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Installing the ESB Toolkit v2.0 on Windows 7 Error: Operation Not Completed

21st August 2010

Here’s an interesting one: I was installing the ESB Toolkit 2.0 on a Win 7 x86 machine the other day, and during install got an […]

PDC2008: Introducing BizTalk Express, sorry, Dublin

28th October 2008

Just at a session on BizTalk Express, sorry Dublin… Dublin is a set of extensions to Web Application Server (WAS) also known as Web Process […]

PDC2008: Wow, look Windows 7, it’s so exci… zzzzzzzz

28th October 2008

I’m sorry, is it just me? I just can’t get excited about Windows Vista R2, sorry, Windows 7. [side note: Windows Vista, and Windows Server […]

PDC2008: Microsoft unveils Windows Azure at PDC 2008

26th October 2008

Well, I’m at the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) 2008 at the LA Convention Center in LA. The keynote session is happening at the moment […]

PDC2008: New features in C#

26th October 2008

Just been to Anders Hejlsberg’s talk on the future of C#, where he outlined what’s coming in C# 4.0 and (some) of what might come […]

Aggregating messages and removing duplicates in a BizTalk Map

20th May 2008

Aggregating messages is a fairly common task in BizTalk. By “aggregating” I mean taking two separate messages with repeating elements and combining them into a […]

System.Data.SqlXmlHelper – calling extended XPath functions from BizTalk Maps

14th March 2008

In this post:    Methods in the helper class    Notes on implementation    Installation Instructions    Problems with the Script Functoid    Examples of Usage    Download the code    Testing […]

Using Microsoft’s Extended XPath functions in BizTalk

12th March 2008

It’s not that well documented, but Microsoft have a bunch of extra functions you can use from XPath expressions within XSLT. You can find the […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Download the Article

29th February 2008

If you prefer to do your reading offline, then you can download the entire series of 13 posts as a single 68-page Microsoft Word document, […]

Understanding the BizTalk Mapper: Part 13 – Is the Mapper the best choice for Transformation in BizTalk?

28th February 2008

In this section: Transformation Choices BizTalk Mapper Custom XSLT with the BizTalk Mapper External Transform Engine Transformation in code Which one should you use? Transformation […]