Jon Flanders

Charles Young

Brian Loesgen

Jan Eliasen

Scott Colestock

Anush Kumar

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed is the 100% new, 100% practical developer’s guide to Microsoft’s most powerful version of BizTalk Server. Written by an expert team of Microsoft insiders and BizTalk MVPs, it reflects unsurpassed experience with all phases of BizTalk enterprise solutions development, from planning through deployment and administration. The authors begin by introducing BizTalk Server’s architecture and key integration concepts. Next, they offer in-depth coverage of BizTalk’s foundational features, including schemas, maps, orchestrations, and pipelines. You’ll learn how to effectively utilize both standard and custom adapters; monitor integration services; leverage cloud computing via Windows Azure; implement operational BI solutions; and make the most of business rules and BizTalk’s Business Rules Engine (BRE). The authors offer best practices and “in the trenches” tips for everything from managing deployments through implementing state-of-the-art mobile RFID solutions. No other book offers this much useful, pragmatic, and tested knowledge for successful BizTalk development. Brian Loesgen is a Principal Architect Evangelist on Microsoft’s Azure ISV team. A six-time Microsoft MVP, he has extensive experience in building advanced enterprise, ESB, and SOA solutions. He has coauthored eight books, including SOA with .NET and Windows Azure. Charles Young, a principal consultant at Solidsoft, and Jan Eliasen, an IT architect at Logica, have each been honored repeatedly as BizTalk MVPs, and are highly respected bloggers in the BizTalk community. Scott Colestock, chief architect for Trace Ventures, specializes in using BizTalk to implement integration and service orchestration solutions. He is a member of Microsoft’s Architectural Advisory Board and a BizTalk MVP. Anush Kumar, CTO of S3Edge, served as Microsoft’s RFID business leader and was heavily involved in designing and architecting its BizTalk RFID offerings. Jon Flanders is an independent consultant, instructor for Pluralsight, BizTalk MVP, and author of RESTful .NET. Apply BizTalk Server’s sophisticated, scalable message exchange model to support virtually any business requirement Get your schemas right the first time, so you can avoid major problems downstream Use BizTalk Mapper to create maps for transforming inbound and outbound XML messages and supporting business processes Use orchestration to automate even highly-complex processes Utilize adapters and WCF to integrate any application, service, or system Extend your application’s reach with Windows Azure AppFabric Capture key BizTalk infrastructure, services, and business metrics Build powerful rules-based solutions with Microsoft’s Business Rules Framework Establish an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that uses BizTalk Server as core messaging infrastructure Efficiently manage, configure, and troubleshoot BizTalk through the Administration Console Create RFID applications ranging from simple label printing to end-to-end business processes

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed

The most complete, practical guide to BizTalk Server 2009: an all-new book focused on delivering real, start-to-finish enterprise solutions • •Pragmatic coverage of every crucial step of BizTalk development: architecture, design, infrastructure, deployment, lifecycle management, and more. •Fully up to date with the R2 release of BizTalk Server 2009. •Not a revision of previous BizTalk Server Unleashed books, but completely rewritten from the ground up. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Unleashed is the definitive, pragmatic guide toMicrosoft BizTalk Server Microsoft's latest and most powerful version of BizTalk Server. In this book, a team of world-class BizTalk Server 2009 experts bring together the deep practical insights .NET developers need to solve real business problems with BizTalk Server 2009 in any enterprise environment. Drawing on their immense BizTalk experience, the authors present best practices for the entire development lifecycle, from planning and architecture through deployment, and beyond. Writing at just the right level of technical detail for experienced .NET developers now starting out with BizTalk, they cover these and many other crucial issues: • •Architecting and designing effective, high-value BizTalk solutions. •Working with BizTalk schemas, maps, orchestrations, pipelines, pipeline components, and adapters. •Implementing business rules with the Microsoft Business Rules Framework. •Creating highly-available, high-performance BizTalk environments. •Monitoring business activity. •Collaborating effectively among BizTalk developers and users. •Using BizTalk's leading-edge RFID capabilities Note: This is a 100% new book, NOT an update to 2004 Unleashed

Thomas Erl

Mickey Williams

Jeff King

David Chou

John deVadoss

Nitin Gandhi

Hanu Kommalapati

Christoph Schittko

Herbjörn Wilhelmsen

Scott Golightly

Darryl Hogan

Scott Seely

The Authoritative Guide to Building Service-Oriented Solutions with Microsoft .NET Technologies and the Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform In SOA with .NET and Windows Azure, top Microsoft technology experts team up with Thomas Erl to explore service-oriented computing with Microsoft’s latest .NET service technologies and Windows Azure innovations. The authors provide comprehensive documentation of on-premise and cloud-based modern service technology advancements within the Microsoft platform and further show how these technologies have increased the potential for applying and realizing service-orientation practices and goals. Specifically, the book delves into Microsoft enterprise technologies, such as: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Windows Azure Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Windows Azure AppFabric BizTalk Server Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) ...as well as industry service mediums, including WS-* and REST, and many related service industry standards and technologies. The book steps through common SOA design patterns and service-orientation principles, along with numerous code-level examples that further detail various technology architectures and implementations. Topic Areas This book covers the following primary topics: Microsoft Service Technologies Microsoft Enterprise Technologies On-Premise & Cloud-Based Service Topics Industry Service Technologies & Mediums Service-Oriented Technology Architectural Models Service-Orientation Design Paradigm Service-Orientation Design Principles SOA Design Patterns About the Web Sites This book series is further supported by a series of resources sites, including: www.soabooks.com www.soaspecs.com www.soamag.com www.serviceorientation.com www.soapatterns.org www.soaprinciples.com www.whatissoa.com

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