I like the
format of the book and Steef-Jan
Wiggers has done a wonderful job of covering broad topics relevant to both
the development of BizTalk solution and administration of BizTalk environment
in 50+ easy to follow recipes. Enough details has been provided about the topic
in each recipe but the good thing about this book is that each recipe also
contain There’s more section having
valuable resources to dive deeper into the topic discussed. Here is a brief
overview of what has been covered in this book:
·
The
book starts with the most important topic of setting up the BizTalk environment.
The newbie will like the recipe on how
to use the BizTalk Benchmark Wizard to validate the Installation.
·
Second
chapter the recipes covered some of the popular design patterns like splitter, aggregator,
retry pattern etc.
·
Third
chapter contain some useful recipes demonstrating how to instrument the BizTalk
solution.
·
In
fourth chapter the focus is on securing message exchange and contains some useful
demonstration on how to use certificate in BizTalk for signing and encrypting/decrypting
the messages.
·
Fifth
chapter discuss recipes related to the WCF services and BizTalk
·
Sixth
chapter starts with a recipe on installation of AppFabric Connect and then have
some useful demonstration on how to connect BizTalk with cloud.
·
Seven
chapter is specifically for BizTalk administration and contain some useful recipes
on configuring the monitoring tools for BizTalk e.g. SCOM, BizTalk 360.
·
Eighth
chapter contain recipes on how to use the Business Rule engine.
·
Last
chapter focus on the unit testing of BizTalk Artifacts using the Visual Studio
and Frameworks such as BizUnit, BizMock, and the BizTalk Map Test Framework
I found this book useful, this book is available on Packt and Amazon.
