I thought today may be a good topic for my audience as it go well together with my 3 part WF series (link here...) just as some of yesterday augments this post on WCF 101. Technorati Tags: WF , Windows Workflow , WCF , Indigo , BizTalk Server

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 way (or need) to specify contract Outbound message just has to match remote adapter Policies need to match       Technorati Tags: BizTalk Server , WCF

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.       Technorati Tags: BizTalk , BizTalk Server

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 && OS==Windows) - love it! Stack extremely pluggable WCF Channels WCF communicates using a set if objects that work together in a cooperative manner to implement a particular communication requirement Objects are referred to generally as "Channels"

  Technorati Tags: BizTalk Server , WCF

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 Channel Stack No proxy needed in Orchestration or Send Port ala SOAP Adapter Configuration stored with Receieve Location or Send Port instead of app config file Use same WCF config for supported features One adapter per supported OOB Binding WCF

I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight . The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with the CSD folks to truly understand the behavior of the One Way messaging and its implications on blocking/asynchronous behavior. I will present those findings tonight. Silverlight My friend Ambrose , and

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, I have been a part of the WCF and WF SDRs for 4 years now since the beginning and part of the large 2-year WCF and WF effort at Algorithmics. I am available, on a consulting basis , to help you with your WCF, WF and BizTalk needs. In addition, I believe

I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I always wanted to start a written series based on these talks. Since, I can't sleep tonight, this is Part 1. In this series, I would like to discuss a lot of concepts that are not tied to any particular technology stack whatsoever . SOA requires a Paradigm Shift in thinking and I am very interested in getting

I am so far behind at this point that I don't know how much of this is "new." MIX08/ASP.NET/ASP.NET MVCAJAX/Silverlight Mix 08 Sessions Published A bunch of posts from ScottGu ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update Feb 17th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET .NET 3.5 Client Product Roadmap First Look at Silverlight 2 BizTalk My good friend Tomas on BizTalk Send Adapters and Failures How to use BizTalk Services with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 BizTalk Operations Guide live!