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BizTalk/ESB

• BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 Now Available!!!
• WCF SAP Adapter “Gotchas”
• MSDN Webcast: Improving Business Agility with Enterprise Service Bus
• NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available

REST

• HTTP Roarshach test
• HTML->HTTP->Hypermedia
• RESTifying Procurement
• RESTifying Procurement – Introduction
• RESTifying Procurement – Sourcing Part 1
• Is OData The Ubiquitous Language For Application Collaboration?
• RESTWeekly Feb 1 2010

SOA

SOA in a Nutshell

Don Box Discusses SOAP, XML, REST and M

WCF/WF

• Returning Custom Formats from WCF WebHttp Services
• Creating a WCF Service for JSON
• Fix to Allow Customizing the Status Code when Validation Fails
• Fix for Exception Reading Typed Headers
• Fix for Partially Trusted Clients using Windows Authentication
• Fix to Allow an Encoder Fallback with UTF8
• Creating Custom Activities in WF 4.0 Webcasts

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BizTalk/AppFabric/Azure

• Azure Integration – Part 2: Sending a Message from BizTalk to Azure’s AppFabric ServiceBus with a Dynamic Send Port
• Azure Integration Part 3 – Sending a Message from an ESB off-ramp to Azure’s AppFabric ServiceBus
• Workflow Persistence in the Windows Server AppFabric
• BizTalk Server Performance Benchmark Wizard

REST/ROA

• REST Design Mistake with Apache Wink
• ‘Completing’ application/atomsvc+xml – Part 1
• ‘Completing’ application/atomsvc+xml – Part 2
• REST Doesn’t Lie
• In Fear of Sub-Requests
• .NET gets an HTTP Client (finally!)
• Resource-Oriented Architecture: Resource Metadata
• Fjord in Memory
• Scaling through rest: why rest clients require cache support
• Restfulie version 0.6
• RESTWeekly Jan 25 2010

WCF/Data Services

• WCF Extensibility Guidance Chapter 2
• Error Handling in WCF WebHttp Services with WebFaultException
• Using Routes to Compose WCF WebHttp Services
• Integrating ASP.NET Output Caching with WCF WebHttp Services
• Data Services Update Re-Released

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BizTalk/AppFabric/WCF

• Updating existing schema without redeploying the dll
• Considerations When Retrying Failed Messages in BizTalk or the ESB Toolkit
• Why Is This Still a Routing Failure in BizTalk Server 2009?
• Using static ports with ESB
• Handy XML Tools – Schema Tools
• Updating State in WCF WebHttp Services
• Automatic and Explicit Format Selection in WCF WebHttp Services
• Transaction Not Available
• Two New AppFabric Related Webcasts
• Demonstrating interop between SharePoint Server 2010 and Windows Server AppFabric

REST

• Quit pretending, use the web for real: the c# client
• Scaling through the REST “stateless” constraint
• RESTful Web services with Apache Wink, Part 1: Build an Apache Wink REST service
• Cache Invalidation
• When to Use Atom
• RESTful API Authentication Schemes

SOA

• Business-Driven SOA

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AppFabric

• Monitoring and troubleshooting with .NET 4 and Windows Server AppFabric

BizTalk

• BizTalk Testing Guide
• Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 1)
• Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 2)
• Watch this upcoming MSDN Webcast
• Missing Tracking Data problem followup from previous post

REST

• Service Type Specifications II
• Is Proliferation Of Custom Media Types RESTFul?
• eight-point HTTP toolkit
• Being RESTful with SugarCRM

SOA

• A New Vision for SOA Governance: A Focus on the Social Aspect

WCF/WF

• Fix for Error Accessing Remote Endpoint Address
• Webcast – Introduction to WCF Workflow Services
• Ignoring MustUnderstand
• New Year’s Resolution Suggestion: Learn WCF
• Clients and the Automatic Help Page in WCF WebHttp Services
• New Beta 2 docs posted in the WF Migration series
• Temporary Shadow Files
• Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema
• MEF on the Technology Summary Page

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BizTalk/AppFabric/Azure

• Azure Integration – Part 1: Creating an ESB on-ramp that receives from Azure’s AppFabric Service Bus
• BizTalk Disaster Recovery Planning

REST

• DOCTR: a better approach to transactions over HTTP
• Hypertext is the Transaction Engine
• Fjord in Node
• Restfulie 0.5, atom feeds, content negotiation and default controllers

WCF/WF

• Untyped Asynchronous Calls
• Introducing WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4
• Getting Started with WCF WebHttp Services in .NET 4
• What’s a Correlation and why do I want to Initialize it?
• Tips for Launching WCF Test Client
• WCF, Data Services and RIA Services Alignment Questions and Answers

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REST

• the future of semantic media, who is with me?

SOA

• Does Effective SOA Governance Require a Registry and a Repository?

WCF/Azure/AppFabric/BizTalk

• Azure AppFabric December Release
• New learning resources for Azure and BizTalk

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REST

• Restfulie gets a website
• When should I start a REST initiative
• The Path to HTTP/REST Mastery
• Media Types, Plumbing and Democracy

SOA

• Lightweight SOAs: Exploring Patterns and Principles of a New Generation of SOA Solutions

WCF/WF/BizTalk/AppFabric

• Building WCF Workflow Services and Hosting in AppFabric
• New Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK now available
• BizTalk 2009: Ho Ho Ho…. BizTalk 2009 R2 TAP program announced

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ESB

• Noteworthy new features in Mule ESB Enterprise

REST

• Introducing Fjord
• Transactions do not exist in a Restful world…

SOA/WOA

• Is the Future of SOA Open Source?
• A Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Un-Manifesto
• Practical Advice for SOA Implementers

WCF/WF

• Hosting the WCF 4.0 Routing Service in IIS 7
• How to Configure MSMQ Activation for Workflow Services
• Dynamic Routing Updates
• Astoria V.Next Ships for .NET 3.5 SP1 -> Versioning Issue *

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew

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REST

• Service Type Specifications
• Hypermedia: making it easier to create dynamic contracts
• Hypermedia and dynamic contracts: let my bandwidth rest!

SOA

• Clarified CQRS
• Guerilla SOA or SOA Gorilla?

WCF/AppFabric/BizTalk

• Customizing Parameter Names
• How to resolve ‘The ChannelDispatcher at ‘xyz Address’ with Contracts ‘ABC’ is unable to open error
• Hosting Enhancements in .NET4 and Windows Server AppFabric
• BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) Enrollment

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AppFabric/Dublin/WCF

• AppFabric Talks and Slides
• Data Services Joins the WCF Family
• Developing and Managing Services with Windows Server AppFabric
• Getting started with Windows Server AppFabric

REST

• Guilherme Silveira on RESTEasy
• Separation of Concerns and Replication

SOA

• Service Orientation Requires Data Orientation
• “SOA Governance” Revitalized
• Beginning an SOA Initiative

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