeing a big gap in the product line and it fills it. Its that simple. Here are rough notes on a good session I attended on SOA Governance. SOA Governance and the Microsoft Ecosystem Governance Types Corp Governance IT Governance SOX, Codes/Rules of Conduct Enterprise Architecture IT Portfolio Mgmt Project Governance SOA Governance (specialization of existing governance) - Design time - Runtime We want to look at Governance along the entire Service Lifecycle Map lifecycle to MSF Microsoft Philosophy MSBA across Envisioning and planning - id key capabilities - great entry point MOF across Runtime Governance across Run time Governance MSF overall end to end guidance - baked into VS VS 2005 across 4 out of 5 Windows Server (UDDI, etc) SCOM 2007 across last .NET 3 (WCF) across all 5 Partners - SOA Software and AmberPoint Overall Portfolio and Project Management SOA Design Time Governance Applies across Envisioning, Planning and Developing Design time includes capabilities Microsoft Approach SOA Roadmap Management Microsoft Project Portfolio Server = Service Capability Determination - MSBA - Shared Service ID MSBA (formerly Microsoft Motion) Looks at it from capability rather than process value Create Service Model from Read More...
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Ok, they have said it in public here. What is it? A huge vision from Microsoft for a modern SOA platform. I think its been safe to say, that when people like us have come aggainst IBM or TIBCO with the current Microsoft SOA products and process, it has been, well, challenging, because of the "gaps". That is all changing today. What we're seeing here changes everything! Oslo in a Nutshell Services - Extending services from the client to the cloud Models - Making models a mainstream part of the development The public press release is here . This multiyear, multiproduct effort utilizes the company’s top engineering talent to build on the model-driven and service-enabled principles of Microsoft Dynamic IT ( http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jun07/06-04TechED07PR.mspx ) and extend the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA) beyond the firewall. The “Oslo” technology innovations further Microsoft software-plus-services efforts by providing extensions to the application platform to help developers bridge between on-premise and off-premise projects. As part of a technical road map, Microsoft made available new tools and guidance to help organizations take advantage of “real-world SOA” today, including new SOA resources from Microsoft and a host of industry partners. Oslo Products - izTalk Server "6", BizTalk Services "1", Visual Studio "10", System Center "5", .NET Framework "4" 1. create models 2. store Read More...
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5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the whole way Microsoft does SOA, which I will be permitted (finally!) later to blog so stay tuned here. First up was Don Ferguson , who used to be an IBM Fellow, and created Web Sphere is giving the first keynote. Why did you leave IBM and come to Microsoft? " The reality - We helped change the world of enterprise apps and use of the web" (WebSphere) I helped change the world of interoperability with Microsoft by Web Services I want to change the world again 1. Next up is Robert Wahbe, Corporate VP, who is responsible for CSD - 1000 people - Sold out! - 72 Sessions - Real World SOA It's Time to change the game Maybe we can make these apps faster by assembling services in a model-driven way - dialogue between IT and business Improving the s/w dev lifecycle Integrating w existing apps and services What is We Going to Do? We have been a leader. WE are going to double down on Services ,extend from the client all the way to the cloud, hosted (Software +Services) - Problem is also Relationships - End to End View - Skill Set - Ecosystem 2nd BIG BET investment is a Model-Driven Platform - We think we can increase 10X in TCO, Productivity, Agility Product Roadmap Microsoft ESB Guidance - Arch guidance - Reusable components - Sample Read More...
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Aaron's WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2 paper is up! Read More...
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Day 2 of the course. Discovered Twitter last night but having problems with my account (currently cannot log in and can't reset password) so here goes. Last night, had a great dinner with Tim Rayburn and a bunch of BizTalk MVPs. Lots of great discussions. Aaron has been shuttling me around with Jon and Matt, so I am getting to spend great quality time with the Pluralsight guys. This course rocks BTW and I would highly recommend it! Today, we start with what’s New in BizTalk Server R2. I have to get much deeper in BizTalk so this is going to be great! I am really excited about the new WCF Adapters - should make writing adapters much easier and standard EDI baked into R2 will help a lot of my customers - huge in health care I have noticed, HIPAA WCF is Microsoft's distributed computing technology Similar to SOAP Adapter in 2004/2006 although WCF Adapter can run in-proc and get new protocols (TCP, Named Pipes, MSMQ) + WS-* EDI is a core feature of R2, no more Covast needed Support for both X12 and EDIFACT EDI never goes away!! We all want it to be "XML" Supplants HIPAA accelerator Over 8,000 EDI schemas (4.39 GB unpacked!!) Drummond Group certified AS2 (HTTP EDIINT) Implemented in the Pipeline - no Adapters EDI screens look scary :) Man, there is a lot of stuff! BAM = distributed infrastructure for declarative extraction of business/operational data Interceptors/API allow data extract Tools for viewing and Alerts Two new BAM Interceptors for WCF/WF They don't Read More...
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This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Aaron is presenting a great history and goals ofd CSD. Great to see Jon again!!! Great presentation of what's new in Orcas for CSD type people. Good idea for an article :) Jon and I had our first "intense" discussion at the break about REST. Jon seems to be falling more on the REST style on things...hmm Aaron, when presenting the new Web Programming POX/REST features in 3.5 asked me for comment. I refrained, telling him "that I just gotten it out with Jon." :) Aaron introduced me to the class and my blog talking about a lot of this... Jon and I agree that Astoria rocks ! Very powerful!! It's safe to say the SOAP folks largely ignored the importance of HTTP GET Powerful REST style but there's room for both - I can do both with Orcas 3.5 POX/REST or WS-* with same ServiceHost so why should it matter anymore ? Its all good :) Is it fair to say REST is best for CRUD mostly read Web-site driven services and SOAP for Enterprise services where need Dist Tx, winodws security, Federation?? Maybe... Its not that simple....architectural considerations but surely REST becoming more important StarBucks quantity staring to climb high already... Need to re-look at UriTemplate class as Read More...
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