Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Developing Integration solution using BizTalk server 2006 and Team Foundation server(TFS)


Microsoft has released a document, which talks about how to develop Integration solution using BizTalk server 2006 and Team Foundation server (TFS). Find it here

This document gave me wide range of ideas how we can exploit the capability of TFS to improve the efficiency of the team to deliver better results. 

The Document discuss about the 
Requirement gathering for Integration Application
Naming Convenstions
Planning the team
Setting up the TFS and how to work with it
Manage versioning of assemblies
Managing different enviroments (Development, test and Production)
Debugging Methodologies with BizTalk Artifacts and Custom components
Discussed about automated build using TFS
Deployment Stratergies

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

BizTalk 2009 Beta Now Available

Microsoft has released the Beta version of BizTalk 2009 for public . You can get  from  https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218

BizTalk 2009 supports 
Windows 2008,
Visual Studios 2008 SP1, .
Net 3.5 SP1,
SQL 2008, and
TFS
RFID Mobile
New LOB Adapters

First findings HAT is gone in 2009. There are now new querying options and access to the orchestration debugger via the admin mmc.