Brian Loesgen

As all architects and developers know, the tenets of service-oriented architecture call for breaking large monolithic processes into more granular, purpose-specific blocks of functionality that solve specific needs, and exposing those as services. This is not really new thinking.... (more)

The Business Process and Integration Division was out in full force at Tech·Ed this year, unveiling several new product releases.  What’s new for BizTalk 2006, Commerce Server 2006, and Host Integration Server 2006? We will take a high level look at what some of these chang... (more)

There comes a point in every viable product's life cycle when the stage is set for its debut. The design meetings are memories, the documentation's complete, construction is over, the beta is done, the product's been stabilized, and it's time to push it out into the world. That t... (more)

By the time you read this, BizTalk Server 2004, the third version of BizTalk, will have been released. As you can see by the articles in this special issue of .NET Developer's Journal, this is a very important product release, and it is poised to have a profound impact on how dev... (more)

BizTalk Server 2004, the latest and third version of BizTalk, is an exciting tool that all .NET application developers should know about. BizTalk fills two key business needs: enterprise application integration business process automation. The powerful messaging platform allows for... (more)

(October 30, 2003) - Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a friendly giant came down from the mountain with a gift for developers… Sorry, wrong audience. BizTalk Server 2004 was officially unveiled at Tech-Ed 2003 in Dallas, just a few short months ago. BizTalk Server 2004 is a p... (more)