Had a good time this week going up to one of our offices in York to get my colleagues up to speed in BizTalk 2004. Looks like they got the 'message'. :-) which is good, but will it 'transform' their lives?
The demo went off quite well and avoided Murphy's Law almost to the end. I used the first integration sample from the BTS Unleashed book. As I have mentioned in a previous post, theres quite a lot of typos and mistakes in the book, but anyhow, I had done it once before so I wasnt totally caught out. In spite of that I got a couple of warnings while deploying the solution and when i placed the sample file in the recieve location, guess what - it didnt do anything.!!!
But I like to think I'm resourceful. I had a working copy of the exercise all tested out and ready for such an eventuality. So i showed them that. As a final option I would have shown them Scott's webcast (which I did for an earlier demo), but it didnt have to come to that.
I've also started writing up a note on a BTS Development Framework in our internal knowledge sharing portal and have included in links to material on GDN etc. I might make a public version of that available in one of the articles here and have the benefit of comments from the wider BTS community.