Friday, January 07, 2005
GREAT
Some useful things I discovered the last weeks thanks to Scott's blog:
* In the past I've already giving some training on BizTalk and .NET. To facilitate the training and to get started fast I'll start most of the time with a Virtual PC image with the development environment on it. Like this we can dive directly into the product and don't have to start with installing it first (which is still very often a painful thing).
But after the course people like to continue with exercises and very often the are asking then on how to get their hands on a development environment. Now there is a great solution for this request that is the Visual Studio Hosted Experience you need to register yourself the first time. But from then on you can learn .NET and since a few weeks also BizTalk Server in a hosted environment. So you just need an internet connection and you can start off with exercises.
Great stuff try it out. Hopefully SQL Reporting Services will be available soon to.
* Another thing I discovered thanks to Scott’s blog was the implementation of some of the integration patterns described in the practice & patterns book. There are 2 gotdotnet workspaces available to have a look at. This is just great suspense.
I myself have been rewarded with the MVP status for the Windows Server System - BizTalk Server, Great no? So expect to see me often in the BizTalk Community newsgroups in the future (it's really the place to be to see what people are doing with the product). And I'm working on some articles about HAT and Orchestrations with Web services and BPEL that hope will be finished soon.
Happy New Year and a GREAT 2005
* In the past I've already giving some training on BizTalk and .NET. To facilitate the training and to get started fast I'll start most of the time with a Virtual PC image with the development environment on it. Like this we can dive directly into the product and don't have to start with installing it first (which is still very often a painful thing).
But after the course people like to continue with exercises and very often the are asking then on how to get their hands on a development environment. Now there is a great solution for this request that is the Visual Studio Hosted Experience you need to register yourself the first time. But from then on you can learn .NET and since a few weeks also BizTalk Server in a hosted environment. So you just need an internet connection and you can start off with exercises.
Great stuff try it out. Hopefully SQL Reporting Services will be available soon to.
* Another thing I discovered thanks to Scott’s blog was the implementation of some of the integration patterns described in the practice & patterns book. There are 2 gotdotnet workspaces available to have a look at. This is just great suspense.
I myself have been rewarded with the MVP status for the Windows Server System - BizTalk Server, Great no? So expect to see me often in the BizTalk Community newsgroups in the future (it's really the place to be to see what people are doing with the product). And I'm working on some articles about HAT and Orchestrations with Web services and BPEL that hope will be finished soon.
Happy New Year and a GREAT 2005
