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Flat file interchanges with BizTalk are really useful for handling large files that contain messages that need to be individually processed. However one of their limitation is that they only support one flat file schema as the interchange’s document schema:

In some instances, one might want to process interchanges that contain more than one type of [...]

Some useful webcasts to get started with BizTalk R2:
BizTalk 2006 R2 Technical Overview (Mitch Stein)
http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-01&pw=BTS06R2
Building EDI Solutions with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (Tony Bernard)
http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-02&pw=BTS06R2
Orchestrating the real-time enterprise with the BizTalk RFID platform (Anush Kumar)
http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-03&pw=BTS06R2
AS2 Adapter & EDI Business Value (Tony Bernard)
http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-04&pw=BTS06R2
Building device providers for the BizTalk RFID platform (Anush Kumar)
http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=Jumpstart-05&pw=BTS06R2
Designing and deploying BizTalk RFID Business [...]

You can find a dedicated page for BizTalk books on B&N!
http://btob.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?sourceID=0041631635&btob=Y

I was recently helping one of our clients parse a record-based flat file where the records are mostly positional identified by a tag. The issue was that the flat file was a credit card transaction log where each record, identified by a tag, is a sibling to the other records with no specific order in which the [...]

One of the questions I was recently asked in the seminar we gave in NY a few weeks ago is whether it is possible to merge links and functoids from multiple pages into one page in the BizTalk mapper (without having to delete and redefine). I never came across such a request but my first [...]

We always enjoy giving presentations and seminars on BizTalk 2006 and show IT and business stakeholders what BizTalk can do for their business. Last week was no exception with our Tallan Fall Seminars series.
In both events we had a focused group of companies/individuals who were mostly looking into adopting better ways to manage their integration [...]

It’s that time of the year again where we get to help clients understand what BizTalk Server can do for them. As part of the Tallan Fall Seminars series (http://www.tallan.com/fallseminars/) we will be giving seminars on SOA and BizTalk Server 2006 at Microsoft’s Manhattan offices on Oct. 17 and a TBD venue in Hartford on Oct. 19. The seminars [...]

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