BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Mitch VanHelden

The BizTalk community is awesome. I get to spend time with many of them during my travels abroad when speaking to them. A week ago I had the opportunity to speak in Porto during the Oporto BizTalk Innovation event. My upcoming next BizTalk events in Italy (June) and Norway (September) are planned and its preparations have already started.

BizTalk Server 2013 will soon be generally available as

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BizTalk Server 2013: It is RTM now!

I will be not the first nor last one that will blog, tweet or share through other social media that BizTalk Server 2013 is RTM. The 8th release in little over twelve years. That is amazing as I do not believe any Server Product has such a release cadence. Impressive as the Microsoft BizTalk Server Product keeps pushing out new features in the product.

There was talk, rumors or loud statements

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BizTalk Innovation Day, Porto – The experience

The fourth event after Milan, Stavanger and London with the BizTalkCrew on stage was a success. Around 45 people attended the event in Porto, Casa do Infante. We had a special guest over from the Microsoft Product Group, Akshat Sharma, who did a session (keynote) on BizTalk Server 2013/BizTalk Services.



Both Akshat and Tord were delayed so I was the first one the climb the stage for my

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BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: WCF-WebHttp

The support for REST has been anticipated for a long time by BizTalk developers. A majority of the services in the cloud these days is REST based. When exposing a public API over the internet to handle CRUD operations on data REST has now generally been considered the best option. Twitter, Google, Salesforce, eBay, Amazon all offer REST API's to use their services. Not only these, but many more

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