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BizTalk

• Modifying BTS Send Ports and Receive Locations using SQL and .Net Code
• New white paper “BizTalk ESB Toolkit: Core Components and Examples”
• “Route Failed Messages” routes the wrong message – really?
• BizTalk Data Services: Making BizTalk more RESTful with OData
• Reasons for moving from BizTalk Server 2006 to BizTalk Server 2009 R2.

ESB

• NServiceBus 2.0 RTM

REST

• “PATCH is a very simple method”
• Classifying the CouchDB API
• The Farmer in the Dell
• Fielding Property Maps
• Versioning Strategies For RESTful Services
• REST-* Message Draft 5: new post and subcription protocol
• PubSubHubBub Publisher
• RESTWeekly Feb 22 2010

SOA

• Anti-Principles

WCF

• Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is Available!
• Parsing Standard Uris, Part 2
• AppFabric Beta 2 and Samples
• Compatibility Update for Serialization

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Architecture

• Eventual Consistency Is Just Caching
• CQRS Video Online

BizTalk

• Microsoft BizTalk Server vNext (after 2009 R2) – Feature Request

REST

• You have a RESTful application
• “I Design Representations”
• Contextual links in hypermedia content
• Guilherme Silveira on Restfulie
• Classification of HTTP-based APIs
• Create RESTful Web services with Java technology
• RESTWeekly Feb 15 2010

SOA

• The New SOA Data Integration Architect Community
• Benefits Of Running Enterprise SOA Initiatives Like A Startup
• Running your SOA like a Web startup

WCF

• Parsing Standard Uris
• Conditional GET and ETag Support in WCF WebHttp Services

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BizTalk/StreamInsight

• Four New BizTalk Server ESB Toolkit Webcasts
• StreamInsight Musings

REST

• Service Types Revisited
• Markus Karg on the Hypermedia Constraint
• is this REST?
• RESTWeekly Feb 8 2010

WCF/WF

• Finding the Remote Client Address
• Creating Views in WCF WebHttp Service with T4
• WF 4.0 Custom Activities Webcast
• RC docs are live!

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BizTalk/ESB/Azure

• Two New Webcasts from Brian Loesgen
• Windows Azure Tools 1.1

REST

• REST is crawling: early binding and the web without hypermedia
• Setting up Erlang, Yaws and CouchDB
• RESTifying Procurement – Sourcing Part 1
• RESTifying Procurement – Sourcing Part 2
• RESTifying Procurement – The Media Type
• RESTifying Procurement – Service Running
• Using Apache Wink, Eclipse, and Maven to develop RESTful Web services

SOA/Architecture

• A Conceptual Model for Event Processing Systems
• SOA Design: Is it about Contracts or Service Implementation?
• Why contracts are more important than designs
• SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture

WCF/WF

• WF4 runtime performance
• Help my DataContracts do not show up in my WCF Services
• Discover a New WCF with Discovery!
• 4.0 Beta2->RC WCF/WF List of Breaking changes
• Fix to Generate Contract Code for Dates

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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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