Enterprise Service Bus Overview

ESB stands for Enterprise Service Bus. There are number of definitions given by different groups on ESB.

1. A web - services capable infrastructure that supports intelligently directed communication and mediated relationships among loosely coupled and decoupled biz components
2. A standard based integration backbone, combining messaging, web services, transformation, and intelligent routing

In recent years the ESB has become a new segment in the EAI market that attempts to address the intersection of web services and traditional message oriented middleware.

The Microsoft ESB guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns and practice and set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus on the Microsoft Platform and to allow developers to extend their own messaging and integration solutions.

I have found some good presentations on ESB overview. Click here to download the presentation files and other details on ESB.

Yuvraj's 6,6,6,6,6,6

On Demand WebCast links on BizTalk Server 2006 R2

I have found some of the On demand webcast links on BizTalk R2. Following are the details for the same.

1. BizTalk 2006 R2 Technical Overview

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-01&pw=BTS06R2

2. Building EDI Solutions with BizTalk Server 2006 R2

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-02&pw=BTS06R2

3. Orchestrating the real-time enterprise with the BizTalk RFID platform

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-03&pw=BTS06R2

4. AS2 Adapter & EDI Business value

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-04&pw=BTS06R2

5. Building device providers for the BizTalk RFID platform

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-05&pw=BTS06R2

6. Design and Deploying BizTalk RFID Business Processes

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-06&pw=BTS06R2

7. Using BAM interceptors for WCF and WF

https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-07&pw=BTS06R2

MSDN Webcast Series on Windows Presentation Foundation

Hi friends, I have found a MSDN webcast series on Windows Presentation Foundation but unfortunately the first six topics we have missed out. This is a 18 Live webcast series, I am publishing the upcoming 12 Live webcast from this series.

Details for the series are as follow

1. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 07 of 18): Deploying XAML-Based Applications (Level 200)
Date: - 17th September 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
2. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 08 of 18): Resource Files (Level 200)
Date: - 24th September 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
3. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 09 of 18): Data Binding (Level 200)
Date: - 01st October 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
4. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 10 of 18): Adding Pizzazz with Style (Level 200)
Date: - 10th October 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
5. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 11 of 18): 2-D Graphics (Level 200)
Date: - 15th October 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
6. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 12 of 18): 3-D Graphics (Level 200)
Date: - 22nd October 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
7. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 13 of 18): Animation (Level 200)
Date: -29th October 2007
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM IST
8. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 14 of 18): Multimedia (Level 200)
Date: - 05th November 2007
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 AM IST
9. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 15 of 18): Compatibility with Win32 (Level 200)
Date: - 12th November 2007
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 AM IST
10. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 16 of 18): Creating Controls (Level 200)
Date: - 19th November 2007
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 AM IST
11. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 17 of 18): Layout with Custom Panels (Level 200)
Date: - 26th November 2007
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM IST
12. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 18 of 18): Helpful Tools (Level 200)
Date: - 03rd December 2007
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM IST

For more details please see the above Google calendar.

Silverlight for Linux (Moonlight)

Currently Microsoft ships Silverlight for Mac and Windows opreating systems but now Microsoft has announced to support Silverlight on Linux. Novell and Microsoft has built a partnership to provide greate Silverlight implementation for linux. Microsoft will deliver Silverligth Media codecs for Linux and Novell will be building a Silverligth runtime called 'Moonlight'.

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