BizTalk 2010 R2

This is great! Some good news of a newer release of BizTalk 2010. Taking the name of R2, there is information flying around the MVP forums as well as the web of this newer product releasing 6 months after the Windows Server 8 release.

The big gotcha ? There is no disclosure yet on the Windows 8 release date

The good news is that there is the following information around which I have consolidated. Please note that these are *NOT* confirmed.

• Expected to be released between Oct 2012 to Feb 2013
• Work and share common code base with Windows 8
• Work with VS 2011
• Work with SQL 2012
• Some promise of working with Azure Service Bus

 

The following information regarding the product itself is from the BizTalk Server Team blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2011/12/08/biztalk-server-2010-r2.aspx

 

Platform Support	Improved B2B	Ready for the Cloud
New Platforms and Infrastructure Windows Server 8* SQL Server 2012* Increased Developer and IT Productivity Visual Studio 11* and Windows 8* to develop solutions In-place migration from BizTalk Server 2010 Extended Platform Integration DB2 client connectivity to SQL Server, conversion of commands to T-SQL, migration of packages to stored procedures Adapter connectivity to new data sources, including IBM Informix V11 and IBM IMS/DB V11	Agile Alignment to Industry Standards Regular updates to schemas, accelerators certifications and adapters. Highlights include: Healthcare: HIPPA 5010 extensions: 2777CA, 999, HL7 2.5.1 Finance: SWIFT SRG 2011 support, SWIFT SRG 2012, SWIFTNet 7.0 (new messaging platform) Improved Performance and Scalability HL7 MLLP adapter performance improvements Better performance with ordered send ports Enhanced scale out configuration with multiple hosts Expanded adapter options for faster batch processing	Extend on-premises solutions to the cloud Easily extend your on-premises BizTalk Server solution to the cloud in a secure manner Tighter integration of on-premises BizTalk Server applications with Windows Azure Service Bus Improved Licensing Adjustments to licensing that are geared towards cloud hosting, including: Purchase from a hoster on a monthly basis (SPLA) Register your existing license with a hoster (License Mobility)

 

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SQL Server: Denali

 

Denali is the codename for the next release of SQL Server. The focus on Denali are:

• Greater availability. Deliver the required 9s and data protection you need with AlwaysOn
• Blazing-fast performance. Get unprecedented performance gains with Project “Apollo,” a new column store index that offers 10-100x star join or similar query performance improvements available for the first customer preview.
  Breakthrough insight. Unlock new insights with rapid data exploration across your organization with Project “Crescent,” available to customers for the first time. Get your hands on the data exploration and visualization tool that everyone is talking about and enables end users to explore data at the speed of thought.
• Credible, consistent data. Provide a consistent view across heterogeneous data sources with the BI Semantic Model (BISM) a single model for Business Intelligence applications, from reporting and analysis to dashboards and scorecards. Make data quality a part of everyday life with the Master Data Services add-in for Excel and new Data Quality Services that is integrated with third party data providers through Windows Azure Marketplace. Customers can test this functionality for the first time and put data management and cleansing tools in the hands of those who need it.  Available integrated Marketplace providers include:
  • Cdyne: CDYNE Phone Verification will validate the first 7 digits of your phone number(s) and return what carrier the phone number id is assigned to, whether it is a cellular number or a land line, the telco, and additional information including time zone, area code and email address if it is a cellular number
  • Digital Trowel: Powerlinx allows users to send data for refinement and enhancement and receive back cleansed and enriched data. The database contains 10 million company website addresses, 25 million detailed company profiles, and 25 million executives, including 5 million in-depth profiles with email addresses and phone numbers. 
  • Loqate: The Loqate Verify enables users to parse, standardize, verify, cleanse, transliterate, and format address data for 240+ world countries.
  • Loqate: The Geocode enables a latitude-longitude coordinate to be added to any world address with worldwide coverage to city or postal code for over 120 countries
  • Melissa Data: WebSmart Address Check parses, standardizes, corrects and enriches U.S. and Canadian addresses to increase deliverables, reduce wasted postage and printing, and enhance response
• Productive development experience. Optimize IT and developer productivity across server and cloud with Data-tier Application Component (DAC) parity with SQL Azure and SQL Server Developer Tools code name “Juneau” for a unified and modern development experience across database, BI, and cloud functions. Additionally, Express customers can test a new LocalDB version for fast, zero-configuration installation.

Join Microsoft Canada for a weekly webcast series to help understand the benefits included in the next release of SQL Server, commencing November 9^th through December 7^th at 1:00 pm EST. Attendees that register and attend all five (5) modules of the webcast will receive a SQL Server Code Name "Denali" USB key and a copy of Windows Azure Step by Step (May 2011) to be mailed 4-6 weeks after the final webcast. Limit one per person.
URL: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032497363&Culture=en-CA

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Build Update

**Disclaimer: BUILD provided a developer preview of Windows 8 and along side of that several new key technology shifts. The most important words in the above sentence are “developer preview”. What ever you read, please remember those words.

Build in Anaheim was an incredible week of information. It would be an incredible shift to the way we work today and I would have to say a much needed alignment of what is required in the industry and its many channels.

To get started take a peek at the following:

Windows 8 was unveiled at BUILD, if you haven’t had a chance to download it and are looking to test out the developer preview it is available for download at http://dev.windows.com, for the Windows Server 8 download it is available via MSDN.

If would like to get a glimpse of the new development opportunities that Windows 8 has to offer then the best thing that you can do is to watch the keynote from BUILD:

• BUILD Keynote Video

I did a ton of tweeting at Build under my twitter ID #wwoombile

For part 2 of this post, I will be doing a blog post around some of the tweets and trying to summerize this information to something more coherent.

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Microsoft Build 2011 aka PDC

It takes a lot for an organization to change the name of one of the most core conferences in the Microsoft repertoire.

I am of course talking about the Professional Developer’s Conference or as it is affectionately known, PDC.

PDC is no more, instead, welcome Microsoft BUILD. In my 15 years of interacting, working and architecting Microsoft technologies, I have never encountered the amount of hush/hush as I have seen/experienced with BUILD.

We know there will be a ton of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7 topics but what else ?

There are tons of rumors about all the attendees getting a Samsung Windows 8 tablet.

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but the old ACER 1420p from the old PDC conference was a bit of a disaster. Support was iffy and a lot of the laptops actually broke.

I upgraded mine with more ram and luckily, only my power adapter has some issues (got a replacement from eBay )

I hope the messaging around the tablet and the amount of app support is either backward compatible or have the hardware be forward compatible to RC releases of the OS at least!!!

Either way, thank you for the education and/or any gifts for now! Please follow me on twitter for the latest updates at BUILD this week (Sept 13-16).

Cheers!

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Kit

 

Download here.

Great free training kit for VS 2010 and the .NET 4 framework. It covers:

• C# 4
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• Silverlight 4
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Windows Azure

The fun part will be Azure and the ALM. Those would be great labs to read up on if anything.

Coming back from the Microsoft Partner Conference, there was little mention about F# but this is after all the MPC and not TechEd…

Check this out… there is also an online version here >> online version.

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BizTalk 2010 Developer Kit available!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=38c2ccfc-510c-4627-a33c-95e9d19f3478

Fantastic download from the BizTalk 2010 download .

The course contains the following hands on labs.

• Work with schemas, maps, and pipelines, and create flat file schemas.
• Configure a new FTP, HTTP and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) adapter for BizTalk Server
• Use BizTalk Orchestration Designer to create and test a simple orchestration.
• Configure orchestration properties and variables, deploy an orchestration, and create and deploy a rule set and execute those rules from within an orchestration.
• Define, deploy, and map a BAM observation model.
• Use the deployment and management features in BizTalk Server
• Build a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service and client and configure BizTalk Server to use a WCF Adapter.
• Create a Microsoft .NET class library project that will contain a WCF Adapter.
• Deploy artifacts needed for processing certain EDI documents and for turning XML messages into EDI.

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PDC renamed!

The Professional Developers Conference has been renamed to Build!

There is now a new site www.buildwindows.com .

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