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Introducing Queues and Topics in Azure Service Bus
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - November/December
In 2007, Microsoft unveiled a new vision called “Software + Services” that would fundamentally change the way that both Microsoft and their customers build software and have a gradual, yet marked ripple effect throughout the software giant’s entire strategy.
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 More Examples of Functionality in SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - September/October
In the last Baker’s Dozen article, I demonstrated 13 SSIS packages to show what Integration Services can do. This article picks up where the last one left off. I’ll show some capabilities in SSIS, such as handling irregular input files, extracting database changes, implementing package configurations, and leveraging the advanced lookup features in SSIS 2008.
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Dashboards with Microsoft BI Tools
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - March/April
Scorecards, test results, report cards, summaries-nearly everyone wants to skip past the details and see the bottom line. Whether it is “pass or fail”, “go or no go”, managers evaluate professional efforts based on performance. Microsoft’s Business Intelligence tools provide developers and power users with the tools and methodologies to produce scorecards and other summaries that graphically represent performance. This article will create a Web-based Dashboard using several Microsoft products, including the newest product in the BI stack, PerformancePoint Server.
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Enterprise Application Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, Part 2
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - July/August
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a collection of architectural principles combined to integrate new and existing applications both within the enterprise and in business to business or partner integration scenarios. Building on the principles introduced in Part 1 (May/June issue of CoDe Magazine), I’ll provide a step-by-step example of how to implement a solution that addresses a business case and suggest some real-world patterns and techniques for fulfilling the business case.
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Enterprise Application Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006-Part 1
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - May/June
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a collection of architectural principles combined to integrate new and existing applications both within the enterprise and in business to business or partner integration scenarios. This article (Part 1) will provide a conceptual overview of BizTalk Server 2006 and how it serves to address the problem domain common in the EAI space. In Part 2, I’ll introduce a business case for implementing an online ordering and fulfillment system and provide a step-by-step example of how to implement a solution that addresses the problem domain.
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Definitive XML Schema
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters
To leverage the full power of XML, companies need shared vocabularies to base their documents and scripts upon. XML Schema makes it possible to create those shared vocabularies-and Definitive XML Schema is the authoritative guide to the standard! Written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, this book explains the W3C Recommendation with unprecedented insight and clarity–and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application.
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Implementing B2B Scenarios with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000
Last updated: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2000 - Fall, Markus Egger Talks Tech
In this article, Markus Egger explores the challenges of Business-To-Business (B2B) communications and presents Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 as a promising solution. He provides an in-depth overview of BizTalk's routing services, document translation with XML schemas and mapping, and introduces BizTalk Orchestration for automating complex, long-running business processes. Using practical examples, Egger demonstrates how BizTalk Server facilitates interoperability between diverse partners and streamlines transaction workflows, highlighting its potential to make B2B integration more efficient and accessible for businesses of all sizes.

