BizTalk Server 2006

Course Overview

BizTalk 2006 is designed to serve as an integration platform to simplify integrating diverse applications, and as a development platform for building a new generation of integrated solutions using XML-based messaging. This course dives deep into all aspects of typical BizTalk applications to prepare you to develop rich solutions with this incredibly wide and deep product. You will work with the internals of each of the major building blocks of a BizTalk solution - Schemas, Ports, Pipelines, Adapters, and Orchestrations - and leave the class ready to combine these building blocks in both typical and unique ways to meet the needs of your particular applications.

This course emphasizes Web Services as one of the most powerful input paths to a BizTalk application, taking care to explain exactly how and what the BizTalk wizards do. You will work with the designers in the BizTalk 2006 project system, which plugs into Visual Studio .NET 2005, and you will learn how these designers work so you're prepared for the inevitable exceptional conditions where you'll need to work outside the designers to build and deploy a complex solution to BizTalk 2006. You will learn about the common patterns of development with BizTalk 2006, as well as concrete deployment scenarios.

Audience

This course is for developers who have experience with .NET, XML, and Web Services and want to learn how to use BizTalk 2006 to build application integrations.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the .NET runtime before taking this course, and code will be written in either C# or VB.NET. Also, BizTalk uses SQL Server, so some familiarity with SQL Server is helpful. Experience using Web Services in .NET is assumed. Many of the labs also require working with various XML technologies (mostly XML Schemas).

Course Outline

• Architecture
• Orchestrations
• XML and XML Schemas in BizTalk
• Using the Orchestration Designer
• Writing XSLTs with BizTalk Maps
• Creating and Managing Ports
• Adapters and Pipelines
• Custom Adapters and Pipelines
• Using Web Services in BizTalk
• Health Monitoring
• Security
• Automation
• Business Rules Engine
• Correlation and Convoys
• Transactions
• Debugging Strategies
• New Adapters in 2006
• New Administration and Deployment Features
• BAM