About this Course

This class focuses on best-practices & pattern-based design while pulling back the curtain on some of BizTalk Server's eccentricities.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for:

• Experienced BizTalk Server Developers – who have at least one year of hands-on experience developing BizTalk Server applications

At Course Completion

At course completion, students will be able to:

• Create & implement custom simple & complex types in schemas
• Call external assemblies using the Scripting functoid
• Create custom functoids
• Design maps that execute custom XSLT
• Create EDI-based solutions to receive, send, & batch messages
• Create messaging solutions that de-batch flat-file & XML interchanges
• Build processes that subscribe to failed messages
• Create custom pipeline components
• Integrate with SQL Server databases using the WCF-SQL adapter
• Create loosely-coupled orchestrations using direct-bound ports
• Properly utilize the Call Orchestration & Start Orchestration shapes
• Develop applications that use dynamic send ports
• Implement complex orchestration patterns including: external code invocation, convoys, transactions & compensation, & exception handling
• Aggregate message instances using an orchestration & send pipeline
• Create a role & party-based integration solution
• Create business-rule vocabularies & polices
• Create custom tracking solutions using Business Activity Monitoring
• Extend visibility to custom .NET application using the BAM API

Course Outline

Module 1: Review of BizTalk Server Fundamentals

• BizTalk Server Architecture
• Creating a BizTalk Solution

Module 2: The BizTalk Messaging Engine

• Lesson 1: Messaging Engine Deep Dive
• Lesson 2: Schema Design
• Lab: Creating Reusable Types in a Schema
• Lesson 3: Data Transformation
• Lab: Creating Custom Functoids
• Lesson 4: Transforming Data using Custom XSLT
• Lab: Transforming Messages using Custom XSLT
• Lesson 5: De-Batching Message Interchanges
• Lab: Processing Flat-File Interchanges
• Lab: Processing XML Interchanges
• Lesson 6: Creating Custom Pipeline Components
• Lab: Creating Custom Pipeline Components

Module 3: Integrating with External Services

• Lesson 1: Role of Adapters in BizTalk
• Lesson 2: Connecting to External Services
• Lab: Building a Service Aggregator Orchestration
• Lab: Exposing BizTalk Processes as Services
• Lab: Integrating with SQL Databases
• Lab: Integrating with SharePoint
• Lab: Integrating using the FTP Adapter
• Lab: Integrating with Mainframe Applications

Module 4: The BizTalk Orchestration Engine

• Lesson 1: Orchestration Engine Deep Dive
• Lab: Configuring Exception Handling
• Lesson 2: Orchestration Communication Patterns
• Lab: Advanced Orchestration Communication
• Lesson 3: Advanced Orchestration Patterns
• Lab: Creating Convoys
• Lesson 4: Transactional Scopes and Compensation
• Lab: Creating Transactions and Compensation

Module 5: Integrating using Parties and EDI

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Trading Partner Integration
• Lesson 2: Introduction to EDI
• Lesson 3: Creating EDI and AS2 Solutions
• Lesson 4: The Pieces of a TPM Solution
• Lab: Implementing an EDI Messaging Solution

Module 6: Integrating with Business Rule Policies

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Business Rules
• Lesson 2: Integrating Business Rules
• Lab: Integrating Business Rules

Module 7: Enabling Business Activity Monitoring

• Lesson 1: Intro to Business Activity Monitoring
• Lesson 2: Enabling Business Activity Monitoring
• Lesson 3: Extending BAM Beyond BizTalk
• Lab: Creating a Simple BAM Solution
• Lab: Gathering Data Using the BAM API