BizTalk Server Magazine

BizTalk Hotrod is developed and maintained as a community effort supported by Microsoft Technology Specialist Rajinder Singh and Virtual TS's Andy Morrison and Brent Anderson. The content presented here is developed by Consultants, Customers and Microsoft to help spread the BizTalk word!.

BizTalk HotRod

Issue 6
(April 2009)
  • Writing Great BizTalk Applications 5
  • BizTalk Rule Engine, a practical application 9
  • Development Challenges with XML over AS2 21
  • Batching Outbound Messages 31
  • Hierarchical naming convention 35
  • To Be, Or Logical Not To Be 41
  • Enhancing the BizTalk Mapper 44
  • Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in XSLT 60
  • Eliminate BizTalk Admin Problems with Terminator 63
  • Static Code Analysis for BizTalk Using BizTalkCop 68
Issue 5
(Feb 2009)
  • Applicaton Servers: BizTalk Vs Dublin 4
  • Unit Testing in BizTalk Server 2009 7
  • Better Together - The Solution for Tough Economic Times 14
  • Monitoring a WCF Service with BAM 24
  • Operations Management for BizTalk 34
  • Governing the SOA Runtime with AmberPoint 39
  • BizTalk monitoring and exception handling from any desktop 45
  • Add Governance to BizTalk with SOA Software 56
Issue 4
(May 2008)
  • BizTalk Exception Management Application 3
  • Exposing Business Rules Engine as a WCF Service 10
  • Tools of the Trade 17
  • Parallel Convoys 20
  • R2 WCF Adapters 23
  • Smart Use of XSLT 28
  • In the beginning 35
  • What's Under That Hood? 38
Issue 3
(Jan 2008)
  • BizTalk and Blaze Advisor 6.5 2
  • Applying Throttles within Biztalk 6
  • Managing MSMQ 8
  • New Bling for your Ride: BizTalk Services Revealed
  • Leveraging Office Open XML 17
  • Leveraging Office XML: The BizTalk Developers’ Guide
  • Seven tips for helping you setup your SAP integrations
  • Trickout BizTalk with Custom WCF Adapters!
  • Tune your BizTalk Server for Maximum Sustainable Processing
  • XPath Suffers ExposĂ© Regex Riots! 46
  • BizTalk Performance Testing 54
Issue 2
(July 2007)
  • R2 EDI Drilldown
  • WF vs BizTalk Smack Down
  • R2 EDI Party Resolution Components
  • BizTalk Requirements Beyond the Norm
  • BizTalk Throttling
  • Review of the Community ODBC Adapter and HL7 Delimiter Parsing Functoid
  • Why Distinguished Fields are Cool
  • 100 NEW BizTalk Web Casts
Issue 1
(April 2007)
The first issue of BizTalk Hotrod.
  • R2 Test Dirve
  • FIFO Processing in BizTalk 2006
  • Top 10 Things to Know about BAM
  • Monster Database and How to Avoid them
  • Invoice and Fax Processing
  • Flat File and Transformation Performance
  • BizTalk Scheduler and Printer Adapter Reviews