Our consultants frequently share their knowledge and expertise in relevant articles about the technology they work with. Here's a set of selected articles on a variety of topics that can help you make more effective use of the tools and products you support your business on.

• Using the BizTalk WSS adapter
  Short article written by Carlos Medina that explains a few interesting bits about the use of custom Sharepoint properties when publishing messages to Document Libraries (Spanish). [link]
• A messaging-only BizTalk Scenario
  Carlos Medina explains how to create BizTalk solutions without using Orchestrations, relying only on the Messaging infrastructure (Spanish). [link]
• WCF and BizTalk Messaging
  Tomas Restrepo presents an overview of the difference between the messaging models in BizTalk Server and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). [link]
• Validation in Monorail
  The Castle Project has extensive facilities to make Web application development better on the .NET Platform. Tomas Restrepo explains how to take advantage of automatic form validation using ActiveRecord and Monorail with the Brails view engine. [link]
• Business Rules in BizTalk Server, Part 2
  Second article in a series covering the Business Rules Engine in BizTalk Server 2004/2006. This one talks about authoring, testing and deploying rules in the BizTalk Rules Composer tool and invoking policies from orchestrations (Spanish) [link]
• Business Rules in BizTalk Server, Part 1
  First article in a series covering the Business Rules Engine in BizTalk Server 2004/2006. This one talks about the arquitecture of the BRE in BizTalk and introduces the environment. (Spanish) [link]
• Extending the BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Console
  BizTalk Server 2006 provides new administration consoles that offer more functionality compared to their predecessors in BizTalk 2004 and that support extensions. This article explains the necessary steps to extend these console. (Spanish) [link]
• Commerce Server 2007 BizTalk Adapters, Part 2
  This article covers important aspects of the Commerce Server 2007 adapters for BizTalk Server 2006, like send port and receive location configuration, windows registry entries and performance counters. (Spanish) [link]
• Commerce Server 2007 BizTalk Adapters, Part 1
  Introduces the new Commerce Server 2007 adapters for BizTalk Server 20006; one of the most exciting new features in this release. These adapters make it easy to exchange data, like orders, catalogs, inventory and profiles, between Commerce Server and other applications, taking advantage of the integration and orchestration facilities in BizTalk Server. (Spanish) [link]
• Creating hosts and instances in BizTalk Server 2004 using WMI
  Describes how to take advantage of the WMI facilities exposed by BizTalk 2004 to manage Hosts and Host Instances using the .NET Framework. (Spanish). [link]
• BizTalk Server 2004 Flat File Schema Tutorial, Part I
  Introductory tutorial on creating a flat file schema for a CSV file in BizTalk Server 2004. [link]
• BizTalk Server 2004 Flat File Schema Tutorial, Part II
  Covers more complex flat file schemas including miximg positional and delimited content. [link]