posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 9:43 AM
by
Benjy
Live from TechEd - PreConference - 'BizTalking!!'
Just finished the morning session on BizTalk. Excellent stuff. He is building an application from start to finish and demo'ing all the key concepts along the way.This is especially valuable since all the main sessions will be focussing on specific topics in BTS and drilling down into them. So this session now has saved my bacon considering I didnt watch any of the webcasts in preparation. Up until now we have built a couple of moderate sized orchestrations, done a secure messaging example and worked out mesage correlation.The afternoon promises to be more in detail on transaction handling and all that. Long running transactions and human intervention are key to the project I'm working on so i need to see how those work.
UPDATE - 7:00pm
Okay. So the session did go off really well in the afternoon too inspite of it being the 'graveyard' shift for presenters. Understood the concepts really well, (i hope). Now I'm waiting to complement that with David Chappells talk on BTS in an SO world. Saw the PPT just now and it looked really cool. Just managed to work through a schedule for the next couple of days with lots of HOL planned for tomorrow afternoon to get my head round BTS. Must not forget to talk to the sponsors and vendors to get a look at tool roadmaps. Gotta go and try and read my .NET Developers Journal which has a full edition dedicated to BizTalk